Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 340, 15 October 1910 — Page 1

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T AND SUN-TELEGRAM. RICHMOND. IND.. SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1910. SINGLE COr 2 CENTS. VOL. XXXV. NO. 340.

MINERS HOLD BIG MEETING FOR THE FRIEIiy F LABOR 1 Beveridge Speaks at Meeting Specially Arranged and Conducted by Coal Diggers at Shelburn, Ind.

FIVE THOUSAND WERE THERETO HEAR HIM ) Senator Tells of the Fight Labor Has Made for Recognitor! and Opposition to Good Legislation. (Special Correspondent With the Beveridge Party.) Sbelburn, Ind., Oct 15. Probably the moat unique meeting that will be held In thla campaign was held In the baseball park at thla place Friday evening when Senator Beveridge addressed the miners of Sullivan county under their own auspices. The meet ing was political In the sense that it was In the interest ot Beveridge, but it was absolutely divorced from the control of the antl-polltlcal organiza tion. Not even the republican state committee bad anything to do with it. Some time since a delegation from the miners of this locality visited the state committee and mvdt a request for one date for Beveridge, accom panied with the statement that In ev rut their request wua granted, they would not want the state committee to attempt any further arrangements or Interference with the meeting, and that no other speaker than Beveridge should be assigned to the meeting. The miners representatives said that owing to Beverldge's record they wanted to have him address the Sulll van county miners. The request was granted and all arrangements were made by the miners. They went farth er than they anticipated. Owing to the wreck upon the Pennsylvania near Knlgbtstown Friday morning Bever ' "1dgs waa unable to get from Rich iuuuUi want in iwmuiiu wro of the Roosevelt trip, to Terre Haute la time to make connections for Sbelburn. .. . Hired a Special Train. i To enable htm to fill the date a peclal trcln was hired by the min ers mauagins tl:e meeting, which carried him from Terre Haute to Sbel burn ami i.. vn. The senator and the party, ucctiiipanylng him were met at the station by a brass band and be was taken immediately to the ball park, where a stand bad been erected upon the diamond. The grand stand and bleacbera were filled and several hundred stood aurrounding the apeak' er's stand. There were between 3,000 and 4.000 present and those in charge of the meeting said the crowd was about four times as large as the crowd which greeted Governor Marshall at Hymera, the day before. Over fifty conveyancea came from Hymera filled with people to attend the Shel burn meeting and a large number ot delegations were present from adjoin Ing mining districts. Cairy Llttlejohn, a prominent miner of Hymera and one of the national organisers, was chairman of the meeting. After tell Ing thoae preaent of the purpose ot the meeting, Mr. Llttlejohn Introduced W. J. Williams another prominent miner of Sullivan county. Mr. Williams pre sented Senator Beveridge to the audience. The address of the senator was devoted almost wholly to the labor , problems or to economic conditions that directly effect laboring classes, The central thought of his address wai the new Idea about labor and laboring men. Formerly, he said, la bor was considered a commodity like a aack of flour or a hog or a piece of Iron, it was to be bought and worked to Ha utmost and when it had be come depreciated it was thrown away. Labor Now Dignified. Today labor Is recognised as digni fied. The working man is now recogniied to be a human being with aspi rations, rights, liberties and the de sire to improve his condition mental ly and spiritually ; to be something more than a mere machine. He should no longer be the object of spoliation, no longer recognised as the legitimate victim of greed. The influence ot the labor union was traced aa a factor in bringing about this change. Aa a contract between the old and new ideas Senator Beveridge cited the tact that for nearly half a century after the organisation of this government it was lawful to Imprison working men for debt and the practice was followed. He told of the hard fight necessary to rid the nation ot this blot which todoy would be Intolerable. He then . took up the various questions ot today that effect labor. He showed the progress which hsd been made in labor legislation and In other lines of legislation that vitally and Intimately effect the working classes. Some of those, like the meat Inspection law, the pur food law and the sixteen boar law for railway employes, have been about perfected, but many other reforms which have been instituted have not been completed, as for the example the eight hour law, the employers' liability law, the working (Continued on Page Three.)

Sues For Breach of Promise

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Miss Esther Qulnn. who is suing Dr. Henry Thurston Peck, late professor at Columbia university for $50,000 for alleged breach of promise. Miss Quinn submitted to a wour hour examination recently at the offee of her counsel where she was grilled mercilessly by the professor's attorney. Miss Quinn alleged that the professor paid court to her for three years and then married another. His action it Is said, was the cause, of his retirement from the faculty of -Getamblla university,

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E FOR MAHY Plans Being Completed for Evangelist Meetings by Scranton Divine. OFFICERS ARE ELECTED Final arrangements for the series of evangelistic meetings to begin here November 6, under the direction of George Mahy, one of the most noted of eastern evangelistic workers. These services are to be held at the East Main Street Friends' church, and will be the greatest since those held by J. Wilbur Chapman over Ifteen years ago. The committee having charge of these services is made up of three members from each of eighteen Protestant churches ot Richmond, which have leagued together for the purpose of bringing ahy to Richmond. Its organization was perfected as follows at a recent meeting: President, Sharon E. Jones; vice president, S. H. Jones; treasurer, Everett Lemon; secretary, J. M. Judson. Mahy will be in Richmond three weeks and he brings a regular evangelistic singer to assist in the services. Large crowds are expected to attend the meeting. POSSE HAS BATTLE (American News Service) Wheeling, W. Va., Oct. 15. News reached here today of a desperate battle between officers of the law and desperadoes in the mountains following the lynching of a negro. Three men are known to have been killed, two are dying, two more are missing and are believed to have been killed. Five others were wounded. The battle Is still going on and the militia has been ordered out. Palladium's Total Circulation Statement Including Complimentary Lists, for Week Ending October 8th, 1910, 6,222 City Circulation showing net paid, news stands and regular complimentary' list does not Include sample copies. 3,417

PAID TO MARRY HER

Washington Man Gets $200 for Wedding an Heiress And Then Leaving Her. ODD. WILL IS FULFILLED Washington. D. C, Oct. 15. Chicago candidates for the hand and the $200 of Eugenia Sauer, who advertised under the name of Eugenia Adams for a temporary husband, failed of consideration yesterday, because they were not.here in person. Miss Sauer, look- - ing over a dozen candidates, chose H. O. Brown, a bachelor and building wrecker by occupation. Reveals Her Real Name. Miss Sauer revealed her real name an hour later when she obtained a marriage license. Within another half hour the couple had been married by Chief Justice Bundy of the Municipal court. As the ceremony was completed the stakeholder handed two $100 bills to Mr. Brown and Mrs. Brown gave him a cordial hand shake and this farewell: "Good-bye, Mr. Brown. Thank you for accommodating me. I wish you a long and happy life." Mrs. Eugenia Sauer Brown with her marriage certificate hurried out of the court house saying she intended to take the next train for New York to sail for Vienna and claim the fortune left her by an eccentric uncle whose will imposed the condition of marriage upon her. Waited Until Last Minute. She said she had postponed fulfill ing this requirement till the last min ute and was in a hurry to make good. Hence her advertisement. Brown said it was purely a business proposi tion with him, and he left the court house looking for somebody who could break a $100 bill. Brown gave his age to the marriage license clerk as 33 and Miss Sauer as 32. Before the ceremony the couple signed an agreement that they should separate immediately afterward. Mrs. Brown said she would return and ob tain a divorce within a year. KEY WEST IS SWEPT (American News Service) Key West, Fla., Oct. 15 The devastating hurricane which swept out of Cuba, leaving a trail of death and disaster, has split in two sections off the Florida keys, part of the storm raging in unabated fury Into the gulf of Mexico and e other half turning east. A heavy loTs of life is feared in the keys. It is known that tremendous damage has been done and bits of wreckage floating upon the beaches testified to disaster in the marine shipping.

HEW PUBLIC ART

GALLERY OPENED WEDNESDAY NEXT Appropriate Ceremonies Will Be Held in New High School Auditorium and Gallery then Opened. A JURY FOR AWARDS HAS BEEN SELECTED Three Notable Art Critics Will Select Canvases for Prizes Local Artists' Exhibit in November. Dedication of the public art gallery in the new high school building will be held on next Wednesday evening in connection with the exercises in the formal opening of the fourteenth annual exhibit by the Richmond Art association. At a meeting of the as sociation officials on Friday evening arrangements for the dedication and opening of the gallery were fully discussed and a tentative program out lined. The dedicatory exercises will be held in the auditorium and then the gallery will be thrown open to the public for the first time since the com pletion of the new building. The principal features in connection with the dedication will be music and addresses by local residents and art devotees. Prof. Will Earhart, su pervisor of music in the public schools will direct the high school orchestra. President R. L. Kelley of Earlham college will speak, as will also William Dudley Foulke, Mrs. M. F. Johnston, president of the art association, and a representative of the school board. It is probable that one or two other addresses will be added to the evening's program. Each address will be short and will be appropriate and refer to the art work done in Richmond. Select Awards Jury. The election of officers of the asso ciation and -the announcement of the prize winners ,in the different contests will also be a part of the evening's program. Only members of the association will be entitled to vote in the organization for the ensuing year. The jury for the awards has been selected and includes Clifton Wheeler of the art school at Indianapolis, Halsey Ives of St. Louis, director of the art museum there, and Antonin Slerba of Chicago. The Mary T. Foulke prize is the one which is chiefly sought after by the exhibitors. At the conclusion of the exhibition of pictures brought by the association from all over the country there will be an exhibition by "Richmond artists. This exhibition will be opened in No vember and for this reason the dis play of local paintings will not be so large at the exhibition which will be opened on next Wednesday evening. It is probable that the association will make the November exhibit by local - . 9nnita1 afrair an nn nf it niira-9 win ho to iA thA local art. ists in disposing of their works. The Richmond prize will be awarded at the November exhibition. - The outlook for both exhibitions is very promising. Membership in the association has been increased and more interest is being taken by the lay members since the association has a permanent place in which to display its paintings. The association now has a large number of pictures and a few pieces of sculpture. These are highly prized, in fact some of the association's canvasses are the best in the country. On the opening evening of the October exhibit, a social committee will have charge of the entertainment of the Tisitors. The committee Includes Mrs. Paul Comstock, chairman; Mrs. James A. Carr. Mrs. Charles E. Shiveley, Mrs. Nettleton Neff, Miss Elizabeth Comstock, Mrs. S. E. Swayne, Mrs. R. G. Leeds, Miss Juliet Swayne, Mrs. W. W. Gaar, Mrs. John H. Nicholson, Mrs. Ray Robinson, Mrs. T. A. Mott, Mrs. Lee B. Nusbaum and Mrs. W. D. Foulke. Punch will be served by Miss Helen Nicholson, Miss Genevieve Newlin. Miss Dorothy Dill and Miss Arline Shreeve. SEEK HEW MEMBERS Before January 1, it is hoped to in crease the membership of the Y. M. C. A. to over a thousand. At present the marks stand between 500 and 600, but this membership is considered much too low for the town. The campaign will be opened within the next two weeks. The Y. M. C. A. through the physi cal directors, Roy J. Horton and A. R. Winjum. is" conducting the physical culture work at both Garfield and High school. Winjum is a new man who came here with a good recommenda tion. He is making good. The dormi tories were reported as being in ex cellent condition. THE WEATHER. STATE AND LOCAL Fair tonight 'and Sunday; not much change in

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WORKED BY CROOK ON CONCERN Had Driver Deliver a Ton at Rear of Empty House, Got Change for a "Twenty" and Beats Retreat. SAID HE LEFT $20 BILL IN THE HOUSE After Driver Had Given Him $15.75, Swindler Said He Would Go Get His "Twenty" Is Still Gone. "Gim'me change for a twenty and unload the coal as soon as possible and I'll bring you the bill," said a man giving his name as John Bain-, to Benjamin Martin, a driver for Hackman, Klehfoth & Co., yesterday afternoon. Fifteen dollars and seventy-five cents was produced by Martin, as a ton of coal and bag of cement ordered over the telephone by Bain totaled to the sum of $4.25. Bain took the money, stepped into a 6hed where the coal was to be delivered, disappeared and one of the neatest swindles that ka8 ever beeQ worked ,Q Rlchmond had been accomplished. The affair took place at 510 North Eighteenth street, a vacant house. Toe man called the office of Hackman, Klehfoth & Co., on the telephone ordering a ton of Hocking Valley coal and a bag of Portland cement He in structed the clerk who answered the telephone to bring the material to 510 North Eighteenth street and also said to bring change for a $20 bill. The name given was John Bain. Left the Coal, However. Martin delivered the coal, in the rear of the house. Bain having met him at North Eighteenth and E street. The man went Into the shed to open the door for Martin to throw the coal in. He reached out his band to receive the ticket, bill and change. oujujusins wax n naa gone 10 me , nouse arter tne 520 dm Martin, ..Jin-, loaded the coal without giving the matter any particular thought. When it was thrown in he went to the house after the money, but it was found to be empty. Inquiring of the neighbors he found no one had lived in the house for some time, but that a large man in a light suit had been seen loitering in the yard yesterday afternoon. A man who was thought to have been guilty of the swindle was arrested last night by Patrolman Bundy but released after Martin failed to identify him as the man to whom he sold the coal. Superintendent Gormon is on a sharp lookout for the thief and it is probable he will soon be apprehended. - Similar attempts to swindle coal dealers were made on several local coal merchants yesterday including Mather Brothers company. To Math er brothers a woman giving her name as Mrs. Welsh, sent in an order for the same address as given by the man who victimized Hackman, Klehfoth & Co. She told the company to bring the coal about 5 o'clock, but it was not delivered until about six o'clockk. When the Mather Brother's wagon arrived at the house no one could be found and the coal was returned to the company's yards. The swindle yesterday was the sec ond attempted in Richmond during the past few months. In the first affair a forged check was used. A man believed to be the same one who work ed the swindle yesterday, came into the coal office of Ora Little and laying a bundle down on the counter, produced a check for $20 and ordered a ton of coal to be sent to 810 North Seventeenth street. He received the change, but when an attempt to deliver the coal was made no such address as that could be found. The check was afterwards found to have been forged. AFTER BEEF TRUST (American News Service.) Chicago, Oct 15. Xew and important evidence in the beef trust investigation has come to light and has caused a hurried marshaling of the federal forces here. Further Indictments, one of which at least is said to be directed at a Xew York man. will be asked from the federal grand jury next week. The new search will be directed on the acquisition of the Xew York Retail Dealers Dressed. Beef company, by the alleged trust. The new inquiry is being carried on with the same secrecy that characterized . the former inquiries. Oliver E. Pagan, indictment expert of the government, will arrive in Washington today for a conference with Attorney General Wickersham. FILES FINAL REPORT. Alonzo W. Harris, executor of the estate ot the late Cyrus A. Baldwin, who died in September, 1909, has tiled final report in the probate court. The total value of the estate as shown by the officials' report was $7,686.62. There were four heirs who received 12L65 each. -

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FESTIVAL FUND

The following people have respond ed to the appeal of the Fall Festival Association for financial relief to meet deficit incurred by unfavorable weather. Put your name on the list by sending contributions to Secretary Reller or Treasurer Coe: Mrs. Jeannette Gaar Leeds $100.00 Mrs. J. M. Gaar 100.00 John Zwissler 10.00 Lahrman, Teeple Co. 10.00 Model Clothing Co 10.00 J. C. Bayer 25.00 Mrs. R. R. Van Sant 5.00 Frank Lackey 10.00 H. J. Hanes 2.00 W. H. Three wits 1.5P Wood Eliason 2.50 Gaar Eliason 2.50 W. E. Eikenberry 1.75 Frank Kuhlman 3.00 Moses E. Myers .50 Will Miller 100 James Harrell 5.00 F. F. Haisley 5.00 Omar Murray 25.00 City Restaurant 10.00 Alt. Collett 5.00 Riley Roberts 2.00 Simmons Bros 5.00 Alt Collett 5.00 Everett Hawekotte 2.00 Martin Carrol' 1.00 Isaac Dougan 5.50 Herman Pilgrim 5.00 E. L. Reynolds 5.00 Frank Meyers 5.00 Al F. Hunt 2.00 J. F. Miller .. 25.00 Arcade Amusement Co 10.00 Swain Sign Co 10.00 Ed Roser 10.00 George Klein 25.00 Ed Muey , Unknown John M. Eggemeyer & Sons.. C. B. Hunt , 5.00 5.00 10.00 3.00 Liquor League 50.00 Linus Meredith C. A. Harrison John Snider Frank Altenschulte Sam Fred Ed Thompson Cash Art of Communication Post Office Employes Western Union Postal Telegraph Co. New Long Dis. Tel. Co. Central Union Tel. Co. Home Telephone Co. 5.00 5.00 1.00 5.00 5.00 4.00 1.00 60.00 2.00 Harry Pinnick . John J. Steele S. A. Pryor . . , 5.00 2.00 5.00 iaaa e Neff HUNDREDS KILLED Fierce Hurricane Sweeps the Island and Great Damage Reported Today. STILL RAGES OFF COAST COAST IS STREWN WITH WRECKAGE AND WIRELESS STATIONS DESTROYED HAVANA FILLED WITH DEBRIS. (American News Service) Havana, Oct 15. Hundreds are reported killed and injured in the terrific huricane which swept Cuba, devastating the entire island and which is still raging off the coast where the wind is sweeping at ninety miles an hour carrying destruction into the shipping and perhaps adding to the appalling death list The storm still raged in all its fury today and in its wake came tales ot death and disaster and great suffer ing. Heavy loss of life is reported from Matanzas, Santa Clara and Pinar districts, although communication has been mostly cut off and meager news has been brought by refugees and in other roundabout ways. The coast is strewn with wreckage and the destruction of wireless stations has given rise to the fear that vessels are in distress off the coast in West Indian waters with no means of communication with the mainland. In the teeth of the gale men set to work today repairing the wireless depots in order to get news of possible disasters at sea. Havana was a city of wreckage to day with the streets filled with debris and still in the vortex of the tail of the storm. Buildings were blown down, wires and telegraph poles are down, trees uprooted and traffic brought to a standstill. It was said that the death list would go perhaps to ten in this city alone. Five were known to be dead early today but many others were seriously wounded. Searchers started out to took for bod ies in the wreckage. Rain fell continuously and a gale of terrific fury swept outward from the coast Great portions of the city are under water. The suburbs are ln undated. INCREASE IN WAGES. (American News Service.) Louisville, Oct 15. The Louisville & Nashville railroad granted conduc tors, brakemen, flagmen, baggagemen ana poners icn so seventeen per cent I Increases in wages today.

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A SETS FORTH Walter Wellman and Crew of Five Men Sail from Atlantic City in the "America" in a Fog. ONLY A SMALL CROWD , SAW THE START MADE Daring Aeronauts Are Bound for Europe and the Flight, It Was Stated, Was Not Any Trial Voyage. RUNNING BEFORE A GALE BIG SAUSAGE-SHAPED GAS BAG IS JUST AHEAD OF STORM THAT 13 SWEEPING NORTH FROM MEXICAN GULF. WV'' (American News Service) BUULETIN, Atlantic City, Oct. 15. The following message from Wellman was received at 1:30: "Still going to sea. Stopped motors temporarily to rear range wireless outfit. Now able to work wireless and motor simultaneously." Joseph Salus, president ot the syndicate backing Wellman's project, flashed back the following: "Walter Wellman, aboard dirigible America: Great work. One of the achievements of the century. Best wishes. Goaspeed. Please continue to flash progress." The atmosphere is tingled with conflicting electric waves. Every station and vessel with a wireless ap paratus is trying to flash greetings simultaneously. Atlantic City, Oct. 15. Walter Wellman, the aeronaut newspaper corres pondent, accompanied by a crew of six men sailed away ' from Atlantic City for Europe in his monster sau sage- shaped dirigible balloon, "Amer- . ica," at eight o'clock this. morning. It soon disappeared into the dense fog ' but the hum of the powerful motor could be heard distinctly for a long time. In two hours the fog had lifted but the trans-Atlantic aerial filer was out of sight of the binoculars. At 11 o'clock a wireless message was re- - ceived, saying: "Headed northeast All well on board. Machinery work--ing fine. Good bye. (Signed) J. Irwin." Irwin is wireless operator with Wellman. The other live of the crew include Chief Engineer Melvin Vanlman, and two assistants, and Xaviga-, tor Murray Simmons, formerly of the steamship Oceanic. The "America" Is 225 feet long, filled with 345,00 cubic feet of gas. Its lifting power is twelve tons. It carries sixteen hundred gal lons of motor fuel, and an ample pro vision supply. Fewer than a thousand persons witnessed the start because the crowd was disheartened by pre vious disappointments, but thousands caught a glimpse before the "America" finally disappeared from view. An Impressive Sight. The start of the "America was tre mendously impressive. Fully two hours was consumed in getting the. big balloon out of its shelter. Women" and children of the neighborhood who left their beds to watch the flight being pressed Into service. Vaniman took active charge of the preparations. Simmons,' lashed to a boatswain's chair, ascended to the top of a hangar and cleared the lashings of the big balloon. All members of the crew, including Wellman. were dressed in khaki aviation costume, except Vaniman, who wore an old grey suit Two hnndred people carried the equilibriator, containing two thousand gallons of gasoline for the engine, to the Inlet, where it was dropped Into deep water to be afterward attached to the balloon. The crowd, constantly augmented in numbers as the news of the positive flight spread through the city, lost its skepticism when they saw the big balloon dragged from the hangar and piloted by men grasping a hundred guy ropes. A life boat containing the wireless apparatus, was hung beneath the balloon. Wellman spent less than ten seconds bidding his wife and daughter goodbye and made no theatrical effort to draw the attention of the crowd. He climbed into the car of the balloon with merely a nod to 1 the crowd and then ascended on a rope ladder to the working parts of the balloon and stood over the mechanicians who had started the machine for a trial. Vaniman was the last man to climb aboard and had only reached the underhanging of the life boat when his word to "cast off allowed the balloon to ascend. Grim Promise Made. "We -wont come back until we have had a try at Europe, said Chief Engineer Vaniman grimly as he crawled into the cabin of the dirigible. This statement was directed at the report that the trip this morning was (.Continued From Page Six.).

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