Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 19, 28 November 1910 — Page 1

PATXATOTTM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. H1CII210XD. IND.. 3IONDAY, EVENING, NOVE3IBER 28, 1910. ; agg SINGLE COVY 2 CENTS. VOL. XXXVI. XO. 10,

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INTERESTING IS THE HISTORY OF RED CROSS SEAL First Charity Stamp Issued in 1862 and Method Is Now , Popular AH Over This World. WAR AGAINST WHITE PLAGUE BEGUN 1904 Through the Medium of Stamps, They Being Sold to Raise Necessary Funds ' to Stamp Out Disease. BY PHILIP P. JACOBS. . (Assistant Secrtary National Asso ciation for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.) New York, Nov. 28. Who first thought of the Red Cross Christmas eal is a question many persons will ask as he places the pretty seal on the back of his holiday note this year. The stamp or seal has a very Interesting history. It has gained popularity the world over as an emergency relief measure. In 1868, the first "charity tamp" made Its appearance in Boston and was designated as the Boston Sanitary Fair stamp. About the same time a similar stamp was Issued In Brooklyn with the Inscription. "Brooklyn Sanitary Fair postage." This fair netted 1400,000 to the soldiers' hospital fund. Similar tamps were Issued in later years during the civil war In New York. Springfield, Mass., and Stamford. Conn. After the war this method of raialng funds was discontinued in this country for a generation, although It found vogue In Portugal, Switzerland, Australia, France, Spain, Denmark, Nor- . way, Russia, Sweden, and other European, countries. At the present time there .are several hundred different types of charity stamps In use in all parts of the world, while seals and stamps for advertising national and local gatherings are also used to a considerable extent. ' Met at Copenhagen. Stamps war nasi used for antl-tub-srculoala work In Norway and Sweden la 1M4, At Copenhagen In the tall of 1PM a committee of fifteen met to ' discuss a plan whereby an Idea for a Christmas stamp advanced by Mr. HolboeL a postofflce official might be put Into practice. On the recommendation of this committee. It was decided to print 2,000,000 stamps and to sell them at 2 oere each (about one half a cent), the pro ceeds to go toward the erection of a Children's Seaside Tuberculosis hospital, similar to Sea Breese hospital at Coney Island. The commission provided for a profit of five cents on each beet of fifty stamps for the local postoffices, but so enthusiastic did the of ficiate become over their work that they sold and bandied all the stamps and refused to accept any reward. At the end of the season which lasted only from December 8 to January 6. It waa found that 4,113,000 stamps had been sold, or about two for every man, woman and child, in Denmark. The comfortable sum of 08,000 kron er (about $20,000) was realised for the hospital. The receipts last year from these stamps In Denmark were five times as large. The Danish stamp waa really the Inspiration for the Red Cross stamp In America. In July, 1907, Jacob Rlls published In "The Outlook" the story of the Danish stamp and called upon the people In this country to adopt some such device to support the na tional anU-tuberculoals crusade. Because of lack of funds and other pressing obligations the national association for the study and prevention of tuberculosis could not accept Mr, Rlls's challenge, and no other nation al body felt charged with the respon sibility of undertaking so new a ven ture. Women to the Rescue. The seed sown by Jacob Rlls might have died had not a little group of women In Delaware, headed by Miss EmiljaP. Bissell, seen the possibilities of a Christmas stamp. For the purpose of gaining support for a state anti-tuberculosis campaign In Delaware, the scheme was launched, and within three weeks from December 7 to Christmas, nearly 400.000 stamps were sold la Delaware, Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, and nearly 13.000 waa reallied for the tuberculosis fight The leaders In this sale were closely allied with the Red Cross society of Delaware which had-taken an active part In the movement. The American Red Cross also gave the Delaware experiment its support, and the directors ot that organisation decided to try the sale of Chrlatmaa Tuberculosis stamps on a national basis. After some hesitation about the amount of stamps that would be needed, an order for 1,000.000 stamps of a design by How. ari Pyle was given. So successful was the aale, however, that when the central committee at Washington began to count up on Christmas day, 1908. It waa found that 30,000,000 stamps had been printed. 38.000,000 , sold, to local agents, and nearly . 1 7,000.000 ' wore sold at one cent each, yielding a (ConUnued on Page Eight.) . .

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Miss Mabel T. Boardman, one of the leading spirits of the American Red Cross society who is largely responsible for the growth In the stamp movement; and Jacob Riis, the noted magazlno writer and social worker, who first Introduced the Red Cross stamp into this country. The picture also shows the design of the 1910 Red Cross stamp. LAST STAND MADE BY REBEL TROOPS After Being Soundly Beaten by Federal Army They Flee for Mountains. (American News Service) Mexico City, Nov. 23. General Navarro, of the Mexican regular army, with 600 Federal troops is today in pursuit of the last remnant of General Francisco Madera's rebel force, following the : last stand of the revolutionists yesterday, twelve miles from Fresne In the State of Chihuahua, , It .was . believed-, here that the rebels, many of whom are felons that have been .liberated from prisons by Madero's men, 1 mountain - bandits and cattle thieves, are fleeing towards the Texas frontled i through .the, Sierra Ma dre mountains In hope of escaping across the Rio Grande. While, the death list of. the rebels was placed at 15. dispatches from the north . today, declared 4.hat many . of their dead and wounded had been carried away by retreating revolutionists. .. Call. Them Anarchists. . The government looks upon the last stand as anarchistic 1 violence rather than a battle between ' rival armies. The rebel force of 400 men split in detachments after their defeat , General Navarro sent word that he needed no reinforcements as the Second battalion and the two troops of cavalry from the 13th regiment were sufficient to cope with the situation in Chichuahua. ; Except for desultory skirmishing the government believes that the last fight haa : taken place although Federal troops will be kept in the north in large numbers to patrol the wilder sections end reinforce the Rurales. Genera! Navarro has been personally congratulated by the War Minister for the bravery he showed during the fighting. Two horses were shot under him and it was evident that the sharp shooters among the enemy had singled him out Several bullets passed through his clothing. A CITY INVENTORY IS ORDERED MADE The board of works this morning orderd Clerk Baits Bescher to notify the different heads of city departments to file an inventory of . city property with the clerk before the first ot the year. POLICE SERGEANT WILL BE TREATED Scott Winters, night police sergeant went to Spiceland yesterday to recuperate his health. Winters became 111 after a trip to Indianapolis and has not been on duty since that time. He has an Inflammation of the ankle. . THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Clear this afternoon; fair and colder tonight; Tuesday fair.

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TROUBLE HUNTER TIEDTJTA TREE By Negroes to Hold Him Until the Arrival of Two Local Police Officers. A motley array of drunks faced Mayor Zimmerman when he called police court this morning. Six jnen and out oman were' fined . $1 and costs -by. the mayor and all of them went to JaiL The case of Mrs. Ab Wells, of Chicago, waa amusing as well as pathetic The woman more than sixty-five years of age. was quaintly garbed In an old fashioned black dress. Her hat was of a light colored straw with a little crown and a bright feather sticking straight up in front. - "Oh, your honor," she said in a rich Irish brogue. "I wasn't fellin' well yesterday and I took a -little sherry wine. Was I drunk? .Well, now, I might have been. Just a little tight But do, please, let the fine be suspended as I've got to mate me mother In Clncinnaty. Sure, I do." Patrolman Menke arrested the woman at Qulgley's drug store on North E street where she had bought the wine on presenting a prescription. When taken to Jail she demanded immediate release, telling Superintendent Gormon that she. was a Pinkerton detective from Chicago working on a big case. C. Baker on, Warpath. Chatafleld Baker, one of those fined made . a big ' disturbance on North Fourteenth street-' Saturday evening, wheni he went after William : Stackleather with a large rock. He claims that Stackleather, had been defaming his character to a girl 'whom be was fond of.. . i When the officers arrived on North Fourteenth street as a .. result of a "big Ighr call, they found Baker tied to a tree with a number of negroes dancing around him. Visions of the wilds of Africa, cannibals and pioneer days with redskins on - the warpath floated through the minds of Patrolmen White and Lawler but they found that .the man had been tied to keep him out ot trouble. ' He claims to have a mixture of French.', Mexican. American - and Indian blood in his veins, which makes him a bad man to monkey with, if true. ' Elmer Smith and Arthur Dines were arrested for drunk and insulting women, while the others fined were George Myer and Lon Graves. SUIT TO DISSOLVE THE SUGAR TRUST (American Nwi Service) 'New York, Nor. 28. A bill of equity to dissolve the American Sugar Refining company, known as the sugar trust, was filed today In the United States court by District Attorney Wise. The petition charges an unlawful combination and names 49 defendant corporations and Individuals in many states. . COLUMBUS CHOSEN AS MEETING PLACE CAmerican Newt Service) Indianapolis. IndV Nov. 28. Direc tors of the United Mine Workers today decided to hold the next convention jat Columbus, O., January IT, next.

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AS PROBLEM PLAY White Man Defends Negro Son Who Is Charged -With Two Murders. (American News Set vlcel Trenton, N. J., Nov. 28. The trial of John Sears, the . mulatto and . the self-confessed slay-er of 4he Rev. Arost L. Armstrong and his wife in the parsonage of the Dutch Neck Presbyter ian church, promises to be the weirdest blend of the theatric and sensa tional in the annals of New Jersey criminal courts, according to devel opments today. Wealth will be exerted by the white father of the slayer to save him from the electric chair and the family skel eton of at least one formerly rich and aristocratic family will be paraded before the public in hope of consum mating this. ' Parentage of Slayer. An investigation of the records re veals that John Sears is the son of Thomas Duncan, a former rich and substantial citizen, and that Duncan's wife sued him fordivorce after the birth of the prisoner,: naming Rachel Sear's John's mother as co-respon dent. After the divorce was granted and at that time Duncan was affluent and socially prominent In New Jer sey. And while much of his wealth has slipped through his fingers, he re tains the friendship of his prosperous friends who knew him in his palmy days. . Sears is an outcast, despised by Dotn DiacRs ana wnites. His own father could not possibly recognize him and time after time, when Sears sought to call' himself Duncan after his father, he says, he was forbidden by the Rev. Armstrong. HAD A HARD TIME GETTING ' MARRIED Unf amillarity ' with the marriage license law almost resulted In a post ponement of the marriage of William Freeman and Clara Bell Howell of Dalton township on Saturday evening. Freeman, accompanied by his bride's father; arrived at the county clerk's office early on Saturday morning but Miss Howell was not a member of the party' and the clerk could not issue the license, as it? Is necessary for brides as well as grooms to sign licenses.' This has to be done before the clerk, or some other official, who has authority to administer an oath. After about six . visits to the clerk's office the father and the prospective groom returned to Dalton township. The girl was secured and the Journey back to the court house waa made on the last C, C & I train from the north on Saturday. Freeman Is a farm laborer. The girl is but sixteen years old while her husband is twenty-four. PdkdfcaVTctd Dsfly Averse Grcckrllca (Except Saturday) Including Complimentary lists, for Week Ending Nor. 26th. 1910. SfMDO raw rhvri2ia L showing net paid; news stands and regular complimentary list does not Include sample copies. ' . 5,511

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PAYS COMPLIMENT TO W, C, DENNIS Former Richmond Man Commended for Successful Settlement of Venezuelan Matter. HE IS NOW ENGAGED ON A MEXICAN CASE Will Represent United States in. the Settlement of a Boundary Dispute Near City of El Paso, Tex. (American News Service) Washington, Nov. 28. William C. Dennis of Richmond, Ind., formerly assistant solicitor of the United States state department, has returned from the Hague where he acted as agent for the state department in adjusting the claims of the Orinoco steamship company against the government of Venezuela, was complimented by Sec retary Knox for the eftlcient manner in which he handled the American in terests. Mr, . Dennis has been appointed agent for the United States in the settlement of the boundary question with Mexico, involving the title to the Chamlzal tract near El Paso in the Rio Grande. The land, about 600 acres in area, is valuable and a part of the city of El Paso. The question of sovereign title between the United States and Mexico arose out of the change of the course of the Rio Grande river, by which land, once recognized as Un ited States soil, was thrown to the Mexican side of the Rk Grande channel. - . Mr. Dennis, accompanied by Mrs. Dennis, will probably go to Richmond to visit during the holidays with his father, Prof. Dennis of Earlham col lege. HAS WON REPUTATION. William C. Dennis Expert on Interna tional Affairs. . .-.W. C- Dennis has .made a brilliant reputation, 'Today he is regarded one of the very best international law at torneys in the country. Most of his time is spent handling cases for the United States government and he has been generally successful in all bis cases. He enjoys the implicit confdence ot the state department, to which he was appointed by former President Roosevelt. SHE ASKS DAMAGES For Horse Killed by Traction Car. Determined to at least make a fight for her claim after, it is said, the officers for the traction line became insulting in their correspondence with her, . Kate Cox has instituted suit in the circuit court against the Ohio Electric Railway company. She asks for $150 damages for a horse which was killed on the company's right of way. According to the allegations of the complaint the woman's horse got on the company's lines on election night, due to the catUe guard which the company used being so imperfect that any animal would not be prevented from crossing onto the private right of way. The horse was worth $150 the complaintant says.' ' Before attempting legal proceedings to collect the damages she wrott. to the claim agent of the Ohio Electric Railway company and stated her case. In reply the agent wrote back a letter which her attorney says was in sum and substance a demand that Mrs. Cox should pay the railway company damKes because tne horse got on -the ;ht of way and stopped the interurban car when the car struck the animal. It was evident to the plaintiff in the suit that she could not adjudicate the claim without legal procedure. THREE SMALL FIRES WERE EXTINGUISHED About $50 damages was done by a small fire this morning at the home of William Hawekotte on South Eighteenth street. The lire started in a closet The loss Is covered by insurance. Sunday -i afternoon , the companies extinguished a chimney fire at the home of Rufus Jones on West Main street. Sunday morning therewas a small Ire at the home of Nathan Hilling. 1527 North. A street. The total damage will not amount to $75. A MUNICIPAL SUIT WILL, BE DELAYED The case of the city rersus the Light. Heat and Power company has not yet been set for trial. City Attorney A. M. Gardner said this morning there would be a, slight delay on account of the absence of one of the company's attorneys. Mayor Zimmerman declared he was anxious to get at it and either win or lose.

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OF FOREIGN OFFICE Enrique C. Creel, the Mexican min ister of foreign affairs, who has given out a statement saying that the po litical situation of Mexico presents no danger and that the lives and in terests of all foreigners are absolutely safe. According to the message the only things which have occurred to disturb order are uprisings of little importance in Puebla, Gomez Pa iacio, Parral and the City of Guerrero, all of which have been completely sup pressed. At this momen order is almost complete in the whole republic. TAX FERRET CASE SETFORHEARIRG Suit of Clifford Against the City Will Be Tried for the Fourth Time. The civil case of Fremont Clifford, tax ferret, versus the City of Rich mond, asking $3,600 as his share of sequestered tax paid to the city in 1904, has, been set for trial, December 19, by Judge James K.' Reed. In the Hancock circuit court at Greenfield Ind. i i-Today ; City " Attorney ' A. ' M Gardner filed a claim for' change of venue from Judge Reed. The Clifford-Richmond case is an old one, having first been tried in the Hancock circuit court early in 1905, It is alleged by Clifford that he, as a tax ferret, employed under contract by the city, placed $166,000 worth of Morrison-Plummer stock bonds on the Wayne county books, against the Morrison estate. On these stocks the total tax was collected by the city, His share of the tax would be $3,600, he alleges. City Denies His Claim. City Attorney Gardner alleges that it was not through Information fur nished by Clifford that led to the final collection of the taxes. It is claimed by the city that it had positive knowl edge at the time of the existence of the stocks. , The first trial resulted in a disagreement of the jury, eleven favoring the city and one holding out for awarding the Judgment to ferret Clifford. Then during the Schillinger administration the case was again tried in Hancock county and a judgment of $600 ren dered against the city by a jury. On a motion of Attorney Study, for the city the jury set aside the finding of the Jury and ordered a new trial. The puzzling case was next tried beforo Judge Robinson, of Spencer, Ind, in February, 1908. This judge held the papers in the case for two years and failed to bring in a finding The city is confident of its position in the case and will fight it to a finish It is said that Clifford is as equally determined and the trial promises to be an interesting one. During the three trials the total expense to Rich mond has been, only .about $300. NAVY QUARTERBACK SEVERELY INJURED 1 American News. Service) Annapolis, " Nor. 28. Surgeon D. ' A. Murphy, of . the - naval academy, announced this morning that-an X-ray examination would be ' made of quarterback Ingram -Sewell, whose heroic playing on Saturday throughout the game after one of his ribs had been fractured in the first few minutes of play 1 went far towards deciding the gridiron battle between the army and navy in favor-ot the 'latter. " It was feared that a splinter of the rib had punctured the lung although Sewell says : his ; condition Is such that - no fears are entertained. ;' Sewell was put to bed in Philadelphia immediately after the game but was able to accompany the team here yesterday. This morning many of the cadets visited him in his room to congratulate him, but the doctor refused to admit most of them. FOURTEEN JONERS ARE KILLED TODAY (American News Service) ' . McWever, Okla Nov. 28. Fourteen miners were killed in an explosion in an asphalt mine near An tiers, Oklahoma, today.

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MILLIONS ASKED BY GOVERNMENT Estimates for River and Har bor Work for. Fiscal Year Total $22,227,361 Report Is Made Today. $23,000 WANTED FOR MICHIGAN CITY, IND. Estimates Made , by Brig. Gen. Bixby Are "Cut to the Bone, According to the Order of President. (American News Service. Washington, Nov. 28. The sum of $7,227,361 will be needed for rivers and harbors improvement work for the fiscal year, ending June 30, 1912. according to the ' annual report of Brigadier General W. H. Bixby, chief of engineers. U. S. A made public to day. The estimates, on orders from President Taft. were "cut to the bone" as it is the intention to make river and harbor appropriation hills annual affairs in congress in future Instead - of biennial "pork barrel" measures. No estimates are made for new pro jects. The amount ; asked for is di vided among 251 present - projects. Ten per cent of the amount is for restoration and maintenance of work already completed In 136 localities; seventy per cent of it is needed for the prosecution of works on the Hudson, Detroit, Delaware and Columbia rivers and on all, of the most Important harbors, while : the remainder is for smaller works, the amount ot each being less than $25,000. Congress up to the present, the re port states, has appropriated $660,. 601.209.54 for river and harbor work. General Bixby complains of the lack: of engineers officers and asks tor six ty additional ones. The estimates call for $37,000 to be used In extermlnatlng the water hyacinth from the waters of Florida, Louisiana and Texas. The estimates of appropriation for the , larger projects Include a total of $1,290,000 for Massachusetts; $23,000 is asked for the Michigan City. Ind.. harbor. , " " IS GlVEIIflPARDOn Local Forger Is . Released by Governor. In a critical state of health, tuberculosis having already gained much headway, Frederick Davenport, who was sent to Michigan City penitentiary from Wayne county on May 13, 1908, was pardoned by Governor Thomas R. Marshall on Saturday. The man's health prompted the pardon board to act favorably on his application and the Governor affirmed the boards petition. Davenport will go to Marion, Ohio, where his mother resides. He was a forger. , His wife, who lived at Muncie was deserted by him for another : woman and his wife "peached." He forged several notes here under the names of Folsom and Fosler. He plead uilty to the charge against him and was sentenced from two to fourteen years in the State, penitentiary. His family Is prominent. His brother, Homer .Davenport, Is active in business circles in Muncie. REPUBLICAN AUTO ELECTSjraCRAT Story of How Preble County Man Won Legislative Office by One Vote. Eaton, O., Nor. 28. Earl-H. Irvin. a Democrat who was elected to represent Preble county In the State legislature, receiving a majority of but one vote, was elected because of the work of a Republican machine. The above fact has been revealed by the usual stories which follow all elections and in a measure explain the success or failure of a few or many, candidates, The machine that beat Irrln wasn't a political machine; it was an automobile. . . - i According to the details of the story offered, four Republican s,t all prominent In the ranks of the party in Preble county, jumped into the machine about 5 : 30 in ' the afternoon to go to the polls to cast their rotes. They had not driven far, however, until the machine suddenly, stopped, and they were; unable to proceed- And before they had gotten started once again the closing hour came, and four votes intended for Hon. W. K. Swan. Irvin's republican opponent, were lost and Swan had gone down In defeat by just one vote. . The majority of Irvin since the election has caused him considerable worry In the acknowledgment of the sup-' port of many of his friends, each of whom claim the credit of casting th one deciding ballot. Irvin has also claimed the credit. - - - 4

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