Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 32, 12 December 1911 — Page 8

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUNTELEGBAM, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 19J1. (JEW GOVERNOR OF BLUE GRASS STATE J. B. McCreary Sworn in for Second Time in Third of Century. Figures and Jury in Hyde Murder Trial STIBBINS Oil TRIAL FOR KILLING FATHER Vincennes Youth Is Believed to Be Innocent by His Relatives. CONTRACT IS LET FOR CHURCH WORK was awarded to Deitrich and Haseeoster at the meeting of the board Monday. The bids received were: Deitrich and Hasecoster, $6.2$7; Miller. Kemper, $7,500; Frank Burr, $7,5S9. BfBS. HTDB. int. B. C HTDB. The contract for the remodeling of the East Main Street Friends' church t and William Hendrix, $$,337.

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(National News AnHoclation) FRANKFORT, Ky., Dec. 12 After an absence of thirty-six years James B. McCreary today came back to the Capitol as Governor of Kentucky, for the second time. In a third of a century taking the oath of office aa chief executive of this state. At the ae of seventy-two he took the Oath of office for his Kecond term, being the only man In this country to serve as Governor of a state twice with bo wide an Interval of time elapsing between his terms of office. Escorted by twelve of the survivors of the old McCreary guards, the company of militia which enlisted under him when ho was Governor in 1876, and by five thousand shouting, joyous Democrats from all over the state, nith th entire National guard of Kentucky in the line, the new Governor headed the parade through the etreets of Frankfort to the new Capitol where the oath of office was administered by Chief Justice of the Uourt of Appeals, Judge James I. fcJobson. Governor Wlllson Retires. With the swearing in of the new Governor, there went out of office Augustus E. Wlllson. When he went into office four years ago, Gov. Willson aid he expected to go out of office th most disliked man who was ever the Governor of Kentucky. For a time daring the night rider troubles In this state, hen Gov. Willson used the militia to patrol the troublous districts, the Governor realized his unpopularity. Hut during the lust few months the sentiment has changed and Gov. Willson went out of office at peace, the breaches In his own party having been healed. Democrats of Kentucky celebrated today the return to power In this state of the Democratic party after being out for four years. Gov. McCreary was elected Governor of the state by a majority of 31,335 and the Democracy of the state came to the Capita Itoday to celebrate. The inaugural parade was the longest and largest ever known In Frankfort. It is estimated that 5,000 men marched through the streets behind the Governor's carriage and a score of brass bands added Bnap to the occasion. A feature of the parade was the marching of the men who wore the gray and the blue, men from both the Confederate Veterans Association and the Grand Army of the Republic joining to honor a man who had served with distinction in Ihe Confederate army where he was a mptaln. Following the Inauguration ceremonies, which were held ?in tront of the ;npltol, the new building which the itate has Just completed at a cost of two millions of dollars, was thrown 9pen to the visitors and a public reception was held by the newly-elected state officials. For two hours a fong line of men and women passed by the Governor, shaking hands with him and congratulating him on his election. Gov. McCreary has a remarkable memory for names and faces and he called almost every name as he shook hands with him. An Inaugural Ball. , Tonight the inaugural ball will be held. It will be one of the most attractive which has been held In Frankfort, where inaugural balls have been features every four years, for half a century. The grand march will .be led by Gov. McCreary with Mrs. Thomas J. Smith, wife of the Governor's private secretary. Following the leading couple will be hundreds of

handsomely gowned women and the leading men of Kentucky who have taken an active part in politics in this state. Gov. McCreary, who is a widower, will live at the executive mansion, which has housed every Governor of Kentucky, as a bachelor. He has employed a housekeeper and will have no one living in the mansion with him except his stenographer. It is the first time, except for a few months when Gov. J. C. W. Beckman was in the executive chair, that Kentucky has had no Mistress of the Mansion. Gov. McCreary has been one of the most honored of Kentuckians. He was elected governor of this state in 1876, his opponent at that time being the late Justice John M. Harlan. During that campaign, the candidates engaged In joint debate, speaking from the same stump for two months, but no bitterness ever crept into the speeches and there was never the usual indulging in personalities. Gov. McCreary served several terms in congress from the Eighth District, after he went out of office as governor and was elected United States senator for one term. He was defeated, the only time in his life, in a Democratic primary or convention, by Former Governor Beckham, who was nominated for United States senator in 1907. After his retirement as senator, Gov. McCreary was elected president of the American Peace society and served In that capacity until last summer, when he resigned to prosecute .his campaign for the Governorship. He says this will be the last office he expects to hold and declares he will serve the cause of the people. ANNUAL MEETING OF ARCHITECTS' BODY (National News Association) WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. Several hundred of the leading architects of the United States and Canada, members of the Architects' Institute of America, met at the New Wlllard hotel today, the occasion being the annual convention of the organization. The Humor of It. Stella Were you shopping today? Bella Yes; I got some things to ex- . change. New York Sun,

Dr. Hyde is being tried for a second time in Kansas City for the alleged murder of his father-in-law, Col. Swope. One of the jurymen in the case became homesick Monday and escaped by climbing through a transom in the jury room. Reports today say that the man is still missing, and a mistrial may result.

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HERB FARMERS GET HA1S0MERETURNS Minnesota College Reports on Tests $4,666 an Acre for Digitalis. MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 12 A crop yielding $4,666 to the acre is a possibility of the Minesota farmer in two or three years, according to Dr. Edwin L. Newcomb, of the pharmacy college of the university. The results obtained by Dr. Newcomb during the past summer on a small plot of ground on the campus are cited to bear out the assertion. The garden, containing approximately forty thousand square feet, was divided into plots averaging 10x16 feet. Seven of these plots, or 1,120 square feet, were sown to different varieties of the digitains plant commonly known as foxglove. The crop of these seven plots when dried amounted to one hundred pounds. Dried digitails is quoted at $1.20 a pound, making the yield fro mthat small amount of ground worth $120. At the same rate of yield to an acre the return would amount to $4,666.80. The profitable nature of the crop has been discovered by some people in England and considerable tracts of land are being devoted to the raising of this plant for the drug market. And there is no reason, he says, why people in Minnesota should not make large profits in a few years, although they could not be secured at once, as different soils cause greater or less toxic strength in the drug. The drug derived from the cured plant known as dlgltoxln, would be stronger in some cases than in others, and an ordinary dose of the drug prom a plant of unusual strength might prove fatal. After becoming acquainted with the manner of growing the plant, Dr. Newcomb suggests as a means of escaping this difficulty that retail pharmacists in a community might supervise the growing and make assays of the cured product to determine the strength of the particular crop. The plant is handled much like the tomato plant at first. It must be started early in the spring in cold frames and transplanted later In the spring. After It is started it is hardy and two tons to the acre in ordinarily rich soil is easily possible, according to Dr. Newcomb. The garden at the university is on filled ground composed mostly of sand with a layer of about six inches of black loam. After harvesting, which would be done by mowing where large quantities are grown, the plnt must be dried thoroughly. For this purpose driers costing about $25 each are necessary. One drier would suffice for an acre of the , plant. The price of the best grade is $1.20 a pound, another grade, packed in tin containers, brings S5 cents a pound, and the wild product sells at S3 cents. The first assay of the crop harvested here was completed this week by Dr. Newcomb and Manley H. Haynes, a senior student, and gave a result above the average of the best grade. later assays may lower this, but Dr. Newcomb is confident that the Minnesota product is the equal of the best imported leaf. Seven hundred species of plants were raised in the university garden. About two dozen were found that could be raised in Minnesota with excellent results. An immense asylum for the insane has been built in Jerusalem by a movement that started In Berlin. There is a spring in Nevada whose waters taste like chicken soup.

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COL. T. 11. SWOl'E. LIVESTOCK DEALERS MEETING IN DENVER (National News Association) DENVER, Colo.. Dec. 12. A strong protest against removing the duties on meats, hides cattle and live stock products will be made by the American National Live Stock, association, which began its fifteenth annual convention in this city today. COURT NEWS John F. Davenport and Jeremiah L,. McDaniel, the latter of Cambridge City, have been named as jury commissioners by Judge Fox to serve during 1912. Disclaimer notices have been filed in the circuit court in the matter of the opening of the road, petitioned for by Fred Worl and others, by George A. Miller, John H. Carr, James A. Boyd, Barton T. Reynolds and Monroe Sherry. These five claim they have no interest in the opening of the road which is in Clay townshiu. The case was one appealed from the commissioners' court. LATE MARKET NEWS EAST BUFFALO LIVE STOCK East Buffalo, Dec. 12. Cattle Receipts 150; prime $7,503 8.25; butchers $3.50 ';t 7.0O. Sheep Receipts 8,000; prime $4.00. Calves Receipts 150; choice $5.75Ci 9.00. Hogs Receipts 4,200; heavies $6.50; pigs $6.00; yorkers, $6.20fa 6.25. CHICAGO LIVESTOCK Chicago, Dec. 12. Cattle Receipts 6.000: beeves $9.10; cows and heifers $2.00i $6.25. Sheep Receipts 23,000; prime $4.10 Lambs $6.00. Hogs Receipts 26,000; heavies. $5.75 (i6.30; pigs $3.506.10. Calves $6.208.35. PITTSBURG LIVESTOCK Pittsburg, Dec. 12. Cattle Receipts light; steers $7.60 Sheep Receipts 1500; prime $3.85. Hogs Receipts 300; pigs $5.75; yor kers $6.156.D0. Calves Receipts 100; choice $3.00. Lambs $6.00. INDIANAPOLIS LIVE STOCK Indianapolis, Dec. 12. Cattle Receipts 2000; top $5.00. Hogs Receipts 9.000; top $6.40. Sheep Receipts 300; prime $3.25. Lambs $5.50. Calves $8.75. TOLEDO GRAIN Toledo, O., Dec. 12. Corn 60c! Wheat 94c j Clover seed $12.45 Oats 48ci

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$80 SQUARE FOOT GOTHAM LOT BRINGS High Record Set for Real Estate When Half a Lot Sells for Million.

National News Association) NKW YORK, Dec. 12. A new record has just been established for New York city real estate in the sale for $1,000,000 of the small corner plot at Broadway and Thirty-fourth street, adjoining Macy's department store. It contains less than 1,200 square feet not quite half of a full-sized city lot, and brought nearly $870 a square foot. This exceeds the former record of about $800 paid two years ago for the old Gillender building plot on the northwest corner of Nassau and Wall streets, on which included some adjoining property, the forty-one-story Bankers' Trust building is neartng completion. Previously to this the sale of the famous parcel at I Wall street, fronting on Broadway, was sold for about $700,000. In area this contains about 1,200 square feet, making a trifle less than $600 a square foot. Not far below the plot just sold is the property formerly occupied by the Union Dime Savings Bank. The bank sold it in 1906 for about $1,000,000, at the rate of $250 a square foot, and when it changed hands about three years later the price was then given as nearly $1,500,000, bringing the square foot average to about $375. It occupies the entire front on :he south side of Thirty-second street, with frontage on both Broadway and Sixth avenue. The tiny cornor is in the center of one of the businest localities of the city. The high price paid for it has undoubtedly been influenced by the fact that the Pennsylvania station is only a block to the west. On the opposite side cf Broadway, between Thirtythird and Thirty-fourth streets, the twenty-five-story McAlpin hotel is being constructed, and other important hotel and business developments near by, including the Gimbel store one block below, have made Broadway and Thirty-fourth street one of the noteworthy centers in traffic and business. PLANS TO EXTEND FOREIGN COMMERCE (National News Association) PHILADELPHIA. Pa., Dec. 12. Prominent manufacturers and importers from all parts of the United States assembled in this city today to attend the national export trade convention to be held under the auspices of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum. I the discussion of plans for extendI ing the foreign commerce of the Unlted States, more especially with the countries of Central and South America. Automohile Rennir Wnrk 1" w . u j Our Specialty 1 Expert Mechanics to Do ! Your Work. j Quaker City Garage j 1513 Main. Phone 1625 WANTED YOUR MACHINE AND REPAIR WORK BALLINGER GIBBS MACHINISTS REAR 220 LINCOLN STREET Phone 3040 or 3158

VI.VCF.NXES. Ind., Dec. 12. Every- ! thing is in readiness for the trial of y. Edward Stibbins, the young man i who is charged with first degree miir- j der as the result of the mysterious j Killing of his father, George W. Subbins. The case was on the court cal-, tndar for today and it is expected to ! proceed with the trial without delay.; The elder Stibbins was shot and ; killed while feeding cattle on his farm near Petersburg on the night of Nov. 17th last. The revolver used by the ; murderer was taken out of the mud

near where the body was found. The theory of suicide was advanced by j i members of the Stibbins family, but 'the authorities placed no credence in it after it was shown that the dead man wore heavy mittens and there were no powder marks near the j wound. I The son, S. Edward Stibbins, was ! taken into custody and later charged I with murder upon evidence that he had been on unfriendly terms with his i father for some time and was unable to give a satisfactory account of his whereabouts at the time the crime was committed. The accused man is thirty-two years old and a graduate of the State Normal school. For some years he has been engaged in teaching Other members of the Stibbins family have declined to discuss the rfme other than to assert their belief in the innocence of the son. ARIZONA HELD ITS FIRST ELECTION (National News Association) PHOENIX. Ariz., Dee. 12. Arizona held her first State election today, voting for governor and other State officials, judges of the supreme and district courts and members of the legislature. In addition the voters also expressed their preference for two United States senators and also voted on the proposal to eliminate the judicial recall from the State constitution. Complete tickets were put in the field by the Republican, Democratic and Socialist parties. Owing to the multiplicity of candidates the complete results of the election probably will not be known before Thursday. GWENDOLYN BURDEN , MARRIED TUESDAY (National News Association) NEW YORK, Dec. 12. A large and fashionable assembly filled Grace church this afternoon for the wedding of Miss Gwendolyn Burden and Mr. David Dows. Following the ceremony a reception was held at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. Townsend Burden, in East Ninetysecond street. OREGON IS AFTER BETTER HIGHWAYS (National News Association) PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 12. County judges and commissioners of Oregon began their annual convention today at the Commercial club in this city. The necessity of a more uniform method of highway improvement is the chief subject slated for discussion during the three days' session. SALE ON PICTURES SEE WINDOW DISPLAY Moormann's Book Store 520 Main Strert .

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