Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 20, 3 December 1912 — Page 2

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HIGH SCHOOL SQUAD IS WORKING HARD No Old Players, but Raw Material Shows Knowledge of. Basketball.

In spite of the fact that there is not one of last year's men on the squad, the high school basketball team is rounding into shape nicely for the game at Anderson next Friday. Although the absence of seasoned veterans on the squad is a great drawback the men are putting their whole spirit into the practice and beyond a doubt will turn out ja team that will be a surprise to the school. Most of the squad has been playing the game for years and all of them show an excellent knowledge of the game in practice. The. main thing lacking is team work, which, of course can only come after long playing to gether. Little can be said of .individual merits until after the game with Anderson when the team will try its mettle against an aggregation of ability. It is believed that Friday's game will be the most difficult game of the season. The team has not been chosen and the entire squad is being given a good workout in preparation of the event. The squad is composed of the following: Mayer, captain, Genn, Quigg, Thornburg, Lyons, Hoover, Phillips, McKee, Ball; Hart, Urbin and Beiss-man.

sec. com -SPOKE Business Men Hear Views on Mission Work.

A representative body of business men listened to an account of the excellent work being done by the Y. M. CVA. in foreign fields at the Y. M. C. A. this noon. '.'. The lecture was given -by Mr. E. T. Colton, of New York, secretary of the International committee of the Y. M. C. A. Mr. Colton confined his lecture to the work being done by the missionaries in China and in the South American republics. Among statements made by Mr. Colton was that Argentine Republic had a larger foreign commerce than China and Japan together. Thursday evening a supper will be given at the local association to be followed by speeches by Thomas Elliot, an alumnus of Earlham college, and

! Arthur Rugh formerly of Wittenberg

college. Elliot is now doing missionary work in Honkong, China. Rugh is a Y. M. A. A. secretary in China.

PRESS PUBLICITY FEATURE OPPOSED Arguments on Section of Postal Law Are Heard in Supreme Court.

DEPOSITS INCREASE

(National News Association) ! WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. Senator' McCumber of North Dakota has pre- j pared and will introduce a bill to re-; peal the newspaper publicity sections . nf th last cost office appropriation

bill. The North Dakota senator main- (

tains the law works a hardship on small papers.

FIREMEN PRESENT MODIFIED DEMAND

(National News Association) NEW YORK, Dec. 3. Modified demands were submitted today by the general committee of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen at the conference with the committee of railroad managers representing 52 eastern roads. The demands, which were modified as a result of the arbitration committee's recent award In the case of the engineers were made in behalf . of 35,000 firemen and include straight time for work done after regular hours and provide two firemen on coal burning locomotives weighing 170,000 pounds, and slso on all freight locomotives on runs over 100 miles. The conference will last daily until a decision is reached.

A PENNY POSTAGE IS ENTERED TODAY Also New Banking System Measure and New Election Bill.

PLAT RECORDED

A plat showing the division of twenty-two lots in the H. M. Sutton addi'tion between. West Sixth and West Seventh streets, north of Pearl street, was filed in the county recorder's office this afternoon.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. The first bill of the present session of congress was introduced in the senate today by Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania. It provides for the reduction of postage on first class mail matter and established a national penny postage rate. The bill was referred to the committee on post offices and post roads. A bill re-establishing the banking system of the United States along lines previously suggested by the Aldrich commission was introduced by Senator Borah of Idaho. The measure was referred to the finance committee. Senator Works of California introduced a bill for the election of presidents by popular vote without the action of the electoral college. The bill provides that afler the election the popa-

lar vote of each state shall be record

ed and sent to the senate. The candidate receiving the greatest number of votes throughout the nation, regardless of states, will become president. It was referred to the judiciary committee.

CLAIM FILED

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Claim Against the estate of Sarah A. Hendrix was filed today by William F. Hendrix. The amount of the claim is $591.54.

ARGUMENTS GIVEN. WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. After Solicitor General Bullitt concluded his defense of the newspaper publicity law as an attempt to regulate the mails the attack on it was resumed today before the United States supreme court by Attorney James M. Beck, counsel for the Lewis Publishing Co. He declared the law was an attempt to pervert the powers granted the government to accomplish unconstitutional ends. He also pointed out that there has been an alarming growth of this tendency in the last twenty years. Mr. Bullitt contended that as congress has the power to exclude from the mails bad smelling articles it has the power to exclude newspapers which do not comply with the regulations. Attorney

Beck said this constituted nullification by indirection and was the opening wedge for censorship of the press.

Postal Savings Department Received Much Money.

The postal savings bank reported a-j larger deposit during the month of No- j rember than any month since the bank I opened. The sum of $1,112 was depos- j ited and bonds amounting to $6,398 j were sold. The sum of $6,398 was cred- J ited to the depositors. An unusually ' large money order business was also reported by Assistant Postmaster Deuker. j The total sales of the post office amounted to $6,525.22 an increase of ; $700 over November 1911. The sum of $1,233.85 surplus was sent to Indiana-;

polls.

INDISCRETION OF OFFICIALS BLAMED Coroner Holds Them Partly

Resoonsible for Death of j " Pearl D. Shilts. j

Indiscretion on the part of C. & O. i officials in permitting employes to ride J as passengers on an engine, failure of j the engine crew to maintain a close and sufficient watch on the track and , failure on the part of the bridge fore- J man to watch the track from the rearj

TWO WAN1JECREES Tire of Alleged Derelictions of Their Husbands.

LONELIEST SPOT ON EARTH.

Tristan d'Acunha I a Tiny Oasis In a Wildsrnsss of Watar. When Napoleon was sent to St Helena it was thought that the loneliest place on earth bad been assigned to him as a prison. But St Helena is 1,400 miles nearer a continent than is Tristan d'Acunha. Many hundred of of miles of ocean lie between this island and its nearest neighbor. Tristan, In short, is a tiny oasis in a boundless wilderness of waters, go from it in which direction you will. It Is a rocky and cliff girt little isle, with a solitary mountain 1,000 feet high rearing itself from the midst. Yet on this lonely speck of rock and earth there lives, a community seemingly happy in their isolation from all the rest of the world. They are farmers, cattle raisers and shepherds. In the valleys of the island are fertile fields, where potatoes mainly are grown. The food of the people consists for the most part of beef, mutton, fowls, potatoes and fish. Tristan used formerly to produce many fruits and vegetables which can no longer be grown there. The reason of this is that the island for a long time was overrun by rats which escaped from a ship that anchored there and which the people hava been unable, it Is said, ever entirely to exterminateHarper's Weekly.

That her husband is a habitual drunkard that he treated her cruelly and Inhumanly, called her vile names, awakened her at night when she was

worn out, sick and in bad health, that he tormented her and nagged her, harrassed and pursued her and rendered her unhappy are the charges brought against Charles W. Davis, by Myrtle M. Davis in her suit for divorce filed today in the Wayne circuit court. They were married August 6, 1910. Failure to provide and abandonment are the two charges upon which Laura Boyd anticipates a divorce decree against George C. Boyd. Tha divorce petition, which was filed today, states that they were married in 1900 and separated in 1904.

are tn tnree avoiaaDie iaciors, responsible for the death of Pearl D. Shilts, according to the verdict filed by Coroner Pierce in the county

clerk's office this afternoon. Shilts was killed on the morning of November 25. He was a member of the bridge gang and was riding on a hand car when the engine struck the car.

throwing him off and Instantly killing I

him. Other members of the gang1 jumped. Shilts' left forearm was almost amputated, both feet crushed, right leg almost amputated, the bones in the fact crushed, left ear lacerated and back broken and scull fractured. In summing up the testimony the coroner says: "The consideration of

testimony taken forces the conclusion that several avoidable factors were responsible for the accident and the sacrifice of the life of Pearl D. Shilts. These factors are the indiscretion an the part of the C. & O. officials in permitting employes to ride as passengers on the engine, thns making possible a diversion from duty on the part of the engine crew; failure of the engine crew to maintain a close and sufficient watch on the road at all times, knowing that the engine was making the run an hour later than was expect

ed by employes along the road; failure on the part of Foreman Snider to watch the road from the rear, know

ing that extra engine 1201 had not yet 1

gone west." Discrepancy Appears. The five men riding on the engine declare that the whistle was blown at

the point a short distance from the scene of the accident. Members of the bridge gang, who were riding on the handcar, declare that the whistle was not blown. Those who were on the engine were Engineer L. M. Trible, Fireman James Nunnally, Train Dispatcher, H. A. Johnson. James Walsh and Alvin K. Lahr. Those on the bridge gang were Schuyler M. Snider, foreman, Walter

Witte. who was injured. George Godfrey, Perry Toney, Theodore Hensley, David W. Brumer. E. J. Douthit and Pearl D. Shilts, the man who was killed. Dennis Ryan and George Henderson

were eye witnesses to th accident.- ' The engineer testified that he tht the Boston yards atiW o'clock tul at the first overhead brldgs eat of South Richmond he saw four men rolling down the grade. This was the first warning than an accident had occurred, he said. He said that he hai sounded the whistle, but was unableto look ahead on the track because the engine's boiler obstructed the view, as the train was rounding a curve. He said the engine was "drifting" at the tle. as the steam had been shut off.

COUNCIL TO MEET ; A meeting of the county council has been called for tomorrow. The purine of the meeting is to make additional appropriations which were not included in the appropriations made at the regular council meeting In September.

PETITIONS FILED

Buy Your Christmas Gifts NOW

Ex parte petition was filed in tha

Wayne circuit court today by the ; George D. Davis Carriage company, in !

George W. Davis Motor Car company.

RHEUMATISM

Any Kind. Liver. Kidney. Lumta&o. Stomach . Blaatf Diseases cursd by Dann's Sure Safa &. tpetdy Curo only 2 So and 75c at Druillsta

mall. Venn's R. C. Co.

Ancient Locke. Locks were used in the time of the pharaohs. At Karnak the visitor it shown the sculptured representation of a lock which is almost exactly like one kind of lock used in Egypt at the present day. Homer says that Penelope used a brass key to open her wardrobe. He adds that it was very crooked and bad an ivory handle. A Greek writer who lived in the last half of the twelfth century explains that such keys were undoubtedly very ancient, although still to be seen in Constantinople and elsewhere. Roman locks, like the Egyptian, required a partial sliding of the key. They were, however, more intricate.

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YOU MIGHT GIVE HIM A SAFETY RAZOR We have them all, and some in handsome Christmas packages. AUTO-STROP GILLETTE EVER READY DURHAM-DUPLEX ENDERS A Substantial and Lasting Gift.

CON KEY'S, the Drug Pollers Ninth and Main.

Christmas is rapidly approaching only 18 more shopping days remain and the last twelve of them will be days of such tremendous activity that we will be taxed to our utmost capacity. - - - We take this opportunity to urge every one to consider this condition and make full use of the advantages the present week affords for . satisfactory and comfortable Christmas shopping.

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718 Main Street

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Out Glass The Best Quality and Patterns

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for the Automobile

Gns and Rifle Bicycles Athletic poods

. ricycics icoxm -ji? s Velocipedes Foot Balls a:r

iOr the Winter Juvenile Goods Physical CttHtxrc

Hunting Suit

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Store, and That it is the Place to Buy

Chafing Dishes

23 a I, frig Dishes Fancy Dishes

Silverware Community and Roger Also Sterling

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