Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 139, 25 May 1915 — Page 12

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1910

THOMAS GETS TERM OF 2 TO 21 YEARS FOR KILLING RADER

Guilty of voluntary manslaughter was the verdict returned in circuit court today by a jury which heard the Anderson Thomas murder case. Thomas was sentenced tor two two twenty-one years in the Michigan City penitentiary. The verdict was not. a surprise to many, as acquittal was not expected. The state asked for conviction on second degree murder, which carries life imprisonment. The jury started to ponder over the case at 6 o'clock last night and arrived at a conclusion before breakfast, this morning. Illness of one of the jurors delayed the verdict. Thomas is 32 years old and went to Liberty last. July, following his dismissal from the Cincinnati street car service. Thomas killed Louis Rader, 27, of Liberty, at 2 o'clock in the morning of August 2. following a drinking party and poker game which enderl in an argument between Rader and Mat Griffen, Thomas' brother, also shooting John Rader, father of the young man he killed. The jury consisted of William E. Caskey, Edward Beeson. John H. Jackson, James Martin, Nelson Weaver, Lewis M. Starr. Harvey R. Critchfield, Benjamin Thomas, Harlan H. Wilson. Carl F. Bertsch, George A. Miller and Willis C. Rich.

Connersville Man Turned First Soil for Old Waterway

HEALTH COMMITTEE REPORTS ACTIVITIES

A regular meeting of the public health committee of the Commercial c lub will be held at 4:30 o"clock tomorrow afternoon. Routine health business will be taken up and the arrival of a government expert from the department of health at Washington Thursday will he discussed. Kaeh of i'v members of the committee has following an individual line of r investigation, which will be

BY S. B. HUDDLESTON. Three different men have claimed j the honor of digging up and wheeling ' away the first dirt from the canal. The first was a negro by the name of Win-i slow; then it is claimed that Mr. I Pritchard, who cleared the right of; way, was the first; but the only reasonable conclusion for us to take is j that Samuel Parker of Connersville, ! who made the opening address that j stirred the enthusiasm of the great j

concourse of people on that great day for Cambridge City July 28. 1842 was the only one man that we have any reason to believe was ever entitled to receive any honor for this claim. Now the old town east of the river has lost about all its enthusiasm for its own local promotion and Vandalia is no more. Runs First Boat. The first boat, says Mr. Davis, was run on this canal in September, 1845. Its name was the Belle of Indiana. John Lemon was its owner and cap-

j tain. The G. B. Seigs was owned and

run by Sam Widner, who also owned another boat named the Wayne. The Nick Longworth was owned and run by Samuel Stevens. The Brilliant was owned by its captain Alex. Crawley. The Rover was owned by an esteemed citizen of Cambridge City, John Ad.ams, its captain. The IT. S. Mail was a swift, easy runing boat owned by George Parsons, with himself and sometimes Jack Smith as captain. The Crawley made more trips through to Hagerstown than any other boat. It was owned and captained by Alex. Crawley. The Hagerstown canal was of short life, but as a race for the Conklin, now Creitz, mill, it has been a continued success. The Mayflower and the Fly were owned and run by August Boden and his sons. None of the boatmen were owners or stockholders in the canal. They paid toll for each one-way trip. From

Cincinnati and Lawrenceburg to Harrison the told was $20, and from Harrison to Cambridge City $50. These tolls were for loads. Empties were lower priced. Pay for carrying small packages and parts of loads were collected by the captain. The price was fixed by weight and distance. Tolls at Cambridge City were collected by the canal agent, L. B. Morrison, who was the senior partner of Thomas Newby, old time leading merchants in Cambridge City. Many hun-

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dred thousand pounds of flour were carried down the canal. Packed pork was shipped from here by countless boat loads. Canal bank notes were in circulation in a limited quantity, but these notes were never popular because they always passed at a discount, and not being legal tender many people refused to accept them. Finally so many of the boatmen and even the canal agents refused to receive them for shipping bills and they went out of circulation. We saw some of them that had been put away for keepsakes by canal stockholders a number of years after the canal had ceased to do any business. Since the abandonment of the canal

Mr. Davis was engaged for a number of years in draying. During hog killing times he used to hire a man to do his draying and he worked for higher wages at knocking down and sticking hogs at the slaughter house west of Cambridge City, in what is now Mt. Auburn, and In which Solomon Cripe was the ' superintendent. Solomon Huddleston won fame here for his fast work at gutting hogs. He gutted as many as seven hundred hogs a day here. There are a few men still living who know this to be a true statement of his work. Abner Bond owned and financed the slaughter house in Mt. Auburn.

COMMITTEES PLAN SPECIAL EXERCISE

ECONOMY, Ind., May 25 Children's day exercises will be held at the Methodist church ' Sunday evening, June 6. The committees which are arranging the program follow: Music, Vernon Marshall, Mrs. Emma Ballenger and Miss Mary Ballenger; literary, Mrs. Polhemus, Mrs. Loop and Miss Ruby Morrison; decoration. Miss Belle Conley, Miss Grace Garrison, Miss Helen Farmer, Worth Fletcher and Harold Fouts.

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