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RICHMOKB PAIXABIUM
THE
AIMD SUN-TELEGRAM,
RICHMOND, IXD., SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE l.i, 1908.
SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS.
VOL. XXXIII. NO. 110.
LITTLE SON OF REV.
FORM A PLYING
WEDGE TO CARRY
TAFT TO VICTOR!
THIS IS TAG DAY
IN NATIONAL CAPITAL
Quentin Roosevelt Starts the
Fun.
CONSCIENCE FURD GROWS
TO EXTENT OF $8,000
Some Jersey City Man Re
pents. BIG WHITE CHIEF
TAFT IS FAVORITE
OF SIOUX INDIANS
TWO SISTERS
KILLED
T
MURDERS FAMILY,
THEN SHOOTS SELF
Meet Death Under Wheels of
Train.
Sister Accidentally Kicks Him
In the Head.
MANIAC
MOTHER
His Supporters in Chicago Are
Leaving No Stones Un
turned to Make Him Nomi
nee on Jump.
PLANKS PROPOSED
BY ORGANIZATIONS.
Hardly Probable However,
That All Will Receive and
Open Ear in the Republican
Convention.
VICE PRESIDENCY TO FORE.
6EVERAL MEN GIVEN FURTHER
CONSIDERATION BY DELEGATES
WHO ARE RAPIDLY ASSEMB
LING IN CHICAGO.
THREE MEN IN STRONG.
Fairbanks, Clarke and Sherman Given
More Consideration for the Position
Than Any Others. Live Convention
News.
(Special to the Palladium.)
Chicago, June IS. Headed by
Frank H. Hitchcock and Arthur I.
Voiyts, Taft boomers in Chicago today
formed themselves into a flying
wedge, preparatory to carrying Wil
liam R. Tn.ft into the convention from
the credentials committee as the re
publican nominee for the president by
Declamation. While the Taft men
were preparing for the next fight, be
fore the credentials committee, the
six allies wore forming their lines to
fight him to the last. The fight be
fore the credentials committee, which
will pass on "steam roller" victims,
left by the way side by national com
mittee will be spectacular. On the
finding of this committee, will vest
the results of the convention, it. is
now believed. While these two arm
ies were getting ready for t'.ie battle,
vice-presidential booms began pop
ping. This city hn-5 became a center of in
flux of state delegations and real in
terest. s being taken in the platform
proposition.
The state delegation, as soon as
they find headouarters. will make ar
rangements for choosine fvom their
members a new national committee,
a resolutions committee and a creden
tials committee. Most of these meet
ings will be held Monday.
The Taft leader.-, today declare it
Is all over but the shouting. They
laugh at the 'dea of a Roosevelt stam
pede or a chance of any one else beat
ing Taft on the floor of the conven
tion. He claims now as the result of
the national committees finding. 70"
votes on the first ballot. At least
2211 of these will again be contested
before the credentials committee.
Interest of those who are in Chi
cago to attend the republican national
convention, today became centered
about the work of getting up a plat
form upon which, William H. Taft or
any candidate who may be nominated
will run for the office from this time
until November
Labor in Session.
One of the most important features
to this big political cuestion today,
was the moetin? of the American Fed
eration of l,abor at the Kaiser Hof
hotel, with President Samuel Oompers
at the head. The meeting was really
the quarterly meeting of the federa
tion and is usually held east, but
President Gompers accomplished a
pood stroke when he transferred it to
Chicago at this t'me.
He wants republicans to adopt his
anti-injunction plank. There are
plenty of others too. who want planks.
Many Planks Proposed.
The National Immigration League
has a plank providing for the distribu
tion of aliens throughout the country.
"When the matter of the insertion of
the postal savings bank plank comes
tip before the resolutions committee
a real fight is looked for. It will
probably be a duplicate on a smaller
fcale of the struggle against the meas
ure in Washington when the president
attempted to carry out his plan in that
regard. The W. C. T. U. will have a
plank to present and I'tah woman suf
fragists also have something to say.
Sees "Brother Bill."
Henry W. Taft. brother of the sec
retary with his wife and daughter
Louise, reached Chicago today and
took up headouarters at the annex.
Like his "Brother Charley" he sees
'"Brother Bill" in the first place on
the first ballot.
"There is no other way out of it."
said Mr. Taft as a barber scraped the
Whiskers off his chin in the Taft rooms
at the Annex.
"I have watched the situation pret
ty close and I am convinced that all
this talk by the allies will mean noth.-
you re
it! One dollar, yle3e."
These words greeted 200 visitors
and employes at the White House yes
terday as Quentin Roosevelt, suiting
the action to the word, pinned a tag to
the coat, of each. Today is tag day in
Washington and Quentin lost no time
in beginning thu fun.
He tagged 1ft 6 persons front the
time he rot home from school until
the dinner hour. Tlie French ambas
sador and several members of the
cabinet were among those he tagged.
Kvery member of the white house
staff was called upon to addhis mite
and last night the policemen detailed
to the white house and other attaches
are wearing the tags bearing the in
scription: "I am tagged to help the
Children's Playground Association."
AFTER MANY YEARS
POWERS GOES FREE
He With Jim Howard, Granted
Pardon Today by Gov
ernor Willson.
POWERS WAS IN TEARS.
WHEN THE NEWS WAS BROKEN
TO HIM HEvCOULD NOT RE
STRAIN HIMSELF LOCAL MAN
PLEASED WITH ACTION.
Frankfort, Ky.. June 1.",. After an
eight years' fight for freedom, during
which time Caleb Powers and Jim
Howard were several times convicted
of complicity in the assassination of
Governor Goebel. a pardon signed by
Chief Executive Willson of Kentucky
this morninig, set at liberty the ac
cused men.
The scene it the state prison, when
the news was conveyed to the men,
was most touching. Powers , sensi
tive, educated, politician, burst into
tears. Jim Howard, with more of the
stoic about him. accepted the writ as
if he had expected it and calmly pre
pared to take his leave of stone walls
and prison guards.
At Indianapolis. ex-Governor Taylor
who has held out against punishment
for the men since the commission of
the murder, in 1!hh, said:
"The pardon is a most, righteous act.
Never before in the history of the courw
try have two men suffered as much un
justly." J. C. WALKER PLEASED.
He Formerly Went to School
Caleb Powers.
With
J. C. Walker, clerk at the Arlington
hotel, was a happy man today when
informed that Caleb Powers, the cele
brated Kentucky prisoner, had been
pardoned by Governor Willson. Mr.
Walker formerly went to school with
Powers in Barbersville, Ky., and they
became warm friends. Mr. Walker
has followed the Powers case with the
deepest interest since the day Powers
was arrested.
ing. The first ballot will settle ev
erything. Brand Whitock of Toledo and Col.
W. R. Nelson of the Kansas City Star,
arrived here this morning.
Sergeant-at-nrms W. J. Stone of the
convention with S. It. Mason, head of
the doorkeepers and ushers, went to
the coliseum annex today to drill the
men who will have charge of the
doors and the seating of 12,000 peo
ple attending the big function.
"We could open the convention to
night and be ready," said Mr. Stone.
"Let Us Alone."
With but few exceptions all those
who have been spoken of as vice
presidential candidates have assumed
the attitude of "Let us Alone." There
are those however, who want it and
want it badly. At least two men are'
out after the job. They are ex-Governor
Franklin Murphy, of New Jer
sey, and John Hays Hammond of
Massachusetts. These two men have
opened headquarters in Chicago and
are booming as loud as anybody. j
Sherman Strong. j
In the semi-background is a man
w-ho looks to many republicans as
about the strongest man, if he can be
put up. That man is Congressman
James S. Sherman of New York.
It is said that although the White
House looks with a kindly smile upon :
George B. Cortelyou. it also beams up
on Congressman Sherman.
Today there came along a new as-
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THE WEATHER PROPHET.
INDIANA Showers Saturday night;
Sunday showers and cooler; fresh
south winds, shifting to north
west. OHIO Showers Saturday. night;
Sunday showers and cooler, fresh
south and southwest winds becom
ing northwest Sunday,
Washington, June 13. "Tag
Washington. June 1:5 An unknown,
conscience-smitten person mailed
ikx to the 'conscience fund" today.
The letter bore the postmark of Jersey-City.
FOX IN MARION.
Judge H. C. Fox was at Marion to
day to preside in the Grant circuit
I court, so there was no local court.
Four cases are on the trial docket to
be heard Monday.
GOES TO ILLINOIS.
I'pon receipt of word that her moth
er is seriously ill at her home at Ma
rissa. 111., Mrs. Harry Penny left for
that, place this morning. Her mother
has been in poor health for some time.
REID WILL HEAD
JEFFERSON CLUB
Named President for New
Democratic Organization
Last Night.
OTHER OFFICERS CHOSEN.
MEMBERS OF THE ORGANIZATION
WILL WORK DILIGENTLY TO
FURTHER THE CAUSE OF DEMO
CRACY IN OLD WAYNE.
The Wayne County Jefferson club
was' organized last evening with a
membership of over two hundred and
fifty. The meeting: was held at the
city building and democrats from ev
ery section of th'e county were in at
tendance. Officers were elected, P.
A. Iteid being unanimously chosen
president, and a constitution and by
laws adopted. Application for a char
ter will at once be made to the nat
ional association of Jefferson clubs.
Several addresses were made and
whenever the names of Bryan or Mar
shall were mentioned, there was en
thusiastic cheering. President Reid
accepted his position under protest,
then made an address in" which he de
fined the policy of such an organiza
tion. The following is a complete
list of officers elected by the club:
President P. A. Reid.
First vice-president C. W". Cald
well. Second vice president Benton Wil
son, Cambridge City.
Recording secretary Joseph Wal
ternmn. Financial secretary Hans Koll.
Treasurer Orley F. McKee.
Marshall R. O. Allen.
Sergeant at arms John Durkin.
Directors L. H. Bertsch, Cam
bridge City; A. W. Blickwedel. C. B.
Beck, George Staubach, George Har
ris, Fountain City; H. L. Ashley, H.
R. Marlatt, Harry Watt and J. M.
Lontz.
It is the intention of the club mem
bers to secure quarters and it is prob
able that a centrally located residence
will be purchased for this purpose.
It is proposed to fit. out the club
rooms like a modern city club. The
new organization will hold regular
once a week and everything will he
done to boost tbe cause of democracy
in this county.
TWO ATTEMPTS TO
WRECK PENNS! TRAIN
Railroad Officials Now on the
Alert.
Lancaster, Ohio. June 13. The north
bound Hocking Valley passenger, due
here at .":1.1 p. m., struck a buggy at
Reed'3 Crossing, near here and the
occupants. Miss Rose Ellinger and her
sister, Mrs. George Hoffman, were
killed. The forme was a graduate of
Crawfis Institute.
ELKS' SAFE FOUND
IN COLONIAL DEBRIS
Contents Found in
Condition.
Perfect
Among the debris in the ruins of the
Colonial building was found the safe
formerly used by the Richmond Lodge
of Klks. The safe had been subjected
to such severe heat that the sides had
bulged. The contents were found in
perfect condition, however, and there
was not even the least bit of discolor
ation of the papers kept ia the light j
sroodea drawer " -
Twenty Redskins, Fresh From
Pine Ridge Agency, File Into
Auditorium Today Causing
A Sensation.
WOODRUFF ARRIVES WITH
HIS LITTLE PET BOOM.
Says That He Might Have
Been President Today Had
It Not Been for Tom Piatt
Cannon There.
CSpecial to Palladium.)
Chicago, June 1". Twenty blanket
ted, bel'eathered and bepainted Sioux
Indians from Pine Ridge Agency,
South Dakota, reached Chicago today
and made a camp at the auditorium
temporarily at least. They are the
latest Taft rooters to reach Chicago.
They were headed by James Gabriel
a Pine Ridge merchant and a form
er scout under General Nelson A.
Miles. The Sioux marched into the
Hotel Rotunda and created a sensa
tion. "They are here to see the conven
tion." said Gabriel, "and to watch for
any plank in the platform that re
lates to Indian affairs; if there is any
thing said about their lands or any
subject relating to them, they want an
opportunity to be heard. A danger
ous looking bunch of lobbyists, eh?"
The Indians declared themselves to
be for Big White Chief Taft, as the
successor of Great Father Roosevelt.
What Might Have Been.
"Tim" Woodruff and his personally
conducted boom for the vice-presidency,
reached Chicago today unan
nounced and registered t the Audi
torium annex and then went out to get
shaved "Tim," no, the boom.
"My friends are taking care of my
interests," Woodruff said. "I'm here
because I'm here and won't "take up
my own boom until after lunch. The
last time I was a candidate for the
vice-presidency I would have been
successful if it had not been for Tom
Piatt. He insisted on Roosevelt as
the running mate for McKinley and
sloughed me. If it hadn't been for
Piatt I would have succeeded McKin
ley, probably, have been elected presi
dent and would be in the White House
now." Woodruff was not dressed in
the loud waist coat with which he is
associated. In fact he was severely
plain in his garb.
Cannon on Scene.
"Uncle Joe" Cannon's headquarters,
were informally opened today on the
parlor floor of the auditorium. From
five o'clock until midnight they will
be more formally dedicated with
Lithia water, big black cigars and real
music. There is a big electric sign
over the apartments with the words
"Uncle Joe" flashed out to any un
determined delegates. Pictures of the
speaker grace the walls and flags
adorn the ceiling and cozy corners.
Tonight the opening reception will be
held. The band will play and the
Chicago Glee club will sins:. Kvery
Illinois congressman has been espec
ially invited to the new Quarters.
SENATOR WHO SAVED
THE DAY RECOVERS
Foelker of Brooklyn Returns to
Home.
Albany June 13. Senator Otto G.
Foelker of Brooklyn, who came to Al
bany from his sick bed in Staatsburg
to vote for the Agnew-Hart anti-race
track gambling bills, has rteurned to
Staatsburg. He was accompanied by
his physicians. The senator appeared
to be improved in health.
GREAT CONVENTION
REPORT FOR RICHMOND.
The Palladium has arranged to
furnish its patrons with the most
complete report of the Republican
Convention proceedings ever at
tempted by any Richmond newspa
per. A complete Hearst News Ser
vice will be installed for the week
beginning Monday, with wires di
rect from the convention hall in
Chicago to Richmond.
This will give Palladium readers
complete and detailed accounts fur
nished by the greatest purveyor of
news in the world. The most
minute details of this great con
vention's work will be served hot
from the wires to Palladium sub
scribers. The convention reports of the
Palladium have already attracted
widespread attention because of
their up-to-dateness.
South Bend. Ind . June IS. Two at
tempts to wreck Pennsylvania trains
at Warsaw, Ind., have caused the rail
road officials to place detectives in
that vicinity.
ASSISTANCE DESIRED.
The local police department has
been asked to assist in the search for
au automobile stolen at Chicago. A
reward of $100 is offered for the re
covery of the car. The local coppers
wonder what, will be stolen next in the
Windy City and anticipate a notice in
the near future of the disappearance
of one of the numerous tkyscrapers.
CONGRESSIONAL
FIGHT OPENS LATE
Call to Arms Will Not Be
Sounded Until the Mid
dle of August.
PREDICTIONS ARE MADE.
SOME SAY THAT FIGHT BETWEEN
BARNARD AND KUHN WILL BE
IN WAYNE COUNTY BUT CHAIR
MAN HAAS DIFFERS.
It is the general impression that the
congressional fight in tha Sixth Dis
trict will not formally open until
sometime the middle of August or the
first of September. Until that time
doings in political circles will continue
to remain dull.
In some sections of the district, it is
stated that the battle ground for the
congressional candidates will be
Wayne county. Republican leaders
deny that Wayne county Is on the
doubtful list and predict that this
county will give Judge Barnard, the re
publican nominee, a generous plurali
ty. "If there is to be any fight in this
county it has yet to be developed," was
the statement made by E. M. Haas, re
publican district chairman, when ques
tioned this morning.
Democratic leaders predict a hot
fight in Wayne county because of the
showing made by T. II. Kuhn, the
democratic, nominee, when he made
the race against Watson two years ago.
and because, they aver. Judge Barnard
is no more popular with the republi
cans in Wayne county than Watson
was. To substantiate this statement
they point to the campaign against
Barnard by Wayne county republican
leaders to defeat his nomination.
In answer to the' statements ad
vanced by the democrats, local republi
can moguls state that there is no oppo
sition to Judge Barnard on the part of
the republican rank and file in this
county. It is admitted that Judge
Barnard was not the first or the second
choice of Wayne county for the con
gressional nomination, but that this
was not caused by any personal feel
ing against, the New Castle man. It is
stated that now Judge Barnard has
been chosen as the. republican stand
ard bearer in the congressional fight,
he will receive the loyal support of the
republican voters of Wayne county.
Chairman Haas stated this morning
that the opening of the campaign in
this city would be a rousing one. but
that no date for the event had yet been
set. He says that the campaign open
ing in Richmond will probably be an
out-of-doors meeting. It is probable
that Judge Barnard will make his de
but into the congressional fight at this
time.
MASSACRE OF JEWS
Russians Kill and Wound and
Burn Down Homes of De
fenseless Ones.
TWO SCORE ARE WOUNDED.
Berlin. June 13. News was received
! today which tells of a terrible massa
; ere of Jews at Dorbain. a Russian vil
; lase on the frontier. Three were killed
and a score wounded. Eighty houses
were burned and two synagogues ran
! sacked by hundreds of armed Rus
sians. The police failed to heed the
demands of the prominent Hebrews for
protection.
! The Telephone is a Willing servant to bring
(your Classified Ads to the Palladium office with the
; least bother to you. Either Ffrcne--U21 Automatic,
21 Old.
The little son of the Rev. and Mrs.
Thomas J. Graham is in Quite a ser
ious condition as a result of an acci
dent that occurred at the parsonage
on North Eleventh street a few days
ago. While the boy was playing on
a bed with his little sister, she acci
dentally kicked him in the head. The
injury at first was not thought to be
of a serious nature but complications
set in and the ear has been seriously
affected. A consultation of physici
ans will be held at the parsonage this
evening.
FOR HIS SUICIDE
Unknown Hagerstown Man
Writes Note, But His Body
Is Not Found.
LOCAL MEN ARE NAMED.
REQUESTS IN LAST MESSAGE,
THAT THEY ACT AS PALLBEAR
ERS CASE IS A MOST REMARK
ABLE ONE.
Hagerstown, Ind., June 13. The fol
lowing note, written by some person
tired of traveling the weary pathway
of life on this mundane sphere and
intent on ending it all by the suicide
route, but who, for some inexplicable
reason, has thus far failed to carry
out his plan A self-destruction, was
found by laborers, in the pocket of a
vest hanging on the wall of a vacant
building, on which they were engag
ed in making some improvements.
The identity of the person contem
plating the act will probably remain
a mystery, unless the deed is commit
ted in the future. The directions giv
en in the note as to funeral arrange
ments, selection of pallbearers, etc..
indicate a grim determination by the
party writing it is evident, and that
some fortunate and favorable circum
stances entering into the life of the
individual at an opportune moment,
changing the dark clouds of despon
dency to bright rays of hope, is all
that saved this community from an
other terrible tragedy:
"Hagerstown, Ind., April 23, 190S.
To My Dear Wife and Friends:
I will say as to the deed I am going
to do, I do not blame any one but my
self, as I have been disappointed in all
my undertakings and am down and
can't see my way out. So to the cor
oner of Wayne County, you need not
question any one in regard to my
deed. Now my dead loved one, had I
not got a letter stating for you to
come to Richmond and work in a kit
chen for some one, I might have stood
it for awhile, but so 1 will hid every
body a sweet goodbye, hoping I may
meet them in the future, and hoping
all my friends will be better than I
am. And to my funeral I want C. T.
Wright, as undertaker. Rev. Stovenour
as my minister and want to be buried
by father and mother.
Pallbearers: Gus Smith, Edda
Thomas. Wm. Thnrman, Homer Wis
pier. Richmond; Florence Nicholson,
Claude Pierce "
The Edda Thomas referred to is be
lieved to be Edward Thomas, bartend
er at the Waldorf saloon. The direc
tory does not contain the name of
"Gus" or Aueust Smith but there is a
man by the name residing in the city.
William Thnrman is a clerk, residing
at 23.j South Fifth street and Homer
Wissler is a carpenter, whose resi
dence is given by the directory at 904
South Sixth street. Both Florence
Nicholson and Claude Pierce are well
known residents of Hagerstown.
HILARIOUS PARTY
MEETS WITH ACCIDENT
Driver of Taxicab Fatally In
jured. New York, June 13. A hilarious
party composed of two women and
four men in a taxicab. crushed against
a tree in Central park this morning,
wrecking the vehicle and hurting all.
William Sink, the driver, was fatally
injured. The police rescued the hys
terical women from the wreckage.
ARRANGEMENT MADE
Bloody Tragedy Enacted at
Cadillac, Mich., When In
sane Woman Kills Husband
And Six Children.
STORY OF THE CRIME
WITHOUT PARALLEL.
As Husband Lay Sleeping She
Shot Him, Then Entered
Rooms of Trembling Child
ren to Finish Work. -
Cadillac, Mich., June 13. In a crazy
rage this morning, Mrs. Daniel Cooper
aged shot and killed her husband,
aged 4 her fix children, threo boys
and three girls, ranging from, two to
fourteen years, and then blew her own
brains out with the samo revolver.
Neighbors discovered the tragedy. The
Coopers came here from Stony Ledge
last November. In March Mrs.
Cooper was confined to an asylum, but
apparently recovered her mental equi
librium. Awakening early this morn
ing she started her bloody work by
killing her husband who lay asleep be
side her and then proceeded to shoot
the children as they huddled In fright
in their beds In adjoining rooms.
PERPLEXING IS
PICTURE PURCHASE
Art Association Finds It Hard
To Select Canvas Which
Shall Be Bought.
ARE SIX IN THE LIST.
THESE ARE ALL MASTERPIECES
AND IT HAS BEEN IMPOSSIBLE
UP TO DATE TO COME TO ANY
DECISION ON THE MATTER.
What picture shall be purchased
with the D. G. Reid fund of $.Vf.
This is the perplexing question
which now confronts the board of di
rectors of the Richmond Art associa
tion. There are so many excellent canvass
es on exhibition at the exhibit this
year that the board of directors finds
it extremely difficult In making a se
lection. Iast evening the board, held
a meeting and the subject of what pic
ture should be purchased was brought
up for discussion. No less than six
pictures were Fuggeted and the ad
mirers of each of these canvasses-vigorously
presented their merita,
Monday evening the board will "hold
another meeting and at that time It
is expected that some decision will be
reached as to what picture shall be
purchased by the Art association.
Only six pictures are really consid
ered eligible for purchase. They are
;the "Hop! Mesas" by lyiuis Mora, "A
I Portrait" by Iuis Mora. "The Black
I Wave" by Dougherty, Sheep" by Pat
jtiFon and two canvasses by Childe
' Hassam, "Isles of Appledore" and
J "Church at Provenretown."
The "Hopi Ma-s" shows an oasis In
the Arizona desert. It is a beautiful
landscape, the color scheme be!n rich
and attractive to everyone who ss it.
"A Portrait" i a beautiful Ftudy of a
girl's head, and is one of the best of
the Mora canvasses.
"The Black Wave" js a picture that
attracts everyone who attends the ex
hibition. It frhows in the foreground
an ocean wave, a rich, dark green In
shade. In the background is ju.t the
hint of the coast line. This marine
sketch is excellently treated and it fas
cinates all who gaze at it. ' Sheep,'
shows a herd grazing In a forest It
is an exquisite canvass. treated In
faint shades. The two Ilassam can
vasses are among the nest works of
that noted artist.
FAMILY REUNION.
The Commons family reunion wa
held at Glen Miller park today. There
is a larsre number of members of the
family in tbe county and the occasion
' was one of great pleasure for all who
J participated. Members of the family
I whose homes are in Oregon were i
attendance-