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The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-24
OHiO-ShoWers and cooler Friday
and Saturday; fresh to brisk
east to northeast winds.
COMING MEN TO MEET
A CONVENTION OF ORDER
Greenfield TO be Place of Gathering
of Young Men Who Are Wearers of
the Badge of the "Single Star
Athletic Contests to be Held

Greenfield, Ind, Aug. 18.-The 10
cal order of the Coming Men of Am
erica are making great preparations
for the entertaining of several hun
dred members of that order from all
over the state, when they meet in
their second annual session here,
September 1.
One of the principal features of the
day will be the athletic contests. for
which degree prizes will be award
ed the winners by the Grand Secre-
tary.
Initiatory work at night and cleo
tion of officers for the ensuing year
are important features of this occa-
sion
Every lodge in the State is to be
represented by at least. one or two
delegates, or at least 500 delegates
are expected. There are over 1000
members of the order in the State.
The program and entertainment
committee is header by Ross Davis,
of 329 North Swope street. The meet
ing will be presided over by Ches-
leigh Haskett, of Straughns-
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-24
GRAVES EMPT|ED
IN BIG CEMETERY
Deplorable Havoc Created by
Record Breaking Storm at
Kansas City.
SIX INCHES OF RAINFALL
WOOD BURYING GROUND LIKE
AN AVALANCHE, CARRYING
AWAY MANY BODIES.
Publishers Pressl

Kansas City. Mo-, Aug. 23.-Within
less than three hours the heaviest
rainfall ever recorded in this locality
deluged Kansas City today. The
precipitation lacked only a few hun
dredths of an inch of being six inches
In the lower parts of the city famile S
were driven from their homes as a
result of surface water and over bur-
dened sewers, which flooded cellars,
and in some instances almost COM
pletely submerged houses. The police
and fire departments rescued scores
of people who were not awakened un-
til their dwellings, were surrounded
by almost impossible currents.
The most deplorable havoc created
by the storm was at Elmwood Gem
etery. A big sewer which runs along
the southwest side of the cemetery,
burst with a roar heard blocks away.
The water formed perfect avalanches,
flooding the entire south end of the
burial place. In some places the
water backed up twenty feet high.
The sewer runs through the ceme-
terry in an open ditch, about thirty
feet deep. The water rushed through
this. tearing up the banks, washing
out graves,ca rrying boxes and cof-
fins through the cemetery, casting
many along the banks, while others
were carried on by the flood into the
Blue river, which empties into the
missouri, a mile away. 1t is almost
impossible to gather anything like
correct estimate on the number of
bodies washed out, but Patrolman
Atchison, who was stationed in the
cemetery, said he believed that more
than a hundred graves were emptied
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-24
ITALIANS MUST
LEAVE FAIRV|EW
Mass Meeting of Citizens Held
While Boys Storm House
With Stones.
A PETITION is PREPARED
COMMITTEE WILL CALL ON THE
LANDLORD OF DAGO TENE-
MENT HOUSE ON STATE ST.
AND ASK HIM TO ACT.

At a mass meeting OF the residents
of Fairview last night. steps were
taken to rid that section of the city
of tIas influx of Italians, which have
been wearing on the nerves of the
women, breeding horror in the minds
of the little ones and raising the ire
of the men.
ExCouncilman James Harris, Hugh
Sphinx, Elmer Towle, and VIM. C.
Lantz were selected as a committee
to present Mr. Mendenhall of North
G street. who is said to be the renter
of the house at SO State street, in
which the Italians are quartered,
with a petition bearing 80 sigma
lures calling for the removal of the
Dagos. 1t is the intention of this
committee to ask Supt of Police Bal
ley to accompany them, as he is famil-
lar to some extent with the recent
happenings at the place.
Boys Stoned Home.
While the above meeting was 60
ing on some of the young men of
Fairview took the matter into their
own hands, and stoned the house.
Several windows were broken The
Dagos came swarming out of the
place like bees and the air was full
of 'spigetti hot talk for few min
utes. Several of the foreigners took
after the ''vigilence committee" and
threatened death to any they caught.
Screams were heard from women sit
ting on the nearby porches, and in a
moment doors which had been open
were closed and locked Mr. Baker
who resides in the east half of the
house, with his family ran out leav-
ing the doors wide open and sought
murdered the expressive
English profane words In a short
while Of.cer Little was on the
ground and cuieted down the rum
pus, with the assistance of officer
Bundy, who has Officer Westenberg's
beat while he is on his vacation.
Factory Leased the House.
1t developed last night that the
Richmond Manufacturing Co. is res
ponsible to a certain extent for the
trouble, in that they leased the prop
erty from the rentors. and sub-leased
it to SwartZ who boards and beds the
italians employed at the factory The
has the refusal of the east
half of the house, which they were
given to understand would be soon
Mr.. Baker the resident of
that side says it will most assuredly
occur unless the Italians get out.
Sentiment has become such that in
case the foreigners should not be
moved away, something serious may
happen. Last nights stone throwing
seemed to be the first vent of the res
iderts dissatisfaction
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-24
BOYS LEAVE HOME
BUT DON'T GO FAR
Hubert SnaveIey and Morton
Harrison EntiCed Away by
CIaud Weeks.
he is A MARRIED MAN
LADS GOT AS FAR AS INDIANA
POLLS WHERE THEY "SHOOk"
LEYS GRANDMOTHER'S.

With Claud Weeks. a married man,
Hubert Snaveley and Raymond Har-
rison, one sixteen and the other fif-
teen left town Wednesday morning
and until eleven o'clock last night
their parents had no knowledge of
their whereabouts. At that hour Wal
ter Snaveley, brother of Hubert,
came over from Indianapolis, with
the news that at supper time last
night the boys had walked into his
grandmother's home.
Walter Snaveley's surprise was
great at seeing the lads and on ques-
tioning them about their escapade
found that they had shaken"
Weeks. They remained in Indianapo-
lis last night and will return to their
homes here today
John Snaveley, the fathers of the
boys were angry men, They had de-
IL
today to start search for them.
They felt at that time that Weeks
should be prosecuted for taking the
boys away. Young Harrison had told
his father that he intended TO take
hike with some other boys, while
Snaveley's parents thought he was
staying at the Chautauqua grounds,
as he had said he intended to do.
At the Weeks home last night
Mrs. Weeks said that her husband
had gone to Dayton. He had told her
and his father and mother with
whom they live, that he would visit
in Dayton a few days and then return
here to take a position with one of
the express companies. Weeks came
here from Marion. He is a young man
and the father of a small baby He
has been associating with a crowd of
young boys of late.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-24
DEATH OF MRS. THURSTOh
Popular Young Fountain City Woman
Dies After Being an Invalid for
Eight Years

Fountain City, Aug. %. (spI)-Mrs
Flossie Thurston the wife Of Dorcy
Thurston, died at her home this morn
ing at O'Clock, with a complication
OF diseases. Mrs. Thurston has been
a ninyaIid for the past eight years,
and during that time many heroic ef.
forts have been made to restore her
to her former good health but Of no
avail She was the daughter of La
fayette Harrison, the postmaster Of
this place Her brother, Howard
Harrison lives at Richmaud-
The funeral viii be held Saturday
morning at 10 O'Clock at the Christian
church, the Rev Hunter Mcdonald Of
Anderson, conducting the services.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-24
WILL GIVE A FESTIVAL
Women's Cemetery Assn. of Bryan's
up BuryinQ Ground.

Centerville. Ind, Aug. %. (SpD-
The Women's Cemetery Association
of Bryan's Chapel will give an ice
cream festival on Saturday evening,
September l. The proceeds of the
festival will be applied in taking care
of the cemetery adjacent TO the chap
ell A generous support is solicited.
Transportation from Centeryille to
the Chapel and return will be furnish
ed free Of charge to all who wish to
patronize the festival
There will be meeting of the as
ISOLATION next Wednesday afternoon,
August %. at the chapel at which
time the ladies will make the final ar
rangements for the festival.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-24
Three Thousand Persons
Heard DR.. HamiII at Glen
Yesterday Afternoon.
LARGE CHOIR CT VOICES
PICNIC WILL BE ENLARGED NEXT
YEAR AND THE CHORUS is TO
INCLUDE ONE HUNDRED
GRAND ADDRESS.

An audience numbering fully 5000
! persons, listened to a stirring and elo
quent address by DR.. H. NJ. Hamill, OF
! Knoxville, Tenn, at the Chautauqua
grounds yesterday afternoon, on the
occasion of the first annual Wayne
County Sunday School rally. This
was sort of curtain raiser to
the Chautauqua proper, which will be
gin today, and it certainly can be
characterized as a most fattering sue
cess. Prof Fisk and others who
of Sunday School workers and pupils,
witnessed the realization of their
fondest hopes, for the attendance
was most gratifying, the interest dis
played showed that Sunday School
work is attracting the attention of
great numbers of people and the pro-
gram itself was of sterling character.
Music Especially Good.
The invocation was delivered by the
Rev. Conrad Huber, pastor of ST.
Pauls Lutheran church, and follow
ing this were several musical num-
bers, anthems sung by the choir under
the direction of Lee B. Nusbaum and
hymns by the great assemblage. The
renditions by the choir were Arm
of the Lord Awake" by Porter;
Calm on Galilee" by Ashfort and "Ju-
bilate Deo' by Williams. The con
gre egational numbers were "Oh, That
VIII be Glory and I'll Go Where
You Want Me to Go" The music
was especially inspiring and it is sell
dom that one witnesses and hears the
rendition of hymns by such a chorus
of voices, for it seemed that almost
every person in the vast assemblage
participated in the singing. The
choir was composed of members from
the musical organizations of many of
the Richmond churches and though
not of great size, the numbers were
beautifully sung The success of
the musical features suggested the
choir of 100 or more voices. for the
Sunday School rally, since it has al
ready been determined to again make
the day preceding the opening of
the Chautauqua one for the gathering
of the Sunday School workers.
Prof. Fiske Presiding Officer.
Prof. Fiske was the presiding Off
Ger of the meeting and presented the
speaker of the session, DR.. Hammill,
who made a distinct impression from
the start and who held his audience
eloquence until the close. DR.. Ham
mil is a practical Sunday School work
er. He knows the fundamental prin-
ciples that underlie successful accom-
plishment in the children's depart
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-24
Overcome by Heat.

Frank Davenport, member of the
Board of Public Works, and active in
the work of the Chautauqua, was over
come by the heat yesterday at the
grounds, while engaged
in erecting tents. He was taken to
his home and is now much better.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-24
Resting on the Farm.

Milton. Ind, Aug. 23 fSpD-
VIM. A. Preston, divinity student at
De Pauw University is spending his
summer vacation with his parents on
the farm southeast of Milton.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-24
SENATOR DOLLIVER is
SPEAKER OF AFTERNOON
Iowa Senator Has Not Yet
Announced His Subject,
Generally Waiting to do so
When he Views Audience.
FEATURES OF OPENING DAY.

2:15 p. n1.-Openinn Of Fourth
annual Chautauqua. Introductory
remarks by Col. James n. Shaw,
Superintendent of Chautauoua.
2:3o o. m.-Lecture by Sena-
tor j. p. DolIiver.
o. m.-Giazier's Jubilee Sing
ers.
8 o. nn.-Lecture by Dr.. l.. G.
Herbert. Subject: "A Man
Among Men,"
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-24
The Fund in London.
IPuhIisners Prsss1

London, Aug. 24-The fund for the
relief OF the Valparaiso sufferers now
totals S116,325. y. NJ. Rothschi1d
and several other large firms contrib
uted $4,000 each today.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-24
Prof. Rowland a Father.

New Paris. O.. Aug. 23. (SpD-A
daughter recently came to the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Howland at
Plain City, o. Mr.. Howland formerly
taught at Maple Grove high school.
Mrs. Rowland was Hester Wiseman&
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-24
Milton Girls Reuned.

Milton, Ind, Aug. %. (Spn-
A reunion of former Milton girls now
scattered to all directions Of the COM
pass was held at Jackson's Park
Thursday. A good time was enjoyed
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-24

"The prospect was never more fat
tering. Only the weather can defeat
the success that is already in sight.
Rfchmond's Chautauqua will again
be termed one of the best held in the
middle vest
Such was the opinion of James H.
Shaw, superintendent of the Rich
mond Chautauqua, as expressed TO
the Palladium last evening when
asked concerning the outlook for this
years assembly which will open to-
day.
Col Shaw simply voiced the opin-
ion of every officer of the Chautauqua
Association. There was spirit OF
enthusiasm manifested On every side
last evening and while there are
some grave apprehensions as to the
behavior of the weather during the
ten days of the Chautaucua program,
it was decided that borrowing trou-
BILE could well be dispensed with.
a Fine Program for Today.
Today's opening promises to be
the largest in the history of the local
assembly. The Hon. j. p. Dolliver,
United States Senator from Iowa. an
orator of international fame and a
speaker who never fails to interest
will furnish the first number. The
subject of his address is not announc-
ed. Senator Dolliver as a rule await
ing to look over his audience before
settling upon the question he will
discuss. IF a large crowd and one rep
resentative Of the best citizens of
Richmond and Wayne county are an
inspiration to any speaker Senator
Dolliver will this afternoon be at his
best.
Tented Homes Are Well Up.
Hundreds of persons spent last
night at the Chautauqua grounds.
The work of arranging the tented
homes was practically completed late
yesterday afternoon, though consid-
cradle work yet remains to be done.
The scenes of yesterday during the
moving in period were lively in the
extreme. Most of the tents have been
comfortably furnished and the camp
ers will suffer little or no invonve
nience from the outing unless-it
rains Every body. that is almost
everybody seemed to have 'hunch''
that this years assembly is to be
drenched several times. and as a rule
senters are taking the right sort of
precaution before the drenching pc
riod arrives, if it does come at all.
Board floors. raised from two to
eighteen inches off the ground have
been placed in a great majority of
the tents. while nearly every tent is
provided with Fly" an extra cover
Ing of canvas which will act as a wa
ter-shed.
Provided All Comforts.
Some families in addition to pro-
viding their tents with beds. chairs.
etc. have also moved to the park ail
5stoves and cooking utensils of Gn
kinds There will be no deviation
from the usual run of things at home
during the period of outing and meals
will be served with the same regular
ity and with little less trouble. For
hose campers who do not desire to
lelve into the culinary art there are
several public dining tents at their
disposal and meals are. served at rea-
sonable prices.
Band Concert Last Night.
Fully three thousand persons heard
the concert by the Richmond City
Band last night. The music was ex-
cellent and the crowd at once caught
the Chautaucua snirit
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-24
THE WEATHER PROPHET.

NDlANA-Showers and cooler Fri
day; Saturday fair; fresh to
brisk east to northeast winds.
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Amador ledger., 1906-02-16
Pawning a Bank Book.

The pawning of the wedding ring has
become pathetic commonplace to
those who are familiar with police
court and coroner's court stories OF
with the private petitions for help of
the deserving and undeserving poor.
But we confess that with the West
minister magistrate we have never
heard before of pawning bank books
Yet on expert pawnbroker's evidence
ELECTED by police inquiry it is found
that this is not at all an unusual prac-
tice. In the vast majority of cases it
would seem to be simpler matter to
draw on the bank account rather than
borrow on the strength of it from the
pawnshop. But one of the unfortunate
possibilities of the practice is revealed
in the particular case mentioned at
Westminster. A picture frame maker,
wishing to withdraw f3 from the bank,
could not find his bank book and then
learned that his wife had been putting
the book in and out of pawn for eight
years, having borrowed 97 los. on it
the first time, and of course she had
been paying interest on her various
nsactions.-London Pail Mall Ga
zattn
Amador ledger., 1906-02-16
Why We Say Hello. !"

Long, long ago wolves were numer-
Gus in all parts of the world, es-
pecIally in England. Wolf hunting
was tavorite sport with the gentry,
and to kill wolves was regarded as the
sacred duty of all Englishmen. In
fact, an old law reads: "AII barons
must hunt and chase wolf four times
year."
French was the language of the
court at that time, so the burly old
English hunters used the Cry of the
French wolf hunters, which was EAU
loup! Au loup!" (To the wolf. These
words, heard at a distance, sounded
like "a loo," but the English, who
always put an II on whenever they
possibly can, put it on the words'' A
Ioo," and when wolf f-hunting shouted
" Ha-loo." This form we use when
we call "Hello," as no word has been
found that carries as far or so we'll as
hello. For this reason it is the ac-
cepted torn of the teiepone companies
the world over
Amador ledger., 1906-02-16
The First Electric Train.

The earliest public trial of a passen-
ger boat driven by an electric motor
was that conducted by Professor ia
cobb of st. Petersburg in the year 1888,
though for four years previously he
had successfully experimental with
electric traction in the privacy of his
own grounds. The trial of Jacobs
vessel took place on the Neva and was
witnessed by vast crowd Of people.
The boat was twenty-eight feet long
and ten feet wide and carried fourteen
persons.
1t was not until four years later that
we find any record of a passenger car
riage driven by electricity on land, and
in this case the inventor was Alexan-
der Davidson of Edinburgh. The car.
riage was sixteen feet long by seven
feet wide and was impelled for mile
and half at the rate Of four miles al
hour on the Edinburgh and Glasgow
railway
Amador ledger., 1906-02-16
Salt, the Civi1fzer.

The use of salt as necessary SUP
plement to diet has had much influence
in shaping the civilization and explora-
ton of the world. 1t is most probable
that the Oldest trade routes were ere
ated for the salt traffic, as salt and
incense formed the chief necessaries
of the ancient days. This was certain
ly the case with the caravan routes III
Libya and the Sahara, while the mines
of north India were the center of a
large trade before the time of Alexan-
der.
Another interesting fact is that salt
has played a considerable part in the
distribution of man. When it became
absolutely necessary to him, as it did
at an early stage of his development,
he was forced to migrate to places
where it. could be obtained. This
brought him to the seashore, where he
gained his ideas of maritime commerce.
Lastly, the preservative effects of salt
on flesh food made long oceanic voy.
ages possible and thus opened up the
world to commerce and civilization.
Amador ledger., 1906-02-16
The African Drum.

The African drum appears in varied
and often picturesque forms. The ma
tives make drums out of shells, tree
trunks or earthenware, covered with
the skin of some wild animal or some
times with india rubber. Of the origi-
nal calabash drums there is probably
only one specimen in Europe. Some of
the drums are highly ornamented
either by painting or carving. One
specimen, indeed, has puzzled travellers,
for there is depicted on it unmistaka-
bly, a cross and also head of European
type. A drum found in upper Lualaha
has unique popularity in the way of
a sympathetic cord" formed by means
of small tube ingeniously inserted in
the side of the instrument, which
causes, when the drum is beaten, a vi
bration resembling that Of the reed
pipe.-Southern Workman,
Amador ledger., 1906-02-16
HOW Cowards were Punished.

Many of the devices by which mill
tary Indifference to life has been ma
tured and sustained are curious. In
ancient Athens the public temples
were closed to those who refused mill
tary service, who deserted their ranks
or lost their bucklers, while law con-
strained such offenders to sit for three
days in the public forum dressed in
the garments of women. Many a Spar
tan mother would stab her son who
came back alive from a defeat, and
such a man, if he escaped his mother,
was debarred not only from public Of
fees, but from marriage, exposed to the
blows of all who chose to strike him,
compelled to dress in mean clothing
and to wear his beard negligently
trimmed. In the same way a horse
soldier who fled or lost his shield or re-
ceived a wound in any save the front
part of the body was by law prevented
from ever afterward appearing in pub
liz
Amador ledger., 1906-02-16
Robinson Crusoe, Economi,t.

When the average boy spends the de-
hghted hours of imaginative youth in
devouring the pages of Robinson Cru
soc" he has, like most people of more
mature years, no idea that he is perus-
ing work of profound philosophy
written by one of the greatest political
thinkers Of the English speaking race.
Taken with knowledge of the facts
OF the career of De Foe, Robinson
Crusoe" can properly be considered a
story intended to illustrate the heavy
burden of trouble placed upon any sin
gle individual isolated from his fellows
and compelled to maintain his exist
ence without their aid. The tale shows
in an inimitable way how all civilized
men are interdependent. Regarded
from this point of view, the author of
the most widely read work of fiction
ever written becomes an object of par
ucular interest to all thinkers upon
pol1tics.-William N. Hill, M. D.. in
Watson's Magazine.
Amador ledger., 1906-02-16
Sir Humnhrx narv

Sir Humphry Davy married a widow
as peculiar as himself. His pet affec-
tation was lack of time. He was al
ways in a hurry. He pretended that
he had no leisure to dress himself, and
when change of linen became neces-
sary he simply put one shirt over an
other until he was known to have on
five or six shirts at time. Of course
he could not wear this amount of ap-
parel without appreciably increasing
his size, and his friends not in the Sc
cret We're sometimes surprised to see
him fall off in apparent wMght twenty
pounds in day. His wife's great anx-
iety was to keep him eft for company"
but as he did not care fig for COM
pany she had no easy task, and domes-
tic discord was a common thing.