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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-16
Decision Was Reached Thurs
day Night After a Long
Conference Among Men
Prominent in Labor Matters
FIVE THOUSAND MORE
EXPECTED TO GO OUT.
In Addition There Will Be an
Effort to Bring About SYM
pathy Strikes That viii
Cripple the Companies.

Chicago, Aug 16.-"Every CONNER
cial telegrapher in North America no
working under contract is hereby. or
dered to strike Immediately"
This order was sent out this morning
by Secretary Wesley Russell of the
Commercial Telegraphers' Union o.
America.
The decision was REACHED last night
at conference between President
Small. who reached Chicago last even
ing. and Secretary Russell and Presi
dent ID. H. Perham and Secretary l.. w
Quick of the Order of Railroad Tele
graphers.
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor presided. The
conference was held at the Briggs
House. w c. Long. editor of the Tel
egraphers' Journal. and ID. G. Ramsey,
ex-president of the o. r. r., were also
present After it had been agreed to
call a general strike the following four
men were selected to manage the
strike: Messrs. Small. Russell. Quick
and Perham.
These four men will constitute what
is generally designated a board of
strategy Plans were made to use
ever tacital advantage possible in the
strike. Not move VII be made with
out careful consideration and after be-
ing voted unanimously upon by the
four strike leaders.
Operators and wire chiefs employed
by the American Telephone and Tele-
graph company. of which there are
about 3GO in the larger cities, accord
ing to reports received by Secretary
quit.
About 5000 operators are expected to
than 100 cities affected by the strike.
and the number of operators and other
employees out is eStiHldteu dt l-,opo-
One of the plans of the strike leaders
is to induce every employe of the tele
graph companies. whether operators or
not, to go out in sympathy. Engin-
GERS. firemen. elevator conductors and
starters. janitors. window washers,
messengers and all other workmen gen.
orally employed about the buildings in
which The companies have their offices.
and who are paid by the companies. are
expected TO quit
All broker operators not working I'M
der contracts are included in the strike
order.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-16
PREPARING TO HANDLE
BIG EATON BUSINESS
Pennsylvania viii Run Special
Trains to Fair.
MAYBE HOURLY SCHEDULE,

The Pennsylvania railroad is max
ing preparations TO handle an unus-
ually large number of Preble county
fair patrons from this city during the
week of September 9. Special trains
will be run on Thursday and Friday
1t is probable that an hourly sched-
ule will be used on the morning of
each day. Richmond always contri-
butes a large amount of patronage to
the Preble county fair held annually
at Eaton and this year promises to be
no exception to the rule. Ali manner
of attractions are being offered by
the fair management this year
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-16
BROUGHT BACK;
ENTERS GUILTY PLEA
Drew From One to Fourteen
Years in the Prison at
Michigan City.
ACKNOWLEDGES HIS FAULT
PAIN ADMITTED THAT HE COULD
HAVE HAD THE LIMIT FOR
WHAT HE DlD-TREATED WELL
by DR.. MARVEL.
ACKNOWLEDGES HIS FAULT

William Pain. colored. arrested I'm
Chicago at the request OF the local
authorities on a charge of grand lar
ceny, arrived here early this morning
in the custody of Chief Bailey and ar
$50 this morning in the circuit court
he entered a plea of guilty and Judge
Fox sentenced him to from one tn
fourteen years i'm the state prison au
Michigan City, fined him $40 and dis
franchised him for period OF five
years. Sheriff Meredith will probably
take Pain to Michigan City Monday
next
Pain. while in the employ OF DIR.
Charles Marvel stole gold watch
belonging TO Mrs. Marvel, a nickie
watch belonging TO the doctor. n
chest of silver and trunk and suit
case which he secured by false pre-
lenses from the Miller harness com.
pany. The total value of the articles
appropriated by Pain amounted tn
$101.50. The man stated that he did
not know what possessed him to turn
thief as he had been treated splend-
idly by DR.. Marvel. II ought to get
the limit for what I did" he remarks
ed to Chief Bailey when he was
turned over to that officer i'm Chicago.
After Chief Bailey had secured tho
requisition papers In Indianapolis he
went to Chicago and at once idenu-
fled Pain i'm open court as the man
wanted here for grand larceny. Pain
had employed an attorney to repre-
sent him but he made no fight against
being returned to Richmond. This
morning in the circuit court Pain look
ed the picture of dispair.
After stealing the goods described
Pain went at once to Chicago. The
local police learned of his where
abouts by having the mail sent to him
from Richmond closely watched. AS
soon as this information was obtained
il was placed I'm the hands OF the Chi
cago police and Pains arrest quickly
followed. He was found working az
a waiter I'm restaurant He pawned
Mrs. Marvel's watch for SO. kept the
trunk and the nicklc watch and traded
the suit case for a small valise. All
of these articles were recovered ex-
cept the suit case which the dealer
sold the same day that Pain traded
1t to him.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-16
is TALK OF new TRAIN
The c., c. & L. May Improve
Its Service.

n rs reported from the railroad cfr.
cles that in very short time the
c., C. & l.. road will be running an ad-
ditional train through Richmond be-
tween Peru and Cincinnati
The train, IL is said will take the
place of the now well known and So
called -dinkey run" between Peru
and Richmond The through train,
which will be local, IL placed on,
will be for the accommodation of the
passengers between Peru and Cincin-
natl. and will also give the trainmen
a chance to rest.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-16
CEMENT SIDEWALKS To
REPLACE BRICK ONES
Change Coming About Grad
uaIIy But Certainly.
MUCH WORK IN PROGRESS.

mond and within the course of the next
five years. it is safe to say that there
will be very few such sidewalks in the
city cement being substituted. At the
present time there are many cement
walks being placed Brick paving is
being torn up. much to the disadvan-
tage of pedestrians in several portions
of the city. People coming to Rich
mond have always complained of the
rough and uneven brick sidewalks and
it is the hope to do away with as many
Of them as possible.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-16
PLAN WIRELESS SYSTEM.
Army Gets a Pointer From Present
Strike.

Washington. Aug. 16-Profiting by
a lesson to be learned from the gener-
al strike of telegraph operators, Off
cials of the War and Navy Depart
ments have begun TO formulate plan
for extending the wireless system of
the navy and the development of a
complete system in the army, includ-
ing army posts across the continent
as we'll as on army transports which
will practically reach half way around
the globe.
Spurred TO renewed activity by the
present strike of operators in their
work of extending the wireless system
as much as possible, the equipment
bureau of the navy will at once set
about to install the apparatus on sew
eral cruisers and gunboats of both
fleets that are not already equipped
The Signal Corps of the army al
ready has begun the installation of
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-16
SEVERAL KILLED IN
BAD WIND STORM
Tenement House at CHICAGO
Collapsed Under the
Terrific Pressure.
FIVE OTHERS WILL DIE
MANY HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE
WERE DRIVEN INTO STREETS
FROM NORTH-SIDE FLOODED
TENEMENTS.

Chicago. Aug. 16.-Six persons were
killed instantly, five others SO serious
ly injured they are dying in hospitals,
and twenty were seriously hurt in the
collapse of tenement blown down by
a terrific wind storm that swept Chica-
go today. The tenement was two
story frame and occupied by fifty peo-
pie. The storm was the worst in
years. Many small buildings were de-
molished and hundreds of people were
driven into the streets from the north
side flooded tenementS.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-16
IMPOSTORS WORKING
IN THIS PART OF STATE
Pretend to Be Members of
Salvation Army.
A STATEMENT is ISSUED.

Imposters are working this part of
the state. collecting money for Sal
vation Army work and Capt. Graves,
in charge of the work at Rushville, is
sues the following notice that people
may be on their guard:
AS there have been so many impos-
ters throughout the state OF Indiana
of both men and women, calling them
selves Saivationists and in many
cases wearing our uniform, soliciting
for all branches of our work, people
are hereby asked not to give TO those
from they do not know unless they
have an appeal written and signed by
Major Galley and undersigned by
Capt Graves in charge of work here.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-16
COMPLAINT ON DOCTORS
State Medical Board Will
Make Investigation.

The state board of medical exami-
nation and registration will meet next
Tuesday for the purpose of taking up
complaints against several physicians
in various parts of the state who are
charged with various offenses. includ-
ing malpractice. failure to report
births practicing without a license and
similar charges.
The board will consider also the Gre
dentials of about $50 prospective med
ical students at its coming session.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-16
TRACTION LINES IN
EMANC|PATOR ROLE
They Have Been an Effective
Weapon for Indiana
Against Steam Roads.
COMPEL BETTER SERVICE.
OVER 1000 MILES ARE IN OPERA.
TION AND $50 ARE BUILDING
THE FREIGHT BUSINESS is
GROWING.

Indiana's successful experiment with
the interurban electric car, as an eff
fective weapon with which to secure
good service and equitable rates from
the steam roads, is the thesis of an ar
ticle by Merrill A. league, "Emanci-
patton by Trolley" in Appleton's.
Seven years have passed." he says,
''since the Indiana public went earnest
ly at this gigantic task. Yet today
there is not so much as a pretense of
competition with the peoples railroads.
Except in the matter of heavy. bulky
freight, transportation in the most
densely populated part of the state is
now carried on by the trolleys.
One thousand miles of track are in op-
Grafton: $50 miles are building and will
be placed in operation early this year:
another 2.O00 miles are projected ev-
cry steam railroad out of Indianapolis
has been paralleled: more than fifty
million dollars have been invested act
ually in these railroad properties: pas
sengers are carried at their cOnven-
ience in clean and comfortable cars.
and for one-half the former fares: par
eel and perishable freight goes forward
to its destination most expeditiously
and at reasonable charges" AS to the
freight business. now rapidly growing.
the rates are the same as those of the
steam roads. but the service is much
quicker. The statement is frequently
made that the companies furnish ex-
press service at freight rates" But
this business is yet in its infancy. and
is a small factor compared 10 the pas
senger transportation.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-16
COUNCIL AT INDIANAPOLIS
Is ON THE WAR PATH,
A Telling Blow May be Administered
to the Saloon interests

The Indianapolis city council may
pass an ordinance limiting the oper-
alton of saloons to a small portion of
the business district of Indianapolis.
Several members of the council are
indignant over the decision of Police
Judge Whallon that the ordinance au-
thorizing them to pass on applications
for retail liquor license is unconstitu-
tional and they are threatening to es-
tablish regulations that will close the
doors of several hundred saloons.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-16
MESSAGES BADLY TWISTED.
Railroad Operators Adopt Methods of
Stopping Commercial Business.

Columbus o., Aug. 16.-Members of
the Order of Railroad Telegraphers
have SO garbled the few messages the
Western Union has been able to send
out since the local strike broke out
ness done has been worse than none
at all. Messages have been intercept
ed in toto, have been banded about
and changed until officials of the Wes-
tern Union are figuratively tearing
their hair and invoking the aid OF po-
lice and detectives to discover the
playful o. r. T. men.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-16
OFFICIAL STRIKE ORDER

Chicago, Aug. 16-The follow
ing is the official strike order:
ITO All Commercial Tele-
graphers: All teiegraphers en-
pIoyed by the commercial teIe-
graph companies and Associat-
ed Press, private and leased
wires, not working under a un-
ion agreement are hereby called
upon to leave work Immediately
by authority of the president
and the general executive board
of the Commercial Telegraph
ers' Union of America.
IS. j. SMALL, President"
The order becomes effective
at once.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-16
ALL COMMERCIAL TELEGRAPHERS IN NORTH
AMERICA ARE NOW CALLED UPON TOSTR|KE

soon raise an assessment of $4,000.
and they do not wish to have the men
called out at this time. This great
sum is to go into the strike fund.
While they do not wish TO go on
strike. the railroad men are perfectly
willing to give the commercial tele-
graphers all the moral and financial
support possible and the assessment
of S45, 900 will be diverted to this end
if need be.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-16
WHEAT SHOWED UP WELL

Joe Burroughs and Elvia Sarver
have the best wheat crops that have
been threshed about Jacksonburg
One field Welded 23a4 and the other
23L bushels to the acre.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-16
GETS HEARTY WELCOME.
President Small Reached Chicago
Thursday Night.

Chicago. Aug 16.-Enthusiastic
words of greeting were given President
Small of the Telegraphers' union upon
his arrival in this city last night.
More than 5000 people, half of whom
were striking telegraphers, fought each
other for glimpse of the chief official
Of the Commercial Telegraphers' Union
Of America.
They had waited for more than an
hour. When the st. Paul train bear
ing President Small entered the depot,
the strikers became wild with enthusi-
asm.
A reception committee of two-score
strikers rushed along the line of cars
to the rear. and just as President Small
stepped to the platform he was sur
rounded and almost crushed by the
pushing crowd. every member of which
tried to snake his hand. All the time
they were shouting words of advice
I'VE want no arbitration. We want
no arbitration they kept shouting
Secretary Meets President.
International Secretary Wesley Rus
sell went TO OeneVa. ILL.,. 10 meet PreS1-
dent Small Giving the strike president
hearty handclasp. he said
I'VE have them beaten TO stand
STILL Sam
The two officials then discussed the
general strike order
As President Small passed through
the shouting mass of strikers and
sympathizers in this city he was al
most lifted from his feet by the push
ing. fighting throng.
AS the strike leader passed through
the big iron gates the~first person he
saw was Mrs. Small. who had just re-
covered from an illness that threaten
ed to prove fatal. Rushing to her side
he took her in his arms and gave her
a hearty kiss and an affectionate en-
brace. All the time the strikers were
yelling like mad. I'VE win, We winr'
they kept repeating
President Small was much surprised
at his reception, as he had telegraphed
that he first desired TO see his wife be-
fore transacting any business
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-16
HAM|[ TON PUSHING HAFNER
IN PONY AND CART CONTEST

Sylvester Hamilton has made a ma
terial gain on Anthony Hafner in the
contest for the Palladium and Sun-Tel-
egram pony and cart and is now only a
little over four thousand votes behind
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-16
O. r. t. WILL NOT STRIKE.
An Possible Moral and Financial Sup
port Will be Extended.

Chicago. Aug. 16.-Much confusion
sages as a result of operators break
ing in and applying such epithets as
"scab,' and even stronger. TO the men
who are manning the wires
The railroad telegraphers are to
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-16
DEED is MADE; SUIT DISMISSED

Eaton. o.. Aug. 16.-The condemna-
tion suit Of the township school board
against David Shere for a site for a
school house. was dismissed in Judge
BTumbaugh's court Thursday. upon
Sherer making the school board deed
for the desired land.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-16
ELLwooD-ELseURv REUNION.

The Ellwood-Elsbury reunion will be
held at Jackson Park, Thursday.
Aug 22- The Culbertsons are invited
to come in body as they are blood
relation.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-16

Many of the other candidates have
made substantial gains. Perhaps by
the pony and cart will reach
and will be driven about the
streets and placed on exhibition.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-16
TT IS PRESUMPTION to say
you haven't a mind OF your

own. yet that is Wha. is
said to you when you ask
for an advertised article
and are offered a substitute
by your dealer. Never let
a dealer sell you q SubSti-
tufe for an article you ask
for. He is working for his
own profit and not yours.
Get what you ask for. Show
the SubStitutor that you
have a mind of your own
by getting what You ask for
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-08-16

Nathan Blue is moving from Rich
mond to the farm of K. s. Wright, neay
Bryan Chapel.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1907-12-12
LUMBER COMPANY is SUED
St. Louis Company Seeks Damages for
Timber Alleged Wrongfully Cut.

Alleging that the defendants had
wrongfully entered upon their land
and cut timber belonging to them,
the Bagnell Timber Co. of St.
Louis has brought in the Faulkner
circuit court against the Freeman
Lumber Co. of this city for S4S4 r.
damages. The plaintiff alleges
that during the fall and winter of
1905 % the defendant cut from
their lands ash timber to the value
of S37126, elm S27.9o and oak
SS4.92.
A similar suit has been brought
by the Iron Mountain railway
against J. NJ. F. and George Brum-
NETT, alleging that the defendants
have cut ties to the value of $500
upon the plaintiffs land. A tenn
porary injunction was issued by
Judge J. A. Lea restraining the de-
PENDANTS from further cutting tim
Der on the land in question and the
company has now applied for re-
plevin to secure certain number
of ties already cut.
This company has also brought
suit against l. R. Hardin, alleging
that the defendant is in unlawful
possession of their land in Section
%, Ola, and asking $40 damages
!. S. Carter has filed suit in
chancery court against H. A.
Courtney for the foreclosure of a
vendor S lien.
The Iron Mountain railway has
filed suit against A. B. Thompson
for the foreclosure of land
contract.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1907-12-12
DEMPSEY BOYS PARDONED
Gov Pindall Released Faulkner County
BOYS from Prison Monday.

Acting Governor X O. Pindall
on Monday issued pardons to John
and Tillman Dempsey of this coun-
ty and they have returned to their
home near Greenbrier. The petit
ton for their pardon was signed
by a large number of citizens,
The Dempseys were serving a
sentence of two years, having been
convicted at the January term,
1907, of the Faulkner circuit court
on a charge of manslaughter, or
the killing of John Earnhart at
Greenbrier about year and half
ago. They had served almost a
year of their terms.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1907-12-12
LOWREY TO LECTURE HERE
Will Talk of 'Tolerably Good People" at
Hendrix Auditorium.

Booth Lowrey, humorist, sat
irist, reader, impersonater, will de-
liver one of his inimitable lectures
at the Hendrix auditorium tonight,
under the auspices of the Hendrix
lecture committee. Mr.. Lowrey
needs no introduction to Conway
people, as he was here last year
and made the hit of the season in
his lecture, Simon Says Wig
Wag". His subject tonight will
be ''Tolerably Good People"
The admission is SO cents and Mr..
Lowrey will doubtless have
crowded house.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1907-12-12
A MISSlONARY'S EXPERIENCE.
Rev. Henry Smiths Work in Gu
ban Field.
Writes to M. E. Sunday School and Church
of this City, Which Are Support
ing Him.

The following is an extract from
a letter written to the Methodist
Sunday school in Conway by Rev.
Henry Smith, whom the Sunday
school and church are supporting
in Cuba;
"Mayari, Cuba, Nov. 10, 1906.
Dear Sunday School Workers:
In order that you may understand
clearly what we are doing in Cuba
| want to take up one point OF our
work and tell you something of the
place and also of our work there.
Il will tell you of Preston
(Cuba) as l have just returned
from there. 1t is on nice bay
which in indeed one of the finest
bays in Cuba. The sugar COM
pany at that place owns the largest
sugar mill in the world, and about
I25, 900 acres of land in one lot.
They work about 5000 men, most
of these are Spaniards and negroes,
with some few native Cubans. |
have just spent week among those
people, at that place, preaching,
selling Bibles and scattering
tracts. On this plantation of 5000
people, there is only one Catholic
church. There are possibly five
or six people who attend this Ro-
,,,o,, Oath n1iN ch,,rNh
when | entered the town,
there was no one to meet me; there
was not a home | could enter and
find place to stay, although there
are Americans there. | went to a
poorly kept hotel; they charge
three dollars a day. | took a room
and ate canned goods to keep down
expenses.
I'VE had a good meeting which
lasted week. | organized a
church with sixteen members and
a Sunday school with seventeen.
Like the doubling Apostles,
one may ask, What are these
among so many" And yet that
is a start and God is in it. Will
you not pray that the whole COM
pany may feel the influence of the
gospel through this little band of
believers"
Mr.. Smith closes his letter by
giving an incident of a boy IS
years old who had never heard of
Christ and when our missionary
told him the gospel story, the
boy face was bright with a new
hope. The missionary then gave
the boy a copy of the word Of God
and he promised to read it
The church and Sunday school
in Conway are very much encour-
aged by the monthly reports from
their missionary and the great
success atten ding his labors.