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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-13
ELECTIONS ARE QUIET
No Outbreak in Panama When
ObaIdia Is Chosen Presi-
dent of Republic.
ILL FEELING is ABSENT.

Panama, July 1.-THE presidential
elections throughout the Isthmus of
Panama passed off without disturb
Rnce. Senior Don Jose Domingo de
DbaIdia, exminister to the United
States and acting president during the
absence of President Amador was
elected president.
! The supporters of Ricardo Arias,
who recently withdrew his candidacy,
decided not to vote, and as a conse-
quence no opponent to Senior Obaldia
was placed in nomination. Notwith-
standing this a large number of voters
registered their choice and demon
strated the overwhelming majority of
Benor Obaldias supporters.
From all parts of the republic news
has been received that the election
WAS carried on in an orderly manner
and that Senior Obaldia received all
The votes cast. At the conclusion of
balloting enthusiastic crowds head
ed by band paraded the strets of Pa
hama, cheering continuously for the
newly elected president. There ap-
peared to be an absolute absence of
I'LL feeling between the ex-supporters
of Senior Arias and the adherents of
Senior Obaldia. Never before has such
b friendly spirit been shown after an
election.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-13
Effect of Altitude on Health,

Although the subject of mountain
sickness has been carefully studied at
different times and reported upon by
skilled observers. the effects of pro-
longed residence in high localities have
not received the same attention from
scientists. 1t is taken for granted BY
most writers that after a certain
length Of time healthy man can adapt
himself perfectly to any degree of alti-
tude- Medicaf practitioners resident in
elevated parts of South Africa have,
however, cast doubts on the ideas
which are usually held on this subject.
Observations on persons apparently
well acclimatized to an elevation of
5000 feet above the coast level fire.
Quently reveal a constant increase in
the pulse rate, while the examination
OF a number of johannesburg school
children showed large proportion of
cases Of cardiac ACCOMMODATIONS
tai.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-13
GIVES VAST SUM FOR
STUDY Of INSANITY
Case of Harry ThaW Attracts
Henry Phipps.

New York. July 13.-A virtually new
school Of medical science, incalculable
In its Importance. is foreshadowed in
The gift by Henry Phipps of 100000
TO the Johns Hopkins University for
the study of insanity.
Mr.. Phipps has figured in a number
of requests that had for their aim the
Rmelioration of physical suffering. He
gave S1,300,00O to found the Phipps
in Philadelphia. But the gift to the
Baltimore institution is perhaps more
amportant from the fact that it means
the beginning of treatment on a big
Scale of the woes of the mentally un-
sound, whose humanitarian effects
should be far reaching.
1t is said that DR.. Phipps was at
tracted to the need of developing more
enlightened, more human methods by
the case of Harry Thaw.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-13
FIRST STRIKE ON RECORD.
It Occurred In Rome and Took Place
In the Year 800 b. c.

It Occurred In Rome and Took Place
In the Year 800 b. c.
Livy in his famous book, The An
nails" 8, 80, relates in the following
suggestive words the story of a singu
the year 800 B. c. and was probably
the first strike ever known:
That year occurred an event little
worthy of being related and which l
would pass IN silence had it not APP
peared as involving religion. The flute
players, dissatisfied because the latest
censors had forbidden them to take
part in the banquet in Jupiter's temple,
according to the ancient custom, with
drew, every one of them. to Thur, so
that nobody was left at Rome to play
during the sacrifices. This incident
shocked the religious sentiment of the
senate. and the senators sent messen-
gers to invite the inhabitants of Thur
to make every effort in order that the
players should be restored to the Ro-
mans. The Tiburtines, having prom
Used not to neglect anything necessary
for that purpose, caused the flute play
ers to come to the place where the SEN
ate met and exhorted them to go back
to Rome. Seeing that they could not
prevail upon them to do SO. they en-
ployed stratagem In keeping with
their character
On day of festival under pretext
that music would increase the joy of
the feast every citizen invited the flute
players individually to his house, and
wine, of which people of that profess
sion are usually fond. was given to
them in such quantities that they fell
into a deep sleep. They We're then
thrown into wagons and transported to
Rome. They only became aware of
what had happened on the day after,
when dawn surprised them lying on the
carts. which had been left in the forum.
A large crowd had assembled. and they
We're induced to promise that they
would remain at Rome. The right of at
tending the banquets was restored to
these flute players.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-13

This tenn is StLl extant-and pour 1t
in the crack of the safe near the
hinges Of the door. The small aperture
was then covered with soap to hold
the explosive in place. The fuse was
applied. and with the explosion off
went the doors, slick and clean. The
entire job took but a few minutes. 1t
remained for a young Pinkerton de-
tective to solve the matter on a safe
that was blown in Coldwater, Mich,
where a bank was wrecked and many
thousands of dollars secured.
The crime was traced to Yegg and
some Of his companions, and they
were found guilty and sent to prison.
Thereafter those who employed the
nitroglycerin instead Of the older
methods were called 'yeggmen" or
"yeggs."
This was the beginning of the term,
but since that time the application of
it has grown greatly. Today a "yegg,"
viewed from whatever aspect, Is the
most dangerous criminal with whom
the police Of the country have to deal.
He Is one who rides the country DER
on freight trains, working through the
south in the winter and migrating to
more exhHarating climes during the
summer. He will beg when he Is
hungry and will steal and commit
murder when he sees an opportunity
of benef1ting himself.
Today there are thousands of "yeggs''
scattered throughout the country. Most
of them belong to some certain band
each one of which has a leader. He
is the king. 1t is his duty to enlist
recruits. To him also is shipped all
the loot, and he in turn converts it into
money and places the amount to the
credit Of the member sending IL in
For this the king receives a commits.
sion.
Most Of the 'yegg" gangs carry what
Is known as a kitten" with them. The
kitten" is a boy, young man or Grip.
pie, whose duty it is to visit houses
and places of business. apparently beg
ging food or selling shoestrings, lead
pencils. etc. and who then reports to
the gang 'the lay Of the land" so tina,
when the time comes for pulling Oh
the job all are familiar with the prem
ises. The kittens" are often runaway
boys and later become "yeggs" them
selves, destined to follow a life OF
crime and observation-disclosures Ga
zette-Times.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-13
LOCOMOTIVE EXPLODES
AND TWO ARE KILLED
Victims Terribly Mangled and
ScaIded.

Columbus, O., July 13.-William
fireman, both of Columbus, were killed
Sunday by the explosion of the boiler
of a Hooking Valley freight locomotive
at Powell Station, sixteen miles north
of Columbus The locomotive had just
helped freight train up the steep
grade at Powell and was standing at
the station to be uncoupled when the
accident occurred. The boiler was
hurled sixty feet.
The bodies of both men were terri.
bly, mangled and scalded.
Waterman had run locomotive
for twenty-five years.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-13
WILL SPEND LEGACY
TO SECURE REVENGE
Widow of Man Murdered Will
Seek the Slayer.

Pittsburg. Pa, July 13.-Mrs. Dora
Bullus, whose husband, Charles, was
murdered near Seattle, Wash, in 1904,
has lust received word from Hopper
& Taylor, attorneys of Birmingham,
England, that the decedent is the sole
heir to a $4,000 estate left by rela-
tives in England, and that as his heir
she will inherit the fortune Since
her husbands death Mrs. Bullus has
supported herself by washing. She
says that as soon as she received the
money she will start for Washington,
State, and will spend every cent if
necessary in bringing to justice her
husbands slayer.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-13
WORKS OF JOHN YECG
A Daring Burglar Who Attained
Fame In His Line.
HIS NAME A POLICE LEGACY.

II Is Now Applied to the Most Danger
Gus Criminals With Whom the OFF,
GERS Of the Law Have to Contend.
NitroeIyoerin In Safe Bursting.
lin the expressive slang that per
meates police circles throughout the
country, a ''yegg' is one of the dan
gerous criminal class.
The question is often asked, what
is a yegg, and how did the expression
originate? An answer to the latter
part of the query will lead to an eluci-
dalton Of the first.
Some years ago, when the United
States government was experimenting
with high explosives. wishing to secure
some death dealing and destructive
shell that would cause more damage
than any before manufactured, some
one suggested that introglycerin be
tried. Up to that time this most pow
erful of explosives had not been util
lied in this way.
The government experts went to
work, and the results of their expert
ments were from time to time pub
lished broadcast through the commu-
nifty. At last they succeeded in max
ing a she'll in which nitroglycerin was
the chief component part and which
made all former ones sink into tnsig
nificance-
In q town in the middle west at the
time there lived a man named John
Yegg In his earlier days he had been
one of the most expert electricians as
we'll as all round experienced mechan-
ics in the country. Later, through drink
and bad associates, he had descended
to a life Of crime, his principal art be-
ing that of safe blowing.
He was attracted by the published
accounts of the experiments Of the
government authorities with nitro
glycerin. The thought struck him.
why could not this be used in blowing
safes?
The method at that time was to drill
a hole in the safe to be wrecked. fill
this with powder or dynamite and
then touch the fuse. This method,
however. required considerable time to
pull of "a Job" and was noisy and
dangerous.
Yegg went to work on the nitro
giycerin method. He tried it. and il
was a complete success. Furthermore.
after he had performed job after job
he had. the police Of the country baf-
fed They did not know how the
work was done. Yegg instructed
others in the art. and soon from one
end of the country TO the other safes
were being wrecked. bat by what man.
ner no one knew.
YeSg's method was to take some OF
the explosive which he and those with
him eaI,eGs.saups@aaa=-h S the way,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-13
ANOTHER OUTBREAK
FEARED IN HAYTI
Official Advices Show Alarm
ing Conditions.

Paris, July 13.-Oficial advices re.
ceived here from Port Au Prince state
the situation there is becoming more
and more disquieting since the burn
ing of the French hospital.
An outbreak is feared among the
Haytians. who are showing great hos
tility to foreigners. The French cruis-
er Chasse-Laubat is the only war ship
in the harbor.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-13
An inventory of Arms. 1923.

One culverin. four demiculverins.
four sakirs, one minion. ladies for
charging the guns with powder, round
shot OF iron fer each class of gun,
powder. match. long pixies. plain white
halberds, blackbills. crows of iron.
field oxtrees. gins for raising the guns,
lead for shot. pickaxes. tanned hides
hondy barrels -. bulge barrels fol
powder; lanthons, muskets. bando,
ieers, molds. twelve longbows, twelve
sheaves of longbow arrows, cressets
eresset lights. hand and draft ropes
shovels. spades. sheepskins. - London
Notes and Queries.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-13
Women'S Fashions for 1908.

The brightest women are changing
the old fashioned wash day instead of
boiling and rubbing their clothes to
pieces all day long, they use Easy
Task soap in a motor washing ma
chine. thus doing big wash in half
a day They call this new method the
Easy Task way.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-13
RECEIVED IN CHURCH.

At the sacramento service at the
Second English Lutheran church yes
terday, two persons were received in
to the church. The pastor was assist
ed by Rev. ]. Hanning. pastor of the
Lutheran church at Troy, o. Mr.. Le-
roy Lacey sang a beautiful solo. The
services were impressive throughout.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-13
Nautical informatioa,

"By the way. captain = said :. the
sweet young thing On the second day
out. with a smitin,g : Attempt to :. be;
chummy. where docs Mother Carey:
feed her chickens2-
I'm the trough.of the sea. young wo-.
man" replied the captain OF the ocean
liner, with solemn dignity.-Chicago
Tribune.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-13

Cook-My dog took first prize at the
cat show.
Hook-How was that?
Cookie took the cat.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-13

There Is no medicine 50 safe.and at TIA same
time so pleasautto take % DR.. Caidwell's Syrup
Pepsin. the positSve curefor all diseases arising
from stomach trouble The price ID very,rsas-
and n
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-13

A good head and industrious hand
are worth gold in any iand-Dutch
Proverb.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-13

HONOR:
Order Gold Medal Flour next time.
FELICITY.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-13

VI 4
Gold Medal Flour saves worry
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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-13

, Readers Of this paper can pre- .
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, pill obtainabie at good drug stores =
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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-13

PALLADIUM WANT ADS PAY.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-17
MARRIAGE BY WIRELESS.

The marriage over the long-dlstance
telephone of a young man in Virginia
to his sweetheart in Kentucky suggests
curious possibilities if the custom were
ever extensively followed. Now that
communication by wireless telephone
between America and Europe is in a
fair way to become established, the
title holders of Europe should be able
to wed their fair American purchasers
without the trouble and fatigue Of a
trip across the Atlantic. BY conduct
ing the whole bargain by wireless,
much expense would be saved, and the
count or earl or prince. as the case
might be, would have so much more
money to spend upon his extravagances
and designations, and on the divorce
proceedings to follow, Care would have
to be exercised in the actual ceremony,
however, for if the messages became
tangled or crossed in passage the noble
wooer might find himself tied up to
the wrong person and then, If she didn't
happen to nave money, there would be
trouble, indeed.
These long-distance marriages arr
an added argument in favor of uni.
formity of marriage laws. One won.
ders whether different licensea require
ments of two States might be recon,
clled to permit Of them. A signal ad.
vantage that they undoubtedly possess
is the fact that they offer much les
excuse for rice throwing and all tn,
other f~oolishness associated with thu
more conventional method.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-17
LABOR,s SHARE.

There are $4,000 persons who W
stock in the Pennsylvania Railroad.
In 1907 the gross earnings of the road
were about s166, 600, 600, of which $780,
600, 900 was paid out in expenses, leav-
ing a net profit of $4,000, 900. The year
before the railroad earned the same net
profit, but the gross earnings were
only $14S, 900, 900. Here is a difference
of $751; 900, 900 between gross earnings
one year and the next, with no differ
enec in profits shared by the owners.
It viii no doubt be surprising TO
most people to learn that a little less
than half of this went for increased
cost of supplies and materials used by
the company and that the balance,
more thar $4,000, 900, went into the
pockets of the vast army of employees
an their pay envelopes in the form of
3ncreased wages. In spite of increased
expenditures the owners of the road
got as much profit as the year before,
while labor got a goodly addition to
their incomes, so there should be salts
faction all around.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-17
OUR BANQUETED GOVERNORS.

Governor Stokes has been the guest
of the Newark Board of Trade at all
its annual dinners during his term now
ending, and he has beer a distinguished
guest at many gatherings of the kind
since his election in 1904. In January,
1905, the Governor in his post-prandial
speech humorously commented on the
many public dinner invitations he had
been impelled to accept, and the many
that were in prospective, to test his
physical endurance. His p~remonitions
were verified. No former Governor gave
himself and his time as freely and gem
erously to the social side Of public life,
but it was evident last night that the
Governor was none the worse for the
wear and tear. It was evident, also, that
the faculty of felicitous speech which
charmed the Board of Trade in 1905
had lost none of it's piquancy.
Governor-elect Fort has done some
public dining, too, since his election,
and the impression of the Hoboken
Board of Trade dinner had not been
dissipated when he appeared at the
Newark Board of Trade dinner last
night. He is scheduled as guest of the
Jersey City Board of Trade next
Wednesday night, and also at an early
date, too, he is to be the guest of the
Republican Club of Trenton, No doubt
the G~overnor-elect la other public din
ner engagements recorded. He, too,
can look forward, not without some
misgivings, to an administration large
ly sandwiched in with public dinner en-
gagements, and an anxious public will
hope that he shall come out Of it all
in as good shape as the Governor whose
official shoes he is about to step into.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-17
Brazil AND OUR FLEET.

Brazil's splendid courtesies to the Off
GERS and men of our battleship fleet at
Rio Janeiro will not soon be forgotten.
Nor will the impression made by the
fleet upon the Brazilian mind be soon
effaced. The American flag has not been
exhibited by many ships visiting the
Brazilian port, but this time the flag
appeared on the greatest flotilla Of war
ships that ever sailed South American
waters, and the spectacle fully compen-
stated for the lack of the Stars and
Stripes in these waters in the past.
Brazil has cherished the fear of Euro
pean aggression. Her vast territory is
a tempting prize for a power like Ger
many, which has a population to dis
pose of and wants to plant colonies
where they can grow up n contribute
to German commerce. In the battleship
fleet Brazil beheld the visible power Of
the Monroe Doctrine and the bulwark
for Brazil against any attempt to
despoil her of her territory.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-17
THE DECREASING MILITIA.

The consideration of ways and mean
to encourage the organization of bet
ter-drilled and more numerous State
militia may well occupy the present
Congress. 1t is shown in the report
recently made by the House commit
tee on military affairs that the militia
of the country has suffered a loss OF
ten per cent. in numbers in the last
four years. Thirty-four States and ter
gitories reported their militia smaller
h 1907 than in 1903. Pennsylvania was
the only State to have added more
than 500 men t its enlistment rolls
Only four States had brought theil
militia into complete accord with the
requirements of the Dick law.
A dissemination to military service
is undoubtedly growing but only
partially explains conditions. Judging
from the amount of money they devote
TO their militia, the legislatures Of
many States fail to appreciate the i'm
portance of an efficient citizen soldiery
In only eleven States, the Congress
d
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-17
FOR LOCAL HOME RULE.

A general act for complete local gov
eminent for municipalities is to be in
troduced in the Legislature from the
State Commission on Municipal Laws,
which commission has prepared a re-
port to be submitted to the Governor.
Local self-government means that one
community shall not be governed
locally by the ideas and customs and
prejudiees of some other local COM
munity, and that is in essence the kind
Of municipal government we are having
in New Jersey today.
The habit of setting up as an example
for others and trying to force Others TO
live and think and act according TO the
example set is strong in many people,
and communities borrow this character
istic, which is a survival of old English
Puritan intolerance. 1t is the spirit of
the New Jersey statutes that places a
large city like Newark in leading
strings for small, narrow rural conf
munities that are as unlike a large city
as a village in Holland or Timbuctoo.
The time will come when the large city
will be freed from this petty and irri-
tating tutelage, and it can be FASTENED
by a consistent fight In the Legislature
fo, a hsalufa botao Ynt1a