The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-01
British Government Seems to
Be Worried Over Condi-
tons in India.
SPEECH is cURTAILED.
MEN TALKING AGAINST BRITISH
RULE ARE JAiLED-NEWs OF
INTEREST BY PALLADIUM'S
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.
BY William True Hawthorne.

London, Oct. 31.-The British gov
Arnment is not willing to admit that
1t is seriously worried over the unrest
In India, but evidences are not lacking
that it is taking every possible step to
crush out the spirit of sedition. For
example, Reuter- dispatch from ALA
habad conveys the intelligence that
Hotilal Varma, native Indian leader,
has just been sentenced to five years
three charges of sedition, the SEN
fences to run concurrently. He had
previously been sentenced to five years
transportation on the same charge.
Going to Hong Kong, he continued his
seditious teachings to Indians residing
there, whereupon he was carried back
to India and the Imprisonment sem
fences imposed.
Freedom of speech is one of the
things your Englishman most highly
cherishes, and the fiction has been
maintained that free speech extended
to all British possessions. In order to
maintain the theory, the sedition laws
have not been vigorously enforced in
India until lately, but now men are not
only being sent to prison because they
dare speak against the continuance OF
British rule, but newspapers published
In the vernacular are suppressed for
criticism of the government.
In view of this new heavy hand
policy in India, it will be more or less
difficult for the British government to
convince the world that it Is not I'M
easy over the spirit of revolution which
IS spreading throughout its far east
ern empire.
British Awaken.
The American housewife has long
been familiar with the convenience OF
shopping by telephone, but the discov-
cry would seem to have just been made
in London. The next issue of the Lon
don telephone directory is to contain
for the first time a classified business
directory of telephone numbers, such
as the telephone directory of every fair
sized American city contains, and the
London newspapers are making a
great to-do over it, The large London
shops are organizing departments for
handling telephoned orders (such as
every large American department store
has), and the newspapers are devot-
Ing much space to educating English
women up to the advantages of buying
by telephone. They treat the subject
as if another Columbus had discovered
another America.
Wilkinson Fathers "Chanqe."
A good deal of attention has beer
given the fact that through the deatf
of BENJAMIN Kennedy, Horace Wilkin
son becomes father" OF the LOndor
Stock Exchanged Mr.. Wilkinson has
been member of the exchange fol
sixty-seven years and is still actively
engaged in the brokerage business.
Mr.. Wilkinson. however, is much
more interesting as collector Of cur
los than he is as stock broker. HI
has one of the finest collections in tn,
world, but his particular prize is thu
mummified head of oliver Cromwell
The discovery of this curious relic
which is thoroughly authenticated
was made many years ago, and Mr.
Wilkinson is said to have parted will
several hundred thousand dollars il
order to become it's possessor.
Memorial to Dickens.
The Dickens Fellowship has undo
advisement the project of purchasing
the so-called Bleak House" at Broad
stairs and converting it into a per
manent memorial to the great writer
There is some question as to whethe
the acquisition of house property j
within the province of the Fellowship
but the chief objection is that tn
house came by it's present fam
through something of a fraud.
1t Is true that Dickens lived in thi
house for couple of years and di
some Of his most notable work there
but he did not write Bleak House
while living there, nor did it figure /
any way in that story. Dickens kne'
the property as Fort House. TIL
name BLEAK House" was given it b
the tenant who succeeded Dickens.
the Fellowship should acquire tn