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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-09-21

Owing to the splendid showing that
the municipal electric lighting and
power plant has been making the past
few. years 1t is now in the best kind of
financial condition and, according to
Controller Parry, in report submitted
to council last evening. 1t will be able
to pay back to the general fund of the
city next year the last of the money
borrowed from the city for the main
tenance and upkeep. After this year
the plant will stal.d firmly on it's own
feet, Mr.. Parry assures the public, and
it will no longer be necessary for the
city to coddle and nurse it.
After the last cent borrowed from
the city has been returned to the gen.
|eral fund, it will then be necessary,
under the state law, to place the
plants receipts in a seperate fund,
which money can be used for the ben
eft of the plant alone. Mr.. Parry
points out that If these receipts could
be merged into the general fund the
city could easily reduce the tax rate
from $1.1O to 80 cents. but the law
forbids this.
i L. L
that, so the public may reap some tax
reduction benefit from the plant In the
future, the city reduce the rate for
street lighting to $4S per arc light per
annum. He points out that this would
be a reduction of Sc percent from the
rate now paid and a reduction of 20
percent from the price proposed by
the private corporation which was de.
sirous of negotiating with the city for
the municipal light plant some months
ago" Mr.. Parry's 1910 budget and
Recommendations is as follows:
REPORT OF CONTROLLER.
Richmond. Ind. Sept. Is, 1909
Hon, Richard Schillinger,
Mayor of City of Richmond. Ind.
hand you herewith my estimate
Thy items, OF the appropriations neces
sary for the use of the city during the
year 1910, and with it also an estimate
OF the city's receipts during 1910 and
my recommendation for the tax rate
for 1909.
Appropriations.
Department Of finance. -. .$16, 375.Ot
department OF law. 1,2OO.O(
Department board Of works. 17,95O.0t
Public buildings and grounds 1,67O.Ot
Parks 1850. OF
Sewers, streets ard alleys. !. s38 200. OF
Engineering department. 49,. 3.47O.Ot
Markets 5000
Fire department ......... 41.70O.O OK
Crematory .............. $4,000
Department of health and
Il charities ............. $500
department Of police. 17.525. OF
City court ............... 10000
Total ..................S 152. 1000,
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
BEAUTY SEEKS DIVORCE
WANTS 800, 900 FOR ALIENAT.
ING HUSBANDS AFFECTIONS
Cruelty and Drunkenness Charged.
Claims Husband Turned
Bulldog on Her.

Baltimore, Md.-Mrs. Frank Brown.
Jr., who has been called by admirers
'the most beautiful woman in the
South" Tuesday filed her bill of divorce
against the young son of ex-Gov. Frank
Brown, alleging extreme and sensational
cruelty.
Young Mrs. Brown charges that her
husband dragged his vicious bulldog into
her apartment and set the dog upon her,
so that she had to flee and take refuge
with friends; that he pulled her hair, hit
her, kicked her, cursed her and abused
her before others in the vilest language;
that he threatened her life with a pistol;
that while in company he had thrown
cards, food and other articles in her
face.
Mrs. Brown alleged that frequently in
the presence of male and female ac-
quaintances her husband tore up and de-
stroyed her clothes and articles of
adornment, and she was forced to seek
the protection of friends from the vio-
lent abuses of her husband.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
ROMANCE SHATTERED
ATLANTA HEIREss DIVORCED
FROM CHAUFFEUR HUSBAND
Declares She Was Dragged at Time
of Marriage and Did Not
Consent to It.

Atlanta, Ga.-Testifying that she was
drugged at the time of her marriage with
Russell j. Thomas, and did not know
what she was doing, and that she never
consented to the marriage, Mrs. Silvey
Speer Thomas, daughter of w. A. Speer,
one Of the wealthiest men in Atlanta,
who eloped with and welded her fathers
chauffeur last September, was Monday
granted a divorce. The girl, who is only
II years old, stated that the father of
Russell J. Thomas gave her some sort Of
tablet when she complained of feeling
faint after she vas taken into the auto
mobile by the Thomases on the morning
of her marriage, and that thereafter she
did not know what she was doing.
The girl also testified that the elder
Thomas threatened to kill her father un
less she married Russell Thomas.
II was frightened out of my senses"
she said. "The elder Thomas said he
had a nerve tonic with him, and he gave
me a tablet of something, / did not know
what, and / took it. Soon afterwards |
became dizzy, and didn't recollect any
thing more. l had O vague remembrance
of being at a church and getting on a
train.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
JOHN D. ADDS TO GIFTS
GIVES 10000 900 TO CAUSE OF
EDUCATION.
General Board Empowered to Dis.
tribute Funds-His Total Do
nation 500, 600, 600.

New York.-John d. Rockefeller Fri
day increased his donations to the
general educational board by a gift Of
$10,000,000 and also released the board
from the obligation to hold in perpetu-
ity the funds contributed by him. The
gift announced brings Mr.. Rockefeller
donations to the board to $50, 000, 900.
The gift was contributed, according to
the statement made by Chairman Gates,
because the income of the present fund
available for appropriation had been X
hausted and a larger income to meet
educational needs of great Importance
had become necessary.
Mr.. Rockefeller's action in empower.
ing the board and it's successors to dis
tribute the principal of funds contrib
uted by him upon the affirmative vote
of two-thirds Of its members was said
to be taken in consideration of the
possibility, now remote, that at some
future time the object and purpose of
the Rockefeller foundation might be.
come obsolete. Under the original con-
ditions imposed the fund would have to
continue in perpetuity regardless OF
whether a public demand for its contin-
uation exists or not.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
USEFUL WHITE TAILOR MADES
Serge and BroadcIoth Costumes a
Necessity If One Is to- Stay
Long at the Seashore.
yard silk.

If you are to be at the seashore for
any length of time you should have at
least one of your summer suits in
white serge, broadcloth or mohair, no
matter how unlimited your laundry
allowance may be. A sea breeze has
unpleasant and almost human pro-
pensity for springing up just after
you've had your hair marcelled and
put on a freshly starched frock.
If one is to spend the summer in
the mountains or the northern coast,
where one needs warmth as well as
it is just as well to have some sort
of a waist en- suite that leaves the
neck and arms cool, but gives n a
little extra warmth through the body.
1 saw a good looking dress of this
type in a Fifth avenue shop window
the other day. 1t was made in a
heavy c~ream-colored poplin, quite
severely plain, but beautifully cut and
tailored. The skirt had a couple of
cores at the sides and rather wide
front and back panels that ran up in
to the waist and were cut u square
ly just below the bust and shoulder
and ran out to cover the seam of the
sleeve.
The oblong neck opening was decid-
eddy deep at the front, where it ended
in a wide-angled v, while at the back
it was cut in a shallow square. Filling
in the lower part of the neck opening
in front was a patch of the cloth heav-
lily embroidered in the old-time Pals
ley colors that have come into vogue
once more. The belt was a soft,
crushed thing of Paisley ribbon, and
the big button molds that trimmed
the front and back panels were ov-
cred with the same quaint-looking
silk. The dress was worn over a
guimpe of white masquisette laid in
fine tucks in the neck and sleeve, the
latter only showing beneath a deep
cap sleeve of the poplin that reached
just to the elbow.-From the Define
atOr.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
TOBACCO TRUST GIVEN A SOP
Vast Sum of $271, 500, 900 Goes to
Manufacturers.

49,
New York.-The startling declaration
that more than 1881 100000 had been
given to the tobacco manufacturers,
largely to the tobocco. trust, through the
inadvertence or design of Congress, was
made Tuesday by tobacco experts when
they heard from Washington that the
new tariff will probably fix the tax on
chewing and smoking tobacco at s cents
a pound.
This vast sum became the property of
the since the beginning of the
Spanish American Wor. 1t is an excess
of profit over the extra war tax of 6
cents a pound put on such tobacco to
provide funds with which the country
was to fight Spain. 1t came to the man.
ufacturers largely because Congress was
Indifferent when it came to striking out
the provisions for decreased weight pack
ages when the wal tax was repealed in
April, 1902.
That most of this vast revenue in
crease went to the tobacco trust is def
nitely shown by the stock records of the
American Tobacco Company. Prior to
June, 1908, the common stock of the
trust sold as low as 80. In tune of that
year, the very month in which the war
tax was put on, the stock was quoted
at 9sh. 1t is now selling at about 140.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
STATE OF GEORGIA is BROKE
It Is Now Face to Face With q
Deficit of Half Million.

Atlanta, Ga.-The state of Georgia is
rot only BROKE" but it is face to face
with q deficit of over half a million dol
lars. There is now an excess of appro-
priations for the year 1908 of $4,000,
and there has been an increased appro-
p~riation for 1909 of $250,0O0. Should
the revenue for 1909 fall short to the
same extent it has this year, there will
be $1s0,00O more added to the shortage,
making a total of 100000. In add.
tion, the comptroller-general says that
there were extraordinary receipts last
year of $4,000 which cannot be expected
this year. This deficit was from the
lack of the liquor tax.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
CARNIVAL FOR KING COTTON
Idea Developed at Meeting of Com
mercial Secretaries.

Atlanta, GA King Cotton carnival,
to be held annually in some Southern
city, changing its location each year, was
the slogan sung by the commercial sec
retaries gathering here for the first an
nual convention of the Southern Com
mercial Secretaries Association.
The "Three-K" exhibition is to be for
the purpose of exploiting the products
of cotton, its by-products and the thou
sands of articles into which cotton fiber
enters in some indispensable form.
Every state. in the South is represented
at the session.
The discussion will cover the relations
of state and municipal governments and
railroads to the advertising of the re-
sources of Southern municipalities. Good
roads will be studied in concrete form
during q trip by automobile from Allan
ia to Roswell, Ca, the ancestral home Of
Theodore Roosevelt.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
FIVE CHILDREN FIRE VICTIMS
House Was Aflame From Top to Bot
tom When Discovered.

Danyille, Va.-As the result of a mys-
FERROUS fire which totally destroyed the
home of S. E. Hamlet, five of their chill
dren and H. A. Strange, aged "a, a Con-
federate veteran, were burned to death
and another child, aged A years, was seri-
ously injured. Mr.. and Mrs. Hamlet
escaped without injury.
My. Hamlet resided in a two-story
frame building. The fire was discovered
at about 8 o'clock in the morning by
n~eighbors. At this hour the occupants
of the house had not been aroused and
the building was almost completely en-
veloped in flames.
When the fire was discovered it was
impossible to saw any of the children
or Mr.. Strange, all of whom, it is
thought, had been burned to death by
this time. Mr.. Strange was a Confed-
crate veteran of Halifax county, and was
in the city to attend the Fourth of July
celebration.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
CAUSE DEATHS
TWO THOUSAND HOMELESS IN
KANSAS AND MISSOURI.
Great Suffering at Springfield, the
City Being Practically Sub
merged-Loss 81, 500, 600.

Kansas City.-Close to 1000 persons
rendered temporarily homeless, with a
property loss estimated at $500, 600, six
persons injured, railway traffic to the
north, west and south of Kansas City
demoralized, and thousands of acres of
rich farming land and miles of railway
tracks inundated, summarizes the food
situation in Missouri and Kansas.
: The greatest suffering was at Spring
field in Southern Missouri, and at Otta-
wa, Kas., 81 miles southwest of Kansas
City. Both these towns were practically
submerged by the sudden overflow OF
local streams. Elsewhere in these two
states nearly every stream was receding,
and the worst of the flood was believed
to be over. Even at Springfield and Of
tawa the water began to recede almost
as soon as it had accomplished it's dam
age.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
CENTRAL KENTUCKY SUFFERS
Wheat and Corn Crop Will Not
Make Half Yield.

Lexington, Ky.-The heavy rains
throughout Kentucky during the past few
weeks are believed to have worked havoc
with many of the crops, and it is the
claim of the farmers of Central Kentucky
that the corr and wheat crops will not
yield half as much to the acre as in the
past few years.
Much of the wheat throughout this Sec
tion was cut during the past week, and
is still in the shock, and most of the
damage to this crop will occur because
of the fact that it is shocked and the
thresher cannot be used on it.. Others
claim that it will be greatly damaged be-
cause of that fact.
Most of the corn fields in Central Ken
lucky are so full of weeds that the yield
will be greatly interfered with, and the
constant rains have prevented all work.
The greatest amount of rainfall known
in Kentucky in the past twenty years
has fallen during the past six weeks,
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
"NEAR BEER" SAVES GEORGIA
Tax Will Be Sufficient to Pay Legis-
lators' Salaries.

Atlanta, Ga. With the treasury
empty and no money in sight to pay
current bills, the legislative and other
officials are saved from going without
salary only by near beer.
Some energetic solon discovered that
there was something like $230,000 in
the treasury collected from near beer
tax, but which is supposed to be used
for the purchase of a prison farm. As
the administration has decided not to
buy the farm now, the funds will be
turned back into the treasury for use
in the emergency.
When prohibition went into effect it
was decided that intoxicating liquor to
be intoxicating much contain more than
4 per cent. of alcohol. As none of the
American beers contain more than A
per cent, the sale of them has been
practically unmolested. The state put a
tax of 5000 a year upon each near beer
saloon in the state.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
WAS SON.
Jeff Davis Explains Why He Did Not
Attend White House Dinner.

Westinghouse one father to an
other, Senator JEFF Davis, of Arkansas,
explains to President Taft in a letter
made public Tuesday that his failure to
attend the White House dinner the other
night, at the presidents invitation, was
due not to intentional ~discourtesy, but
to his pursuit of his 1~2-year-old son, who
went to Fort Myer to see the %aeroplant
hy, and did not return.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
Standard Wins.

st. Paul, Minn.-Judge George L.
Bum of the Ramsey county district
court, Friday handed down an opinion in
which he decided against the state and
in favor of the Standard Oil Company
in the suit brought by E. t. Young,
former encouragement, to GUST the de-
PENDANT from doing business in the state
on the ground that it was conducting a
monopoly in restraint of trade, contrary
to the provisions of chapter 800, laws
of 1907. The basis Of the opinion is
that the law referred to is ~unconstitu-
tional.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16

The British admiralty is planning
what will be the greatest naval dis
play in the history of the world. Three
hundred and fifty ships, built for every
branch of naval service, have been or
dered to assemble for a month of sham
fighting. The scene of the demonstra-
ton has not been announced, but it is
believed it will be off the coast Of
Scotland. Wherever these ships may
assemble. the maneuvering will con
stitute an exhibition of strength and
efficiency of application such as has
never before been witnessed on any
sea.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
Give Back Fiqureheads,

Washington.-The fgurehead of the
battleship Mississippi will be given to
the state of Mississippi if Gov. Noel will
make a formal request for it. Repre-
sentative Humphreys received a letter
to that effect from Secretary Meyer
in answer to the congressman's request
that the igurehead be given to the state.
The probability is that the fgureheads
of all the battleships will be do-ated to
the states the names Of which they bear.
They are to be removed because they
offer too shining marks for searchlights.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
NO PEACHES ON SUNDAY
Gov. Brown Will Not Allow Growers
to Pluck Fruit.


Atlanta, Ga.-A peach is a peach on
Sunday, and while you may pluck it ON
week days, you are a criminal if you
pick it on the Sabbath. Gov. Brown has
so decided.
From Norwood, Ga, came a hurried
telegram Friday, signed by M. Y.
Scruggs, and reciting how the rain had
delayed the picking of the liberia
peaches. If the growers were not per-
mitted to gather the fruit on Sunday
they would lose much fruit and money.
Would the governor issue q proclama,
ton permitting labor on the Sabbath
for the sake of the Georgia peaches!
The governor took the communication
to Attorney-Genera Hart. The attorney
general gave it deep thought, and then
shook his head. The governor replied:
while I sympathize with the peach
growers, the executive has no authority
to suspend a criminal law. l cannot,
therefore, issue the proclamation you de-
sire"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16

Mr.. WI, who is the Chinese minis.
ter at Washington, is also the &C
credited representative of his govern.
ment to Peru. He is going to that
country to present his credentials, and
incidentally will open negotiations
looking to the establishment of diplo.
matte relations between China and
other South American countries. This
is indicative of China's new and pro.
gressive policy. And Mr.. WI may be
counted on as a potent factor in ex.
tending Chinese relations with con.
temporary nations.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
Leper Gives Reception,

New York.-John R. Early, the young
Southerner heralded about the country
as a leper, gave a reception to prove
that he is untainted. 1t was held at
the New York Skin and Cancer hospital,
and was attended by medical men, .
number of Early's friends and a sprink-
ling of the public interested in the case.
The reception was arranged by DR.. l.
Duncan Buckley, the specialist, who
brought Early here to show that there
is nothing leprous about the nan
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
Rockefeller Is 20.

Cleveland, O.-John D. Rockefeller
reached the three-score and ten period Of
his life Thursday. Seventy years ago he
was born ON a small farm near HIGH
ford, Tioga county, New York. Begin
ming life as a penniless farmers boy,
Mr.. Rockefeller is today reputed to be
the worlds nearest candidate for q bill
lionaire. Mr.. Rockefeller received several
congratulatory kilograms and a few call
ers, who extended their best wishes. The
day was spent in his usual manner, at.
tending to business affairs and playing
rolf
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
Color Arrangement.

Too much cannot be said about the
Importance of the color schemes, so
necessary is it to have a harmonious
effect in anything colorful, be that a
picture, dress or interior house color.
The following suggestions will be of
assistance:
Avoid rose color next to scarlet,
orange or violet.
Do not place orange next to yellow,
pink OF violet.
White relieves any color, but do not
place it too near yellow.
Orange goes with blue; yellow with
violet.
Rose and purple combine in soft
shades.
Gold combines with any color but
white, yet it can be used with white
if toned with something else. The
frame on a gold mat picture should be
one-half inch wide, fiat or half
rounded.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
Mrs. Harahan Operated on.

Chicago.-Mrs. j. T. Harahan, wife Of
the president Of the Illinois Central rail
road, is a patient at st. Luke's Hospital,
where a minor operation was performed
upon her. Her condition is not serious.
At the hospital it was said that Mrs,
Harahan's in~disposition vas Tue to y
railroad accident, in which she was
slightly injured, last spring. This mis-
hap to the Harahans occurred on the
Southern Pacific near San Francisco;
but it was not generally known at the
time that Mrs. Harahan was among
those hurt.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16

ridiculous, and as u~nbecoming as it is
vulgar. Powder on the face should be
imperceptible, and If used with dis
erection is not to be condemned.
Take up but a small quantity Of
powder on the puff and pass it lightly
over the face. Care should be taken
not to powder the eyebrows, and the.
lips must be carefully wiped to remove
any powder which may have fallen.
The whole face. except the eyes. the
eyebrows and lips. should receive a
touch of powder.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16

n HE first illustration is for a girl from two to four years, and is suitable
for nun yelling of Jap silk
The skirt is gathered to the empire bodice and is trimmed at the
foot by a o of insertion. The yoke is composed Of tucked material
and insertion, edged with a frlo of lace; below yoke the material is tucked
in halfinch tucks, and finished with a band of insertion, with holes through
which coored ribbon is threaded and tied n a rosette at the side
The little pufed sleeves re trimmed in the sam way, and finished on
by a lace frL
Material required: Two yards SO inches wide, four yards insertion,
two yards lace, four yards ribbon, ~ yard insertion with holes.
The second is for a girl from eight to ten years, and is a simple little
coat that could be made in linen, serge or cloth; a III are equally nice. n
shape is a semifting sacque, and fastens invkibly down the front; the col
and cuffs are rounded off at the corners and covered with machine
stitching.
Hat Of straw, trimmed with silk quilts.
Material required: Three yards 46 inches wide, four yards lining.
The last design shown is for a girl from six to eight years. and is made
up in pale blue cashmere; the skirt is tucked att the top; the tucks are IT.
ranged in a "v;" it is then set into a shaped yoke, embroidered at the
edge; the space above the yoke is filled in with silk A sash is worn De-
low the waist, knotted at n side.
Materials required: Three yards cashmere 46 inches wide, onequarter
yard silk.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
LOCATION FOR BATTLE ABBEY.

Richmond, Va.-The Confederate Memo
rial Association will soon purchase a site
for the Battle Abbey, the popular desig'
nation of the Confederate memorial in
stitute. An appropriation of $4,000 for
this purpose has just been made by
the city's common council.
Under the resolution making the ap'
preparation it is provided that the build
ing shall be erected within three years,
and if, when erected, it be not perpet-
ually maintained as a Confederate me-
mortal, the lot shall revert to the city
of Richmond.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16

None but the brave deserve the fair,
and Cupid has always taken peculiar
delight in mating the embryo naval
and military heroes with fair brides.
Hence, the recent order that midship.
men must not marry during the six
years of their course is a solar plexus
for the little blind boy, while as for
the president, who signed the bill,
parting SO many fondly beating hearts,
he will be denounced by scores of
pouting rosy lips as "a mean old
thing"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-07-16
Keeps Couture In Shape.


A clever device for preserving the
couture in perfect condition while
wearing a hat was seen recently.
AS to the hat it was used with. the
brim was very wide and the crown
an immense beehive. OF course, in
order such a shape should set COM
Portable upon the head this support,
consisting Of wires from the brim. ran
up into the crown, otherwise the
structure would drop over the eyes
and the nose; In fact, the entire face
would be covered. But these wires
allowed to remain at the front and on
the sides, held the millinery in place.
The supports were cut away in the
back and an outstanding broad hoop Of
wire was substituted. The mass Of
puffs, curls. ETC., passed through this
hoop and concealed themselves in the
big crown.