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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-10-02
II II Were Not for Local Finan.
ciaI institutions, Richmond
Would Not Be the "Panic
Proof City"
FINANCIAL SAFETY is
AFFORDED THE PUBLIC
City Boasts of Three National
Banks and One Trust Com.
pany, Also Two Savings and
Loan Firms.

when one reads the slogan that has
been adopted for this city--the Panic
Proof City-he must realize at once
that such slogan could never have
been appropriately adopted but for the
fact that the city's financial institu-
lions are OF absolute soundness and
conducted on that high plane OF finan-
cial dealing necessary to insure the
confidence of the public. In drawing
. conclusion OF this kind they can
make no mistake for the slogan repre-
sents In a marked way the long years
of uninterrupted financial safety that
has been afforded the people OF this
city and vicinity through It's financial
houses. While banks must have
money with which to do business and
trust companies must have money
with which to carry on their oper-
ations, they must have something
more than that-the full confidence of
the public. because II Is from the pub
lie. the men and women in every walk
OF life. with which their business Is
transacted.
Richmond has three national banks
and one trust company and the most
recent statement issued by them. TAX
en- as example. show they are In a
most thriving condition. The business
Of all has shown marked and steady
Erowth through the years and today
their operations run into millions.
List Of the Banks.
The banks are the First National,
the Second National and the Union
National and the trust company,
which also does much Of a banking
business. il the Dickinson Trust Com.
pany. II would be difficult matter
TO find any city that is provided with
better financial institutions that these,
for they have the record of many
years back OF them-a record of which
none need be ashamed. The depos-
its In all, the aggregate running to
several millions. reflects In the most
positive manner, the faith that Is plac.
ed In their operations. The time has
largely passed In this city and vicin.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-10-02
A VERY OLD VIOLIN
A Pennsylvania Councilman
Finds Heirloom Dating
Back ITS Years.
HIDDEN IN THE GARRET

Hazleton, Pa, Oct. Select Coun-
Gilman Murphy, while making repairs
to the old homestead, found a violin
that is a rarity in this section. How
long it has been hidden in the house
is not known, but it was used by Mr..
Murphy's grandfather and on the in
side is the date of 1875. which makes
it 175 years old. The violin was string
less, but otherwise in good condition.
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SLAYER OF NURSE
ATTEMPTS SUICIDE

POUGHKEEPSIE. n. Y.-Special.-
Frank Schermerhorn. the coachman
employed by Barnes Compton, was
formally charged with murder IN the first de-
gree OF Sara Brymer. the young trained nurse
who was attacked and strangled in her bed
early Wednesday morning.
Schermerhorn attempted to cut his throat
and is now in the Vassar Hospital
under guard, with his arms strapped to his
cot to prevent him from tearing the band
ages on OF the razor cuts in his throat
District Attorney Mack and Chief of Police
AeCabe say they have enough evidence to
send the coachman to the electric chair
The doctors at Vassar Hospital say that he
Will recover from the self-intlicted wounds
As result of the crime the Commons have
abandoned their beautiful country home. ON
Ahich they had just spent So, 600 in improve
ments.
They are now stopping with friends, and
VIII sell StepOweemiS Farm as soon as pos
sible 10
Sotar Chasi. the japanese butler, on whose
shoulders Scherinerhorn tried to throw m.
olahc, today took steps to appeal 10 n q.
country fer protection. He wrote a letter r.
the japanese consul in New York, expIaininq
the circumstances and referring to the feeling
against Chinese ana Japanese in this country
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HARMON is OFFERED $4,000
NOT TO GO UP IN AIRSHIP

LOS ANGELES, CAL - Special
Clifford B. Harmon. OF New York.
son-in-law OF Commodore z. G. Ben
edict is desirous of making another
aeroplane flight Wednesday, despite the
offer of Benedict to pay him $50 900
provided he makes no ascent
Harmon has already made one trip
with Glenn II. Curtiss, and was so
pleased with the experience that he
determined to make an effort at flight
alone. Aviator Willard loaned him
MS machine, though without SAYING
anything about il he arranged IL So
mat X could not rise from the ground.
willard trick prevented Harmon
from having more than a rapid run
along the ground for several hundred
feet.
Curtiss and Louis Paulhan will try
tSaln today 10 break aviation records.
-'aulhan y on the plaudits Of the i'm.
nenSe throng with daring and spec.
acular flights, while the less theatrical
american reapcd more substantial
.OnOTS.
Curtiss established a new worlds re.
ora for speed for aeroplanes carving
4 passenger. dying fifty-five miles an
nour with his manager NJ FanciuIli
beside him, and he set two other les
important records.
PaUlhan "a geriy prepared TODAY 70 re
over the laurclS he lost when Curtiss
broke the records for aeroplanes
The races so far have been thrill
'ngly spectacular. Wednesday they
favored more OF an international fight
owing TO the remarkable performance
Of Curtiss.
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FIGHT BREAKING
OF BAYLOR line
LEGISLATOR STUBBS TALKS OF
FISHERIES COMMISSION AND
ATTITUDE OF OYSTERhIEIN.
r j c II NC ND. VA

r II NJ ON y. W A Special
Delegate J. n. Stubbs. of Glouces-
ter is not hostile to the reappoint-
ment of the present Commission OF
Fisheries, and believes its members
could well stand investigation. but he
says that nineteen out Of twenty peo-
pie in Tidewater are opposed to the
breaking of the Baylor Survey
The Gloucester legislator appears
TO have been misunderstood in what
he did in connection with a move
ment to have an official investigation
of the Fisheries Commission
The error grows out of the happen
ings at the meeting of the Virginia
oyster Mems Association at Newport
News last Tuesday. That body adopt-
ed a resolution which embodied the
following as part of it's pream BILE
whereas. but a few days since, the
report of the Commissioner of Fish
cries has been printed and made pub
mendation 10 the General Assembly
to consider the same bill rejected in
the session OF 1908, and the bill is
set forth in full except as to the
boundaries Of the natural rock asked
to be turned out. and the said marks
and bounds are left blank: and,
whereas, to the great surprise OF Tide
water, this bill il again recommend
ed--haunting the red flag in the face
of the bull; defying the edict of the
General Assembly; regardless of the
wishes Of nine out of ten of the citi-
zens Of Tidewater; entirely disregard
ing the very best interest Of our sec
uon; attempting to create more dis
satisfaction among the tongers and
planters than can possibly be told.
and if the recommendation is carried
out will be more ruinous to the oys-
ter industry than any measure that
can be adopted"
In view of the foregoing. it was
resolved that I'VE, the delegates from
Underwater. in convention assembled
respectfully enter our most solemn
protest against having the Baylor line
disturbed, changed or Strengthened in
any manner, shape or form"
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equitably made and reflect the great
strides the State has made I'm wealth
during the last five years. and, to-
gethcr with the other measures herein
recommended. will provide ample rev.
enues for all purposes for the fiscal
year ending February %, 1912.
The committee realizes fully and
deplorcs the difficulties which hSve
made il impossible 20 carry out TO the
letter the directions OF the resolution
under which il met, yet il feels that
the information brought 90 its notice
at this early day Will prove valuable
TO the General Assembly i'm the sug-
gestioa Of such legislation as may be
introduced at an early day along lines
OF benefit To the State. IT is n source
of great regret that provision could
not be. or was not made, by which
Joint meetings could have been held
with the Finance Committee OF the
House of Delegates, without whose CO.
OpratiOn, even if conditions had been
different, the committee would have
felt great reluctance Of initiating the
legislation proposed.
GEORGE b. KEEZELL.
Chairman.
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UNWILLING HIS BODY
SHOULD CUMBER EARTH

NEW YORK.-Special.- he
firmly believed no mans body should
cumber the earth after death. and so
interfere with the needs Of future
generations, was shown Thursday by
the will of John w. Wallace, which
was filed by his widow. Clara Wallace.
OF 6S2 ThrOop Avenue. Brooklyn. Mr..
Wallace died on December 2Sth, and
his body was disposed of in the man
ner set forth in the will, as follows
That my body shall be placed in
pine box. not to cost more than So.
placed in an express wagon and taken
TO a crematory. and that after crema-
ton the ashes shall be scattered in a
field. the entire cost of the disposal
OF the body not TO exceed $50.
My reason is that 1 believe that a
man gets out of life all that he is en-
titled to, according to the amount OF
brain and energy he puts in, and when
he dies he should not occupy ground
that may be needed for highways or
for planting corn. or for any other
purpose that future generations may
have for it. 1 also believe that when
/ die my money. if / have any. should
go TO those dependent upon me, and
not into expensive collins and flow
erS."
The will was drawn on November
Is, 1900.
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LEFT IN JAIL AS
A LESSON
Son OF WO~,shy 81. Louis Parents Pun
isS-,i for Receiving Money Under
False PretenSes.

ST. LOUIS.-Special.- teach him
lesson wealthy relatives left James
z. Thomas. son of a millionaire, in
the st. Louis Jail three and a half
months. The charge of obtaining
money on false pretenseS was dismiss
ed Monday. with the statement that
Thomas relatives had settled the mat
ter, and there would be no prosecu-
ton.
The relatives. it is believed, intend
ed all the time to settle the matter
but deferred doing so in order to keep
the young man in Jail.
Thomas is the son Of the late III. II.
Thomas, dynamite manufacturer of
Battle Creek. Mich. He worked until
last fall in the office of the Ajax
Dynamite Company, his fathers con-
Germ, in Battle Creek.
He overdrew his account in a Bat
tie Creek bank several times, his rela-
tiVeS making il good, then left in
company with Mrs. Bess Chatfield, of
Seattle, wife of wealthy business
man.
They came TO ST. Louis and young
Thomas paid his bill at the Southern
Hotel with a check on his bank. In
the same manner he paid dry goods
bill incurred by the woman. FindiSg
he had no funds in the bank. the hotel
traced him to Kansas City through a
Japanese spaniel which the woman
carried. He was arrested there and
brought back. The woman went home
and is now being sued for divorce.
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VIRGINIA COURT CLERKS .
FORM ORGANIZATION

MOND, VA Special. -
Court clerks representing thirty-two
cities and counties met at Murphy'G
Hotel last night. with a view 10 organ
izing permanently and to hold annual
conventions. The following officers
were elected: A. S. Johnson, of Isle
of Wight, president: J. v. Trehy. Of
Norfolk city. first vice president; Wal
ter Christian. of Richmond city, second
vice president; John II. Gose. of the
city of Bristol. third vice president; II.
II. Holt. Of Elizabeth City county, sec
rotary and treasurer.
Messrs. Gillian, Martin and Geddy
committee on organization. reported
resolutions which were adopted. the
objects of the organization to be the
promotion of social intercourse be-
tween, and the welfare Of. its mem
bers.
A. II. Martin. of Norfolk county; ID.
@. Smith. of Newport News; Robert
Gillian, of Petersburg; Il. II. Geddy.
of williamsburg. and S. P. Waddill, OF
Henrico. were elected as an exeeutiVe
committee.
The executive commfttee soau~Aed
Norfolk as the next Ao0tEnE place
and the second "wednesday In Angust
as the date
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ERROR OF POSTOFFTCF
FOLK WINS HIM 50. 600

MIDDLETOWN. \. Y.-SpeciaI.-
The $4,000 reward offered by Orane.
county for the arrest and conviction
OF the murderer of the Olney broth
ers and little Alice Ingerick. near. this
city on October 6. 1905, was AWARDED
by Justice Mills. of the Supreme
Court. TO George G. Rogers. a young
man OF this city.
Charles II. Rogers. Of this city. was,
arrested in California for the crime
brought here tried, convicted and ex-
ecuted at Sing Sing. The where
aDouts of the murderer was learned
through letter he wrote from Ma
deira, Cal, to his brother, George
Rogers. and received by George {.
Rogers, who was not a relative. The
young man reported to police head
quarters. and the capture OF the muir
derer followed.
other claimants for the reward
were Chief Of Police John D. Nc
Coach, Policeman Fred g. Woak.
James McGraw. a policeman OF Los
Angeles; Sheriff A. /. Decker. Under
Sheriff f. 9. Heck and Policeman
Louis Roth. of Middietown Justice
Mills held that Rogers information
led to the arrest The young man
will use the money to secure col
lege education.
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TRIED TO DIG WAY
TO BANK VAULT
FINK LISTEN BODY FOUND IN
BURROW TO BANK-GOT IDEA
FROM MOVING PICTURES.

NEW YORK.-Special.-A dig
ging all Thursday z. NJ. all night, and
most Of the day. searchers found the
body or Isaac Finkelstein twelve feet
below the surface of Ludlow Street late
yesterday afternoon. in the tunnel by
which he hoped to reach the vaults
of bank and jewelry store. Fink
elstein was found trapped like q rab-
bit. He lay under the middle OF the
street, a crushed, miry semblance of
a man. his face in the dirt his hands
stretched out before him. pointed to-
ward the unattainable millions I'm the
vaults OF the East Side branch Of the
Fourteenth Street Bank. and the dia-
monds i'm the window of Isaac Zirin-
skis tewelry shop next door. His wife
and their five children saw the first
stroke Of the pick that uncovered his
shoes. They had been watching the
sappers i'm the trench all night and
all day. Sarah, the eldest child was
hard-eyed and defiant
Defended by Daughter.
My papa was an honest man." she
anything. He went down into the eel
lar and fell into a hole"
Sarah is eleven. Her mother. not
less loyal, but wiser, rocked to and
fro. weeping silently. and would
neither be comforted nor ask help.
Isaac Finkestein was n good-na-
tured. easy-going house painter. He
knew nothing about driving tunnels.
BE had only the rudest tools, no tim
Der to shore up the roofs and walls Of
his burrow: no burglars kit to bore
through the concrete and steel walls
OF the bank vaults; no adequate idea
Of the elaborate precautions constant
| ly on watch inside those walls against
him; no revolver for the ever-possible
crisis-nothing but his guilty dream.
Suggested by Pictures.
Finkelstein was a patron of the East
Side moving picture theaters. and
many a successful bank robbery had
he seen flashed briefly on the white
sheet by the calcium light. These
things may have worked on the imagi-
nation Of the painter. with FIVE children
to support If they did. he must have
thought of them every time he look
ed out of his garnet window, for be-
hind him. On the dead wall OF the
\ bank. f1ared he legend. Deposits.
$40. 900. 000." and by craning his neck
a little he could see the diamonds OF
the jeweler burning In the window of
the brilliantly lighted shop.
| But nobody knows what Finkelstein
| thought unless II be Isidor Garbus. his
brother-in-law. who reported his dis
appearance to the police Thursday.
| Isidor lived in the saE-c tenement with
Finkelstein. but though he is detain-
ed as a witness there is no proof that
he had guilty knowledge OF the tun-
mel which the dead man had started
from the cellar of the house toward
the bank and jewelry shop.
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SUFFOLK MAN MAKES
ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE

SUFFOLK, VA.-SpeciaI-Ove
cred before he could complete self
destruction with a knife he had just
purchased and before the clerk could
bring change for a bill, II. Kelly
Rawles. an aged farmer. about noon
Friday was taken to Nansemond coun-
ty jail, where he pleaded in vain to be
put N the cell with Sam Hardy, the
convicted slayer OF Tiberius Gracious
JopeS. Rawles cut his throat and
Is 'Seak from loss of blood. but will
rec over Rawles is the step-fathcr Of
MS A A. (Gus) Holland, one Of the
star witnesses in the Hardy trial. The
attempted suicide was inspired by
an unbalanced mind. Rawles once be-
fore tried to cut his fhroat in drug
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eonoer.. the fact Of their predlcament

concern. the fact Of their predicame mt
was learned.
A company Of Immigrants. composed
OF forty Poles. went 10 Jackson, Ca
during December OF last year. believing
that they would be given work on the
construction sang or the new railroad
at $3.50 per day. When they reach ed
the town they found that the cOndia
tiOHs OF their employment had been
grossly miSreDreScntcd by the New
York employment agency, and that the
nature OF the work and wages were
not as they were led to believe. These
seven foreigners set out to walk TO
Washington TO see the President and
register complaint against the com
pany which, they declared, was deceiv-
ing immigrants and sending them TO va
rious sections Of the United States.
The authorities provided for the men
until they can be employed or get sur
dcient funds to return to New York.
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KEPT WHITE SLAVE,
MEMORANDUM BOOK

BALTIMORE MD.@SpeciaI.-"Y
two villains ought to be hanged" said
Magistrate Loden Thursday, when ia
cob Tannebaum, aged twenty-one, and
Irwin Hyman. aged nineteen, were ar
raigned, charged with participation In
the white slave" traff1c.
1t was alleged by the police that
they were engaged In the systematic
trading in young women, and this was
borne out by the discovery of a mem
orandum book on one of the prison
ers. containing the names and ad-
dresses OF women in number Of
States. from Pennsylvania and as far
South as Tennessee. Justice LOder
them without bail.
The specific charge was the enticing
to Baltimore OF Reba Singer, a girl
Of seventeen. from Dauphin. Pa,
whom they met I'm Harrisburg. The
girl was found I'm West Baltimore re-
sort.
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A WITH FIRING LOOK.
IT'S LIFE THIS so!

NEW YORK.-Special.- Clara
Ludeman, who is being sued in the Su
preme Court for divorce by Arthur
Ludeman. SON Of August Ludeman. q
brewer, Thursday illustrated to a fury
before Justice Greenbaum how a wo-
man gives a man a whitening look She
placed her arms akimbo. thrust out her
dimpIed chin and said with eyes fash
ing:
IT looked at the detective just like
that. to show him knew what he was
about"
Mrs. Ludeman was questioned about
the circumstances of a raid on a room
in the Hotel Richelieu. 1t is alleged
she and Nicholas De Costa, a con
tractor. were found together there Her
explanation was that she had become
i'll when walking with De Costa, and
he suggested that she go to his room
In the Kichelieu until she felt better.
She gave De Costa her handbag while
she went to a dressing room. When
she came back she saw the raiders
breaking down the door, and she fol-
lowed them in.
De Costa, in testifying. could not ac-
count for one and "A half hours that
elapsed between the time he and Mrs.
Ludeman left the restaurant and the
time they were found in the room.
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WAS SUPERSTITOUS
ABOUT WHITE CAT

NEW YORK. Special. Assistant Pur-
ser l.. f. Lipscombe, OF the Royal Mail
Packet steamship Orotava was in des-
perate straits Monday. The curse fore
told by the Obi woman, the seeress he
had consulted many months ago in
Hamilton, Bermuda, had come upon
him. He had seen a white rat. not
once, but three times, on the voyage
from the Summer Isle that ended here
All of the 1O1 passengers knew OF the
direful thing that menaced the assist
that rat Killed by Hng black tomeat I that
had not a single white hair. For had
not the Obi woman said so? Mr.. Lips
combe himself confirmed 1t and groaned
You viii have good fortune" she
told him, until you see a Wild , White
you unless a perfectly black male cat
The assistant purser laughed with
who ever heard OF a wild white rat7
That was last summer. and the as
sbH PTTs9ff ITfKy tbs star en
cutting the Atlantic two days ago.
rheR the rat appeared 1t leaped on
y rsn scress rom ium9ed To- the oog
disappeared.
The sight Of that white rat spoiled
the assistant purser's dinner. He
sought the ships cat, but alas! the ami
mails tail was tipped with white. 1t
was such a tiny white speck In the
very end of the tail that Mr.. Lipscombe
did not notice IT until the cat made
many futile efforts to catch the white
rat that appeared twice on Sunday.
Then Mr.. Lipscombe shut up the
cat, fearing II would kill the rat, and
to have the wrong sort of cat do that
would he the worst Of evils. He was
moody when the ship berthed. and as
soon as he could leave his duties and
the sympathizing passengers he went
ashore to look for an utterly black
tomcat.
Purser Sturgess says he has not the
least idea how that white rat came
aboard the OrotaVa.
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TWENTY SKELETONS ARE
EXHUMED ON A FARM


STAUNTON, VA Special
Word comes from CoIIierstovvn.
south of Stanton, that j. Nj.
knick, while blowing on q farm,
exhumed fifteen or twenty sI<eIe-
tons. All kinds OF conjectures
were set afoot by the grewsome
find, and no definite explanation
IL offered. IL Is supposed, how
ever, that the skeletons are those
OF Indians, as relics, toma1awks
and quartz and flint weapons
were foend I'm this miniature
catacomb. It Is possible that the
skeletons ire a century or two
old and have boon I'm the mound
Tor generations. Somewhat OF n
sensation was caHoned by the
s s.dink OF 90 msny slesstons
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SON. Early. strother and Lincoln. Clerk.
l.. A Sims.
Fish and Game-Messrs. Walker.
keezen, Gunter, Hartman, Wickham,
saunders. Holland. Ward. Gayle. GRAY
att and Parsons Clerk. c.. q. Shack
elford.
Insurance and BankIng-Messrs
Holt. Rison, Lesner, Keezell, Saunders.
Strobe Elan, Watkins, Thornton.
Gayle and Strother. Clerk, Smith
Brockenborough.
Enrolled Bills-Messrs. Wickham.
Garrett, Tucker, Watkins. Parks, Noel,
McAlexander and Chase.
To Examine the Clerks Onlce of the
SenatS-Messrs. Parks. Carter and
Lincoln.
President pro tenn. and Chairman OF
Committee of Privileges and Elections.
Executive Expenditures-Mes
Strobe, Holland and Chase.
Library-Messrs. Sims. Sale and
Walker.
To Examine Office OF Auditor OF
Public ACCOMPLISHMENTS. Folkes. Ed
mondson and Noel
To Examine Second Auditors Of
hce-Messrs. Early. Gravatt and Nc
Alexander.
To Examine Office Of the the Reg
Hobbs and Hartman.
To Examine Treasurer's Office
M essrs. Lesner, Holt and Keezell.
To Examine Bonds OF Public ON
cers-Messrs. EchOls. Garrett and Hol-
land.
Printing-Messrs. Halsey, Hobbs
and Hartman.
Joint Committee on Special. Pri-
vate and Local observation-disclosures
Lassiter. Owen, Ward, Tucker and
Noel. Clerk. Walter b. Keezell.
Committee on Nominations -
Mesrs. Echols Wickham, Rison, Owen
and Lesner.