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pl Become amiliar With STAR "Want" Ads Be Surpnaed at Their Advantages VOL 5 NO 90 The Indianapolis Star INDIANAPOLIS 'TUESDAY 8 1907 BOOM MARSHALL OR EXECUTIVE 1 A Columbia City Man Is Picked for the Head of the Democratic State Ticket Prophecy of Weather Man raw orec a tpr Indiana for Tues day and Wednesday: Generally fair an Tuesday and Wednesday light northwest to north winds becoming variable ''jrwvy SiMcwy liBa Ory yjrH orecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for today: air STRONG IGURE IN HIS PARTY 7 Sun 14 Index to Today's Star the usual parade James to Confer SALUTE STATUE LIBERTY Idol and good can not a aV1 business capacity farming interests 68 80 66 88 for a avail but ad was was the Brit Warrack China figure In heroic res of infuriated labor of The Spring armer Candidate the Democratic state leaders at the gubernatorial game Chinamen Think It Is a Great a Pay Homage NEW YORK Sept When ish 'steamer Braemar of the line playing between England Japan and the United States anchored just below Island yesterday the entire crew of thirty seven pigtailed Chinamen scuttled below only to reap pear each one bearing a bunch of burn ing joss sticks 4 As tlje vessel swung with the ebbing tide and her bow pointed straight toward the Statue of Liberty the thirty seven celestials wayed the joss sticks chanted a prayer and kow towed to the deck None of them had ever been to New York before and they believed the statue a great idol A DOMESTIC Vice President airbanks delivers ad dress before national irrigation conven tion at Sacramento Cal and is en thusiastically received Page 1 Two men are shot In San rancisco as a result of the feeling over the street car strike Page 1 William Randolph Hearst in his Labor day address at the Jamestown Exposi tion pleads for eaualltv In laws and urges greater community Interest be tween labor and capital Page 2 New York today begins great fight to crush the parent company of the Stand ard OU Company Page 5 Labor day is generally observed over the country Chicago being the only large city that omitted Page 2 Two telephone girls cue of victims rioters at Steubenville Page 9 Chicago Alton will know today whether it will get promised immunity in Stand ard Oil rebate case Page 9 OREIGN Tench Government is puzzled at the movements of the pretender to Moroc throne who conceals his designs Page 5 Organized mobs attack Jews in Odessa charging them with responsibility for recent bomb explosion Two are killed 10 Japan and China are approaching hostili ties over dispute of years in Korea Paue 1 7 DEWSNUP GETS APPOINTMENT Secures Professorship Railroad Ad ministration In Illinois College CHAMPAIGN Ill Sept President Edmund James of the University of Illinois yesterday announced the appoint ment of Prof Dewsnup as professor of railroad administration and manage ment at the University of Illinois Prof Dewsnup for the last three years has been connected with the University of Chicago YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURES 68Mlnlmum 7 2 1 Maximum Candidacy for Governorship Is Being Backed by Enthusiastic Upstate riends pretty big citizen up the Democratic keeping close tab Keep Yourself on the Market When you are out of a job" you can not afford to grope for another posi tion You are losing time and oppor tunities Look over The STAR'S Help Wanted columns very likely you will locate there the very position you are after If not run an Ad in the Situation Wanted columns STAR By using both me' nds you fall to And employing I That Thomas Marshall of Columbia! City will be a candidate for the Demo cratic gubernatorial nomination was an nounced yesterday This interesting bit of Information will cause other aspirants for that honor to sit up and take notice for Thomas Marshall is a strong flg ure in his party and a any way you size him Secretary Reilly of state committe who Is on the governorship developments said: that Mr Marshall now an active candidate for the nomination and north em Indiana Is being thoroughly organized In his This report was substan tially corroborated by ex State Senator Eew Ulrey of Wavne who is a close personal and political friends of Mr Marshall Ex Senator Ulrey who Is at the English Hotel said: i understand that Thomas Mar shall will be a candidate for Governor if: not aggressively at least in the receptive sense He Is one of the brainiest men one of the most gifted speakers and one of the best lawyers in the state and heIs also a student and a scholar As Governor of the state he would' not be a crank but the laws would be Impar tially enforced and no blunders would be made He would honor the office He Is big enough for President of the United May Among who there is a great deal of talk of springing a farmer candidate It is argued that the time has come when' the people of the state would take kindly to a farmer and it is pointed out that the state never hasA haxl a farmer governor who was not a votegetter as well as a successful execu five When James Williams was nomi nated the Republican spellbinders ridi culed and dubbed him he corralled the votes and gave an ministration that no friend of his ashamed of Claude Matthews also a good Governor judged by the highest standards and the Republicans a ten strike when they nominated A Mount Those who are casting about farmer who would be considered 'able for the Democratic governorship nomination have their eyes on Warder 'Stevens of Salem Ind and a formidable Stevens boom Is looming over the horizon1 In 1904 Stevens was the Democratic can tHdate for Lieutenant Governor but that was a year when "a Democratic candidate for state office had no show for his white alley Stevens has been president of the v' State 'Board of Agriculture and is a blown ln the bottle not the kind that keeps in touch with his hired hands over the long distance telephone He owns a big farm near Salem where he applies the most modern scientific prin ciples to his agricultural operations He has for years been a prominent figure at institutes and he is a convincing "speaker although he is in no sense a spell binder Mrs Stevens is a student of agri culture and has ample to conduct their large in his absence New and Dover There probably will be some develop ments In Republican national politics this week Harry New acting national chairman who is now en route to New York said before starting that he expects to go from that city to Washington Wh ere he will have a conference with Elmer Dover secretary of the national committee and such members of the com mittee as are at the national capital for the purpose of deciding upon the time and place of holding the next meeting of the national committee Capt New said that the meeting likely will be held at Washington about the middle of Decem ber At the December meeting the na tional committee will choose the place for holding the national convention and name the date Capt New ie display ing a good deal of hardihood by ventur ing to Washington at this season when news Is scarce and correspondents on newspaper row are extremely voracious but he thinks his armor is thick enough to withstand their assaults A letter received yesterday from Sena Beveridge states that he and Mrs Beveridge are now at Borca Italy and will return to Indianapolis about Oct 1 Adam Heimberger of New Albany who was here last night broke silence con cerning his attitude toward the Demo cratic state chairmanship Heimberger has the happy faculty of making friends and in his home bailiwick he is known as a successful organizer "No Democrat could consider It other wise than honorable to be called to the state chairmanship and it would be his duty to accept" said Heimberger masses of the party In all of the pre cincts of the state should have a voice In the selection of delegates to the coun ty and district conventions in which the work of reorganization is to be effected This Is the best of Democratic policy and in full accord with the old Jeffersonian and Jacksonian principle that the voters are the source of all political Christopher Republican chair man of Henry County who was here yesterday said the Sixth District Is in suspense awaiting a decision from Rep resentative Watson as to whether he In tends to run for (Governor'' If Watson enters the governorship race" said he "Henry County will have an active candidate Congress Ex Judge A Barnard of our county1 will make an aggressive campaign for the congressional nomination if 'Our Tim' de cldes to cut loose from district politics My opinion Is that we wilt continue tobe represented in Congress by Mr Wat son for an indefinite period for I be lieve he will decide Congress Is enough for STATE Temperance forces score against saloons at Knightstown Page 4 Indiana 1 rural letter carriers hold state convention at Rochester Page 5 Secretary Wilson of the Mine Workers addresses union men at Wabash Valley Labor day celebration Page 4 Storm causes damage In southern Indi ana Page 4 1 LOCAL Seventy five unions were represented In the big Labor day parade and 5000 men were in line Page 8 State Board of Health advocates goat raising for milk to save babies of the Page 12 Mrs Mary McKenzie manager of deposit vaults of the department In diantx Trust Company dies Page 8 Two women are run down by a runaway horse during Labor day parade Page 3 City fireman jokes tells friends goodby and swallows carbolic acid Page 8 I Mooshy predicts downfall of Per sian Government Page 3 National ederation of Postofflce Clerks In session in Indianapolis is working for eight hour day and thirty va cation each Pago 3 Newlin says movement toward na tional prohibition is backed by mil lionaires Page 12 Alleging new evidence that would shake up all lawyers' fees in Rhodius case guardian flies motion for new trial Page 1 DEPARTMENTS Editorial Page fl Social and Page 7 Amusements Page 7 Railroads Page 10 Commercial Page 9 Pages 1 2 3 and 4 Pink Section OR THE SAME DATE LAST YEAR OOlMinlmum TSiMaxlmum ALMANAC THE DAY rises at sets at fl: WEATHER CONDITIONS it HI Rp II I ft 'r 1 I': Hv Bi Mu Ml i Ep A Ir lA Hfr Hr ILAj PMhflp 1 Max Mtn Weather Atlanta Ga 92 72 Clear i T31smarck 78 42 Clear Chicago Ill 76 64 PtCldy Cincinnati 0 82 72 Cloudy Denver Colo 84 54 Clear El Paso Tex 86 66 Cloudy I Helena Mont 82 48 'Cloudy! Jacksonville la 92 73 Clear Louievllle Ky 83 72 Cloudy New Orleans La 94 80 PtCldy i New York 74 58 Cloudy St Louis Mo 78 72 Cloudy Washington 84 63 Cloudy Nashville Tenn 90 r70 Cloudy Labor Has Its Day and Big Parade Marks Observance I isdtoP or? WOULD SHAKEUP THE CLAIMS NAN PATTERSON WRATHY JAPS NEAR A WAR "OUT BY THE Alleging the discovery of new evidence James Berryhill guardian of George Rhodius and his estate yesterday morn ing filed a motion for a new trial and readjustment of the claims and allow ances granted as fees to twelve attorneys who figured in the famous case and par ticipated In the division of the Rhodius The new evidence as set forth In the papers filed yesterday by the guardian is in the nature of an affidavit made NEW TRIAL ASKED BY RHODIUS GUARDIAN Boje Motion iled Yesterday Alleges Contingent ee Arrangement by Henry Spaan All Lawyers in Case Would Be Affected Under New Evidence in Affidavit 1 23V Labor day wis appropriately observed ingmen through the aliens of tlo rly in Indianapolis yesterday the feature of I Nearly 5000 men marnhed under union Hie day being the big parade of work I banners and the Atnerlean flag S' faL 1 Jr I H'S ss Mi si mML a tom Ti Ji rt wss I' mH fA' s'" I MW' xs JCKXtfVx' X' '1 I A 'x i vt 'v I li a ssx LMLA 4 I I 'v 1 rOPTirm ni mi i itiiirtinii mHiiiiiiii i i x' 1 1 'S I LUk ft TH tHwemIy i 1 tBE xlri HH 4' a UlHHB IWTTw WK if I WfW Ur I i I jg wP ''fSKTT 0 pAJrl Jar 'iLfl rr 4 HV a h'n 111 jMnir I nflMinff 'irx hiMlQKSnt': Mr 1 i wkl IO HKw i 'TtjOwf Mrs Helen Behnke an aunt of Rhodius which affects In particular the connec tion of one attorney In the case Henry Spaan In' her affidavit It is alleged bv Mrs Behnke that Attorney Spaan was retained: by her to represent her Inter ests in the estate and on a contingent fee basis Ovving to the nature of the allowance which was made by Judge Walker on the last day of the last term of court In a lump Sum 'of 312000 and $6000 to be divided among the attorneys all who were to share in the division will be affected If granted the motion will affect both attorneys for the petitioner and the de fense in the Rhodius insanity case and will lead to an entire rehashing and redl vision of the ftes The motion ns filed is In two parts the first asking for a new trial of the claims of the attorneys eight in number whose claims Judge Walker massed in the lump allowance of $12000 The grounds on which the guardian asks a new trial of the cause and a readjust ment is simply that the "decision is con trary to the law and not supported by the evidence" The attorneys' named as claimants in this allowance are Michael Ryan John Ruckleshaus oster Shirley Miller Samuel Mil ler Terhune and Judge Adney the latter two1 beingthe Lebanon' attorneys Who Were connectedwith thecase there New 1 Evidence Alleged In second part of the motion in which the readjustment 'of the allowance of the petitioner's attorneys Is asked the new evidence which Guardian Berryhill admits has led to the unexpected devel opment in the case is Introduced It Is set 'forth that Attorney Spann whg with John Claypool William Bosson and Samuel Ralston of Lebanon represented the petitioner tn the insanity case was retained by Mrs 4 Behnke on the basfi of a contingent fee'only and no provision for payment for hitf services was made The terms of tlun agreement are set forth in the affidavit on a basis of 25 and 33 per cent attorney fees for Spaan tn event of a settlement of part of the estate on Mrs Behnke who In event of tho death of Rhodius following annulment of his tnnrrlnge to Elma Dure would be a beneficiary In event of the settlement of the estate bv thd compromise of her in terests Mrs affidavit sets forth her attorney's foe would bs 25 per cent of her share of the estat A MAY CLASH WITH CHINESE Dispute of Years Over Posses sions in Korea Reaches Seri ous Aspect in Orient YOKOHAMA Sept The probability of a serious clash between tho Chinese and Japanese troops is Involved in the action of Hui the Viceroy' of Manchuria In dispatching a force of Chinese soldiers to Kwanto' or Middle Island where in the name of the Korean Government the Japanese have assumed control The territory naiped rls the only rich region between the Yalu River and Man churia on the northern side of theShang bal range of mountains It has long been the subject of dispute between China and Korea The population' Is estimated at 600000 Koreans and 400000 Chinese Several months ago Marquis Ito sent Lieut Col Salto with a small force of troops to assume the This fact seems just to have become known the Chinese authorities who now enter a protest claiming sovereignty The dis patch 'of Chinese troops to the territory Is the latest move The announcement that a party of Jap anese explorers from ormosa have raised their national Hag on a small Island Immediately adjoining the Philip pines has attracted much attention in of ficial circles The Japanese Insist that the island doos not belong to the Philip pines because it Is north the twen tieth parallel The Island which was designated Prolus for Pratas by the old geographers Is uninhabited Whether It Is of possible value for naval purposes Is not disclosed' VENEZUELA IS TO PAY UP Decides to Settle Debts to powers That BRUSSELS Kept It is 'declared here that the Venezuelan Government has Informed the Government of Belgium that It Intends to begin nt nnce the pay ment In monthly Installments of its debts to those powers which "treated Vene zuela with consideration" when' the powers united In their demand that Bhe meet her obligations DENIES SHE CAUSED SUICIDE Pretty Chorus Qlrl of Many Tragedies Says She Did Not Even Know Dr Brlttyn as Charged WASHINGTON Sept God Is my Judge I never heard of or saw the Pittsburg masseur that they say killed himself for loveof This is the way Nau denied the story emanat ing from Pittsburg today to the effect that John Brlttyn masseur of Pittsburg had committed suicide on her aqcouijt in 'St Louis tnree days aga It was a Pittsburg steel tbo chorus girl "today It 1s a masseur and tomorrow It will probably be some one else and them Is just as little truth in one story as the other and myself and my family have to suffer just the same All this and these vicious reports are making a nervous wreck of me and' slowly but surely killing my Even my father Is gradually sinking under these dreadful stories "Heretofore I have' taken no notice of thoso reports more: than to deny them but this Is the end I intend to employ one of the best lawyers In town and detectives if necessary and have this latest and most outrageous stoi run to the The dispatches 'from Pittsburg state that about six' mouths 'ago Dr John Brlttyn who was a successful and high priced masseur of the Smoky City met Nan Patterson at a roadhouse outside tho city and became infatuated with her His attentions became very pronounced so the story goes and when' Nan gave him up for the steel man who It was declared sho threatened a week or so ago to kill with her hatpin tho masseur was heartbroken look OR LONG hl 111 I Striking Telegraphers Will Not Appeal to the Goulde for Intervention: NEW YORK The leaders Of the striking telegraphers announced today they hod given up their plan to appeal to George Gould and Miss Helen Gould for Intervention and would settle down to king fight which they were confident would result In a general victory through out the country General Manager Nally of the Postalsaid the Western Union had not Influenced bls conmnny to hold 'out i ''J I 4 SAD ATE PHONE POLES That Is What Will Happen Says ire Chief if Companies Put Wires Underground If the Central Union and the Inde pendent Telephone'Companles take their wires In tho mile square out of the air and put them under the ground they are liable' to get their polos "pulled out by the roots" Yesterday Chief Coots of the fire department remarked: why these companies don't get busy There is something wrong And It looks like It was going to bo necessary for us to pull the poles up by the roots" This morning John Berry superintend ent of the telegraph alarm system will notify the two telephone companies that if any more wires' are added to those already at the tops of uptown poles he will put his clippers to work The wires will be cut promises to' be a war In mld alr between the and the telephone com panies has developed as a result of 'the ignoring of orders from the given months to the effect that the wires on poles In the mile square a menaee to firemen and an intolerable' inconvenience must be placed under afrourd Early In the spring a meeting was held at which managers of both telephone companies and also of tho Union Telegraph Company were present It was apparently agreed by tho 'managers that aequlesence In tho orders Mayor Bookwaiter and the Board of Works backed by Chief Coots and the clty building inspector was advisable Immediately However tho wires are still on tho poles and added to this Superintendent Berry says the two companies have added more wires to the already countless maze that forms tho sky line network i A few days ago at tho request of Thomas Wlnterrowd building Inspector and Chief Coots who voiced their dis gust to Mayor Boodkwaltcr tho latter asked tho Board of Works to set a limit day by which the companies must com ply with the orders Tho heads of the construction departments of the compa nies say they have nut yot received no tice of a date i 71 i a 1 Two Cents and a Peep at THE I Help Wanted Ads I Have Landed Many a Job 1 PRICE TWO CENTS flTfinn turn is OW RIOT Two Men Are Shot in San ran cisco as Result of eeling Over Car Strike a VARIOUS MISSILES ARE USED ive Thousand People Take a Hand in ray and Entire Po lice orce Is Called SAN RANCISCO Cal Sept 2 i succession of riots occasioned by the III fooling existing betweon the nonunion car men and tho union men who sympa ut thlzcd with strikers mnrred the cele bration of 1 nhnr day in this city Two mon were shot and numbers in 3 jured by missiles hurled by tho mob ats 4 cars of the United Railroads The entire pollen force ot the city Including special 1 duty men was called out to curb the yyv rioters who at times attacked ths po A lice and attempted to tear their prisoners from them The shooting however wad dona entirely by tho nonunion car men and Inspectors employed by the TTnited Railroads Two union men were shot in a riot In the harbor police district near the ferries A Peterson a structural Iron worker ceivod a bullet in the groin and may die as result of his wounds Crowds returning from the picnics and suburban resorts stoned the cars and at a late hour reports of mob violence and W' shooting wore coming In from the outside districts The first riot occurred al Sutter and Market street where a mob of striker sympathizers attacked a car immediately after the big labor parade An inspector replied to the brick throwing from the 5 mob with bullets The crowd threatened! to lynch him and then Patrolman Pete Whalen with a revolver In hand held the Infuriated mob nt bay until reserves camo to Ips assistance Peterson and another man wore shot at this point the latter in the leg Arrest Enrages Men Enraged nt the arrest of Cha ties Sum nierfleid a structural Iron worker for throwing a rock at a car at the ferry loop while the parade of the building trades was being disbanded 3000 and 5000 men followed the police rAv with their prisoner to the harbor eta tlon demanding release The crowd swelled as It neared Ihfc station until the approaching the Police Station were jammed in all directions or some rpinuteg thfr nation looked ugly and numerous were thrown Policeman Speck suffering severe lacerations of the head rom the mob came demands" upon tha pblic to release Summerfield The prisoned was rushed Into the station Policemen with clubs and drawn revolvers fought In the midst of the jam tohvbeat Abe crowd bark Their clubs were used free ly Ono rock was thrown through the station window Meantime within the Station Houee rifle cases wore opened and twenty five rifles loaded with a force of police ready to repel an attack by the mob Capt" Michael Conby worked his way into the crowd and in a loud voice vigorously declared the duties of the police and theiK determination to make a stand 4 In spite yj ot anything His foghorn voice could b8m heard throughout the crowd and several 4 cooler heads sided with him and the dan ger passed Reserves arrived from other stations and the crowd was driven back Several arrests were made In varlotui parte of the city for brick throwing and small riots occurred at various points Car men were injured by missiles Almost every car that turned the ferry i loop was hooted by a large mob that assembled there and the pohne had tn fight for hours to keep the crowd back Conductor inally Wins An Incident of this almost continuous rioting was the action of Conductor Graves of 4 Sutter street car who after mounting the top of his car held the trolley against i the wire until his car rounded the Ipop? He did this in shower of all kinds of missiles one of wi knocked his cap off but he es caped injury until he had returned to the platform where ho was knocked senseless with a largo brick that hit him In Hie neck Every time car started some 7 i one would pull tho trolley off and the i rar would stop inally ho climbed to the Lop of the car and held tne pole against the trolley until it got around the loop At a late hour reports of rioting were still corning from outside points but no serious Injuries are reported The entire police force has been ordered onh duty until further orders Efforts are being made to have the United Railroads stop cars for the night The labor union men who were in the wf parade evidently thought that they had the right of way over the street of San rancisco for when the cans of the United Railroads Company attempted to break through the procession thera trouble '0 What had been an orderly paf4 turned into a riot The labor union mdB for their associations claimed that thWjf'J stood for law and order and the offending street car men were violently attacked 'J hesc 1 men who are known as strike breakers by the unionists were determined to de fend their lives at any cost and opened fire after they had been assaulted The ears of the United Rail roads had stopped while tho parade In progress but when the marchers be gan to disperse the cars began running 11 There was a dense crowd at the ferry and tho union mon resented the attempt to run the cars 1 OUR HURT IN LOUISVILLK 'RIOT Paraders Attack Nonunion Street Car Men z' h'? EOU tS VILLE KY Sept 2 Eabor day riot which but for the timely arrlvalS of tho police would apparently have as Burned formidjable proportions resulted InE the injurv of four nonunion street car em ployes this afternoon The trouble oc CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 COLUMN A 3 i.

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