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TJlM5

FRAI BOWERS'

ILLUSTRATED TALK

GREATLY APPRECIATED BY GOOD SIZED AUDIENCE.

RICHMbND

SKETCH CLUB

To be Complimented For Its Enterprise Drawings. Made of Public Men.

' POLO. ,

Manager Henley says it is his opin

ion .that7 the polo league will be the

same next year as they were this, ana that as to the Richmond line-up for next season it was too early to say

what it would bei ; ' fr1 ;

M. C. Henley received an order for

100 pairs of roller skates from Kansas.

MOTION DENIED. (By Associated Press.) New Haven, Conn., April 16.

Judge Cleveland denied the motion of Mrs. Bennett for the removal of Wil

liam J. Bryan as executor of the estate of P. H. Bennett.

RICHMDGM,

DSPC08ED

Mrs.

HEALTH OFFICE. Births Bora, to Mr. and

Samuel L. Masters, a girl. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. John Wag

ner,

a girl.

0D1T

HOUSE

OF ADMINISTERING POISON TO HER HUSBAND

MRS. ALBERT EMM1NGER

Who Before Her Marriage Was Miss Verona Mertz Her Husband Wealthy.

The illustrated talk at high school hall last evening, given under the auspices of the Sketch club by Mr. Trank "Bowers, the cartoonist of the Indianapolis News, was well attended and an interesting and successful event in every way. A large number of those who had purchased tickets did not get there on account of the .very unfavorable weather conditions Mr. Bowers proved himself an entertaining speaker of the conversational sort and also showed himselT possessed of a fund of dry humor and drollery. His lecture ,or talk, was made up of a description of the

trials and experiences of the cartoonist, using himself as an illustration because, as he said, he was more intimately acquainted with himself than with any other cartoonist. He snoke of the great difficulties

the newspaper artist labored under in the necessarily hasty production of his work for the press, giving a detailed description of the process the drawing went through until it appeared in the paper, and also stating that at one time during the SrauishAmerican war a cartoon which had left the. hands of the artist but fifty minutJes before appeared on the streets in "The Journal." Mr. Bowers said that this haste naturally precluded any efforts for effect in composition and ventured the assertion that had Michael Angelo or other

of the great artists of the past been assigned to such duty on a great modern paper, it is doubtful if they would do as well as many of the present day cartoonists. Mr. Bowers further defined the difference between a cartoon and a caricature as being one of events and people ,an artist cartooning events, but caricaturing people. Mr. Bowers frequently referred to the work of the famous cartoonist, Dfivennort. wlin happens to be the

former's cousin, Davenport being the man who started with making Mark Hanna infamous in '-he eyes of a certain public and ended by making him famous, Davenport himself, paying a fine tribute to Hanna upon the latter's death. Mr. Bowers also said that there were two classes of cartoonists, those who were not ''brutal," as he expressed it, in their o-v-icatures of public men and affai-s, and those who were, instancing McCuteheon as one of the best known of the former and Davenport as of the latter class. He referred in the former class to one of the f among 2 irtoonists of London's "Punch," ho, it was said by Balfour, during, forty years work on this paper, never missing but six issues in all that

time), had never made any one angry. Davenport, upon asking some one why he had not been made that way was answered to the effect that ft man who had been forty years on the same paper and had never made any one mad could not do very strenuous work. Mr. Bowers made a number of drawings of public men, notably of Senators Quay and Fairbanks, and also illustrated one or two amusing experiences of his own. . Upon stating he would be glad to draw any one from the audience the latter called for Mr. Charles A. Francisco, who good-naturedly consented to have his pictnre made by Mr. Bowers, which proved a successful portrait. The entertainment as an interesting, and amusing one and the Sketch club is to be congratulated1-upon the. successful issue of the affair;; xJiiLlL

FOR A DAY

JUDGE RUPE ON THE BENCH IN THE WHITESELL-FERGUSON CASE.

SEVERAL FINAL SETTLEMENTS

Made and Two Divorces Granted Letters of Administration Issued.

The diploma examination at the court house brings many new faces there today. Judge John L. Rupe was on the bench this morning to deekle a ruling in the case of Ferguson, guardian, vs. Strickler, on complaint. Joseph Skinner was granted a divorc from Mary Skinner. Mrs. Toney was divorced from Orvile Toney.

GEO; C; BOB

DESERTS

WE

AND POSITION AND HAS NOT

BEEN HEARD FROM

FOR A WHOLE WEEK

His Wife a Cambridge City Girl, Said to Be in Destitute Circum-' stances.

David A. Powell filed the will of Henrietta B. Powell for probate and record. Letters of administration were is-

Albert Emminger, whose death oc

curred mysteriously at Cincinnati the other day, has .been buried and the

cause of his death is being investi

gated. - The widow of Emminger, who before her marriage was Miss Verona

Mei-tz of this, eity daughter of Thomas Mertz. is aecused of poisoning her husband. Mr. Emminger at the time of his death was supposed to be worth about $25,000, and this fact probably led talkative neighbors -to suspicion

Mrs. Emminger. When seen by a Cincinnati reporter the widow said: "I have been married to my husband for seven years," Mrs. Emminger continued. "It's a pity the neighbors would talk about him when he is a corpse. The people of this neighborhood, where we have been living for four years, were always disposed to gossip. Albert, my husband, was well up to last January, when he began to fail in health. He had consumption. Up until five weeks ago, how

ever, he worked. Last Sunday I

went away from home and when I returned Albert complained of feeling ill. Monday and Tuesday he was no better! On Tuesday, at his request, I sent for Mr-THobbs,' of Trenton, O., to coine and help me wait on Albert. He came and is here with me yet." According to the Cincinnati papers the man Hobbs has taken possession of affairs at the Emminger home and will let Mrr Emminger talk to no one. Miss Sophia Mertz, of this city, a sister, is also there and Mr. Thos. Mertz, the father, returned home last evening. The deceased was a prominent

druggist and was well liked. He had been in ill health for some time.

W. C. T. U. The Wayne county W. C. T. U.

closed a very successful meeting here last night. Encouraging reports were read and many interesting papers were heard.

NEW ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION. At Dayton, O., yesterday a new

athletic league of high school was launched. It is to be known as the

Western Ohio and Eastern Indiana Interscholastic Athletic association. The membership is made up of Richmond, Dayton, Piqua and Springfield, with Washington C. H. and Toledo applicants fo radmission. The first meet will be held in Dayton, probably on May 27 There will be the usual events and the usual rules with a trophy to the school making the greatest number of points. '

sud to Cora M. Carman on the estate of James C. Carman, deceased.

IBM

IAN

MODERN

II

WOODMEN

Geo. C. Boyd, postal clerk, residing

at Ft. Wayne, and running between

the latter city and Cincinnati, has not

been heard from since a week ago Thursday. On the night before that morning he left a call to take his reg

ular run and when the time for leaving came he failed to materalize. The Cincinnati Enquirer of today tells the following story of the case: Boyd is considered an able clerk, and so far as is known his habits are temperate. A telegram from Ft. Wayne, Ind., states that Mrs. George C. Boyd, who lives on north street, says that her

husband left home last Thursday noon, saying that he would return home later, in the day. He informed her that he had lost his position as postal mail clerk between Ft. Wayne

and Cincinnati, and would make a trip to Montpelier, Ind., and change with a relief clerk, returning Thursday evening. She has received a letter from Railway Mail Superintend

ent Holloway, of this city, stating that Boyd had not been discharged. He had not resigned, and is still in the employ of the Government. Boyd did not draw his salary here whetC he left home, and his wife and 14 months j1d child are left practically destitute. Mrs. Boyd may go to her old home at Cambridge City, Ind., where she was married four years ago. Boyd has been a good

husband, she says, although at times

he drank to excess. About a vear ago !

he got 30 days' lay off for drunkenness, but since then has been sober and dutiful. His wife states that for about two weeks he had been discour

aged, but gave no intimation that he j

was going to desert her. She believes that he will return home, as their do-

imestic life was happy. Boyd came

originally from Sodus, N. Y.

FROM FAR

OFF MAN

COMES A LETTER TO THE RICHMOND AUTOMOBILE CLUB.

WRITTEN IN ITALIAN

Information Wanted About the Richmond Club Letter Trans

lated.

BOHRARDIIENT

v

DF PORT ARTHUR

RESULTED IN NO INJURY TO

THE SHIPS OR FORTIFICATIONS.

LOSS LIFE VERY SMALL

Imperial Staff Officers Dismissed Another Bombardment Today.

Port Arthur, Friday, April 15. There was another bombardment today from 10 until 1 o'clock. The Russian ships replied, one shot damaging the cruiser. St. Petersburg, April 16. One of

j the highest authorities in the admiraljty believes that the battleship Pet-

ropravolovsk's boilers blew up and that an unexploded Whitehead torpedo injured the Pobeida. Vice Admiral Skrydloff 's appointment to succeed Admiral Makaroff was received with great satisfaction. St. Petersburg, April 16. Viceroy Alesieff took command of the Russian fleet at Port Arthur today and raised his flag on the battleship Se-

i vastopol. A letter was received the other dav j n . . i i i . r u-i i Tokio, April 16. Admiral Togo by Hie Automobile club from Milan, , ' .. , , . j reports an attack on Port Arthur Italy, written in Italian. Of course j Tuesday ni?llt The Japanese sunk the members of the club had no trou- j mines at midnight, and, at 8 o'clock ble in readinc it. Al. Snekenhie-and in the morning, drew the Russian

several others did their best with it and then turned it over to Rev. J. F. Mattingly. He mastered the letter and reports that it came from ''The

Italian Touring signed, secretary

all kinds of questions about the club,

its shield, coat of ar.iis, Kind of pen nant, etc. In fact, the letter wanted the Richmond club to give all the in-, formation it could in regard to the

club's business. It seems thev

ships out fifteen miles from the port. The battleship Petropowlask struck the Japanese mine and was sunk.

Harbin. Anril 16. Two Japanese

Club," ?nd was S0(F,cers of the Imperial staff were dis-

The letter asked S missed, as the Thibe an Lamas ar-

rived under' escort, having been arrested eighteen miles distant. They had high explosives and confess they intended to blow up the bridge over the Nonri river.

are

Committed Suicide by Shooting Himself in the Head. Cincinnati, O., April 16. W. C. Dickinson, traveling man from Urbana, committed suicide by shooting

himself in the head at the Palace ho

tel.

CITY ATTORNEY Sentenced to Four Years im the Penitentiary. (By Associated Press.) Allegan, Mich., April 16. Thomas F. McGarry, a prominent attorney, was convicted of bribery as former city attorney of Salsbury, and was

today Sentenced tofour years in the

Reformatory at, Ionia.

CHURCH

To Put on a Drama Tuesday Evening, April 19. The Modem Woodmen will put on, at Masonic temple, Tuesday evening, April 19, 1904, a comedy drama, ' ' Diamonds and Hearts. ' ' There will be an admission of twenty-five cents. Following is the cast of characters: Mrs. Halstead, lady of house Mrs. M. H. Watts.

Miss Bernice Halstead and Miss Amy Halstead, stepdaughters much imposed on Mrs. A. E. Stokely and Miss Nellie Hilbert. Miss Inez Gray, friend of Bernice and Amy Miss Pearl Warner. Hannah Barnes, an eccentric old maid Mrs. Henry Sheppard. Abram Barnes, a farmer of forty, nnmaried Mr. M. H. Watts. Dwight Bradley, Mrs. Halstead 's own son Mr. A. E. Stokely. Doctor Burton, young and unmarrid Mr. Henry Sheppard.

Sammy, colored I bell-boy at Hal-

stead's home Master Harry D.

Watts.

Lawyer Mr. Wm. Chiles. Sheriff Mr. Chas. Hilbert. Music by Clark's orchestra.

gathering automobile information from every land.

COLD WEATR1

DIED HAPPY

Because He was Given a Cigarette.

St. Petersburg, April 16. Yesterday's bombardment of Port- Arthur resulted in no injury to ships or fortifications. The loss of life was very

Ismail. The mvsterv of the sinking of

the battleship Petropovolovsk has not been cleared 'up. It is not officially

admitted that she struck a Japanese

Kalamazoo, Mich., April 15. Ajminf but the growing disposition in

Good Sleighing in New York and All ! few minutes before losing conscious- j unofficial quarters accept this theory. Trains Late. iness yesterday, Joseph Haley, for-i It " generally believed the mine was

merly a circus acrobat, pleaded for a jlai1 y a ruse 01 tne Japanese.

DYNAMETD

In Pike County While Filled With

People. Eyansville, : Ind., April 16. A church at Blackburn, Pike county, was dynamited last night while filled with people. One end of the church was torn out, but no one was killed. Several people were hurt in the panic which ensued. V , JEL A. , Christy arrived ifrom Cincin-

THE

VATICAN

Presents a Spectacle Unprecedented

For Centuries. ,r Rome, April 16. The Vatican to day presented a spectacle unprece

dented for centuries when the pope, cardinals other church dignitaries, members of the papal court of the

"Black" aristocracy and three hun

dred other guests assisted at the per

formance in vSalai: , Regia of Abbe

Perasis r ( Je; oratoria, . f The Last

ftjiti,last., night tcspend th day here. jnametti. Hu

(By Associated Press.) Schenectady, N. Y., April 16.

Trains are one to two hours late on account of the heavy snow. Sleigh

ing is as good as any time during the winter.

Glens Falls, N. Y., April 16.-The

whole of the Adirondacks are in the grasp of a blizzard not equalled dur

ing the winter. Ten to fifteen inches of snow fell during the night. The

country roads are blocked.

Rochester, N. Y., April 16. There

was a blizzard all night here, 'block

ing the car lines. A foot of snow fell.

STATE BOARD

Of Tax Commissioners Have Meeting

at Indianapolis. Members of the state board of tax

commissioners held a special meeting at the state house, Indianapolis,

yesterday at which they took up for consideration a number of the state tax lines on which values were fixed last year Representatives from a number of railroads concerned in these lines were, present and went over them with the tax commissioners. The investigation is being made in

order to determine the advisability of making some changes in these tax

lines. Members of the board, renre-

sentativcs of the railroads and Gov

errior Durbin ; took dinner together at

cigarette, which he calmly lighted, saying he would die happy. Excessive cigarette smoking, the county poorhouse physician said, had induced consumption, which caused Haley's death. The above article demonstrates very clearly the hold cigarettes gain on a person who uses them. Here is the case of a ma ndying and his only thought was of the thing that caused his death.

DEATHS AND FUNERALS

McMahon. Sarah McMahon died

yesterday at Chicago after a short ill

ness at the age of tweny-nine years. One brother and two sisters survive. The remains will arrive here Monday morning on the 4:10 train and will be taken to the undertaking estab

lishment of Wilson & Pohlmeyer. At 9 o'clock the funeral will take place

from St. Mary's church where requiem high mass will be celebrated. Interment at St, Mary's cemetery.

Hammitt. The funeral of George

Ilammitt took place this afternoon at

2 o'clock from the home attended by a large congregation of friends. Rev. Howard officiated. A quartet sang

several beautiful selections. The pall

bearers were: Adam H. Bartel,

Henry Knollenberg, John Peltz, J. M

Williams, Clarence Brown and E.

Crowel. Interment at Earlham ceme

tery.

miss Virginia tdDurn- nas re

turned, from r short "visit with Liberty, relative and friend 3 J1

London, April 16. A Central Xews Port Arthur dispatch says of the loss of the battleship Petropavolovsk that when the Japanese fleet retired the Russian battleships returned toward the harbor. On the way back an explosion occurred on board the Petropavolovsk, which sank in two minutes, seventy-five of her crew being picked up and five hundred and twenty-five perished.

AID SOCIETY

Of Grace Church Meet and Elect Of-

The Ladies' Aid society of Grace

M. E. church met in the parlors of the church yesterday afternoon and named the following officers and com

mittees for the year :

President Mrs. R. M. Lacy. Vice President Mrs. Simmons. Secretary Mrs. Taylor. Treasurer Mrs. Miller. Executive Committee Mrs. De-

Yarmon, Mrs. Joseph Stephenson,

Mrs. H. U. Johnson and Mrs. Riffle. Social Committee Mrs. Turner Hadley, Mrs. Walters and Mrs. Phillips. The society's treasurer reported a very successful year financially, there being a net balance of $322 for the year. The next regular Friday social

will be held at the. home of the presi

denti Mrs. rLaey; on north

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