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50,000 MEN ON YALU RIVER AND WILD RUMORS ARE AFLOAT. NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS Admitted to the Russian Lines Contact Mines' Found Floatmg. Port Arthur, April 20. All is quiet throughout the district. It is persistovitK- iciortp1 tlmt n .Tnnanpsfi rnisvr Ams sunk nn thp 15th and that two Japanese cruisers were damaged. Nagasakai, April 20. Contact mines have been found floating seaward forty miles from Cape Chantung, Peadland, on the Chinese coast, twenty-five miles from Wei-hai-Wei, British naval rendesvouz. Three of them were discovered and destroyed by the Japanese fleet. New Chwang, April 20. Newspaper correspondents left today for Mudken by permission. They are the first foreign correspondents admitted to the Russian lines since the declaration of war. Seoul, April 20. The Japanese authorities here admit the constant skirmishing on Yalu river, but say there lias been no decisive action yet, though news is momentarily expected. Wild rumors ai-e afloat. The Russians have fifty thousand men on the Yalu river. t ELECTION I Have a Meeting at the City Clerk's Office. The election commissioners John F. Taggart, J. S. Fitzgibbons and Douglass Kuth had a meeting at the city clerk's office this morning and transacted business pertaining to the coming city election. Three parties will be represented on the ticket Democratic. Republican and Socialist. The name of John II. Russell was, by petition, placed on the ticket as a candidate for council from the first 'Ward. done by tne raiiaumm and the posters will be done by the Nicholson Printing company. Everything is in readiness now for the coming citv election. Postmaster Dunbar Makes a Good Showing. Following is the last report of Postmaster Dunbar: Rural Route No. 10, W. II. Dunkle carrier Money orders collected, 15. 'Letters delivered 631; collected 40S. Postal cards delivered 140; collected 59. Newspapers deliv. 5,173. Circulars delivered 770;collected 2. Packages delivered 94, collected 6. Total deliv ery 0,S09. Total collection 490. Totad delivered 'and collected 7,249. Value of stamps canceled $8.96. . Value of stamps sold $10.99. Rural Route No. 1, C. W. King, carrier Registered letters collected 3. Money orders collected 22. Letters delivered 988; collected 642. Postal cards delivered 218; collected 56. Newspapers delivered 4,784. Circu lars delivered 1,566; collected 44. Packages delivered 79; collected 8. Total delivered $7,976. Total col lected 774. Total delivered and collected 8,422. Value of stamps canceled $15.02. Value of stamps sold $18.37. Rural Route No. 12, Walter T. Iliatnewg carrier Registered ' letters
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collected 1.' Money orders collected 14. Letters delivered 661 ; collected 397. Postal cards delivered 106; collected 79. Newspapers delivered 5,293; "collected 16. Circulars delivered 825; collected 30. Packages delivered 72; collected 6. Total delivered 6,847. Total collected 544. Total delivered and collected 7,391. Value of stamps canceled $9.82. Value of stamps sold $10.37. Total delivered and collected 23,062. Total cancelation $33.80. Total sales $39.20. T. G. Dunbar, p. m. The postoflfice at Centerville is giving excellent service and the amount of business shown in the report attached will show that the people of, that vicinity are making good use of it.
CMINAL AND MALICIOUS LIBEL IS THE CHARGE AGAINST W. S. RHOTEHAMEL. GREENVILLE STUDENT A Richmond Girl Named in the Pro ceedingsRank Fraud Charged. The following dispatch from Green ville, Ohio, is sufficiently explanatory: Greenville, O., April 19. Constable Studebaker today placed W. S. Rhotehamel, a local law student, under arrest on the charge of criminal and malicious libel. The arrest grew out of a sensational petition filed in the common pleas court about three weeks ago, wherein Mary C. Bell, purporting to be a resident of Richmond, Ind., brought suit against Ben Devor of this city for damages in the sum of $5,000 for breach of promise, the petition charged the defendant with having had criminal relations with a certain young woman of this city. The petition was properly signed and sworn to before a justice of the peace named II. II. Harp, of Wayne county, Ind., and was signed by J. C. Starr, as attorney. Today a motion was made in the common pleas court to strike the suit from the files and testimony was introduced in support of the motion that the whole thing was a rank forgery and had been composed by Rhoteharmel and his arrest followed. The father of the girl files the affidavit against him. The affair promises a sensational matter and people of Ohio and Indiana will be, brought into the case before it is ended. Only a Pew Items of Interest Gathered There. Judge Fox was on the bench this morning and after waiting a time and nothing appearing, he took a walk in the fresh air. Attorney Will C. Converse filed the suit of Thomas II. Johnson, Hardy Pleasants and Calvin Moore, trustees of the "Wesleyan Methodist church of this city vs. Litha Gray, sole heir and devises of Isham Tate, deceased, to quiet title and declare mortgage satis fied. A marriage license was issued to Allan L. Bramkamp and Mary Greenleaf. DEATHS AND FUNERALS Murray Michael Murray died last night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Witt Roe, three miles north of the city on the Middleboro pike, aged 85 years. He leaves nine children, four sons and five daughters. The funeral will be Friday morning at 10 o 'cloek from the home. ; Interment at Goehen 'cemetery. ' '" ' '
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BIG FIRE DESTROYS TEN MILLION DOLLARS' WORTH OP PROPERTY. ONE MAN IS MISSING Fire Under Control a Little After Midnight Hotel Sand Wind Blowing a Gale. (By Associated Press.) Toronto, Ont., April 20. Ten mil lion dollars' worth of property was destroyed by fire last night and after midnight today in the business portion of the city. The flames were under control at 5 o 'clock this' morning. Two hundred and fifty firms are burned out and the burned area is three blocks long and from one to two blocks wide. One man is missing and Chief Thompson, of the fire department, is injured. The customs house was destroyed at 4 o'clock. Only a persistent wind from the north saved the greater part of the city. The fire started in an elevator shaft at the rear of the Currie building. The wind, blowing a gale, carried it to other buildings. The guests at Queen's hotel became frightened by it, but the hotel was saved. PRESBYTERY CONCLUDES ITS MEETING AT SHELBYVILLE LAST NIGHT. PASTORAL RELATIONS Between Dr. Hughes and Local Congregation Dissolved at His Request. The Whitewater Presbytery convened at Shelby ville last Moi:day and concluded its business yest-srday evening. Part of its proceedings re lated to the First Presbyterian church of this city. ' A few weeks ago. Dr. Hughes, pastor of the First church, asked his congregation join with"' him in a request to the Presbytery to have the pastoral relations between litneslf and the church dissolved and the same w.'-s done. Trie Presbycery passed resolutions commending the long and able services of the venera ble pastor and one expressing its profund regret that age and declining strength had made it necessary to sever this long and pleasant relation. Dr. Hughes was appointed a dele gate to the general assembly which meets at Buffalo, N. Y., in May. Richmond was represented in the Presbytery by Dr. Hughes, of the First church, and Rev. Shirey, of the Second church. The eldership in the respective churches was represented by Messrs Mather and Warner.
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1WJ0ITS Furnished by Mr. Alford for the Richmond Baseball Team. If the day is at all propitious there will be a game of baseball here next Sunday between the Richmond team and the Dayton Clippers. Mr. Alford has ordered, through the ' 1 Big Store, ' ' suits for the team and he will , make ; them a. present of the i v '. ' . ., j ' V--.,; . , .-
CARNIVAL MR. G. O. LITT, OF DAYTON, LOOKING AFTER THE BUSINESS. OF THE! FERRARI BROS. Bill Boards -Will Soon be Covered With Carnival Paper Red Men Hustling. Mr. G. O. Litt, of Dayton, O., manager of the Ferrari Bros, carnival, is in the city, and will establish his headquarters here until after the carnival, which occurs during the week of May 16. His headquarters will be in the Commercial club rooms, in the Westcott hotel building. The carnival paper will be here in a day or two and the city bill boards will soon tell of the wonders of 4he carnival. Mr. Lett assures the Palladium that nothing will be left undone to make the carnival one of the best possible. The Red Men are also hustling and every minute of the time between now and carnival week will be consumed. Mrs. Diffendorfer will return to Chicago in a few day after a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Saylor, of north fourteenth street. OF REPUBLICANS EVERYTHINGi IN READINESS FOR THE GREAT GATHERING M R HE N RY C. - ADAM S Will be the Sergeant-at-Arms Hon. Jas. E. Watson Will be Permanent Chairman. There will be a large number of Richmond Republicans at the state convention which meets in Indianapolis on the 26th and 27th of this month. Chairman James P. Goodrich and Secretary Fred A. Sims, of the Reublican state committee, yesterday effected most of the preliminary arrangements for the state convention, so far as the program and officers of the convention are concerned. Harry C. Adams, of Indianapolis, will be the sergeant-at-arms of the convention, in Tomlinson Hall, and he will have the following assistants, one from each congressional district : First, Peter Emrich, Evansville; Second, William Fender, Spencer; Third, Fred D Conner, New Albany; Fourth, W. H. Newsom, Elizabethtown; Fifth, Daniel Chapin, Rockville) Sixth, Miles K. Moffett, Connersville ; Seventh, Charles Egger, Indianapolis Eighth, H. Marsh Jackson, Muncie; Ninth, Samuel S. Heath, Lebanon; tenth, Jesse E. Wilson, Rensselaer; Eleventh, Harry Charles, Marion; Twelfth, Ronald R. Purman, Fort Wayne; Thirteenth, Louis B. Chapin, Warsaw. The doorkeepers have been selected for the convention, but their names will not be made public at this time. The convention will be called to order at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, April 20, in Tomlinson Hall, by State Chairman Goodrich, who will officiate as temporary chairman. The several district caucuses will be held Tuesday forenoon, preceding the conven tion, and the various committees will be named at these caucuses.' The first prdetLof? business after the call to or-15 deHwill.htf the Urtpar1of the- eom-
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mi t tee on rules and permanent organization. The committee will, it is generally accepted, recommend. Rep
resentative' James E. Watson, , of Rushville, for permanent chairman, and Harry A. Strohm, a well-known newspaper man of Kentland, will probably be made permanent secretary. .. KENTUCKY SNOW STORM. Middleboro, Ky., April 20. A snow storm and a blizzard raged here for several hours today. Madisonville, Ky., April 20. The snow is an inch deep and still falling It is unprecented at this time of year. Louisville, April. 20. A. heavy snow fall and much damage to fruit in western Kentucky. The snow amounted to six inches at Morganfield, Owensboro and Hopkinsville. ... MITES LETTER DENYING THE REPORT THAT HE IS OPPOSED TO ORGANIZED LABOR. HIMSELF A LABORER Questionable Methods are UsedFake Campaign Stories. The Palladium received the following self-explanatory letter from Senator Newby this , morning: Knightstown, Ind., Apr. 19, 1904. My Dear Sir: I want to brand the report that is being circulated that I am opposed to "organized labor," as false and untrue. During my boyhood days I was a day laborer upon a larm and in a blacksmith shop. Worked my way through school as a janitor, and studied law while teaching school. My sympathies are and always have been with those who labor, and to those who know me best it is absurd to charge me with being otherwise. Four years ago I made the race for the nomination of Lieutenant-Governor. I had then been in the Senate eight years, and if I had been opposed to organized labor, some one would have charged me with it then, but no one did. At the close of my first term in the Senate I was nominated by acclamation, carried the district by a thousand greater majority than the first time, running more than 500 ahead of the state and National ticket in my home county. Laboring men as a class were not opposed to me then and are not now, and I have hundreds of letters to show it. For more than a year the Republican press of the state and many of our leading men, who fight the battle 5 of the party, have advised my nomination. Will the delegates act upon mature deliberation or will they act upon impulse and believe fake campaign stories sprung on the eve of nomination? These same questionable methods were used against two candidate two years ago, both were nominated and elected, one led the ticket and neither lost a vote. It seems to be the idea t!.i!. I must be broken down before another can win this nomination and in the light of what is being done, I will admonish you to look out for fakes. Respectfully yours. L P Newby.' WEST VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS. (By Associated Press.) ; Charleston, W, Va., April 20. The Democratic State Convention- was called to order by Chairman Miller of the state committee. Hon. C. Wood Bailey was appointed temporary chairman, W. E. R. Byrdne, of Charleston, temporary secretary. Bailey made the address. After the appointment the committee took a recess till two o'clock. It is not probable the convention will instruct del egates. ;?Platt Robinson spent yesterday in imcagu on Dunnes.
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lJU THE BIG HEARTED CONDUCTOR CARRIES CHILD AND MOTHER. ACROSS A BRIDGE During a Recent Wc?ck on the C. C. & L. Boyer Lives in 4 This City. 4 Conductor William A. Boyer lives with his family at 123 north fifteenth street. He is oui!.; well known here a popular railroad man. The following article in regard lo him from this mornii-.p's Commercial Tri- . jbune will be real with interest: Conductor W. A. Boyer, of the Chicago, Cincinnati Louisville Railroad, has just received a large number of merits to his credit. These will place him h;gh in th? line of promotion. The deed which secured him the credits was not reported to his superiors by him. Nothing was known of the matter until a letter was recently received at headquarters from a grateful father and husband which overflowed with praise for Conductor Boyer. During the recent cold weatliei one of the C." C. & L. trains was derailed near Fernald .0 The accident occurred at night, and the removal of the passengers was attended with much difficulty. To reach the relief train it was necessary to cross a high trestle, the ties of which were wet fromthe sleet and rain. There were many matters demanding the conductor's attention, but his first thought was for his passengers. One of the women on the train had a little child with her. Wrapped the baby in his own coat so as to protect it from the wind and the rain he: carried it across the trestle and then returned for the mother. When he had led her to safety, he assisted many other passengers in a similar way. The mother to whom he showed ' suh courtesy proved to be the wife of Oscar Mitchell, a prominent citzen of Newkirk, O., and it was from him that the letter was received. C. C. & L. officials are proud of the heroic conductor and have rewarded him according to their merit system. ROYAL JRCANDII T. W. McMeans Elected a Grand Trustee. The twenty-second session of the Indiana grand council of the Royal Arcanum was held yesterday at Indianapolis. The report of the grand secretary, Ed. E. Shroer, showed that on De cember 31, 1903, the membership of the Indiana couneil was 4,342. By the report of the grand treasurer, H. T. Conde, the balance on hand is $1,918.36. - r T. W. Means, of this city, was elected a grand trustee. The next meeting will be held on the fourth Tuesday in April, ;1906V Scientific Salesmanship. Prof. Sheldon of Chicago will lec ture at Pythian Temple hall this evening at 8 o'clock on "Harnessing Science to Business." This lecture is for the benefit of the clerks and salesmen and salesladies of our city, and is free to all, the expense is paid by the merchants. Anyone earning a livelihood by clerking or even busi
ness people of all stations will be benefitted by hearing this lecture. The better the salesman the better the salary. Prof. Sheldon can make you better. S o'clock this evening. Ad- . mission free. Mr. and Mrs. James - ;Herkimer of '
ew aaison, wpre juiej guepis s or m-? n. their relatives here yesterday.
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