Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 54, 2 January 1911 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUX-TELEGRAM, 1 3IONDAY JANUARY 2, 1911.

ELECTRICAL SHOW HELD III CHICAGO Important Trade Exposition to Open Doors There on Saturday Next. rllHllum Xpetlal) Chic ago, Jan. 2 Tb moat Important of Chicago's big trade expositions the annual electrical show opens at tho big Coliseum Saturday, January 7, and continues until Saturday night, January 21. This is a show of Interest to everybody, the merchant, the manufacturer, the farmer, the railway man. the doctor, the teacher, and particularly the home builder and the housewife.' There will be assembled 60,000 square feet of attractive exhibits under the most brilliant and gorgeous electrical decorations ever known In any show In America. Thirty thousand dollars alone Is being expended in decorations and the exhibitors as a whole represent more than a billion dollars In capital. The Commonwealth Edison company of Chicago Is putting In an exhibit that will be of particular interest to the retail merchant. This big concern has taken the entire north end of the Coliseum and built a street of stores. One Is a gentlemen's furnishing goods store, another Is a market, a third is a grocery, the fourth is a toy shop, and a fifth a lump shop. Kach one of the stores is completely equipped with everything In electricity that pertains to lighting and operating. The market has electrical refrigeration, motor driven meat cutters and choppers. In tho grocery are electrical coffee grinders. The visiting merchants will be curprised at'the array of things electrical that Invention hns brought out to lessen labor and brighten conditions In tho retail stores. Lighting effects will

be shown as a feature, particularly window lighting.' In various other parts of the Coliseum the housewife will find hundreds of things electrical for the home things that will add comfort, convenience and beauty or aid in good sanitation. Tho Kiectrlc Storage Battery company of Philadelphia will show a complete electric lighting plant for farms engine, dynamo, storage battery and swithchboard. . The Chicago agent of this company says that the prosperity of the farmer for a few years has centered on the automobile.; Now, that they all own autos, they are putlng In electric light plants. The United States government Is making a big and Interesting exhibit and Weber's prise band, of . Cincinnati Is furnishing the afternoon and evening musical programs. - The electrical show Is not open Sundays. Mrs. Austins nuckwheat Flour gives you a good wholesome breakfast. An Author's Insight. ' There Is no surer mark of genius than the Intuitive insight Into characters and social conditions of which the author has no personal experience. "What does Ben know of dukes?" asked homely old Isaac Disraeli when fee heard the title of his son's latest siovel. Trollop wrote Inimitably of bishops and deans when be had never been la a cathedral close la his life. ,Young Disraeli wrote ao well about the treat ones of the earth whom he !had never seen that the critics busied themselves in fladlna; "keys" to "Vivian Grey" and "The Toons' Duke." "London Saturday Review. A Teueh ef Family Life. . When the country youth proposed to the city flrl he received the conventional assurance that she would be his later. It happened that this youth Ibad sisters at home and knew exactly Ibis privileges.. So be kissed ber. At 'this Juncture she availed herself of the taster ly right to call out to father, that brother was teasing ber. Father responded In good, muscular earnest .Then the new brother and sister relation was dissolved by mutual consent. Judge. Only That. "I don't know whether I ought to recognise him here In the city or not 'Our acquaintance at the seashore was jfery alight." ! "You promised to marry him. didn't jjour t "Tea, but that was alL"-LouiSTille Courier-Journal. . The only failure a man ought to fear fit failure in cleaving to the purpose be :tees to bo best. George Eliot Wanted Him te Specify. "Will you always be true?" asked tho broker's suspicious daughter when young Sportlelgh had thrown himself at her feet and begged for her hand. "As true as steel V he cried. "Common or preferred Y she In quired, still sueplcious. Judge. Grape-Nuts FOOD Is the product of A food expert. It meets the body's Requirements fee those Essential elements j .Which provide true Nourishment. "There's a Reason" rostum. Cereal Co., Ltd. B-ittle Creek, Mich.

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JANUARY. 1. William J. Gaynor (Dem.) begins his term as mayor of New York City. 3. Charles W. Morse, the banker, begins his fifteen year sentence in the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga. 7. President Taft directs the secretary of agriculture to remove from office Gifford Pinchot, chief of the forest service. 10. King Edward dissolves the British parliament and summons a new one to meet on February 15. 10. The resolution to investigate the Ballinger-Pinchot affair is adopted by the United States senate. 12. The Canadian government's naval program Is announced; it involves the construction of eleven vessels at a cost of 112.000,000. 14. Charles R. lieike, secretary, and five employes of the American Sugar Refining company are indicted in New York for conspiracy to defraud the government. 19 John R. Walsh, the convicted Chicago banker,- begins a ' five year sentence In the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan. 21. Japan and Russia refuse to agree to Secretary Knox's proposal to neutralize the railways of Manchuria. 21 A passenger train on the Canadian Pacific near Sudbury. Ont., left track and plunged into the Spanish river. More than 40 lives lost. 28. The water In the Seine at ParIs reaches Its greatest height submerging fully one-fourth of the city. FEBRUARY. 5. The one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Ole Bull is celebrated In Norway. 8. The New York state senate begins its inquiry into the A lids bribery charges. 9. The Moret cabinet in Spain, resigns and Jofo Canalejas forms a rad ical and anti-clerical ministry. 11. The French steamer General Chanzy founders off the island of Minorca and only one of 159 passengers and crew is saved. -15. The newly elected British par liament assembles. 19. The employes of the Philadel phia Rapid Transit company go on strike. . 20. Boutrous Pasha Ghall, Egypt ian premier is fatally shot by a nationalist. 21. The new British parliament is formally opened by King Edward. 25 The Chinese government de poses the Dalai Lama and orders the election of a successor. 26. Ex-President Roosevelt and party, having completed their expedi tion, arrive at Gondokoro, on the Upper Nile. MARCH. 5. Ninety-two men are killed by an avalanche at Rogers Pass, British Columbia, while clearing the tracks of the Canadian Pacific railway from snow. 5. The United States senate by a vote of 50 to 22, passes the postal sav ings bank bill as amended.' 14. Ex-President Roosevelt warm ly welcomed at Khartum. 19. President Taft and Earl Grey, governor general of Canada, speak on Canadian-American relations at a dinner in Albany, N. Y. 19. In the house of representatives a combination of Republican "insurg ents" and Democrats ousts the speak er from memership on the committee on rules. 21. Forty present and former mem bers of the Pittsburg councils are in dicted for. bribery; ten others confess when immunity is offered. 22. The general strike in Philadel phla is called off after the striking street car employes refuse concessions offered. 22. The British house of lords passes Lord Roseberry's reform reso lution, stating that possession of a peerage should no longer of itself entitle one to membership in the upper house. 24. Ex-President Roosevelt and party arrive at Cairo. 26. President Taft and the Canadian minister of finance, in confer ence at Washington, reach an agree ment on the tariff dispute. 29. The New York senate sustains the bribery charge against J. P. Allds. APRIL. a. tx-rresiaent Kooseveit an nounces In Rome that he will not call on the .Pope because of conditions which the Vatican wished to Impose. 5. Emll Seidel. candidate of the Social Democrats, Is elected mayor of Milwaukee. 6. The military , court of inquiry Into the Brownsville shooting affair affirms the guilt of the negro sol diers of the Twenty-fifth infantry 8. The French parliament elected in 1906 comes to an end. 13. The Australian general election results in a victory for the laborites over the Deakin coalition party. 14. The committee of the striking street car employes in Philadelphia accepts the terms offered by the trac tion company. 15. Emperor Francis Joseph receives ex-President Roosevelt in Vien na. 15. A lockout in the building trades in Germany affects nearly 200.000 men. 22. The general strike of the building trades in Berlin is. ended by ar bitration. 23. King Albert opens the Interna tional exposition at Brussels. . 25. President Taft appoints Gov Charles , E. Hughes of New York to be associate Justice of the United States supreme court. 30. A Democratic member of the Illinois legislature charges that he received $1,000 from his party leader for voting for William Lorimer's election as senator. ' ' MAY. 5. Secretary Knox and Ambassador. Bryce exchange ratifications of the new waterway treaty with Canada. r - . ; 5. The city of Cart ago.' Costa' Rica, is almost totally destroyed by an earthquake, the loss of life amount

ing to more than 1,500.

UWI fe A t4 iv v,y wru vs. the late King Edward, is proclaimed King George V of England. 8. Premier Canalejas and his supporters are returned to power in the Spanish elections. 10. The German Reichstag passes the bill limiting the production of potash in spite of American protest. 10. Ex-President Roosevelt is a guest of the German emperor at Potsdam. 16. Ex-President Roosevelt arrives in London. 20. The funeral of King Edward is held with great ceremony in London, ex-president Roosevelt and nine reigning monarchs attending. 22. A treaty between " the United States and Canada, signed at Wash ington, settles the disputed coast boundary between New Brunswick and Maine. j 26. Theodore Roosevelt receives the degree of doctor of laws from Cambridge university. 31. The royal proclamation of the union of South Africa is read at Pretoria. JUNE. 1. Dr. Lammasch. as president. opens the Newfoundland fisheries ar bitration tribunal at The Hague. 3. The United States senate passes the administration's commerce (or railroad) bill, as amended by a vote of 50 to 12. 8. The British parliament reas sembles at London. 8. Governor Hughes vetoes the pri mary bill passed by the New York legislature. 9. The house passes the postal sav ings bank bill. 10. Sir Charles Hardinge is appointed viceroy of " India, succeeding the Earl of Minto. 13. Thirty-two persons lose their lives when a water tank on the roof of the Montreal Herald building falls through to the cellar. 18. Ex-President Roosevelt is enthusiastically welcomed in New York City on his "return from his African and European trip. 20. President Taft signs the bill granting , statehood to Arizona and New "Mexico. 25. The first regular session of the Sixty-first congress comes to an end. 26. Porfirio Diaz is re-elected for his eighth term as president of Mexi co, Ramon Corral being again chosen vice president. 28. After six months of investiga tion, the grand Jury headed by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., reports that no or ganized "white slave" traffic exists in New York. JULY. 1j The New York state senate rejects the direct primary bill and the special session of the legislature comes to an end. 7. Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, super intendent of schools in Chicago, is elected president of the National Ed ucational association. 12. Fire destroys the towns of Campbelltown and Richardsville, in New Brunswick, leaving 5000 home less. 12. The fourth Pan-American con ference begins its sessions at Buenos Aires. 17. Japan notifies the European powers that commercial treaties will terminate at the end of a year. 23. A cyclone sweeping over Milan Italy, causes the death of sixty per sons and the destruction of many millions of dollars worth of property, The Japanese steamer founders off Chlhdo, Korea, and more than 200 persons lose their lives. 29. The bill amending the king's accession declaration passes its third reading in the British house of commons. AUGUST. 1. The new Pennsylvania railroad terminal In New York City is formally turned over to the company by the contractors. 2. The strike of conductors, trainmen and yardmen on the Grand Trunk and Central Vermont systems Is end ed through intervention by the Cana dian government. 9. Mayor Gaynor of New York, about to start for a trip to Europe Is shot and seriously injured by a discharged city employe. 10. Fifteen members of a mob which took part in a lynching at Newark, O., on July 8, are Indicted for fifth degree murder. 13. More than 1000 lives are lost and 100,000 persons made homeless by extensive floods near Tokio. 14. Fire destroys the Belgian, English and French sections of the Brussels Exposition, the loss amounting to more than $10,000,000. 21. Wallace and several smaller towns in Idaho are almost completely destroyed by forest fires. 28. Japan formally annexes Korea, renaming It Cho-Sen. 31. Turkey grants to American religious, educational and benevolent Institutions exemption from the Ottoman law and permits them , to hold land. SEPTEMBER. 7. The International court of arbi tration at The Hague hands down a coropuromise award in the Newfound land fisheries case. 11. The Eucharistic congress in Montreal closes with a parade of 100,000 Catholics. 12. The Democrats carry the Arizona election and obtain the power to formulate the state's constitution. The issue was the initiative, referndum and recall advocated by the Demo crats. 15. Speaker Cannon Is renominated for congress in his district-, , 15.- At the election for members of the new parliament of the union of South Africa 67 nationalists," 37 unionists, 4 laborites and 13 independents are- chosen. - - ... 27. The New York state republican convention refuses, to .ratify the state committee's selection of Vice President Sherman as temporary chairman and by a vote of 567 to 445,

electa Theodore Roosevelt instead. 28. The international arbitration court at The Hague begins its hearings in the Orinoco Steamship company case in the dispute between Venezuela and the United States. 29. Seventy-three persons, are seriously injured in conflicts between strikers and the Berlin police. 30. A comparatively slight disagreement between the British Federation of Master Cotton Spinners and its employes results in the closing of the jnills, affecting 150,000 workers. ' 30. Official figures give the total number of deaths from cholera to date in Russia at 92.329. OCTOBER. 1. The plant of the Los Angeles

Times is destroyed by a bomb, twentytwo persons losing their lives in the ensuing, fire. 3. The new Chinese senate is open ed in Peking by the regent, Prince Chun. - . . 4. A successful revolution is effect ed In Portugal by the Republican paray with the assistance of the army and navy. King Manuel and the queen mother escape. 5. The Portuguese revolutionists chose Theophile Braga as provisional president of the republic. 6. Charles E. Hughes retires as governor of New York, Lieut, Gov. Horace White becoming governor. 10. Ex-Gov. Hughes of New York is sworn in as an associate justice of the United States supreme court. 17. The French railroad strike is called off by the workmen's commit tee, without explanation." 21. The senate of the New York university makes its quinquennial se lection for Inclusion in the hall of fame, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oliver .Wendell Holmes and Edgar Allan Poe. 23. The voters of Switzerland re ject the proposed constitutional amendment providing for proportional representation in elections for the national council. 25. The international court of arbitration at The 'Hague renders, its decision in the Orinoco Steamship case. 28. The strike of express helpers in Jersey City spreads to New York. 29. Mrs. E. H. Harriman makes formal presentation of a deed for 10,000 acres of land and $1,000,000 for the creation of a park in New York and New Jersey. NOVEMBER. I. The czar approves a measure extending the zone of residence of Jews In Russia. 4. An imperial decree announces that the first Chinese parliament will be convoked In 1913. 8. Elections to the Sixty-second congress result as follows: Republicans, 165; Democrats 225; Socialist 1. 10. The express strike in New York and Jersey City is declared off. II. Diplomatic representatives of the United States, Germany, Russia, Sweden and Norway officially recognize the republican government in Portugal. 15. Marshal Hermes da Fonseca is inaugurated as president of Brazil. 18. More than one hundred suffragettes are arrested in London during a demonstration outside parliament building. 22. Sailors of the Brazilian navy mutiny. 28. The British parliament is dissolved. 28. The federal government files a petition asking for the dissolution of the corporations composing the sugar trust. DECEMBER. 1. Gen. Porfirio Diaz is inaugurated as president of Mexico for his eighth term. 5. Opening of the final session of the Sixty-fir6t congress. 12. President Taft nominates Justice Edward D. White to be Chief Justice of the United States supreme court. 14. Andrew Carnegie gives $11,500,000 to aid in establishing a lasting world peace. 15. Marc Emile Ruchet is elected president of the Swiss republic. 19. The British parliamentary elections close giving the government a coalition majority of 126. 20. John D. Rockefeller announces a final gift of $10,000,000 to the university of Chicago. 22. Chief Horan and twenty-four firement are killed in a fire at the Union stock yards, Chicago. Milk. ' Milk cooled to a temperature of 33Vs degrees may be kept several days at any temperature under S3 degrees. !"!"" "!"'!,"I,-2" "I "a "I "I 4. THANK YOU You've kept us .. quite busy in 1910. Our endeav- 4. J. or to serve you with the best in J. 1911 in Plumbing, Heating and J. Lighting will, we hope merit 4 4 your favors. MEERHOFF, the 4. 4. Plumber, 9 S. 9th. Phone 1236. 4. JEWELRY Start the NEW - YEAR right. Make a new resolution. Buy your jewelry. at the place where you can get the advantage in treatment and price. Call and see me before ysu buy. Fred Kennedy The Jeweler 526 Main SL

OUR BABY STATE HUSKYYOUtlGSTER Oklahoma's Two Largest Cities Grew Wonderfully Census Figures. Washington, Jan. 2. Oklahoma City takes first rank in the list of American municipalities for rate in increase in population during the past decade, according to the tables on census Issued by Census Director Durand. The new capital city of the baby state showed an Increase of 589.7 per cent during the past year. Muskogea, another Oklahoma town, takes second place in rate of Increase, with 494.2 per cent. There are in the United States, 22S

cities having a population of 25,000 or' more. Fifty have more than 100,000 inhabitants, and of these 19 have more than a quarter of a million people each. In the quarter of a mjllion class are two Ohio cities, Cincinnati and Cleveland, and in the 100,000 class there are three others, Columbus, To ledo and Dayton. During the last 10 years, 14 cities have been added to the 100,000 class as follows: Albany, N. Y.; Atlanta, Ga.; Birmingham, Ala.; Bridgeport, Conn.; Cambridge, Mass.; Dayton. Ohio; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Lowell, Mass.: Nashville, Tenn.; Oakland, Cal.; Portland, Ore.; Richmond, Va., and Seattle and Spokane, Wash i The aggregate population of the 50 cities having 100,000 or more population is 20,303,047 as against an aggregate population of 15,199,375 in the 8ame cities in 19C0. The aggregate population of the other cities in the class ranging from 25.000 to 100,000 Is 8.201.960. The same cities in 1900 had an aggregate population of 2.320,146. In the list of 178 cities having a population of more than 25,000 and less than ,100.000, there are nine " Ohio towns: Akron, 69,067; Canton, 50,217; Hamilton, 33,279; Lima, 30,508; Lorain 2S.RS3; Newark, 25,404; Springfield, 46.921; Youngstown, 79,066, and Zanesviile, 28,026. Four Indiana towns; Evansville. 69,647; Ft. Wayne, 63,933; South Bend, 53,684, and Terre Haute, 5S.157. Three Kentucky cities: - Covington, 53,270; Lexington. 35,099,, and Newport, 30,209. ' The 10 largest cities of the world, according to recent censuses, . are: London, 7,429,740; -New York, . 4,766,883 ; Paris, 2,763,393; Tokyo,. 2,186,079; Chicago 2,185,283; Berlin, 2.101,933; Vienna, 2,0S5,88S; St. Petersburg, 1,678.000; Philadelphia, 1,549,008; Moscow, 1,359,254. 8uits to a T. '" The clause "It suits to a T," meaning it fits exactly, is as old as the familiar instrument, the T square or T rule (so called from its resemblance to the letter T), used by mechanics and draftsmen for making angles true and for obtaining perpendiculars. : The expression - was in common use in . the time of Dr. Johnson, who is quoted by Boswell as saying of Warburton, "Too see they have fitted him to a T." SEE WINDOWS

Pre-Inventory Clearance Sale. Commencing TUESDAY, Jan. 3rd.

For the purpose of Reducing My Stock Before Taking Inventory, I have made sweeping reductions on my entire stock. Reductions that will make you buy. This Sale offers you the opportunity to obtain the Highest Quality of Merchandise at Lowest Prices.

What Do You Need? Hats, Shirts, Collars, Ties, Hosiery, Underwear? Here's a chance to save a tew dollars. Look over the following prices: Hats 1 Soft and Stiff $230 Quality. .. . .$1.50 PAJAMAS and NIGHT ROBES $2.50 Pajamas - ...$1.75 $130 Pajamas . .. .$1.15 $1.50 Night Robes $1.15 $1.00 Night Robes. .79c One-fourth off on all ' Fancy Waistcoats Shirts $2.00 Cluett $1.50

ADDITIONAL SOCIETY

ARE AT ASHLAND. Mss Gertrude LeFevre and Mr, Vin ton Rollins are in Ashland, Ohio, spending the New Years week-end the guests of Mr. Rollins parents. GUESTS AT HOTEL. Mr Warren Clements and Mr. Raymnnri Klrholson entertained Miss Mar garet Gayle of Owenton. Kentucky, and Miss Mattle oayie oi wew uioeriy Kentucky, to dinner last evening at the Hotel Westcott GUESTS AT GREENFIELD. ' Mr. Gath Freeman and Mr. Erman Smith are visiting In Greenfield, Indiana, for a few days. ' GUESTS TO DINNER. Mrs. W. W. Gaar entertained Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Saxton of Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. J. Y. Poundstone and Miss Mattie Belle Gaylc of NewLiberty, Kentucky, to dinner last evening at the Hotel Westcott ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED Mr. and Mrs. Theodore McClellan to day announced the engagement of their daughter. Miss Martha Elizabeth McClellan to Mr. Rodney B. Graham, of Indianapolis, formerly of this city. The wedding will be quietly celebrated Monday, January twenty-fourth. No invitations for the affair will be issued. The bride-elect is a most popular young women of this city and has a number of friends here who are glad to extend congratulations. She is a graduate of the local high school and is very popular in the younger so ciety set

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RUNAWAY SNOW CAR KILLED A FLAGMAN

Canastota, X. Y., Jan. 2. A huge snow plow broke away from an engine on the Lehigh Valley railroad today and rushing down the track killed Flagman John Jones and . finally jumped the tracks and plunged down ? an embankment and buried its nose tilteen feet into the frozen earth. Our National Color. The national colors of the United States were adopted by congress la 1777. A CLEAR COMPLEXION Cannot bo had with cosweUca, They . don't go deep enough. A. clear skin, without blotches or pimples can hm had only with pure blood. Certainly ; a prescription that cures even the worst cases of blood disease, clears up eczema and scrofula and cures Inflammatory rheumatism and catarrh, will produce a rosy complexion. Dr. A. B. Simpson Vegetable Compound has tor forty years been known as the most powerful of all alterative or blood purifiers. There has never been a case of blood-poison (even syph ilis) or skin disease that it cculd not cure. Thousands of women take it-; regularly to keep their blood healthy and their complexion clear. It la purely vegetable and harmless, t It was orginally the prescription of Dr. A. B. Simpson, who was one ot tha most celebrated physicians of tho mid--dle west. Inflammatory rheumatism catarrh, scrofula, eczema, pimples, erysipelas and all troubles arising from impure blood yield to it readily. Sold at 91 per bottle at all drug ; stores. 40 STAMPS " with one lb.'Tctr : .50c .,45 STAMPS, with one lb. Tea ..60c 50 STAMPS ,":.V. with one lb. Tea ..70e 25 STAMPS with one bottle Extract at 25 & Pceiiic Tea Co. Phone 1215 SEE : VINDOVS Guyer Hats $3.00 Quality $2.25 $3.50 Quality .....$2.50 $4.00 Quality .....$3.00 Underwear At Big Reductions; both Winter and Summer weights. Special lot 25c Fancy Lisle Hose 17c $1.50 & $1 Neckwear 75c 50c Neckwear. 35c Or 3 for .......$1.00 Special lot Silk Mufflers $2, $1.50 & $1 at 5?c Everything reduced except Arrow Collars. IV. P. naenhfen IN THE, WESTCOTT. Testa and Mala.

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