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JT f General Keifer, Springfield, Dr. Crawford, Cincinnati, and W. A. Kittinger, Anderson, Secured. CRICHMOND IS ALSO WELL REPRESENTED Several Well Known Local Speakers on Program and a Near-local Man, Rumely of Laporte. Dr. Speakers for the annual banquet of the Commercial club, to be held May 28 at the Masonic temple, have all been secured and final arrangements are now being made for the entertainment of the 50 guests who are expected to gather around the festive board. Speakers of national prominence have been secured. They are General J. Warren Keifer, one of the very few major generals of the civil war living today, and also a veteran of three wars; Dr. J. M. Crawford of Cincinnati, who will speak on "Possibilities of Trade with Russia, former U. S. consul general to' St. Petersburg under Presidents Harrison and Cleveland; the Hon. W. A. Kittinger, of Anderson, well known for his knowledge and insight into the politics of the state, who wll speak on "Business and Politics;" S. S. Strattan, Jr., who will speak on "Richmond Newspapers;" Gus Hoeljecher, of this city, who will speak on jthe "Young Man in Public affairs;" ,Dr. E. A. Rumely, head of the big M. i Rumely. company, which recently took

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city, will speak on "Business Affairs;" President Robert L. Kelly of Earlbam College, and the Rev. S. R. Lyons. ' : Early May Not Come. The ever ready George P. Early may be present, but business affairs may prevent him leaving Pittsburg. Following are brief sketches of the out of town speakers at the Commercial club banquet: General J. Warren Keifer is one of the very few major generals who servduring the Civil War now living. General Keifer has had a most notable career. He was born and reared on a 'farm in Clark County, Ohio, and has 'always lived there, and is now 76 ! years old. He enlisted in April, 1861, 'and served continuously till the close ;of the war. He was commissioned a major in April '61 of the Thifd Ohio "was regularly promoted to lieutenant .colonel, colonel, brigadier-general and major-general. He served four years and two months, was wounded three times, and fought in twenty-eight batitles. He was present at the surrender of Lee at Appomatox and also at the surrender of Joe Johnston. He was Sftot to New York and Brooklyn for two months to enforce the draft. He was major general of volunteers Bn the Spanish American war, and 'commanded the United States forces which took possession of Havana, January 1899. Was Speaker Once. He has been equally 'prominent in political life. He was a member of the ,Ohlo Btate senate, representative in congress for many terms, speaker of ithe House in 1881-1883. He was delegate to several national conventions of "his party. He has also held prominent jpositions in civic and literary societies. He is an author of historical (works, a lawyer by profession and istill practices with his two sons at the jSpringfleld bar and is connected with a number of financial institutions. He lias been president of the Lagonda National Bank, of Springfield, ever since it was founded in 1873. He was the promoter and first ComTmander In Chief of the Spanish American War Veterans. He was commander .of the Department of Ohio, for the .Grand Army and Vice Commander-in-jChlef of that organization, and comimander of the Loyal Legion of Ohio. He is a man of commanding appeariance, with a rich, strong voice and a (personality at once striking and engaging. Dr. J. M. Crawford, of Cincinnati, is )b man of fine attainments. A very capjable financier and a great student of ivic problems , and an entertaining speaker. He was appointed by President Harrison as consul general to Russia and served for six years in that jeapaclty, two of which were under President Cleveland. He is connected officially with a number of financial institutions and manufacturing concerns. JHls toast, "Possibilities of Trade With (Russia," will be of unusual importance ps he will speak from knowledge gained by personal contact with the people pt that great nation. . The Hon. W. A. Kittinger, of Anderfcon, is a prominent attorney of that jetty. He served for twelve years in the State Senate. He has a style of speech peculiarly his own; blunt, forceful yet filled with wit and sarcasm. His toast "Business and Politics" will give him plenty of latitude for one of Ms lively jpeeehes.

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MARSE HENRY HAS A NEW NIGHTMARE He Sees Col. Roosevelt Moving Into White House for a-Life Job. (National News Association) LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 23. In a stinging editorial in the Courier-Journal, Col. Henry Watterson asserts life tenure of office is Col. Roosevelt's aim and the ultimate result will be civil war. 'He says: "The result in Ohio makes it certain that the voters of the United States will have to .reckon with Theodore Roosevelt next November at je polls. It will matter not whether he appears under the emblem of a regular party nomination or as an insurrecto appealing to afl parties. Unless he breaks down under the strain and is taken to a lunatic asylum he will be a candidate for president. "There can be in his name and person but one issue life tenure in the executive office and a civil fabric imperial in everything except its nomenclature. "The hideous spectacle of an expresident, battling like a drunken harlot from one end of the land to the other, dragging republicanism through an ocean of filth, gives us a foretaste of the infamies before us. Calls T. R. "Madman." "There is nothing which this madman will not dare to attempt under the excitement and the passion of the state of war he has stirred up in his own mind and in the minds of the crazy mobs that follow. and applaud. That he was able to draw a man like Taft into a cesspool attests the cruel injury and wrong a maniac armed to the teeth may accomplish, for Taft is not only President of the United States, but he is a gentleman of upright, self-respecting character. It is clear now that he had better remained in the White House, leaving the frenzied paranoiac the field to himself. "At length this nation is a world power. The issue precipitated by Theodore Roosevelt is whether, being a world power, this nation shall pro claim to mankind its own failure by the abandonment of its constitution, the overthrow of its safeguards and the naming of a dictator. He who says this is not the issue, little reeks what he is saying; he who thinks it Is not, were prudent to question nis sanity. In its ultimate analysis and its last Afrord the Roosevelt propoganda is the invocation of a madman to civil war. HANG AN ITALIAN National News Association) LANCASTER, Pa, May 23. Antonio Romezeo, an Italian convicted of murdering Antonio Saraflno with an axe on July 6, 1910, for the purpose of robbery at an Italian laborers' camp here, was hanged today.

PRQHI CONVENTION HELD LAST OF MAY Several Wayne Co. Workers, , Besides Delegates, Will Be in Attendance. The state convention of the Prohibition party to be held at Indianapolis May 28 and 29, will be attended by all of the delegates chosen by the Wayne county convention which was held in Richmond several weeks ago. In addition to the chosen delegates Wayne county probably will be represented by a number of prominent party workers. ... The party will nominate a full state ticket. Two candidates are already in the field for the governorship. They are W. J. Hickman of Pennville, who is at the head of the National Chautauqua association, and the Rev. L. W. Jackson of Attica, minister of the Christian church in that city. Hickman was formerly chancellor of De Pauw university. A. L. loudy, superintendent of schools at Waterloo, is expected to make the race for state superintendent of public instruction, and W. L. Brown of Lawrence, a lumi ber dealer, has announced his candi dacy for the state treasurership. The "Keynote" address will be delivered by the Rev. T. E. Ballard, of Kewanna. temporary chairman. The Rev. Harry G. Hill will make the address of welcome. The delegates from the various districts will meet in the afternoon to name members of the convention committee, nominate candidates for congress, select delegates ' to the national convention and othr business. On Tuesday morning the convention proper will open but the state central committee will meet the evening before at the state headquarters. ITALIAN'S DEATH WAS ACCIDENTAL Dr. R. J. Pierce, county coroner today filed his verdict on the death of Nick Zarcaginni, the Italian youth who was killed near East Germantown on the Pennsylvania railroad May 14. "Death was due to injuries received from being accidentally struck by a railroad train," the verdict reads. Zarcagginni, who was fifteen years of age, was employed in the construction gang working on the double tracing of the road in the capacity of a water boy. According to the evidence compiled by the - coroner from witnesses, the boy . was running to catch a car and another train was backing on the same track. Workmen yelled to the boy, warning him of his danger, but1 he presumably did not hear the warnings and the train struck him," knocking him down, the wheels of the rear car running over him.

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In Jersey City, Enthusiastic Crowds Swarm Around Roosevelt and Cheer Him to the Echo Today. BATTLE IN JERSEY WAS OPENED TODAY With the Colonel First in the State and Taft on His Heels. Analysis of Ohio Vote Is Made. (National News Association) JERSEY CITY, May 23. Theodore Roosevelt met with an enthusiastic reception when he invaded New Jersey today in an effort to secure the 28 delegates from this state to the national convention. The crowd which surrounded him here was so turbulent that eight policemen were required to guard him when he took the train for Patterson. As the Colonel climbed aboard the train the crowd crushed forward. "Three cheers for the man who beat Bill Taft," they shouted. "Three cheers for Teddy" came next. The cheers came again and again. Mr. Roosevelt was greatly elated. He stopped on the car steps and fifteen hundred persons, held in check by the police, filed past him shaking his hand. Then he entered his car and sat beside the window conferring with his advisors regarding the trip. - "Open the window" the crowd shouted. Roosevelt did so. The crowd again cheered and he walked out to the platform. He raised his hand and when the cheering had died down enough for him to be heard he said, "this is the start of my campaign in Jersey. I hope to do as well here as elsewhere." A woman pushed her way through the crowd, patted the colonel on, the back and wished him good luck. Roosevelt thanked her. AN OHIO ANALYSIS. COLUMBUS, O., May 23. Analysis of the primary election returns in this state, made today, show that Col. Roosevelt's strength was not confined to any one particular part of the state. He ran well among the farmers and in the industrial and mining districts, while in conservative urban localities, where the president had hoped to carry all before him Roosevelt sentiment was pronounced. Roosevelt managers made much of an incident involving the town of White House, which gave the Colonel a big majority over Taft. In Adams county, where hundreds of voters were disqualified a year ago because of election frauds Roosevelt ran ahead of Taft. Governor Harmon has issued a statement saying that he will have at least forty of Ohio's forty-eight delegates in the national convention. Followers of the Governor were jubilant over his "vindication." They regard "his victory a rebuke to William J. Bryan, who campaigned the state against Harmon. PLANS A CAMPAIGN. CHICAGO, May 23. Active work towards forming the Illinois delegation to the Republican national convention a nucleus of a working force to nominate Theodore Roosevelt for president, began today. A committee of seven members was named to write every delegate pledged to Roosevelt, telling them that the Illinois delegation had held meetings to plan ways to help nominate the colonel at the Chicago convention and suggesting that they do likewise. They also suggest that each state delegation send representatives to Chicago in advance of the convention to arrange for co-operation between the Roosevelt men. TAFT OPENS TONIGHT. WASHINGTON. May 23. President Taft, accompanied by Secretary Hilles and Major Rhoades, his military aide, left Washington this morning at 7 o'clock for Philadelphia where this afternoon he will formally open the annual convention of the International Navigation Congress, at the Metropolitan opera house. Tonight at Camden he will begin his campaign for votes in New Jersey. He will remain in New Jersey until noon next Tuesday and during the intervening time he will stump every county in the state. The polls open next Tuesday at 1 o'clock for the primary and the president, by remaining until an hour be fore' the" voting, will thus establish a new precedent, In the past he has quit campaigning the night before the balloting. His itinerary In New Jersey has been, so arranged that he will follow the footsteps of CoL Roosevelt. ALBANLANS REVOLT (National News Assor!t!on SALONIKA, Turkey, May 23. Hundreds of rebellious Albanians are concentrating at Malissori for a concerted attack against the Turks. Gen. Levy has been proclaimed commander-in-chief of the insurgents. . The Turkish authorities are holding troop train in readiness for the movement of soldiers. .

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O.S. ARE ORDERED Navy Department Takes this Action on Receipt of News of Alarming Conditions Existing. NEGRO REBELS ARE PILLAGING ISLAND Three Thousand of Them Are Reported Marching on the U. S. Naval Station at Guantanamo, Cuba. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, May 23. Five hun dred marines were ordered to sail j from the League Island navy yard, Philadelphia, on the "Prairie" today to join the force now at the U. S. naval station at Guantanamo, Cuba. The force is under the command of Col. Karmany. The order was issued by Secretary of Navy Meyer, acting on a request from the state department. Rush orders were also issued today to naval stations all along the Atlantic coast to hold all marines in readiness for an immediate movement. Wireless orders were sent from Key West to the gunboats Nashville and Paducah, now at Guantanamo to clear for action and place themselves in position to protect American interests at that point. Today's movement of marines followed closely on receipt of disturbing dispatches from Guantana mo, which stated that 3,000 armed negroes are marching on the U. S. naval station, pillaging and burning as they go. A number of important American interests in the neighborhood of Guantanamo and Santiago have made representations to the state department that their property Is being Beized and the lives of their employes endangered and have requested the Uned States to provide adequate pro tection for them'. -'". " ' v , . - - In view of these appeals the state department today transmitted to Pres ident Gomez, through Minister Bau-1 pre the statement that the United States, while not desiring to interfere in Cuban affairs, must demand that the United States naval station at Guantanamo together with the lives and property of American throughout the island be adequately protected. CUBANS ARE ANGERED. HAVANA, May 23. Reports from Washington that the United States is again considering intervention in Cuba because of conditions which have followed the negro uprising caused intense feeling throughout the city today. President Gomez In public statement denied that the situation had gotten beyond the Cuban govern ment. He declared that he expected to have the revolt in Oriente and Las Villa provinces under control within a short time. Rurales have been sent against the armed negro bands and fighting is imminent at several places in the interior. It is reported that a number of whites have joined the negroes and are fighting under the banner of the insurgents. President Gomez says that the importance of the revolt has been exaggerated in press dispatches published in the United States and that the United States government has been mis led by false information. Pillaging the Island. The rebels have split up their forces into detachment. These bands are looting and burning sugar plantations and driving off livestock. So far ths loss is near to $1,000,000. Armed blacks made an outbreak at Piner del Rio. Senor Mandulay, governor of the Province of Oriente, says that 2,700 negro laborers there have rebelled. Although the situation in this city had not become critical the streets were under military patrol today and the government buildings were under extra heavy guard. It was officially announced by the government that Estanoz and Yvonet. two chief leaders of the rebellious negroes had asked for a conference with the government, and that it had been refused. President Gomez says he will accept nothing but unconditional surrender from the negroes. Senor Laredo, secretary of state, declared today that the revolt would be crushed out before night. MAY FESTIVAL OPENS TONIGHT Everjthing is in readiness for the opening of the May Festival this evening in the Coliseum, all indications pointing to a great audience to greet the performers upon their first appearance. John B. Miller, tenor, Carl Morris, baritone, and Jessie Lynde Hopkins, contralto, arrived today, these being the foreign soloists who-will sing at the various concerts, in addition to the local vocalists, and the chorus and orchestra have rehearsed for the last time. " - While the advance sale for the season tickets was the largest in the Festival's - history, there are still good seats left for the single performances.

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(National News Association) LOS ANGELES, May 23. After spending ten days in jail for exceeding the speed limit in his auto. Millionaire George E . Fetterman. said that jail was not such a bad place aftr all. "It beats a. lot of rest cure sanitariums," he declared. WASHINGTON. May 23 Drt Harvey W. Wiley has announced the formal engagement of his son. one week old. to the daughter of R. M. Allen, pure food commissioner of Kentucky. The bride-to-be is two years old. NEWARK, N. J.. May 23 With the annual meeting of the Associated Woman clubs, the toast mistress, Mrs. William S. Allen, ruled that nobody should speak longer than one minute. NEW YORK, May 23 August Belmont, Theodore Sohnts and Andrew Freedman have been made honorary members of the Subway band. New music is said to be in preparation which will Include a "straphangers hornpipe." PHILADELPHIA. May 23. When kicked by a mule, Michael Lozika, seven years old, regained his speech, which he had lost several months ago as the result of a fall. Several physicians had worked on him in vain. BUDA PESTH RIOT NEARLY A REVOLT Strikers Make Demonstration and Give Battle to 10,000 Soldiers Today. (National News Association) BUDA PESTH. May 23. Fierce rioting broke out this afternoon in the strike of the employes of the public corporations controlled by the Social Democratic party. Four men are reported killed and one hundred injured. Some of the injured men are In such a critical condition that they will prob ably die. Rioting broke out during a 1 monster demonstration when strikers paraded through the streets carrying banners.. Soldiers were sent against the rioters. . Then .men and women in the mob fought back. And for a time it was feared the soldiers would not be able to clear the streets. The victims were shot to death by the troops, who were compelled to fire several volleys before the frantic rioters were dispers ed. Ten thousand troops were called out and for a time hand-to-hand riot ing raged in the streets. The scene approached that of a revolution. The members of the mob had started out originally to make a demonstration by marching before the government building. Singing revolutionary songs and screaming curses at the government the marchers paraded through the principal thoroughfares. The police tried to clear the streets but were unsuccessful. The rioters attacked street cars, overturning them to erect barricades, and automobiles and carriages were held up and overturned. SECOND ATTACK ON MOORISH CAPITAL (National News Association) PARIS. May 23. Another attack upon Fez, the capital of Morocco, by natives is Imminent, according to dispatches from that point today. These state that tribes everywhere throughout the Moroccan hinterland are In revolt. Hundreds have fled from Fez in fear of the impending attack. ATTEMPTS TO KILL PREMIER OF CHINA (National News Association) PEKIN. May 23. While President Yuan Shi Kai was holding a conference with Premier Tang Shao Yl and a number of other officials in the government house today, Chang Ting Ling, a disgruntled former office holder who had been ousted from his position, entered the room and drawing a revolver, fired five shots at the premier. All .the shots missed. Chang was overpowered and arrested. RAILROAD COMPANY WILL GET CALLING The C. & O. railway company is to receive a "Jogging up because of its dilatory tactics in making the south end viaduct which it agreed to build some time ago. The road has received shipments of the warning bells and apparatus for Installing the same at crossings in the city, but has not begun placing them In position. The board of works will enter into negotiations with the company for a speedy enforcement of the agreement adopted last winter by the city and the railroad company. FLOOD REFUGEES RETURNING HOME (National News Association) MEMPHIS. Tenn., May 23. Five hundred flood refugees who have been camped at the Tri-state fair grounds for the past six weeks left on special trains today for their farm homes in Arkansas, opposite Memphis. Crop planting will begin at once in the St. Francis basin which was under ten to twelve feet of water a month. Conditions are getting normal in the fl&eJed districts around Memphis.

IS KILLED If! ft Fast Pennsylvania Train No. 25 Jumps Rails Near Covington, O., While Going 60 Miles an Hour. NO COACH PULLED OVER ON ITS SIDE: But Engine, After a Wild Dash, Collapsed, Crushing Fireman Okert. None of Passengers Hurt. (Palladium Special) PIQUA. Ohio. May 23. First section of Pennsylvania fast mail and passenger train. No. 25, New York to St. Louis, shortly after 4 o'clock this morning while running at a rate of ' betmeen 50 and 60 miles an hour, jumped the rails on a wide curve one mile west of Covington. OT, which is six miles west of here, and ran along the ties for a distance of over three hundred feet, when the engine fell over, killing Oscar Okert. fireman. None of the coaches fell over and not a soul aboard the train was injured. The accident is regarded as one of the most peculiar In railroad annals. How the coaches escaped toppling over during their wild dash along the ties, or being pulled over on their sides by the engine when It collapsed will forever remain a mystery. The engine attached to the train for some time had the reputation among railroad men as a "jonah. Engineer Mike Kerrigan and Fire man Okert remained in the engine cab after it left the rails, but the former escaped with a few cuts and bruises. Okert Was Crushed. Kerrigan states" that after the big locomotive Jumped the rails and. had dashed some three hundred feet along the ties it turned to .the north and ran along the right, of way 'its. own distance, then fell over on its left side. Okert was sitting on the left side of the cab and was crushed by the weight of the heavy engine. . It was several hours before the unfortunate man, still breathing, could be removed from under the engine. He was then hurried to Bradford Junction ; arAl died there about 9 o'clock. Okert wit ' 23 years old. married, and lived at - Columbus, O. Kerrigan says that after the engine toppled over he crawled out of the cab window on the right side. When the engine fell it pulled the steel mail coach off Its trucks but the mail clerks escaped with 'only a shaking up. Immediately after -the train came to a stop frightened passengers poured from the combination ' baggage and smoking ear,' the - day coach and the two Pullmans, many of them in their night clothing and the wildest confusion reigned for some time. The men passengers gave the members of the crew valuable assistance in the work of removing i Okert from the engine wreckage. Wrecking crews from Bradford and Columbus were sent to the scene of the wreck but it will be late today before the west track has been cleared and traffic resumed. Railroad men here blame the engine for the wreck. They say the big locomotive was defective, not being properly balanced, and that it had jumped the rails on several other occasions, always on a curve. It is believed that there were a fewRichmond persons on the Pennsylvania passenger train No. 25 which was wrecked at Bradford Junction this morning, although the names of the Richmond passengers could not ' be learned. The wrecked train was due In Richmond at 5:10 o'clock this morning bat did not arrive here until late this afternoon. Other trains into Richmond from Columbus. O.. via Bradford, were also running behind schedule. No. 33. doe here at 9:45 o'clock was four hours late, and No. 31. due here at 10 o'clock, was more than three hours late. A QUAKE RECORDED (National Ni Association WASHINGTON. May 23. The seismograph at the Georgetown university registered the movement of an earthquake last night about 4,000 miles distant from this city. It began at 9:50 o'clock and lasted until 11:22. The heaviest shock occurred at 10:11. THE WEATHER STATE Showers tonight or Friday. LOCAL Showers tonight or Friday. Continued warmer. HIGH SCOOL OBSERVATORY. Forecast for Richmond and vicinity: Fair tonight and Friday; - mart mam temperature. 86 at S p. m. Wednesday; minimum temperature 63 at 5 a. m. Thursday; temperature at 11:30. So; barometer, 3000; direction of wind S. W, 1 mi an hour.

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