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LANDIS WILL SPEAK HERE If EXT TUESDAY Will Take the Place of Former Senator Beveridge Who Cannot Be Present, but Will Come Later. 'CONGRESSIONAL CON VENTION TO MEET t jTTwo Other Conventions in Richmond on the Same Date and Large Attendances Expected. .. ; . y Frederick W. Landis, candidate for Lieutenant-governor of Indiana on the Progressive ticket, will be the princi pal speaker at the district convention which will be held at the Coliseum In Richmond on next Tuesday, It was announced last week that Senator Albert J. Beveridge would be pres ent at the convention, but he was detained In Vermont, and will not be ble to fill his Richmond engage ment until a later date. Senator Beveridge has made arrangements to 0peak in Richmond within thenext two weeks while his voice is still good, but It was Impossible for him to come to Richmond for the district convention.. Mr. Landis Is one of Indiana's best orators and a man of national Reputation. . The committee in charge of the district convention , has made arrangements for the sale of balcony seats at E5 cents each and stage and box Beats $1.00, to defray the expenses of the convention. All otner seats ex cept the seats on the lower floor for the delegates, will be free to the toublic. : The convention will convene at 10 o'clock on Tuesday morning and pro ceed with the order of business, and then adjourn until 1:30 in the aftertioori, when a program has been ar ranged at which time- Mr. Landis will deliver his address on the Progressive principles. -;v There will be two other conventions n Richmond on Tuesaay. une win e the convention to nominate a can didate for representative from Wayne jcounty, and the other will be the contention of Wayne and Fayette counties to nominate a candidate for Jointepresentatlve. Both of these conven iens will be held at the court house t 10 o'clock in the morning on next esday. The full program for the district contention will be announced on Monday; the Richmond city band has been secured, and it is the desire of the committee to make the meeting interesting and instructive. ASSESSMENT " ROLLS JAre Approved by Board of I Works. The board of works has approved two assessment rolls. For the lm- . provement of Main street on the north side from Twenty-first to Twenty second street with cement sidewalks, curbs and gutters and on the south side from Twelfth to Twentysecond street with the same improvements, jthe property owners will pay $3,056.64 and the city will pay $410.20. The property owners will pay $890.1 on the cement alley between South ghth and Ninth street from South A treet north to the first alley. The board approved a sewer system n South B street from Fifteenth to .Twentyfirst street. The city's share f this improvement will be ascertaind by the city engineer and included the budget for next year. Announcement It has been found necessary to substitute Hon. Frederick W. Landis for Albert J. Beveridge as the principal speaker at the District convention next Tuesday. As tickets have been sold on the announcement that Senator Beveridge would apeak at this meeting,' anyone desiring, may have his money refunded by presenting his tickets at either of the newspaper offices. Mr. Landis Is one of Indiana's most distinguished men and has a national reputation. The seating arrangements have not been changed and a charge cf 25 cents will be made for the balcony seats to defray the expenses, of the convention. All other seats will be free, except the seats on the lower floor necessary for the seating of the delegates. All citizens are invited to attend.

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(QUEEN MARY, AT LEFT, AND MRS. ALICE ROOSEVELT LONG WORTH. NEW YORK, Aug. 31. That Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, daughter of ex-President RooBevelt, and her husband, Congressman Longworth of Ohio, may succeed Mr. and Mrs. Whitelaw Reld in the United States Embassy at the Court of St. James, London, is the sum and substance of a rumor, an fciN'jnt of which is printed in a New York paper. This all depends, of course, upon the election of the colonel to the presidency. It would be interesting to note just how old-fashioned Queen Mary, with her straight Iac-1 Meas.. would think of unconventional Mrs. Longworth and her up-to-the-minute ways.

"PLANTER" 0RAWSA FINE And Prominent Persons Are Placed Under Arrest Today. (National News Association) BOSTON, Aug. 31. John J. Breen, the Lawrence undertaker and school committeeman who paid a fine of $500 after being found guilty of "planting" dynamite in Lawrence during the textile strike there, received $500 or $600 for his work it was stated today. Wm. H. Wood, president of the American Woolen company, has been arrested on indictment in connection with the plant, and gave $5,000 cash bail. Dennis J. Collins, of Cambridge, Is in jail unable to furnish similar bail having been named in the same indictment. District Attorney Pellities is planning to push his investigation of the "plant" still further. When the grand jury meets on Tuesday he will summon before it at least two other witnesses. The district attorney has in formation bearing on the inception of the plot. Breen's story of the plot is a remarkable one. He says he gets about $500 or $600 but the amount included services he had rendered in other ways for the person or persons who employed him. He told the district attorney that one of the defendants paid him. .. He claims he paid Collins $100 for aiding him to carry the dynamite from Boston to Lawrence. It is understood, however, that Collins claimed he received only $50. Breen says he was in the office of the man whoso name has not been disclosed on Jan. 20 and that Pittman the bank employe who committed suicide because of his connection with the plant, was in the interest of Wood. The man alluded to called up Wood's office and talked to Pittman telling him Breen was there. Pittman went to that office, met Breen, called up some one, and then went to East Milton to the quarry of Wm. H. Rice. A JOYRIDER KILLED Car Driven by Bond Salesman Turned Turtle. (National .News Association) SYRACUSE, N. Y., Aug. 31. Charles B. Hormet, a young bond salesman, was killed and Mrs. Edith Upton Tracey, : a prominent society woman in this - city, and wife of a prominent business man, was seriously injured in an automobile accident one mile east of Chittenango, about midnight. They were on .their way to Utica and traveling at a forty-mile gait, when in trying, to pass another machine on a steep grade, they collided with a post and turned turtle at the side of the road. The bodies were found by a farmer. ANOTHER ACCIDENT. (National News Association) ELGIN, 111., Aug. 31. H. B. Landon, of SouULElgiu; was instantly , killed, and C. B. Landon of South Elgin, and D. A. I-andon, of Syracuse, N. Y., were fatally injured in a collision between their automobile and an - interurban car near Waetton this forenoon. They were on their way to the races and attempted to cross the track of the electric line when their engine went dead and was struck squarely in the

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WILL .CLOSE LABOR DAY All Factories, Business Houses and Offices to Close in Honor of Labor. A general suspension of activity in the factories and business houses of the city will mark the observation of Labor day in Richmond next Monday. There will be no festivity on the part of organized labor. All the unions are busy preparing for the .entertainment of the State Federation of Labor which meetshere late in September. Business houses, offices and factories have announced that they will be closed on this day. All city hall offices will close their doors. At the court house all offices, excepting those of the county, auditor and treasurer, will be closed to the public. A sale of bonds for the Rich-mond-Newpprt pike will keep the office of the county treasurer open until noon. The auditor's office will be open all day. A meeting of the county commissioners and preparations for meeting of the county council will engross the time and attention of the auditor and his clerks. If weather conditions are favorable, it is expected many workingmen will take their families into the country for an outing. Many trips to Cincinnati and Indianapolis are planned. - MAKES GHASTLY FIND Despondent Father Kills Himself and Children. (National News Association) NEY YORK, Aug. 31. Despondent because of ill health and fearing that his wife would be unable to care for their two eldest sons, Jacob Hass, of 1819 Second avenue, turned on the gas in their home early today, killing both himself and children. Mrs. Hass, unconscious of her hus band's intent, slept In an adjoining room with the youngest boy nestled In her arms. '-. She was awakened shortly before daybreak by the smell of gas. . She at tempted to enter the room occupied by her husband and two sons, but found the door locked. Frightened by this unusual discovery she ran screaming into the street. Two , policemen heard the woman's cries and ran up. Investigation disclosed the three dead bodies upon the bed in Hass's room. CANAL JPPOSITIOII Rumored that Anglo-French Capital Will Build One. (National News Association) " LONDON, Aug. 31. A sensational report that an Anglo-French syndicate is being formed to construct a canal through Central America to counteract the Panama canal difficulty over tolls of non-American ships, was received here today from Berlin. The origin of the report was . unknown but the telgram said ' it was the principal topic of conversation upon the German borders. It received little credence here as no confirmation was obtainable. Inquiries in Paris elicited no information there. ; According to the Berlin rumors, ne gotiations are already under way with Nicaragua with a view to building the canal across that country.

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T St. James ? READY FOR TRIAL NEW YORK Police Grafters in Rosenthal Murder Case to Face Charges. (National News Association) NEW YORK, Aug. 31 The trial of the alleged murderers of Gambler Her man Rosenthal and an investigation of the graft and grafters of New York, scheduled to take place before the special term of the supreme court, which convenes here on September 3, was the sole topic of conversation in the underworld today. Prominent per sons in the tenderloin prophesied that the revelation of vice conditions they think bound - to. ensue would- shake the police and civil administration ' of Gotham to their very foundations. Police Lieutenant Charles A. Becker, Frank Muller (Whitey Lewis), Frank Cirofici (Dago Frank), Louis Rosen berg (Lefty Louie), Harry Harawitz (Gib the Blood), Jack Sullivan and William Shapiro have been indicted for this murder and are scheduled to stand trial at the coming special term of the supreme court. It is not thought likely, however, that Any of those named in the indictments will actually appear at the bar of justice for weeks. This opinion was born out by the known lack of evidence in the hands of the authorities and by the fact that Harowltz and Rosenberg were at liberty when arrangements were made for the trial of the others. Chief interest, therefore, centers in the investigation John Doe proceedings before Justice Goff, who conducted the famous Lexow hearing which arose Phoenix-like from a , flame of crime and blackmail whose culmination was the spectacular murder of Rosenthal before the entrance of the Metropoie Hotel at Forty-Second street and Broadway on July 16. The quick and rigid Investigation of this crime by District Attorney Whitman showed veins of graft and stratas of corruption rivalling the old Tweed days or the holocaust of crime that cloaked the administration of Abe Reuf in San Francisco. Police officials respected in their communities and rewarded with high estate for efficient service by the city administration, were found to possess swollen bank accounts, to be addicted to racing automobiles, stock gambling and many of the hundred and one other necessities of the rich man's life. INTEREST IS TAKEN In Election on Constitutional Amendment. (National News Association) COLUMBUS. Aug. 31. An exceptional degree of interest in the special election on the constitutional amendment on September 3 was Indicated here today by the crowds who stood In line for an hour or more for the privilege of registering as voters. A straw vote was taken of those In line as a certain time which showed fifty-seven for to twenty-six against the initiative and ' referendum, while sixty-two expressed themselves as fav oring woman's suffrage to twenty-one against it. CASE IS CONTINUED Thomas Hutchinson, colored, arretted yesterday morning by Officer Wenger.for public indecency, was given a preliminary hearing in police court this morning, and because of the absence of witnesses his case was continued until Monday morning. His bond was fixed, at 150.

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CHAPIN FINE AS LINCOLN LAST NIGHT Originator of Stage Imper sonations of Great President Gives Realistic Presentation. POPULAR DUNBARS RECEIVE OVATION Governor Glenn and Madame Mountford Tomorrow, and Big Crowds Expected. Special Band Music. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 9:30 a.m. Sunday School, Supt. Judge Boggs. 10:30 a.m. Madame Mountford, Sermon Lecture. 1:15 p.m. Runge's Concert Orchestra. 2 : 00 p. m. Dunbars. 2:30 p.m. Hon. Robert B. Glenn. "Our Country's Need of Sterling Men and Women." 4 : 00 p. m. Dunbars. 6:30 p.m. Runge's Concert Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Madame Mountford, "Hidden Life in Modern Palestine." 8: 30 p. m. Dunbars. BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. With concerts by the Dunbars this afternoon and ' evening, the children's exhibition under way this afternoon, and the appearance of Brush, the magician, this evening, the final Saturday of the 1912 Chautauqua will be one of the most enjoyable in the history of this popular institution. Tomorrow great crowds are expected to hear Governor Glenn and Madame Mountford, an addition to the program which met with approval upon its announcement, being the concert at half past four in the afterE pon by the, Light Inspection Company and of New Castle, whose director is Jean Moermans, for fifteen years saxaphone soloist with Sousa's band. The announcement that the Chautauqua would be held in Glen Miller next year, made from the platform last evening, elecited great enthusiasm from the audience and the season sale of tickets is expected to begin at once. Benjamin Chapln. Benjamin Chapin, in "Some Impersonations of Abraham Lincoln," at the Chautauqua last evening, gave an excellent exhibition of histrionics and a convincing characterization of the greatest president, aside from Washington, the United States ever had. , Mr. Chapin states that, while he has had many imitators, he originated the Lincoln impersonation in which he has appeared variously, for the past twelve years. For the scenes given last evening were taken from his own jlay. "Lincoln," presented by Mr. Chapin in the leading role, for four years, the play having a run of one year in two of the leading theatres in New York. Chapin has also appeared on the vaudeville stage in a sketch adapted from the play but confines his activities now entirely to the lyceum and Chautauqua platforms. "I prefer the latter medium of dramatic expression," said Chapin to a Palladium representative last evening, "because of the associations, because I like the audiences better and also because it is financially more remun erative. "In addition you are booked throughout almost the entire year the lyce um during the autumn, winter and spring, and the Chautauqua circuit in the summer. "You are, in a way, more Independ ent, and, as I stated, the class "of people you are associated with is more agreeable, both in the management and those who appear on the same platform." Mr. Chapin held his audience with the truth of his interpretation, of the character of the great war president. Ideally built physically for giving verisimilitude to the role and with an exceedingly clever makeup, Mr. Chapin's success still depends upon his dramatic art and the wonderful adroitness of his presentation of the peculiar psychology of Lincoln. In the scenes given last night Lincoln was depicted in those dominating phases of his character which are best known to the general public and depicted with fidelity, although mere fidelity is not always effective unless accompanied by imagination. And that Mr. Chapin is possessed of this latter Inestimable quality Is at once apparent. Theatrically canny were Mr. Chapin's interpretations of the moods of Lincoln from "grave to gay." of his attitude toward his domestic relations, of his love for his little son. "Tad," of his handling of his official duties and perplexities, of his tenderness, .firmness, diplomacy, social - unsophistication, his humanity, his exquisite humour, his divine patience and the deepseated melancholy that hovered like .Continued oa Page Sis),

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OUT TO HEAR THE COLONEL Roosevelt Speaks to 7,000 Persons at Barre, Vermont, Appealing to Them to Support Progressive Ticket. ELECTION WILL BE EAGERLY WATCHED Vermont Results, the ExPresident Declared, Wfll Be Entirely Judged from a National Standpoint. (National Newt Association) Barre, Vt, Aug. 31. Before a crowd of 7,000 persons in the public square here today Colonel Roosevelt made a strong appeal for support of the state ticket in Vermont at next Tuesday's election, and urged the voters to lead themselves away from the old party lines. Among other things he said "Remember that the election outside will be watched eagorly and judged entirely from the national standpoint. Every political boss of the like of Penrose, every head of a big corporation, of the type of Archbold, will be eagerly hoping for the defeat of the Progressive ticket in Vermont. "The Penrosea and the Archbold s and all of their type do not care a rap which of the old parties triumph. They are perfectly willing to have you vote either the Democratic or Repub lican ticket if only you will vote against the Progressive ticket. Look out for them, they are trying to frame up something on you like they did on me. On the way here Colonel Roosevelt was cheered by groups of farmers. From here the colonel went to Ran dolph. Strenuous Day. From Randolph the colonel will go to Bellows Falls and Bratteleboro, where he will wind up his trip. When today's trip is concluded the colonel will have had a day of hard work. The ex-president was up at six o'clock and after a hasty breakfast, he climbed into an automobile for the fortymile spin to Barre. Colonel Pleased. The colonel was mighty elated today over the turn out of the people in his invasion of the Green Mountain state., "If the crowds in the West come up to the site of those I have seen I won't live through it." he observed in speaking to a jam of people at every stop. Colonel" Roosevelt allowed it to be known that he will keep on hammering away at the Standard Oil crowd and Senator Penrose in his western trip. The Progressive party men are predicting that he will carry the state. They predict Taft is going to lose the state by at least 5,000. SECRETARY FISHER IS GIVEN A HUE Member of President's Cabinet "Pinched" for Auto Speeding. (National lfsws Association) SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31. Like the hunter who went out to shoot rabbits and met a lion. Constable Walter Guldner of Sonoma county, camping In the county road near Petaluma. to catch speed burners, swooped down on the automobile of Secretary of the Interior Walter L. Fisher and marched the entire party to the Petaluma City Hall. He did not know who his prisoners were until the fine had been paid and the party had gone. With his wife, his secretary. H. A. Meyer, F. C. Wythe, a San Francisco attorney and his chauffeur, Harry Griffin. Secretary Fisher was flying over the county pike to the home of Luther Burbank. the plant wizard at Santa Rosa, when they were halted and taken in charge by Constable Guldner. They were taken before Police Judge Dillon but Fisher made no revelation of his Identity and the whole party was read a sharp lecture by the country Jurist, who declared that punishment for law breaking should fall equally upon the' rich and the poor. He fined the chauffeur $10. In Santa Rosa, Fisher and his party were entertained at luncheon by Mayor James R. Edwards and his wife. A visit was made to the Burbank experimental grounds and the experimental farm of the scientist near Sebastopol. Fisher expressed keen regret at finding Burbank absent. THE WEATHER LOCAL Fair and warmer tonight and Sunday.

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A PERMANENT IS PERFECTED The Wayne County Progress ive Central Committee Held Session This Afternoon at Court House. WILL ROBBINS IS ELECTED CHAIRMAN All Officers Were Chosen by Acclamation. Howard Brooks Was Also Named as Secretary. Officers of the Wayne county Progresslve central committee were elect ed by acclamation at a meeting of the committee held at the court house this afternoon. A spirit of harmony prevailed and the work of organization was completed without balloting or long pariimentary bickering. Will Robbins. former chairman of the Republican central committee, was elected Progressive chairman this afternoon. In accepting the office he said, "It is not a case of making or losing friends, but of being light." His senUment was received with enthusiasm by the committee. He refer red to his recent withdrawal from the Republican committee. . The permanent officers elected are: Chairman Will Robbins. Vice Chairman A. E. Smith, Secretary Howard Brooks. Treasurer John Dynes. With the permanent organization perfected this afternoon, the Progres sives say they will be able to cope suc cessfully with the political situation In Wayne county, and the leaders believe the Progressive ticket will be victorious in the fall election. Almost all members of the commit tee were In attendance. The committee voted by acclama tion to put a full Progressive county . ticket in the ield. Candidates nominated by the Republican party at the spring primaries will be placed on the Progressive ticket and given ten days to decide if theywant to change to the Progressive rankaV' -- "T - It Is known that almost an the candidates nominated on the county tick et last spring are Progressive In senti ment and will gladly allow their . names to be used as candidates by the Progressives. The county chairman was instructed to appoint an executive committee, consisting of five members outside the central committee. .The four officers of the central committee will be members of the executive committee. The following Is the text of the resolution passed by acclamation regardins the full county ticket and the nominees. A copy ofthls resolution is to be given to each candiate, excepting the legislative candidate. Whereas, A large number of the mass conventions of the Progressive party of Wayne county. Indiana, recently held in the various township of said county and in the wards of the city of Richmond, have voted In favor of a full county ticket being placed before the voters of Wayne county to be voted for at the general election to be held on the 5th day of November, 1912. and It is believed from impartial investigation made that the consensus of the opinion of the Progres sive voters of Wayne county Is that a full county ticket shall be named. Therefore, be it resolved. That the County Central Committee of the Pro gressive party of Wayne County, In diana, hereby vote and declare that a lull County ticket shall be nominated for said Wayne County, and said com mittee hereby authorises the delegates who were selected to nominate a can didate for the legislature of said Wsyne County, to meet in convention at 10 o'clock on the 3rd day of Sep tember, 1912. at the court house in the court room and nominate candidates for all the offices in said Wayne County to be filled at said general election, to-wit: Prosecuting Attorney. Recorder, Sheriff. Treasurer. Coroner, Commissioner Western District, Com missioner Eastern District, Surveyor. Be It Further Resolved, That this Committee recommend to said convention that the present nominees cf the Republican Party, nominated at the primary election held in February, 1912. be named as the candidates for sold respective offices, if they defire to become candidates on the Progressive ticket for such offices. And we further recommend that after such nominations are made, the chairman of this committee shall ascertain from said several candidates who may be nominated for County office, on or before the 10th day of September. 1912. whether or not they and each of them desire to become candidates for office upon the Wayne County Progressive ticket, and all of those who fail and refuse to signify their willingness in writing to become candidates on the Wayne County Progressive Ticket, pa or before said date, shall U deemed to prefer not to be candidates upon said ticket and shall therefore forfeit their right to become such candidate;, and in the event of any and ail'va-i-anriM occgrrins: on said ticket. nrh -

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