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Evening Item, Paid Circulation, A ft 7 last issue TCO I INDIANA WEATHER. Total Circulation, 4370 Showers, cooler tonight and Saturday. last tssua VOL NO. 242. RICHMOND, IND FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1904.

SEVEN CENTS A WEEK. HE 4 4 DINNER PARTY FOR MR. CANNON RETURNS TO AMERICA LIAO YANG IS IN THE HANDS OF JAPANESE THE CANNON MEETING A BIG SUCCESS SOME QUAINT PHILOSOPHY FROM UNCLE JOE'S SPEECH "Come, now, my friends, this tariff question Is a plain business proposition after all. In my judgment it is simply a question of labor with good wages and as constant employment as possible, that the voters are about to settle." "There are two candidates. Well, there are more than two, but there are two candidates, my friends, of which one or the other will be elected.

There Is Roosevelt, the Republican candidate and Parker, the 'er, 'er' Dem the opposition candidate." "I come to you to talk politics; In other words, of policies and I come as a citizen of Illinois to talk to the citizens of Indiana. "Prior to two years better than you and I "If we settle this ago if the Almighty Father did not know him (Judge Parker) any knew him then, Judge Parker Is a lost man." election wrong we must grin and bear it. profit and the Democrats win get the same share that they have past few years. Thousands of People Greet the Speaker of House of Representatives. TALKED OF TARIFF DECLARED IT TO BE THE REAL ISSUE OF PRESENT PO-L LITICAL CAMPAIGN.

UNCLE JOE REMOVED COLLAR Coliseum's Heat Was Too Much for the Veteran Summary of Mr. vannon opeccn. this great republic Is that what the majority of the people say correct it as so)nas we can." know how to keep house in competition with the followers of have succeeded Mm." Mr. Parker. I'll leave that to William "One of the glories 'goes.

If it goes wrong "Yes, it costs more to have something to live on "Democrats don't Lincoln and those that "I'm not going to abuss "The Democrats say that 'we will reduce the do that. If you will kill the death, be starved to death "Judge Parker says he administration, because first time a candidate for because the opposition will of we the protective tariff is robbery. Then they say In their platform tarjff In Heaven's name, my Democratic friends, don't protective tariff do it all at once. If you are to be starved to in a day rather than drag it out over a year." favors free trade, but, there is no danger of getting it under his the Republicans will control the Senate. Great God! That is the President has used the argument, 'Give me the executive power control the legislative branch and keep me from doing any More than three thousand people, representing not only Wayne county, but every county In the Sixth congressional district, and several counties In other sections of the state, crowded the Richmond Coliseum last night to listen to the keynote speech of the campaign as delivered by the Hou.

Joseph G. Cannon, of Illinois, Speaker of the National House of Representatives. The night was intensely hot for an Indoor meeting, but the crowd withstood tho pressure well, even better than did "Uncle Joe," who greatly amused his audience, when, In the midst of his introductory remarks, he turned to the presiding officer, Congressman Watson, and remarking that it was "very hot In here," he removed his necktia and collar. It was a characteristic piece of work by the Speaker. There was no feeling 1 of' emharratsmenl on.

his nart. and ft' New York, Sept. 2 Mr. David Baxter, the eminent young Scotch basso, has returned to America from his second concert and recital tour this season, under the direction of Loudon G. Carlton.

Mr. Baxter is known all over the United Kingdom as one of the greatest artists now before the public. He was born in Dundee and Educated at Dundee University. His beautiful voice is resonant and rich in quality, flexible and as mellow as it Is powerful. His singing in characterized by refined temperament, sympathetic interpretation, muslcian-ly art, and wholly free from exaggeration.

His programs are models, thoroughly classical yet not in the least hackneyed. Declared Insane. Charles Epping was yesterday declared of unsound mind by a commission in 'Squire Spink's court. Application was filed for his admission to Easthaven. MEN TEACHERS NOT NUMEROUS LARGE PROPORTION OF THE TEACHERS IN THE COUNTY SCHOOLS ARE WOMEN.

WACES ARE HICHER Where Men are Employed Interesting Facts in the Superintendent's Report. An Interesting feature of the an nual report of County Superintedent Jordan to the county board of education yesterday was the fact that there were two and a half times as many women teachers as men in the schools of the county. The proportion of wq-( men teacnera is speciauy large.ui me cities and towns. Of 213 teachers In the county schools, 153 are women and CO men. The average wages paid men last year was $3.40 a day, while the average wages paid women was $2.40 a day.

The average wages paid district teachers was $2.34, The highest average In any township was $2.60 and the lowest $2.07. There are now in tho county 81 brick school houses and nine of frame. The value of the buildings is placed at $842,500 and of the equipment $27,000. There was spent last year in the employment of teachers $57,184.94 and in Improving school property, making a total of expended for school purposes. REV.

MR. D0BS0N TO PREACH HERE There will be services at the First Presbyterian church next Sunday, conducted by the Rev. R. C. Dobson of St.

Louis, assistant pastor of the Second Presbyterian church of that city. The church committee invited the Rev. Mr. Dobson to preach on the recommendation of the Rev. Mr.

Shirey of this city, who speaks of him as a young man of strong char acter, and an earnest, forcible speaker. As other arrangements prevent Mr. Dobson from coming later In the month, the arrangement has been made for next Sunday. FIRST VISIT IN LONG PERIOD D. is entertaining his sister, Mrs.

Levi Griffith of Cass county, Nebraska, whonie he had not seen for thirty-seven years until her arrival in Richmond this week. Mrs. Griffith left here soon after her marriage was lost track of by her brother and other members of the family. Mr. Bennet had not heard from his sister in all these years until recently.

The reunion of brother and sister has been a happy one. MONTHLY REPORT OF P0ST0FFICE Te monthly report of the Richmond' postoffice was given out today. It shows a decrease in business as compared with August, lntt. The total receipts for the month amounted to amount sent to the sub-treasury at Cincinnati. $122 20.

Under a new ruling or tne potomce ue pan-1 ment at Washington, the rural routei reports Urly. arc to fivsn out quar- A dinner party was given by Harry C. Starr last evening in honor of Joseph G. Cannon. The guests, in addition to Mr.

Cannon, were James E. Watson, James E. Goodrich, Nat U. Hill, David Sherrlck, Col. E.

P. Thay er. Joseph Keallng. A. M.

Gardner, Will Converse and R. E. KIrkman. SCOTT WEBB IS IN CHARGE Scott Webb has been placed In charge of the Republionn headquarters and will bo at the Coliseum every day and evening until the close of the campaign. He has been a party work er ever Bince, he was old enough to vote and the county central committee decided to give him the place.

The headquarters will be open day and night from now until election. GRANDJEAN A GRAND FAKE GLOBE TROTTER HERE LAST WEEK COMES TO GRIEF YESTERDAY. HE WAS ARRESTED At Cincinnati for Loitering and His True Character Is Brought Out as Result. When Leon Grandjean, a self-heralded globe trotter was in Richmond last week, attired In corduroy, his head adorned by a flimsy straw hat, and his interior decorated with sun dry kinds of booze, there were many people who that he was a fraud of the first water, and'that he was no more the Frenchman he claimed to be, than the proverbial rabbit. "Grandjean spent two days in Rich mond "bumming" beer from frequent ers of saloons, and was finally thrown bodily out one or two of these places.

He went clear to the bad In the West-eott hotel one evening, when he attempted to "squat" for the night In one of the beautifully lipholstered chairs, and when convinced that his bouncer was a policeman, he talked as good English as any body, and begged to be permitted to continue on his journey toward Cincinnati. That he reached the Queen City Is evident from the following, which appeared In the Cincinnati Enquirer, this morning: Leon Octave Grandjean, the alleged Belgian globe trotter, who arrived in town a few days ago with a flourish of trumpets and announced that he was walking around the world on a wager of $10,000, was arraigned in po lice court yesterday morning an a charge of loitering. Thursday night the spirit moved Grandjean to sample the pink kerosene they sell down on Sixth street where the hoops grow tight about the barrels. He absorbed enough to land him far out in the east end, where he discovered at four o'clock yesterday morning by Patrolmen Auten, who asked him what he was doing there. He stated that he had a date with Leonora, a fair maiden of Los Angeles, and that he was waiting for her to step over to Cincinnati, where he was going to marry her, after which they would take a bridal trip to St.

Louis on Shank's horses. Auten took a tight hold on his hickory limb and grabbed the globe trotter by the slack of his corduroy trousers and two-stepped him to the Sixth district station. Grandjean was nervous when he faced Acting Judge Schwaab. He tugged at his sprouting Van Dyke beard. "Weil, Leon Octave Grandjean, what are you doing here?" asked Prosecutor Holmes.

"Ze Ingllsh me speak very bad." "When did you work last?" "Ten years." "When did you take a bath lastT "Six months past. Monsieur. I fell In the ze bay at San Irencwo. Was ze accidental. Acting Judge Schwaab adjusted his nose glasses and said, "Octave, I am sure this town can't gt eight totes cut of you.

so you had better put your whiskers up In blue ribbons and trot over Into Kentucky. If you are caught doing any of your globe trotting stunts here I will send you to the work for six months and forr-e you to take ten baths a day. got. E. J.

Albright, editor of th Eaton Register, attended the Cmanon meeting last eTenlcg. General Kuropatkin Withdraws From His Position After Battle. CREAT FIRE RAGING REPORTS COME FROM TOKIO THAT CITY OF LIAO YANG IS BURNING DOWN. WHAT THE RUSSIANS THINK They Believe That General Kuropatkin Withdrew In Accordance With Set Plans. By the Associated Press.

St. Petersburg, Sept. 2. While there is no official confirmation of the reports that Liao Yang has been occupied by the Japanese it is believed here that General Kuropatkin has executed a movement intended from the beginning. It is said his strong defenses are on the north side of the river, whereas the intimation had been Intentionally given that they were on the south and east sides.

This secret has been carefully kept. Is In Flames. Toklo, Sept. 2. At 3 p.

m. Friday it was reported here that a conflagration was racing at Liao Yang. Vessels Seized. Toldo, Sept. 2.

Twenty-six Chinese Junks attempting to carry provisions to Port Arthvr were captured and confiscated by Japanese guardshlps near Taden Wan bay. To Join Forces. Tokio, Sept. 2. General Nodzu and army are advancing today to effect a re-junctlon with General Oku on the left.

Correspondents Leave. Che Foo, Sept. 2. Nelson Prior, a press correspondent, hr.s arrived here from New Chwang and is going home. He says he could not get nearer than eight miles to the front.

He says that John Fox and Richard Harding Davis also have left New Chwang for home. Tokio, Sept. 2. The Japanese left began pressing the Russians toward the Taitae river at dawn this morn ing. The Japanese right is engaged In the neighborhood of Heiyingtal The Japanese casualties since Aug.

29 are officially estimated at 10,000. Late news from the seat of war conveys information of a most sig Blficant character as bearing on the domination of Manchuria at the close of the present campaign. General Ku ropatkln has withdrawn his whole army to the north bank of the Taitse river, so as to meet General Kuroki's flanking movement. Liao Yang has thus been evacuated, that city lying on the left or south bank of the river. The news of the evacuation of Liao Yang and the withdrawal of the Russian army to the right bank of the Taitse river has caused immense excitement at St.

Petersburg. In the opinion of the St. Petersburg war office the withdrawal became necessary so the Russians would "00 able to repel a blow In that direction and that Gen (Continued on Page 5.) WILL RESIDE IN COLORADO S. P. Mclntlre, who yesterday retired from the management of the City Restaurant, will leave in a few days for Colorado, where he will refdde In the future.

He has been in poor health for some time and makes the change In the hope of being benefitted. A New Automobile. Dr. Bowers is the owner of a new automobile. It is an Eld ridge, and is one of the neatest runabouts in the city.

If we settle It right we will had In the prosperity of the prosperity, but most of us Jennings Bryan." EFFORT MADE TO CLINCH THE GREAT STRIKE Railroad May Give Aid to Butchers' Union. HOLD CONFERENCE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE RAIL-ROAD MEN'S ORGANIZATIONS IN CHICAGO. TALKED WITH MR. DONNELLY Measures for Relief Now Proposed for the Strikers Details of the New Plans. By tho Associated Chicago, Sept.

2. Representatives five of the leading railroad organisations in the country are In the city today to confer with President Donnelly and other officials of the butchers' union regarding the advisability of measures of relic for the men now out at the stockyards. The organizations to he represented at the meeting are the Order of Railway Conductors, the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, and Switchmen's Union. The officers of these organizations have not given the strikers any assurance that they will favor a sympathetic strike, but are simply coming in response to the Invitation of the officers of the butchers' union, who will explain to them the situation from the strikers' standpoint and ask for their aid and co-operation. The members of the Switchmen's union and of the Brotherhood of Rail- way Trainmen employed by the Chi-1 cago Junction railway, which controls all tracks in the vicinity of the stockyards, held another meeting to consider the question of a' sympathetic strike.

The men of the brotherhood were against a strike, but the majority of the switchmen were In favor of They declared, however, that It was useless for them to strike unless the members of the brotherhood would Join them. It was finally decided to wait the decision of the chief officials of the organizations, who are conferring today. A Big Class. The Eagles will tonight initiate a big class. In the class will be men from Cambridge City and live now than It did before there was now." ARRANGING FOR THE FIRST POLL COUNTY CENTRAL: COMMITTEE HELD A MEETING YESTERDAY IN THE HEADJ.4ARTERS.

VISITORS PRESENT Speeches Made by Prominent Party Workers and the Meeting Into Social Session. The Wayne county Republican central committee held a meeting yesterday afternoon in the headquarters for the purpose of arranging for the sixty day poll, which will begin on September 8. Chairman Gardner presided. A number of visitors attended the meeting, and after the business had been disposed of brief addresses were made by State Chairman Goodrich, State Treasurer Nat U. Hill, State An ditor David E.

Sherrick, District Chairman E. P. Thayer, Candidate for Joint Representative R. N. Elliott, Dr.

Yencer and Will Converse. While the meeting was in progress the reception committee with Mr. Can-noon arrived and he addressed the meeting. The meeting then developed into a social affair. ACCIDENT OF SERIOUS NATURE C.

W. SMITH RUN OVER BY WAGON AT CAMBRIDGE. Was Driving Through the Town and Horses Became Frightened at Street Car. Special to The Item. Cambridge City.

Sept 2 C. W. Smith, a farmer living- near Hagers- town, was seriously Injured here last night by being run over by the wagon he was driving through town. Smith's horse became frightened at an inter- urban car. The line were about Smith's body and he was pulled from his seat, falling in the path of the wheels.

Smith was taken to the office of Dr. Littell, where an examination was made. Several ribs were broken! and the creek bone crushed. It is also 1 feared that internal injuries were sustained. Judge David Myers n.

Greensburg, who is considered the probable successor of Judge Henley, of the appellate court, was In the city last night to attend the Cannon meeting. Editor Burr of the Wayne Register. Dublin, attended the Cannon meeting; last veaiag. MAKES PLEA FOR HIGHER EDUCATION Does- Education Pay the Subject of Shafer't Lecture. ELOQUENT ADDRESS "DOES EDUCATION PAY," THE SUBJECT OF PROF.

SHAF-ER'S LECTURE. A PROFITABLE INVESTMENT Shows That Money Spent for Higher Education Is Well Expended. "Does Education Pay?" was the subject of an eloquent lecture at the Chautauqua last night lor Prof. Scha-fer, superintendent of public instruc tion of the state of Pennsylvania. In spite of the counter attraction, the attendance was good, the big tent be ing filled.

It was announced that Prof, cha fer's lecture would be a reply to the Rev. Father Vaughan's criticism of the American schools. He In no va referred to Father Vaughan's lecture, but attempted to show that Usher education is a profitable investment for any man, no matter what his vocation may be. The subject was treated from three standpoints. First, the speaker syoke of the advantage of the educa eu nation over the uneducated in te aits of war as well as peace, then of value of higher education in the business and professional world, and lastly of the higher life.

Prof. Schafer said that when Victor Hugo said "Open a school and you close a prison." he spoke a great truth. He gave figures showing that in England, since the great educational movement was begun, half a century ago, the population tiad increased one third and at the same time crime had dwreased at the same ratio. As a result of the educational movement England aves a year in prison expenses and a year In pauperism. "Education In Germany." said the speaker, "has been winning from England some of the best markets of the world.

Half a century ago Germany was the center of education and culture. At the same time German on Pace 2.) vo tho miiQf natural iinr in that world for his big audience to see no breach of etiquette in it. What no other great public man could do, or at least would not think of doing, "Uncle Joe" may do without fear of criticism. The Coliseum doors opened at 1 o'clock, and a half hour before the time set for the opening a great throng of people stood in front of the building. There was a rush for seats when admittance was finally gained, and before 7:30 o'clock nearly every Iseat in the Immense auditorium was filled.

There were many women in the audience. On the stage were the members of the Wayne county central committee, the vice presidents of the meeting and visiting Republicans from without the county. District Chairman Thayer, State Chairman Goodrich, State Treasurer Nat U. Hill. State Auditor David Sherrick, Joseph B.

Kealing, United States Attorney; State Senator Hen-dee, of Madison county, and numerous other Republicans conspicuous in affairs of the district and state were present. When Speaker Cannon walked onto the platform, accompanied by Chairman Gardner, Henry C. Starr, Con-gressman Watson and others of the reception committee, the first enthusiasm of the great audience was mani fested. The Speaker of the House of Representatives was not on dress parade. He wore a blue serge sack coat, no waistcoat, and the broad expanse of white shirtfront was flanked on either side by suspenders that were plainly visible to his audience.

But it all seemed natural with "Uncle Joe" and to his audience the Speaker looked fully as charming as he would have had he appeared In a full dress suit. Chairman Gardner, of the Wayne county committee, called the meeting to order and presented Congressman Watson as the presiding officer. The Sixth district congressman got one or his usual Richmond ovations. Ia presenting Speaker Cannon, Mr. Watson took occasion to pay a tribute to the great worth of the distinguished man, and the compliment was returned by Speaker Cannon a few minutes later when he declared that Congressman Watson was one of the twelve picked men of the House of Representatives in Washington.

Speaker Cannon took for his text the tariff. He frequently left this theme to give thrusts to other Issues. i tho ma soueni 10 enow of American In- mat dust He was in reality the one great issue of the present campaign and that it was one on which the Republican party could stand without a tremor. ProbaMy the most sensational part Cannon aJdrw was hit th.t JudM ca Fa 4.