Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1900-10-19

the national convention to be held at
Denver, Col.
Joseph Luger of Eaton was in the
city today.
]. A. Martz of Greenville, O., was
here yesterday.
III. B. Thomas of Logansport was
in the city yesterday.
Thomas Mccoy of Liberty was
registered at the Arlington today.
Frank VanDusen, ir., of Pittsburg
will spend Sunday with friends in
this city.
C. S. Neal and wife will go to In
dianapOlis tomorrow to see Mary
Mannering in Janice Meredith y
kid" Haas of the Entire Nous
ball club has returned to his home in
Dayton. He will return next spring.
Walter Ratliff returned last night
from Lafayette, where he read pa
per before the Farmers Institute
conference.
Mrs. Toner Fisher and children of
Denver, who have been visiting Mrs
Fisher of north fifth street, have re-
turned home
Mrs. J. III. Unger, Nixon Unger
and Mrs. F. A Wisehart of Middle
town are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Lafayette Larsh.
The C. r. & NJ railroad company
has on the ground south of the city
l6S car loads steel, and the-track
is being laid as rapidly as possible.
Albert Albertson, Will Roller and
several others from Greensboro were
in the city last night to attend the
presentation of Hanlon' s Superba.
Addison c. Harris of Indianapolis,
United States minister to Austria,
will speak at his old home, Greens
fork, on November 3, two weeks
from tomorrow.
There may be some matinee races
at the driving park next Tuesday
afternoon, with a match race between
Iona Il DIR. Zimmerman and Hal
Foster Dave Whelan s.
Mrs. Henry Hahne and little
daughter Helen have returned home
to Paramount, after a months visit
with her parents, Mrs. John Carey of
north nineteenth street.
Tax paying is going on at the
county treasurer S office at a very
satisfactory rate. If this is kept up
it " i'll be to the mutual advantage OF
treasurer and tax payers, to avoid
the big closing rush.
A notice was crowded out yester-
day of the fact that J. HI. Living
stone had been granted a patent on
keyless lock specially intended for
use on postOffice boxes. Mr.. Livings-
tone expects to manufacture and sell
the lock. He has been working about
two years on the invention.
The county commissioners today
let the contract to the Standard Oil
company for from nine to twelve tank
cars of crude oil at $50 cents per gal
Ion. This is for fuel with which to
heat the court house. Last year the
price was 4. Is cents per gallon. The
reduction in price makes quite diff
ference in the total cost of the fuel.
The Pennsylvania railway inspec-
ton party, consisting of the chief Of
ficials of the lines west of Pittsburg-
together with Superintendent NJ.
w. Mansfield, ]. S. May and others,
passed through the city about IL
o'clock this morning and went on to
Indianapolis after brief stop. 1t is
not known whether it was decided to
build a new station at this point or
not. The party was in three sec
tions and the equipment was the
finest. The officials feel keenly the
sad death of S. E. Burke, one of the
party, for he was recognized as one
of the most promising young men in
the company's service.
The Gennett was packed to its
fullest capacity last night and stand
ing room was sold The attraction
was the ever popular Hanlon' s Su-
perba, with its gorgeous scenery and
pretty girls. 1t was better than
ever, with it's new features, and the
audience was delighted. The only
thing to spoil the evenings program
was the failure of the electric lights
in the last act, and some of the best
features were cut out. The trained
balloons were especially well re-
ceived, and it is surprising what they
have been taught to do. All in all
the performance far exceeded the eX-
pectancy of every one and nobody
went away disappointed. Lizzie
Wilson, the German coincidence,
who attracted so much attention at
the Highland Park casino this sum
mer, was with the company last