Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1900-10-20

by the way, the parents of fine boy
baby, two weeks old.
There were no cases in police court
this morning. The order in this city
is positively wonderful
Mrs. E. w. Sloan, who has been
the guest of Paul c. Graf and wife,
returned to her home in Indianapo-
lis this morni. g.
]. Bennett Gordon has returned
from Rush county, and will do cam-
paign work in Union and Henry
counties.next.week-
Quite a number of Richmond PEG
pie attended the political meeting at
Webster last night and returned
home after the meeting.
Will c. Converse made an interest
ing political address at Chester last
evening. There was a good crowd
and plenty of interest and attention
Mr.. Ralph DeWeese and his bride,
Mrs Alberta Loves DeWeese, are
still spending their honeymoon at
The Westcott, having been here since
last Tuesday night
At Centerville next Friday even
ing speeches will be made at grand
mass meeting by Messrs- Converse,
Jessup, Widup, Study, Guyton,
Shiveley, Comstock and Medsker.
Arrangements are making for q
speech to be made by Capt. W. E.
English, the well-known ex-Demo
crat of Indianapolis. If possible be
will be secured for some night next
| week.
Elsewhere is a notice OF the po-
litical meeting at Chester last nigh,
addressed by Will c. Converse. The
meeting was also addressed by Rob
ert L. Study, and quite a number o.
Rough Riders frem this city attend
ed.
The Rev. f. NJ. Kemper will
lecture at the Third NJ. E. church
next Wednesday night, subject
''The White Mans Burden. Rev.
DIR, Lamport will lecture next Fri
day night at Third NJ, E. church.
Subject, 1.-The Hoosier Boy in
Dixie.
Recently a number of skeletons
were unearthed in gravel pit in
the vicinity of Eaton. Several more
have now been found, the most re-
markable of which is one, evidently
of some young person, as all the
teeth are sound, which has an inch
hole in the skull.
The funeral of the late S. E. Burke,
the engineer of maintenance of way
of the c. A. & c., and member of the
inspection party, who was accident
ally killed at Dennison, O., was held
in Cincinnati yesterday. General
Manager Loree directed six of the
engineers of the party to represent
the road at the funeral. They were
J.. A. McCrea, II. w. Thornton, w.
c. Cushing, Paul Jones, S. M. Rus
sell, r. G. Barnard.
There will be a match race at the
driving park next Tuesday afternoon
at O clock. The horses that will go
are DIR. Zimmerman Iona z and
Dave Whelan's Hal Foster. There
will also be another match race the
same afternoon between Jesse
Schultz s Nellie Schultz and Joe Bro
Ramps L. NJ. Hare. All the animals
scheduled to race can go some and it
is expected that there will be some
rare sport. The purses are $50 side
in each race.
There was a good attendance at
the Main street rink last night at
the meeting of the Young Repub-
lican club, addressed by Mr.. William
K. Jenkins. The speech was a plain,
forcible, logical one, with no pre-
tense at oratory but with plenty of
potent facts plainly stated and con-
vincingly argued. The attention
was the sort the Richmond Repub-
licans always give, and the meeting
was a marked and unqualified sue
cess from start to finish.
Earle E. Widup made a splendid
political speech at Webster last
night. The meeting was held in the
school house and the crowd was large,
attentive and enthusiastic. Mr.
Widup was introduced by S. w. Gill
lilan in a brief talk, and for an hour
he held the closest attention of the
audience, with occasional Interrupt
tions in the way of spontaneous and
applause. His speech
was a strong one both logically and
one of the best yet
heard in the county, and did much
good After Mr.. Widup had closed,
Sylvester H. Jones gave a brief and
effective talk on prosperity. The
crowd was largely made up of ladies'.