The Paducah Daily Sun Newspaper, March 20, 1897, Page 1

All ran pivevdesiioats age entire teaches hem that one time advertising does Send Their experienc not pay. THE PADUCA —m See? = DAILY SUN. VOLUME I-N UMBER 163 TO LATE Came Jackson's Confession Ex- onerating His Friend Walling. BOTH DIE AT 1:41 A. M. A Last Effort Fora Reprieve De- layed Hanging. GOVERNOR AGAIN D'CLINES TO INTERFERE. Newport, Ky., March 20.—Karly this morning Jackson, the condemned murderer of Pearl Bryan, made an effort to save the neck of his friend Walling by a confession in which took to himself the whole guilt of the murder of the unfortunate girl, and completely exhonorated Walling. So much importance was attached to this confession by the officials and people that the hanging was delayed and the confession wired the Governor in the hope of getting a reprieve for Walling. There was intense excite- ment among the people over the af- fair, and extreme indignation towards Jackson. After making bis confes- Jackson cried like a baby. Walling was also greatly excited but evidently cherished a strong hope that the Governor would rfere in his behalf. Many people of prominence interested themselves in bebalf of Walling, but all to no purpose The governor evidently looked upon the last confession as of no more value than the others and coolly ordered the hanging to proceed There was apparently the most in- tense excitement as the cond ned men were led from their cells at 11:30. T rounted the gcaffold with a display of fortitude that was hardly expected of them, accompa nied by their spiritual adviser, Rev Lee, of the Baptist church, who spoke words of consolation to the while their hands and feet were being pinioned, the adjusted and the caps drawn down over their faces Promptly at 11:41 the drop fell and both necks were broken by the fall When the drop fell Rev, Lee fainted from the excitement he was under. The body of Walling will be de- livered to his mother and taken to her home in Hamilton. pat of Jackson will be buried here. Both faces of the corpses are horribly con torted, indicating that they suffered intense agony. Frankfort, March 20. rnor Bradley is the coolest man in Ken- tucky over the Jackson and Walling affair. He is receiving praise on every band for bis refusal to be in- fluenced by what is regarded as lying confession of Jackson. FOUK DEATHS From a Card Game Lealic County. Result Lad ryville, March 20—In a fightin Leslie county today having its origin ina dispute over a card game, be- tween the Tedfords and Shantleys, two of the former and one of Tedfords were killed outright of the Shantleys and a stranger were mortally wounded and are now dy- ing. ONE PASSENGEK KILLED jured in a B, & O. Wreck. Oakland, Md., March 28,—At an early hour this morning a B, & O, passenger train was derailed while passing over a bridge on the Jan river. A sleeper was precipitated down the embankment into the river. At least one passenger was killed and a number of others fatally injured. DREW A GUN. And Seyeral Engineer on the Gilchrist Gets Bad sted This After Serious Charge. STILL RISING. The Fifty-Foot Mark is Nearly Reached. RISES EVERYWHERE ABOVE, ‘The Result, Ke Surmised-.City Becom- mg Flooded, Howeyer, Can O1 SEVERAL STREETS LOOK LIKE CANALS. ‘The gauge this afternoon registers 49.4, arise of one-tenth today and four-tenths since yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock, The indications have not materially changed, and even the most conservative river men are alarmed. Reports from all the rivers indi- rises, and it is the opinion of me that it will dally about the 50- foot mark until the beavy rises in the Cumberland and Tennessee strike, and then there’s no telling how high it may go. It is still rising, how- er, and spreading foot by foot over some of the streets. Itis now across Third street at Washington, and in Gtauber's livery stable on the west side of the street. Thurman, of the St. el, has had a large bateau built for the convenienve of his guests and others who chance to pass that w: The water is almost to the steps of the hotel. he Paducah Street Railway com- pany, also, has been forced to elevate their track about eight inches on Third street near the St. Nicholas House, on account of the water being over the track, he water now covers the Nash ville, Chattanooga and St. Lovis teacks between Sixth and Kighth streets, and flows over Sixth street between Norton and Husbands streets to a depth of several inches. it is over the foot of nearly every street north of Broadway, and is with- in only a few feet of climbing up to Sixth street at the Union I Boats instead of wagons are used for transportation out at Court Washington, Clark and other streets | at the west end, and all the roads to the city are now impassible except by boat Mayor Yeiser and County Judge Tully have received many applic tions from those who have been dr en from Louse and home and have no place to go and nothing to eat. Itis impossible to help all. TANNESSER RIVER AND CROSS Pol Ties. Manager Tichenor, of the Oil Company's plant at Sti re- ports that the loss to the owners will hb $300,000, He says that the is doing inealculable dam- and floats off whole booms,some of which are caught, but most of} which float almost entirely beneath the surface of the water At Pine Bluff, Ky., yesterday one boom of 3000 broke loose, and nearly every tie was lost. add to the de- aters thieves have e and cut loose the purpose of , re: Tennesse ag struction of th putin their appe: rafts of ties for atching them as they float down ch tie is worth about cent and at this figure the loss on thous- ands and thousands of them can easily be imagineu. Barns, houses, hay stacks, barges, and almost everything else, are float- ing down the Tennessee, and being caught by men watching all along the shore: at Pine Bluff yesterday by six men in a skiff, but they had nothing ex- cept a three-quarters rope to bold it undertook to land it, but the current was so strong that the rope snapped in their hands. Out in the middle of the river here scores of ties can be found floating, almost” invisible. in the water, SITUATION AT CATRO. Last night about a score of special police were on duty along the levee: on both sides of town under police regulations end reported regular by telephone to police headquarters says the Cairo ‘Argus. It is under- stood that Julius Serbian will take rge as captain of the special force. \though the situation at present is not considered dangerous, it is well to keep a close watch on all sides, | itandard | A big coal barge was caught > Why He Forfeited ond. March ni New York, “World” says: . Carlos Roloff, Secretary of *rovincial Government of Cuba, is in Cuba safe. His rea- sons for forfeiting bis bail and evad- ing the trial for neutrality law viola- tion here and in Baltimore, is now told for the first time. Gen, Roloff arrived in New York City from the Cuban battle-ground last summer. He was dogged by Pinkerton and Spanish detectives, He was twice putin prison, being at once released on the deposit of cash bail, and it was plain the Span- ish government did not intend that he should return to Cuba. The intentions of the Spanish goy- ernment toward Gen, Koloff were learned in a peculiar way, One of Spain’s most trusted representatives, while in a talkative mood, told his dentist, a Spaniard, supposed to loyal, but who sympathized with Cuba, that Roloff would not go back to Cuba. “If they let him go on bail when he answers the indictment,’’ said the Spanish official, ‘we will atonce ar- rest him on a charge of murder. We will accuse him of killing {two Span- iards during the ten years’ war, and we will pin him down here under bonds that the Junta can not for- feit.’’ The dentist at 20.—The once notified the Junta and it was decided to send Roloff, the Cuban, at the head of an expedition then being fitted out. CRISIS IN SPAIN. Carlist’ Activity Threatens the Government, Havana, March 19.—All the news confirms the belief that a fatal crisis for Spain is approaching. The cable dispatches received here from drid say that the agitation by C ists and Republicans continues. newspapers which suppert the govern ment hold up the threat to the papers opposed to it that they will be sus. pended if they print news adverse to| to Spain's interests. Au editorial published by ‘La Epo Canovas’ newspaper, has been transmitted by cable to Havana, It says that the agitation promoted by Carlists, Republicans and filibus- ters will oblige the government to suspend constitutional rights all over Spain, and take strong measures to maintain public order in Madrid and the provinces, ‘La Epoca’’ adds that, if necessary, the government will proclaim martial law and enforce the special law agains} the anarchists in all its severity. The terrible insubordination of the Spanish army in Cuba is the result of the disaffection induced hy Wey- ler’s conduct. As soon as the news came to Havana of the landing of an expedition in Pinar del Rio Weyler sent an ry dispateh to Gen. Mel- gui plguizo answered in similar The result was that M ed words. Weyler recalled field, and ordered him to depart Spain SERIOUS REVERSES A Serics of Heavy Blows Struck by Cubans. A special dispatch to the **Globe- Democrat’ from Key West, Fla., says: Late advices from Havana {state that another attack was made! Jon Guanabacoa last night by two} | bands of insurgents in different parts Jof town, They concentrated in one instance in the interior of the city, and burned tive houses within a few yards of where the Spanish com- mandant had official headquarters. A sharp skirmish ensued in the streets and twenty-five Spanish sol- diers were wounded or killed, while the Cuban loss was snpposedly greater. One of the Cuban leaders, Capt. Mirandi, was captured by the] Spanish and hacked to pleces imme- jdiately after he had surrendered, | He had been wounded ia the leg and | could not e » when his troops re: \tired and was caught by the Sj iards, Altogether, some ten or fif- teen houses were burned in’ that place, and considerable other damage was done by the insurgents Extra troops were dispatched from | Havana today, and the prospects are that within the next few days the | will be a series of in that section, Raids parts of Havana suburbs, notably in le in other George Willows, engineer on ther owing to the possible discovery of 4 the western parts, are still continu. Jennie Gilchrist, was arrested this} Soft place that might resylt from the ing, and last night two large detach- afternoon on a warrant sworn out by Capt. Mont Fernand, charging him with drawing a double-barreled shot gun on him at the boat this morning. ‘The two men had a difficulty on the boat and Capt. Fernand came near getting shot, according to reports He first applied to Judge Sanders for a warrant, but it was out of bis jur- isdiction and Justice D. W. Settle issued it, Constables Patton and Fatrell ar- rested him at the boat, a ep will likely give bond River 1s high andft rains a heap, we are scared aniPwfl sell'em cheap 19m2 New PdeKer Store, continuous heavy rains, ‘The stage of the river today is as follows; Cairo, 50.7; rise, Chattanooga, rise, Cincinnati, ris Evansville, fall. Johnsonville, rise, Louisville, rise Mt, Carmel, IL, f Nashville, ris Elegant childn for 25¢, both larg bers, at New Rac! Stop in at yourself with | Br | pLoenNe: Ss hose three pairs and small num. Store, 19m2 a8 and refresh delicious orange {ynents of 300 men were forced to retreat from Colon, a hamlet about j eight miles out, The insurgents ljooted two store houses there aud razed to the ground a half completed block fort. The Spanish lost fifty men woyaded and killed and missing, and they report that the Cubans lost seventy-five, but this Is doubted. News was received through Cuban sources today that the Spanish garri- son of Jacque Goande, in Matanzas province, had deserted to the insur- gent cause, some 300 strong, carry- ing with them as prisoners their officers, and taking to the insurgents a large supply of clothing and amumu- Melguizo from the| tor | »| known to evel litly skirmishes PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, § SA! | at BROOKLYN, |The Unprecedented Case | “Trish,” a Darkey. of FOUR TRIALS FOR FIGHTING, y Hung Three Times, He Was Acquitted the Next— Folks Take a Hand. Women WOTFS FROM OUR NEIGRBOING VILLAGE. Will Hughes, alias ‘Irish,’ had the anomslous experience over at Brooklyn yesterday of being acquit. *}ted fora common fight after four hotly contested tri The singular part of it all was that Hughes didn’t do any fighting. He is a well known colored charac- ter of Paducah, who carries ties at Brooklyn. Last Tuesday he and Will Hill another tie carrier, engaged in an gument in one of the river front dives over the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight, and ‘‘Irish,’’ who is a stout, yellow man, defended “‘Lanky Bob.’’ ‘Jes’ cum outen de house an’ I’Ji show yo’ how Co’bet is gwine git dun,’’ he suggested to Hill. Hill accepted the invitation, and the two repaired to the exterior, where seconds were appointed. They proceeded to pound other a la Fitzsimmons until one was knocked out. Marshal and ‘‘Lrish’’ He was tried Grimes arrested them, was selected to try first. Tuesday, Wednesday that august body “hang."” Yesterday the authorities sent down to Metropolis and secured the able services of States’ Attorney Jones, who prosecuted in the case yesterday, the defendant being uitted, *‘Trish,’’ in a conversation with a reporter yesterday, said that the little skylarking he did than they would have tried him in Metropolis for murder. He claims to be 30 years old, to have traveled all over the United States, and never to have been under arrest before. The water completely surrounds Brooklyn, Ll., but it will require a higher stage to inundate the buildings on the river front than it will here, Farmers aud other producers who. sire to come to Paducah are now en- abled to cross the ‘back water’? by means of an improvised ferry boat, which is a great benefit to Paducal Mrs. Atkins, who has been milk and butter to Paducah for the past twenty years or more, has made her regular trips, with the exception of one day. Allard’s farm is a waste of water, and in passing along the Ill- inois hanks less than half a dozen _ half-submerged jhouses, barns, and cribs'can be seen |inland, The river at some points is four or five miles wide, and some claim that in one direction it is ten miles wide | Considerable wheat has been ruined by the water The people of Brooklyn are not et through talking about the Pixler Workman affair, which resulted in the | former bringing suit recently against his wife for divorce John Workman, another Brooklyn saloon keeper, for $10,000 for alien- jation of affections. The swimmen folks,’” it i have now taken a hand inthe matter, ana alleged threats of Mrs. Work- }man have prompted Mrs. Pixler to carry continually a pistol a bowie | knife, Thus far, howe and as may be expected, they have confined their hostilities to mutual threats, “The belle of Brooklyn” is Miss Flora Elizabeth Murr: the bright and pretty little niece of Mayor Will Pell. — The little miss is bat five years old, and all of Brook- lyn is proud of her, She spends a great deal of her time with her uncle, who thinks more of her than he does any one else, His devotion is well y one in Brooklyn. is sa little The ferry oat, Bettie Owen, in coming back from Brooklyn is com- pelled on account of the ‘strong cur rentto hug the opposite shore until above Paducah, and then come down with the stream into the landing oo this side, It is pow certain that the case of former Town Marshal Phil Linn, who went to Chester for twenty years for killing “Lightning Bug" "will be taken to the court of appeals of Ilis ‘nols, where it is expected to secure his liberty through the statement of Drummer W, H. Bates, who claims to have been an eye witness to the shooting. Nearly all of the amount required has been ny and Thursday by jury, and each time they tried him harder at Brooklyn for |‘ bringing |" and one against] g TURDAY, MARCH 20, 1897, THE COURTS. Alleged Rapist Waives Exami- nation and Is Held. EMERY EXCEL IN M'GEHEE'S CASE CONTINUED. PURITY Fomily Tr Aired Betore Judge Sanders ,Tor res quel of a Case Yesterday, OTHER = — COURTS HELD TODAY. Family troubles were ventilated in Judge Sanders’ court this morning. To retaliation for the warrant sworn out against her by Mrs. Sarah Hayes, Mrs. Laura Beckenbach last night swore out @ warrant against Mrs. Hays, charging her with using insult- ing language toward her. Mrs. Beckenbach was fined on a similar charge yesterday morning. When the case was called morning Mrs. | gations in the called the other a bad character— the preponderance of evidence was against her and she was fined €5 aud costs. The women’s husbands are on good terms, but it is said that the women themselves have threatened to use horsewhips. Judge Sanders this morning said that such affairs should be kept from the courts. It appears that they are jealous of their hus- bands. Judge Weakley, the negro charged with committing rape on Lda Ki waived examination in Jui H ” court this morning and was held | over to the circuit court without bail, John Me nee Was court charged with wife, Amanda McGehe and almost fracturing her skull, The case continued on account of the of witnesses. McGehee does not assaulting the woman, but claims that he went home and found | her with another man, A case against Ed Morgan for us- ing insulting language, was contin- this ze Si before the aulting his was Meader was fined $1 and costs for drunkenness. Zeno Williams, — colored, cbarged with jamping on Motorman Pe: » of the Paducah line. The prosecution failed to prove he was the right man, and he was rec- ognized for his future good behavior. was son's JUSTICE HARTLEY'S COURT, Justive Hartley is holding court at here are several 3 well as a number to be considered. Deadman, the If breed ged with stealin, out this morning crimins of Henry Tndian cl was taken trial. Man Trice, a well Known will he tried for fighting woman named Francis Steve: she cursed and ab ” farmer, a colored i says his fawily Three fighting oung men named All and J Dane an breach of the peace. for nes for a COURT AT BENTON, Court is almost and Judge Bishop who reside in Pata over at Benton, and the offic ah will retara to- night to spend Sunday. Y Abe charged girl, were afternoon Scruggs Mage with a colored nce ay for trial, JUSTICE LIPTLE’S COURT, gular term of Justice Little's nvenes Monday with sixty es on the docket. ‘There are no criminal cases to dispose of. The re court ¢ civil Eleetri Not Enough, it ians JUSTICK WINCHESTER'S COURT. Justice Winchester tried the case of Con Crowley against D. B. Sills yes- terday afternoon, but reserved his de- cision, The suit is for $100 dam- ag the plaintiff charging the de- fendant with running over him with « bicyele. Justice Winchester is out in the county electioneering today, Too Many Poles, Roofs, Liectricity. MAKKETS, over the of some local (Rep Chi whe: point ; closed at 74! May corn opened at 23 closed at 24% May oats closed at 17 May pork — opened and closer $38.85 1 opened at $4.50, ribs opened at $4.80. N. W. receipts 1 Daily by Lacy Grain ( I, March 20,—May | strung, causing them to at highest TA" sidewalks or charge iron gray Yesterday afternoon boys was playing street near the when one siezed an was almost kno investigation four of the iron with 120 volis or more, Superintendent nicipal power house, and opened at 1744 and at $8.92 at $4.30 and May clos t $4.85 and 2 cars. He gives it as BANK Reserve De Loann Ine Specie $260,100 Legals Dec STATEMENT, $4,604,575 17,500. porease, tions, connections, ete. whole roof of Palmer House was charged, and came near $6,016,000 plums for 10 Poone 259, It z AN ECLIPSE OF THE SUN — ‘The heat of our coal exceeds the warmth of the sun because it is gopd coal, The veins it comes from are the best. as possible in size and quality. It is always clean. Our coal makes as much’ heat as you can buy for a dollar. Telephone 70. It is as even 300. colored workman 58,400 Deposit Decrease, $4 Circulation Deer LUMP EGG NUT er Things Charged With There is no little complaint here almost criminal negligence electricians mitting electric wires to be recklessly posts and even roofs, on North aducah Cycle Works iron post. i down, and upon it was found that posts were charged Davis, passed and dis- covered the source of the trouble, his opinion that more care should be taken in insula- CHEAPNESS SIMPLICITY CLEANLINESS INCORPORATED, Hligh Water Is On Us, Official Newspaper of the City. ‘TEN CENTS A WEEK. GRANITE WATER FILTERS ig fikre is made of a solid granite rock, ig absolufely pure water. A Granite filters /have greater capacity than those of : other makes fosting three times as much. / There is pe rnd about a granite filter to get out of order ; it child can operate them. / will last atife-titne. Granite filters are easier cleaned than any others. A Geo, 0, Hart & Son Hardware-and Stove Co, 303-307 Broadway. 109-117 N. Third Street. Bisa ——-GET INTO A PAIR OF——— ~—OF 821 BROADWAY. THE HATTER HAS RECEIVED HIS Spring Stock / RUBBER BOOTS. We have them in high bapts and short boots. Our prices are very low for good quality. Come along, boys, and get a pair before they are all gone. Geo. Rock. OREO EEE GOA BEEN AP, Hats and Furnishing Goods. 327 BROADWAY. MORE GARE, Cautious is Said, » And Othe in per- fall over the posts, fs, tele- crowd of Fifth He all} of the Ma-| A few days | part of the| to be finishing al ANTHRACITE the worn wall, which grounded The insulation had wire. ‘There are street cars in which are dangerous to touch, if you are on damp ground, telephones that | will give you a severe shock current off of that are good things to avoid damp day. BARLOW KNIFE on Driven tothe Heart of Henry Hayes. Used a Stick of Wood to Drive it in--Suicide at Cairo. 3, a much resp years of a mitted suicide by driving the an ordinary pocket-knife, of tie Bar- low type, into his breast just above the left nipple at Cairo night before last. ‘Tne manner in which he sent the deadly steel into his body was quite unusual, He placed the point of the blade against bis breast and drove it in by striking the end of the handle with a stick of stovewood, Hayes was considered who accidently | trustworthy darkey, touched a water pipe alongside the spoken of by bis Paducah bition if you fron aren’t careful, and even wooden poles that i a giviu | Daisy Sullivan, could be aseribed for the act, more a than that he found himself unable to accomplish things that were his am- and far those of the colored man. the doctor opened his shirt aled envelope was disclosed ipposed to contain a letter his reasons for self-destruce tion, but at this writing the contents are unknown, The deceased be longed to the coloured Masonic fra- ternity and was a member of Lonic Lodge No. 4¢ . & AM, which will take charge of the funs eral, above av Wh A Said to Be Now dlucah Bertha Sullivan, a sister of poor who was shot down at her own dloor at’ Briensburg a few mouths since, and for whose murder Noah Franklin will be tried next week, is said to be in the city staying at a house on Thirteenth street. Living in Pas BIG LINE Lovely Perfumes NELSON, “SOULE DRUG STORE PER BU. 10C 9 9 PER TON $8.27