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| The SUN is the only Re- publican daily in Kentucky west of Louisville. eo VOLUME 1—NUMBER 297 young woman's father testified that he had consented to that verdict with Sullivan's friends and the jury claim others ought to be. However, Com- monwealth’s Attorney Stout refused to acc Tonight.—He Killed His Wife. tit for the state, The crime for which Sullivan paid the was committed June 18th. He went on that morning to the home of Miss Lawson, and STRIKERS CLAIMING MORE GAINS who was his sister-in-law second cousin, and told her his dred yards she refused to go any — turthe er, a they had passed the place id bis horse was. Sulliven theu ER UTE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS, iad her. She finally got away from him and ran, bat he caught ber blows about thi inflicting severe wounds, and hit her several Mayfield, Aug. 28.—John Tutt, af [% Worthless negro, shot and killed his ‘W_ wife this morning entirely without Provocation, A mob formed and followed the officers who arrested the murderer to the jail, but was kept at bay by the officers. A mob 1s now forming for the purpose of lynching the negro. time she became conscious and man- aged to get to a ovighbor’s house, where she was confined to ber bed for three weeks. ARISE IN BREAD. ay | years ip ny penitentiary was severely | = by the people here. The penalty with bis life yesterday SCRAP ON THE EXCURSION. Louis of THE KILLING A shooting d the City « ie) a color lay, on ro last night. Johnson, orton colors) wan em, m Popular Feeling al Paris Such As GLALM GALNS. SUMIKI to Threaten an Outbreak, London, Aug 23.—A dispatch t the Daily Mail’ from Paris says The rise in the price of bread is th cause of no litte agitation, There: even talk of summoning a special ses- sion of the Chamber of deputies to chiscuss the matter. is an important factor im the rise. At Marseilles the popular excite- ment is much greater than here, and the mayor of the city has provisional scale of prices No More Arrests Have Been Made Por Violating junctions. Pittsburg, Pa, Aug 2J,—The strikers claim that they have made many gains and that more men will go out this week. No new arrests have been made and all is quiet about the mines. WHEAT FLUCPUATING. Wheat " y...qborse was down in the branch, and et fe Nervous, But Cilsgel iat be nested ber help to get him Close to the Top Notcn ap. After the bad gone several hun- issued a Still Near the Dollar Mark syndicate of wheat merchants to force - J the government to reduce the wheat Chicago, Aug. 23.—Wheat opened [duties. ‘The price of wheat las risen 7 at 97, made a jump to $1, dropped] since last night. Today the import- to 96 and then reve to 98. Thesefers and millers at Marseilles held a big fluctuations are caused by heavy flong conterenc dd such is the feel- selling. Itis now believed that itfing that the authorities are taking will not go w much higher. steps to prevent an outbreak, MEXICO’S MINISTRY, FRENCH Wil This Week cians Country's am" RESS ON WHE the} The Government Will Not Lower or yi ig the Duties Paris 2.—The Kelair There} #04 other ae say that official cir les regard it suppress the import duty on wheat hat M. Meline, the premier, made no special declaration or subject. The “Temps » 7 them the closest jody, t Ministry of Aer nT appear to sh of the newspapers, (here sition either to suppress the duties on cereals The ‘*Repuoblique Francaise In Whieh Twe Men Are Killed, inf jentns that the government lias re Leslie County. solved not to accede to. the demands Hyden, Ky., Aeg. 23.—2x-Sheritt] for the abolition of the duties Steele today shot and killed Deputy Sheriff Young. be sheriff of the county, in attempting to arrest Steele, ‘killed him. Friends of both sides—Loss# by fare arming, and a mountain feud may be started. Mexico City, Aug. 25. ‘will be a cabinet meeting to consider the monetary situation in the middle *, Of this week. The project for accu- mulating a gold fund attracts atten- tion and is approved in many quar- ters, being favored as ® measure to radually get in readiness to put the *‘ountry on the gold basis should tia! ecessity become apparent. as useless t and assert ba ilure, wh the excitement is no dispo- or to lower A HOT FIGHT, says BLAZE AT ANNA. Fire Salurday About 816,000, Rlhere was a destructive fire at Anna, Ill, Saturday, It started from # gasoline stove Five buildiags were _King George Urged to Reject thefiwo-si brick houses Proposed Peace Treaty fr with all of iho out buildings iv f them. Much Athens, Aug. 22.—A meeting off 7) ) TES oe adopced an address to King George, ia eee oe urging him and the government tof’ "1. he. baw Nest : — sb @ Teject the proposed peace treaty be-J” Ht care eesvas Pe ; Heat pita Freee key, and to reg" " Snbleg ha Cor- eg upted by the truce er's barber shop were also burned Mtge. out. The entire press, however, and a : AF great wajority of the public of Athens The buildings destroyed belonged condemn the agitation for a resump-§.2 “eerge Otrich, J. D Miller, Char. tion of the war 1, of Cobder, and Mrs. Eliza _ ee . ‘The loss is estimated at $16,- HANGED TO A BRIGDE, GTEEKS WANT MORE WAR burned, and one saved, stories ce $7,000. Fortunate- was wind, otherwise would have been much ; losura there loss the greater. "A Whitley County Mob Not Sat- isfled With the Sentence Given Elkanah Sullivan. TWO CHANGES Made in the Personnel of the Republican County Ticket, * Hanged Him Yesterday Morning Before Daylight.---He Had Just Been Given Twen- ty Years, M, Livingston and J. H. Ford Take the Places of Harry Snow and W. A, Williamsburg, Ky., Aug. 22 — Gardne Circuit Judge Morrow this morning instructed the jury to find out thef sir, Harry Snow has declined to members of the mob that lynched # make the rave for Representative and « Sullivan yesterday before daylight. I mr, W. A. Gardner for County At- "The action of the mob is, however, torney on the Repubhecan county generally approved. ticket. Both these gentlemen de- ‘ ——— —Jelined for purely business reasons. Rees wade sae] Aba recent meeting of the County Committee the resignations of the wson, was hanged b; i pet Oe soo ey bridge aetox| Above nominees were accepted and the following nominations were made: eager Coen ae dong in| M. Livingston for Representative and at 1 o'clock. J, Hardin Ford for County Attorney. . er and not even ’ y most order eighbors. to the jailf Both these gentlemen are well known ye neare: a4 Soctiaht tbl Republicans and prominent citizens, knew of it uatil daylight this mora: | eee athe ticket ill give it added strength SEWERAGE WORK, Have Now rived, he mob called Deputy Jailer John Brummet to the door of his res- ‘dence, saying that they Lad a pris- oner for him, He apened the door, when guns were thrust in his face and he was ordered to give no alarm Then several members of the mob entered the room and got the jail keys from a bureau drawer, cpaaed the jail and told Sullivan to dress bi self, They put & rope around hi ea work on the eesti oase neck and led him outside, and after] pryssing slowly, owing to the fact that Heing allowed time to pray Le WS} the pipe has not yet srrived. hung to the on epee of Lesa fen oe w verdict of the jury whic pis poniabmest yesterday al twenty —the best made. The Wipes Yet Ar. Sanitary Engi j t who is assisting ia arned this mor where Le sp Te* Aleuphis, Use no other starch but Celluloid 2306 Market rigging{, The cause | | + The Market is Nervous, But Is fof the rise there is the scheme of a] kno a ia police aga © amc ame aid Boyd arey rated ho does not #6 Was ed ppeared, was He millet nor lewer, He nothing bad ha) ing to his statem shooiing reached Cairo, Boyd did vot one report, but day that he cam the boat. If le found Johnson claims he what Bord shot NO PROSECUTION in ft Further the matte Luke Satt whom some of making such a prosecuted for t Kd Hall, colorec ly shot on Jaly 2nd Hal perhaps i but the w livious Judge ago. and shoot Sande This County the A it could do so. {| NEW RUNKING HORSE, Mr. Walter Disninkes Pore! oases a F Voyfern and D: Rest.—Sur Not Huard Walter ¢ 1 one of ever bor Ce Ep ce. He ead um. and Dyersburg, who « e, I wi ue 1000 purse FHRILLI Joseph With Fell Under His Feet, But Escaped. Ricy Mrs, Joe St, ‘Tennessce street, cape under a re last evening ni streets about riding a bicycle another lady, w leiter and wife « Mrs. Si. ner, crvape ac tive of by track anc animal, st. reared and him, but ju caped his ho the bicycle therein. The animal vould not be es ACR * GAME Murderer Tutt May be Lynched| that they thought if he was satistied / Comes Near t Satterfield Prosecuted for the D k , Was shot in the al Boyd oolpals occurred worning Judge Sanders} man died without disc matter fourltake no further a grand jury desired to Nt to P by Importer ack. and great things ar “Sy PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1897 em MAYFIELD PRIMARY. | minutes. When he was finally dis-| entangled the bicycle was a complete wreck, the front and rear wheels be- | ing completely demolished. Mr. Kamleiter jumped Jing in the Death] buggy, but was not injured, The bicycle was left at Nance’s under-| taking establishment, presumably for | inquest and burial. Quick WORK, from the! 4 J, Watts Nominated N Mayor a Negro, a | Charlie McNutt Nominated by On | Vote—No Contests Likely | | Sanders Hold Court in! Seven Minutes, Judge s Will Not be ath Kd Hall « Soveral There were a few result of Maytiell's |mary Saturday, One |the defeat of popular Mayor Clem Assessed—Other | Whittemore for the mayoralty nomi |pation, There was cor jtbusiasm, but nothing | cfting. The results were Democratic pr of these ws Fines Cases Continued, seriously ex WAS took Judge Sanders just seven es this morning to assess several! For mayor-—A. J. Watts, nd adjourn court. |J. Whittemore, 2 a e Sears, Jobo Bulger and An-| 34, ed excursion to Kyle were charged with en-| For City Judge—Herman the return trir in a breach of the peace. | uominated; R. KE, Johnston wns the only one arrested and|B. A. Neale, third; J. W. 4 wel { guilty, being fined $5 and} fourth; J, P. Evers, fifth, and T i s. He also pleaded guilty to the | McNeilly, sixth : mt using insulting language} W.R. Wall was the lucky a chara ‘ «1 $2 and costs, testant for city a ‘ B. C cireles 1 against Thomas Miller, Seay, second; L, B. Elkins, third ia charged with using insulting language, For city m Chas. H. M ong the owards Isom Elam was left open | Nuit received 241 votes, while his op as near Ed Hostetter, for a breach of the|/ponent, W. II. Draffen, received laims ths was fined $5. 240. him, i tames Veatch. fora plain drunk,| For assessor, taxed 61 and costa lucky Chas. Foster, second R ged with malicious shooting, was | third nued until Wednesday, as Dance R. E, Lochridge receive |for treasurer and | H. Benjamin, 180. | For city clerk Wiley I jreceived 356 votes, A. B ceiving 184 bone ; | The nominee t] A Cabinet meeting will be held in} were: Mexico City the middle of the week | First ward—J « der the monetary situation | P. Long. The trial of Dan Cu » Who killed Second word—R Jo ho W. Corley, the Louisville firav- | P. I. Dismukes gman, at Corbin last dune, is Third ward— today )G. R, Allen. Despite th 243; C affray occur f Chattanooga : West second Hocker Ww. ployed e Case the shal, We, Robert M candidate, ard ron by o Hedge Harry Moore. ers preset was T seainst Cec 2 CASE ge, bromght on t o his home on South H Jacksc ras unable to attend the trial near his o up and a Anderson NEWS NOTES. and is only a tes) rikipg neither walked around as ppened, and accord ent this me before th for councilmen A. Hamlet and J ning the boat H. Gardner aod retury, according to ©. Cunaday and police heard t e back in the hold of is here he cannot he Mise Jennie Bradshaw was thrown | aat_ some of the from a buggy by a runaway horse at| Votes Mr. Chas. ¥ ford, “Ky., yesterday and in- j Nutt be y one majority, siantly killed. |there is no probability of contest. 000 strangers were | KODNEY C. THOMPSON'S Buffalo’ yesterday waiting for the! opening of the G. A. R. annual en-| campment does not know him for, New Eleciric-Steam Laundry, 131 | South Third Street--Phone 129. The rainfall was general through: | ut the state Hcl and oo The Sew takes plea ied, oo of tix genial, affable and Forest exports of the Hinited States] “le¥er young men ever born und reared ret I year ending June 30, |12 the city 1897, show au increase of 100 per | © lectric Stes ‘ compared with 1887, pease Role Thomas C. Seaver Probate Judge | deh tae cue of Windsor county, Vt., was prob y fatslly shot by William W. Law || ence while standing on the piazza in making he Case Against te Held. beni nost the Next murder of i cident. residence Hon, Heary L. Martin fled the voters of his senatori: ret that he will not allow his name |, r, occasioned | to go under the Republican device on | he wound, | the ballot, | facilities tc g for ms-{ Merchant Policeman Hemminger | f:om the tiny co! Vaway in] surprised burglars in a bank in Can-| hotel aud beare rt a few weehs|ton, O., and shot one of them. The| entire city. y osing bis name, {Sr takes z of} Houser dis. ' ‘ a, | Rodne ev | ee ‘ded to] Jarge delegation of Louisville | “oUney ape ‘he[and wesiern Kentucky members of ol ‘I the Grand Army of the Republic left | seek @bit this city yesterday for the annual |‘ wpb aed encampment at Buffalo. HORE All one over telephone receive prompt atten: | tion. Don't man a trial guarantee has (torney Boyd county silverites bave sur- reudered, They ignored the silver juestion and placed two sound money Democrats on their ticket, A BISii STORY. ome of the Athenians are hard to ‘ty. Three thou of them a meeting ye and adopt | “all Clerk Meyers Sp address urging King rge| Alligaio: © government to reject the pro- saty with Turkey aud to re- stilities ine One, Gar, lerk on the alligator down Herbert Meyers Gus Fowler yesterday af *Dogton lish wa j enough t th | bill, which measured thirteen to distribute z the be and passengers. versburg Tak Edwin speared rnoon ver as af with ter New Y« red, a3 a result of the busi- wal, The Silver League has of forcing on ‘Tammany ve readoption of the Chicago litical issue in| k campaign bas spike | over five feet ir were secured fro’ Dismuakes the finest aducs xed amon; | TO ATTEND GRAND is now LopGr, icaders on both sides of the sirike did practically nothing their cause yesterday, | Four Paducahans Leave for Louis es were held seve! a., last week wil of mps near Pittsburgh in ks or more, e morning, and at one there was a} successive race zea battle between strikers kers, in which five strikers adly wounded Imno t predicted for this ne advance us serv ville, the ¢ Ut i. Morrison, R. C Boone and J, 45 o'clock this af- ternoon for Louisville, to attend the irand Lodge, Knights and Laces of | Bonar, which convenes tomorrow and ’ | lasts two days. Wonderful is noted| tia iu the condition of the cotton crop in} spRCIAL EXCURSIONS. KG ESCAPE he Memphis district, The season is | ‘i J three weeks late, but there will be aj wae good yield unless the crop suffers) yia the Ilinoi Central Railroad. from an early frost. Reports from ie same district indicate that there will be bat half an average crop of corn, Not a third of all the which Americans took fornia in the twenty y eu o America, and not more ercent, of it, with what it counted in, can be located its native soil, Wost is lef. in coinage probably bears more By) Ush mint stamps than any other, | , Great Britain being the one creditor | * na. on, f Messrs. Wim. terback, KE. G. Johnson left at 2 Arnold has no a month velopments are ing what bec improvement Washington, D, C Norfolk, Va., Richmond, St. Louis, Mo, 16, September 4, & and } one-third fare, ou the ficate plan, account Interstate Merchants’ Con- yention, good for ten days to return. Louisville, Ky., Aug. 18, and 21, one fare, good until A to return Princeton, Ky., , ove and one-th turn until Aug, 23 Buffalo, N. Y., St. John Collides ha Horse, 15 vest wea'.li } out of Call- s 8. cle Demolished, rs after 184) John, of Fourth and} bou: had a narrow fraclory horse’s feet ear ‘Third and Court 7 o'clock, She was in compavy with hen Mr. Henry Kam- Jrove around the cor-| re John attempted to} aud light imports indicate that why turning, but the 1 to flow in from Europe be- te struck the railroad | fore the close of the present month info the}andrun intoan unusual aggregate. reast.He| He thinks that sentiment tas mock |p tly under}to do with the return of American securities from London. The Eng down on} lishman is said to be sore over the entangle ’ | new tariff, and on account of reaimeut Great Britain has recently Cussio Civ to kick, and]received from American representa-, Havana, Alo for fully five tives petition were secured ly until Aug ure, good to 22 and} until Aug 21 trade return ports gold Heory Clews, in his weekly . Says that the heavy er ch the roun Aug 00 for will beg uatil s apply to J. Donoy A petition w culated in L tay ashin e Queen Re Evo Ville yesve the gent of S urprises in’ the iderable en- Lewis | » has his new | sol ee > The Sun has the largest daily circulation in Paducah. Advertise in it. for Woh e whi andle only good hose, of recognized quality, ch we gell at (he very lowest prices, ranging from 9¢ per foot up. The best hose I12c in the vity for - Do you necd 2 Lawn Mower? We can sell you one for $2. 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