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your bank account. VOLUMK Il—NUMBER a ) LABOR STRIFE Try it. An ad, in the Sun will add to 25 egister To IN ENGLAND, 7 A Tremendous Strike Ordered, | 500,000 ORDERE? 10 STRIKE.| Mammoth Summer Hotel Boras) jo Indiana, OTHER LATE London, Oct,, 11:—A 8) my je strike bas been obeyed will call It is hoped by labor leaders th great strike will enable the E to win their strike which ly for several weeks. A Hotel Burns. West Boden, Lod., Get Windsor, the largest of the, moth hotels at French Lick Sp burned toray with a loss of $5 No lives were lost NOTHING TO EAt Bad Reports ¢ A Bigg Snow Storm Raging. red that ut $00,000 laborers | Sympathetic | TELEGRAPHIC = NEWS. | athet at this Tu wae rings, © Prom Alaska. THE PADUCA f i Dal LY SUN. PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1897. Jonly an outlying fort, A good gen- al will first destroy the citadel ; © outlying forts will then surrender. BIG CROWD Attended the Hardshell Meeting Yesterday. There were about 2000 people at Hardshell meeting at Mount Mo- , Marshall county, yesterday, Fifteen or twenty went out from the city. ‘The meeting was very successful, | association is divided, en no trouble, which the there bas as yet | A GREAT COMEDY. “A Jolly Night” Completely Cap- tivates a Large Audience in Terre Haute. The Terre Haute jnight. It says: “UP WAS A JOLLY NIGHT.”* company aud play seen no this year.’” That's all, but enough. GENEROUS SHOWERS ° Break the Long Drouth in West Kentucky. A Grateful Pall of at Padu- Skaguay, O 11—Reports from practically unobtainable, and a fi m-| son and Elsewhere, is imminent A big snow st dh : Voday's Courier Journal says:— STOKM WAY vO GOOD, The long drouth which bad pre- ‘ vailed for many weeks, not only in Kentucky, bnt all over the South and ght That 1t Will Cheek the] West, was broken yesterday and last Hover. bight by showers which extended faves a wide expanse of territory. In New Orleans, Oct, 11. —It_ is Kentucky the rain was heavy in the ee Heved here that the rain and lower} western portion, Sige service re temperature will check the spread of} jorts show that showers have fallen the yeluw fever renerally in Colorado, Nebraska, A Bloody Day of Kentucky yesterday. Louisville, Oct, 1i—Six murders have been reported from various parts y as, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, ooo, opper Michigan, Llinos ts of Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and Arkansas, while @ con- tinuation is. promised in all sections of the country today > eign, “h Care: 11], Geol showers fell at Paducab, ive thousand people are hearing W.| Princeton, H prinsville, Medison- sie ee socech here to: |Yile. Henderson and other place os At Madisonville the was accom. ( Oe ghaa " pavied by hail, At Paducah the IN ANSWER TO PRAYER, wer was light, but atthe other - points named there was a generous Generous Shower wt Princeton,|downpeur, | This break-up of the Pr ae Weaka. dry spell. is welcomed by the ene Beret 8“ © san earnest of more and », ‘aceton, Ky., Vet 10. A r rains, which will be needed to Pr ervice was held at be church+| poisten the loag parched earth and Pewee rain, and this evening at] also asa temporary relief from the es today fh sejceton experienced ®} dust, which even in the towns and 6 o'clock tour, which was the | cities bas been almost suffocating enerons down, ~ j, ten weeks. Ii} ]q Jackson's Purchse and the con- first rainfall here has extended over & 4 Caldwell county rr parched, and grasses an dead, and @he supply of water had become alarmingly iat on © ‘The indications are good for shoy throughout the night. T is in such condition, bowev to the farming laud i dition to fallow for MADISONVILLE Mall AT \ A Thunderstorm Be 1 of J. A. Parker, the sora.” | sweats, thinks Bryan wilh’ have to give way to ter man, 20 a0 editorial to week's paper is the following : Mr. Bry had the conti port afall | a Fnoney amd less misery” to be losing greun: The air of hostility anc lently growing dense ¢ of storm centers. oe and united the vera in is evir prolit gretabl Jaws of necessity will have suited to overcome conditions. lic confidence will for a mome position the ee e most vital issue coal The vital question peoples ie gove the peop: Boyer yornt ations gove ‘ of more oF Jess money, pxistence tion of ex's Bene This is the great questis ny wh financial question 1s incluc. “Pe citadel of the enemy 1s © amonopoly i y is th e for clerk of the Court of that Mr. W. J » portion of » was « vegetatio paind oarce vito vulist a bet- a this tiguous ‘Pennyrile’’ district no rain worth mentioning has fallen for ten The roads have been many inches deep in dust. Vegetation has rhted and burned, Springs, di creeks have gone dry, and weeks, been bi) pond: ‘ijn many places the question of how sgbtain a water supply has become spoplem of thehour, Farm work the , sg virtually ats standstill, has b. “have been irreparably aud Cro, qe long drouth and the damaged by eousually warn, * weather. ‘UBRED” “A THOKOUG OBR the Suffering Citizens nite i" < Opera PY of Hopkins Vhe Attraction at Morton.“ OPS Madisonville, Ky., et. 10 —Tie House T ht, Jong drouth in Hophins county eae) Pye musical comedy, “A ‘Thor- to an end this evening at 6 0 et a oughbred,”’ will be the attraction at when a thunder storm, accompanlel) Morton's opera house tonight, with hy considerable bail, brought relief. /4 well known comedian, Billy ‘There had not been enoagh rain | Grigin, as the star, who will be sup- iay the dust good in Madisonville) jorteq’ by a first-class company of since July 25. The elvetric Hab tarce comedy players, Seats can be and oth yan had reached critics!) secured at Van Culin’s book store, points, avd wholesome wa " household use was yery scarce, The pick In Marea: indications are that the raia Will eo0-| pig gesidence of Mr. Wim. Angle, tinue throughout We pight. a well known farmer living near Lit. : me in tle Cypress, was destroyed by fire last . ‘an Losing Ground yi mt y 4 (ertee ‘Hepubhe,”” the state|Friday night, The family | were j age ay | asleep when the fire was discovered, and it ined such headway that none of the household goods was saved. This is the second mis- fortune of the kind that has befallen who a short time ago sup: “mo creed, seems | Lin that direction. 1 opposition y andmore ‘This is re- co. but storms are the result of OIq School . Evidently Mr. Bryan | days meeting yesterday at Mt. to give way to aman better | pq) the existing ev'- ‘tendance was large during the entire Noman worthy of pub-' Neoting and the greatest interest was | trick eb nt take nanifested. at the financial ques- before the is, of the republic. terian church. orpor shall | n or shall the corpor- It is not a question for Bare Nir. Angle within the past few years. |The origin of te fire is unknown. The Weather Local showers tonight and Tues- day morning, followed by fair weath- er and cooler, | scabs | Baptist Associatios | ‘The Soldier C riah church, near Sharpe, The day. ity attended ye To Attend the Synod, | eongr morrow and while there hes thus far been} And of Professional and Amateur some discussion of the question on | Races—Also Other Item Gazette’? deals| and very briefly with “A Jolly Night,” | poring sta Edwin Travers and company en-| © ved a tremendous audience at] all the asino last night, twas by far] two special cars, which will arrive} case was di at} here eerly k Association of|the open professional races that they Baptists closed a three| will have to be run in at least three Mo-| heats each, which will make about at-| 12 races to be run that afternoon, be- everal parties from this Rov. W. E, Cave leaves tomorow | There will also be numerous **quads"’ Jstown to attend the meeting] and ‘sex’s’’ which will do the pacing! ut a ques of the general Syuod of the Presby-|in the professional races, which is He goes to secure] assurance that there will be no ‘loaf while the assistance in paying off the debt of|ing,’’ and we can expect to see time) ‘od in it, the Second Presbyterian church, the] made near the two minute notch, ation of which is unable to the financial question | dischs ge the obligatign, 5 the national circuit, which usually touches only the principal cities, and "J the public ‘should patronize it ac- cordingly. There will be a big night parade Great Preparations for the Big) the evening of the 14th by the wheel-/ Wil] Speak P i peal men, and allare mvited to participate, especially the Indies. Those wishing to take part can callat Van Culin’s book store and secure lanterns free. JONTROL Bicycle Meet. A COMPLEGE LIST.OF RACES. COULD His Bike.—Mr. E. Hibbs Ran it on the Sidewalk. Mr. Ernest Hibbs, the well known piano man, was summoned before Judge Sanders today to answer a charge of riding his bicycle on the sidewalk. The evidence showed that he was recently run down by the fire depart- ment and had one knee badly hurt. Go verning the’ Gseat Meet, MANY — VISITORS EXPECTED. ARE Cychsts in this end of the state, | around with despatch and he used Friday. lost what little control he had of the Without Fail; Positively last day for registration. Polls open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.| SENATOR DEBOE in This Tomorrow. City PROBABLY AT THE OPERA HOUSE, AGreat Eyent for the Republi- cans of Paducah, LET EVERY ONE COME OUT. His large and increasing business} Senator W. J. Debve will speak in rendered it necessary that he 1 this city (tomorrow night. It is r y is} probable that he will speak in the n adjacent counties of neigh- | bicycle, disabled though he was. He} opera house, though this can not be é . are greatly interested | beard # street car coming up bebind | stated cettainly today. which will be ‘Seco here Thursday |in the great bicycle meet bere next} bim, and in attempting to dodge it, | nouncements will be made tomorrow. Full an- The coming of Senator Deboe will The most celebrated riders in the] Wheel and ran it on the sidewalk. He} be a great event for the Republicans ised. BAPTIST ASSOCIATION, Friday morning from Louisville, and leave early in the evening for St. Louis. Annual Meeting Begins at Harmony Church y Wednesday. peal A i = ON 6 } _o— Seventy-Fiye Delegates Are Exe ted From Thisand Neigh: boring Counties. The annual pling of the Baptist mouy church, this county, near and will last three days, eburches in McCracken, Ballard and other counties, and seventy-five del- egates are expectes In addition to. the regular delegates many other vis- meeting. Rev. W. K. Penrod, of the First Baptist church, this city, will deliver The purses and prices for these] the introductory sermon Wednesday. PROFESSIONAL One mile open, first, $35 cash; second, $15 cas”; third, $10 cash, One mile bandi ap, first, $65 second, $25 cash; third, $10 cash, One mile open, first, $100 ca second cash; third, 15 cash, Two mile handicap, first, $75 cash ; second, $25 cask ; third, $10 cash. AMATEURS, h; Dick Fortson Painfally Injured a His Nephew. by An Old Pistol Wit Were Which They mpering, t of, One mile udicap, first, $30 in merchandise; second, $15 in mer- v chandise ; third, $5 in merchandise, One mile open, first, $35 dia mond; second, $15 in merchandise ; Dick Fortson, a young man of the third, $5 in merchandise. Maxon's Mills neighborhood, was ac- Two mile handicap, first, $35 dia-|cidentally shot by his nephew, Buck mond; second, $15 in merchandise ; | Moody Saturday at noon. third, $5 in merchandise, Fortson, Moody and Emn ENTRIES, were out in the yard fooling with ap The following have been received up to date by Secretary Hank: John $. Johnson, Boston. ; H. B. Freeman, San Francisco ox eeman, San Francisco, |e hammer accidently discharged the we Cal. D, A. C. Mertens. Earl H. Kiser. Nat Butler, Boston, Mass. Tom Monarch Cooper, Detroit. Owen 8. Kimble, Louisville. Charles W, Pierce, Boston. H. B, Steenson, Minneapolis, Minn. Charles Hadfield, N Angus McLeod, Can’ Harry B. March, Mich, Charles RK, .., tags, Conn. om "a Wells, San Praucis j. M, Handall, Roet Hot, Springfield, Mass, 1. Brows. Cleveland, 0, Minneapolis right side, and all that saved his life was the fact that it struck a rib and glanced around pear the backbone, where it was found and extracted by Dr. Holland, The ivjury 1s not serious. wark, N. J. ATTACKED A WOMAN. Kalamazoo, : Jim Coleman Is Wanted By The Newton, Stafford Police. Jim Coleman is the name of a col- _Jored man who is wanted by the police for beating up Ella Dodd, colored, on Jackson street last night. The night police searched in sever- al places for him, and olicers Smed- ley and Senser came across him early this morning and shot at bim one time ese, but missed. The accused 18 not the scavanger, Ww. Dr. A. Y, T, Sanders, Bostoii. PROFESSIONALS, W. H, Seaton, Louisville, Ky. W. 'T. Bonfield, Evansville, Conn Baker, Columbus, 0. Pete Mingst, Evansville, Ind Gilbert Logue, Nashville, Tenn. JW. nette, Geo, EK. Quinn, Memphis, Tenn. Ind, Josiah Patterson May Come, Prominent sound money men of the city have written to Hon. A. J Carroll, of Louisville, asking tbat Hon. Josiah Patterson, of Tennes- see, speak here on October 20. He will probably be sent here by the committee, AMATEURS. Frank Frain, Memphis. Clarence Simpson, Frank A, Lu- cas, Maytield Horace Voutch, E L, Thompson Louisville, A.W. Clark, Nashville, Teon W. J. Wilkins, Roy S, Dawson, Robert McCune, Paducah, There will be so many No More Hamberger. King Russell, the erstwhile vome- Aiav of (he Phelps Stock Company at La Belle, and who has since been making Hamberger steaks oa Brosd- way, has joiued the Metropolitan Operatic Specialty Company as sing- ing comedian, entrees in Death of a Child. The five-year-old child McKinuey, yesterday, ‘T' in the county graveyard, sides the performance of the fancy ptions will be the “bicycle attracted so comment east One of the best attr: the monster ‘‘Oriten,’ built. for ten’? whi much attention and M ns Notice, Paduosh lodge, F, and A. work in master degree, brethres are invited by order of Wa. Knaus, W. M., C. Hanuar, See, ‘The home boys deserve great credit iu securing such riders and a dite on ~ ‘ tucky will begin Wednesday at Har-| discover “Tbody wt hamville, twelve miles from the city, | decomposed. It is composed of twenty or more] g itors are expected to attend the/ the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. met Wood | *aniversary at Tarrytown, N. Y. old rusty pistol when the dinner bell lin made a unique demonstration at| rang. ‘They a'l started towards the] the graye of Parnell, There were no | house and Wood banded the pistol] funeral features, the parade being in| © Moody, who in trying to let down] the nature of a triumphal march, | The bullet struck Fortson in theling on the way to New York from of Mack|sas, Nebraska, Colorado, Iowa, Mi white, died in Fisherville|nesota, Wisconsin, Upper Michigan, » remains were buricd | and Illinois, and showers all over the | M,,|next month will mvet this (Monday ) evening in] withia the prc sta'ed G mumunication at 7:30, A'sol vice laws will receive more protec-| All visit'ng] tion than is accorded them now, and country will be present, and uearly| stated that it was no fault or inten-| of this city and he will have a big professionals are traveling on| tion of his to violate the law, and tLe} crowd out to hear him speak. FOUND IN THE WOODS, Body of Bud Short Found Near Murray. Hangec Himself Last Tuesday— The Body Badly Decom posed, { —_— News reached the city today of the | suicide of Rud Sbort, a prominent} mer of near Murray, Calloway} ppeared from bome la county. Pan He di Association of Southwestern Ken- Tuesday,faod no trace of him st as until yesterday, when the | found in the woods, badly | He hanged himself, | probably as a result of temporary in-| yy He leaves a family. | NEWS AND COMMENT. Last week was a record-breaker for } The attegdance was 95,445. be @eneral Grand Chapter of) Royal Arch Masons will meet in tri- ennial conclave at Baltimore today. | It is said the Russian minister to | the United States, now at home on a} vacation, will not return, | This week promises to be a lively one at the Tennessee Exposition Twenty-nine events are scheduled, to| begin today with the presentation of | a statue of Commodore Vanderbilt to the university named in bis honor. Silver-leader Bronston will have to} be tried for heresy. He says he doubts if a ratio of 16 to 1 would pre- serve the ratio between gold and sil- | ver, and is willing the ratio should be 80 to 1 if necessary, The old Dutch church at Sleepy} Hollow, made famous by Washington | Irving, yesterday celebrated its 200th Five thousand Nationalists at Dub- | | Gold imports have begun at a live- ly rate, millions of yellow metal be- Europe. The movement will prob-| ably continue for two months, Rey. Sam Jones _ will celebrate his fiftietif birthday, October 16, with an} elaborate dinner at his home at Car- tersville, Ga., to which many promi- nent men are invited. The ten-weeks’ drouth in Western Kentucky was broken last evening, good showers falling at Princeton, Hopkinsville, Madisonville, Hender- son and other places. At Madison- ville the rain was avcompaied by hail. jority of Judge T. Z. Morrow in the Twenty-eighth judicial district will reach 600. Morrow was bitterly o, posed by the Hunter faction owing to the fact that he is Gov, Bradley's brother-in-law, and refused to help Hunter in his senatorial race. Great damage was done in the fashionable residence district of New York yesterday by the bursting of a water main, Before the deluge of water could be stopped ten million gallons had poured into cellars and Dispatches indicate that the ma- | TEN CENTS A WEEK a Oc. STOVE REPAIRS ‘JAPANNED COAL BUGKETS BEST QUALITY, COAL HEATING STOVES wooD HEATING STOVES STOVES SET UP. Ge. 0, Hart & Sun Hardware and Sto Company INCORPORATED, 109-117 N. Third St. Stoves Sold on Easy Payments 303-307 Broadway. OIL HEATING STOVES Stoves Sold on Easy Payments Am 5c. YOUR =} GALVANIZED COAL BUCKETS. BEST QUALITY, READ HOW: With every cash purchase of $1 or over you can get your picture Sor SaF et be) on a Button or Pin FREE We Carr the Largest and Best Selected Stock of SHOES nthe city. Ally She well-known | antees satisfa ask is a visit to our stor a , te nd our prices will tell the rest, ographer W.G. McFADDEN, will do the work for us, which alone tion. Bring your children and buy their School Shoes of us, as also own shoes, and get ticket. This is the latest fad of the i 5 you nothing by buying shoes of : pon noe Pane coes GEO. ROCK & SON, 321 Broadway, Paducah, Ky. A SNAP IN CHILDREN’S SHOES, FOR ONE WEEK ONLY. FOR CASH ONLY. Your pick and choice of a lot of Children’s Shoes Sizes 5 to iz 12 and 12 to 2. Regular values were $1, $1.25 and $1.50 pair. All new stock and first-class in all respects. bin CENTS — PAIR. They 00, $1.25 and $1.50. -Weille & Son. $15.00 \DSOM Shoes 49c. ‘O6y seoyg a ‘“ FURNITURE 4 OF ONE DOLLAR DOWN AND FIFTY GENTS A WEEK. _ Weare the largest dealers in household goods in Western Kentucky---the only dealers that can furnish your house from kitchen to attic. Our stock consists of Furniture, Carpets, basements for Many squares. The general yellow fever outlook was somewhat improved yesterday. ‘There were five deaths and thirty-five new cases at New Orleans ; two deaths al Mobile, one at Biloxi, Miss., on at Nitta Yuma, Miss., and one at Magazine Point, Ala. Heavy showers have been broken the drouth in the South and West, Rajn fell yesterday and last night very generally jn Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Kau- country are predicted for today, It is svid on good Washington that after the electic overnment employes isions of the civil ser- that a ruling will be male against re- moving deputy collec‘ors, storekvep- «re and gaugers, authority at) Stoves, Trunks, And all kinds of House Furnishings. We are head- quarters. Our compotitors cannot touch us. JONES INSTA\ STALLMENT COMPANY CORNER THIRD AND COURT STREETS BETTER TIMES Call and examine them, | 333 Broadway. DALTON’ TAILORING | ESTABLISHMENT. | $14.00 Pants to Order $3.75 wy I5c.