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we. _Eastman DN a dan If it’s True Neat in The Sun THE PADUCA HD . yaaa i. AILY SUN. HE advertisers are the Sun is the best me’ by which to reach the peop! VOLUME II—NUMBER 6 PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 27, 1897. Facts IN THE SHAPE OF FIGURES Are the strongest argument for the Pecepective y irchaser. There's 0 hing definite about them; they're tangible, and easy to tie Lo. We present you with some facts and oe in the following items that will greatly improve the ey mpe| power of your dollars, You'll do we! to note them. It’s much easier to ®ave money this way than it is to earn it, BY FIRE AND BY WATER, Residence—Toll Gate Raid- ers Threaten to Burn Homes of Officers. cing Dress Goods Facts inaugurate a sale of peorless ins. Every item rings with the tury of money saving. Such ings as the following willadd rep- utation to the sto This sale includes A great stock of half-wool dress pattern sults for 980, worth $1.50 each A choice stock of strictly all-wool pattern suits for $1.69 a suit that are worthy to be sold for $2.26 and up- wards. Dress patterns in rough effects, de signed from French goods, worth 81.2 a yard, are on sale here for only 82.03 asuit. Get your share of them while they last. You will find money saved here in Terrible Floods on the Pacific Coast—Vast Damage Done to Railroads and Mines—Min- ers Ars Homeless, their home by The Toll Gate War. ONCE AT ALONDIKE. Family Cremated in «a Burning An Interesting Interview With| More Facts and Rumors About Mr. KR. M. River, Who Strack It Rich in the Frozen North. He Will Be Married to Mrs, Fra- ley Tomorrow or Mon- day, and Return to Klondike. Mr, R. M. River is the name of a Jamestown, N. Y., Nov. 27.—A]man who came all the way to Ken- woman and two men were burned to] tucky from Klondike for a wife. death today by the destruction of} least when he leaves Paducah he will At carry away with him as a bride Mrs. Maggie Fraley, who has been in charge of Scott's restaurant, on Sec- Winchester, hy., Nov. 27.—The] ond street, near Court, for some little the purchase of any pattern suit at/toll gate war has broken out in this | time. $5.00, 86.00, $7.00, $8.00 and $10.00 a] county, built. %, You will find a true story of mone; eaving hers in the purchase of black | families of dress goods, broadeloths, sackings,| threaten to bu ‘The raiders destroyed two the keepers. gates last night and drove away the} K They | constitution is like n the homes of the/are few places from the equator to Mr. River's home is in Lexington, and he i9 42 years old, but his iron, and there ete., aud a worthy stock to select from. | county ofticers if more toll is col-| the arctic circle which he has not at lected. among the] tll gate war i Cloak Facts There's consternation arment makers. ward season eaves them with bigstocks, Unload- ing tactics have begun, As usual, we're buying on the breaks, ‘This means rare money saving for those who are watcning. We are rece! splendid values from day to day, If}have rendered hundreds of you've a capo or a jacket to buy it] homeless and nothing to eat. this county. Floods in the Northwest. Monte Christo, Wash., Nov. Floods have washed away the rail- expecting a superb line of jackets that we will pat on sale this week for $10.00 agarment, Worthy stylish garments are here for #4.50, $5.00, $7.00 and $8.00 4 garment Millinery Pat on your thir™™. find that you save 1 buy here. Give us a ask; you'll do the baying Handkerchiefs A handsome, worthy stock of Christ- mas handkerchiefs nuw ready for your inspection The New Time Card Goes Into Effect Tomorrow. Road, According to Reports, Shoes Copies of the new time card for No nd to our £ Allinois Central railroad, this di- el vision, arrived this morning. fore known wie gigo.| The changes made do not differ , $2.00 and up to trom those in tue Sus sev. HA ; eral weeks ago, Nos, 321 and 222 On North Third street will les Central Ciyy at 6 m, and Just back of Wallerstein’s. arrive here at 10:45 a. m., leaving [here at5:50 p.m, The night trains will not be changed, but the train which now arrives at 12:10 p. m. will arrive at 2:20 p, m. The other train will arrive at 2:55 p. m. and leave at 3 o'clock, while the St. Loala train will be due ten minutes ater. Kodaks ss The Home sleepers have been taken off the trains of this division and Puilman sleepers substituted. It is understood that the sleepers ‘*Padu- ab,” ‘Louisville’? and ‘Memphis’? will berun between Memphis and Evansville, We are exclusive agents for this ren On December 1, according to re ports, Yard Master Bob Nelson will resign and t permanent position on the road, and will. be succeeded by Mr. Bob McCann, formerly union depot yard master and now assistant yard master, Mr, Nelson gave up the yard mastership several weeks ago on account of his health, but re- sumed it after recovering. Mr, E. W. Huntley, until recently special agent of the I. C, here, killed Ss. y ment, from pocket size . H, Sibley, a constable at Lela last evening. A dispatch Jeweler and . : i , Miss., Nov, 26.—S, H. Optician a constable in Squire Garri- s court, was killed at 6:10 this evening by C. W. Hurtley, a THIRD AND BROADWAY special agent of the Yazoo & Missis- sippi Valley railroad, It is impos- sible to get reliablé ipformation of the cause of the killing, After the shooting Huntley, who is thought to Does your watch run correctly? y have acted in self defense, gave bim- Epetet, bring it to where you selfup to A. A. Rose, deputy mar- @ Whnow it will be y tly re shal, and by his request was carried paired by a private conveyance to Green- ville to await preliminary trial, ORTON'S OPERA HOUSE Moor's Air Tight Heaters guaran- Hetcher lerrett, Manager} @2t give more lieat with less _ fuel J than any soft coal stove sold, Scott acaupays Hardware Co, Sole Agents. 272 29 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29 «THE ORIGINAL... nd and Broadway, st Hauk Bros. & Jones have a lot of beautiful carving sets cheap, We are still selling lots of those wonderful Oil Heaters, They are the best at Scott Hdw, Co. 27m2 FINE OLE OLSON =... |BON-BONS Better than ever before, The original Cast New Specialties, anc THE ONLY LAWSON AND Better known as The Terrible Swede, in the Great BICYCLE RACE CHOCOLATES 0000eeee Taree smoked bloters for de, + NOTHING LIKE MY CANDIES + 2 , kgs. self-rising bu lev ent Ive Pure maple sugar, per Ib , 12 es Heing' best mince meat, per 1b, ,10¢ Delicious, Choice onions, per pr, 20e, Pure, 5 N ithern potatoes per peck, 20c. Satisfying Choice pigs’ ieet, pur dus, u0e, Choice'ra sins, 8 pounds for Choice ¢ates, 3 poaads for 25 . 1, L, Rasvonrn, 188 Sonth Second street. Te rphone 89 Phone -293. |roads, destroyed many mines, and average of $6,000 a month. Mr. Bob Nelson to Again Take the | else, ISTUTZ ‘This is the beginning of the} some time visited. ASvn reporter ran across Mr. River this morning and found him a most entertaining talker. He is the inventor of a patent pressed sir washer, which he claims nets him an He is miners]of @ roving disposition, however. and cannot remain long in one place. He always wants to imove on, and that's how he came to be in Padacah at present, Mr. River Was working the West with his invention, when the Circle City, Alaska, gold fever broke out. He had plenty of money, he claimed, and went out from San Francisco more as an experiment than anything Klondike was then unknown, but there was gold everywhere al- most, It cost several hundred dol- lars to reach Circle City, but no one seemed to care for money. “1 found everybody working hard,’’ said Mr, Riner. ‘Men who worked for $16 a day and board were scarce, although they could easily get that, I guess that is be+ because when a man reaches the gold fields he wants to start out for him- self. He does not desire to work for somebody else, and for that reason hired workmen are ree, “There are no civil laws in Alas. ka, but the laws— ‘committee laws’ they call them—-are better and more effective than any system of govern- ment in any state, county or city ia the Union, I bave seen many # no- tice posted there with the names of those who have promulgated them, and skull and cross-bones attached, A man knows what to cxpect if he violates the laws. I saw one man hanged once for stealing two pounds of bacon, I don't say, however, that there are no thieves in Alaska, for there are. The penalty is simply so severe and so summarily enforced that the lawless are afraid to run any risks. “One peculiar thing is that no Italians or Chinamcn are allowed there. I saw them put a Chinaman on a couple of logs one day, load on ten days’ provisions, and start him down the Yukon river. Sometimes, when aman commits an offense that they think does not merit hanging, they take a picture of him and senda copy to every camp in the county. That man can never again remain in Alaska, At every camp he is run out, until he flaally reaches the end of the country, “The thermometer is Yrequently 70 degrees below zero, but you can stand it much better than you can zero here in this climate. The dif- ference is, 1t is still and dry, while here it isdamp and wintry, and the frigidity goes right to the bones, ‘In some parts of the year there I have seen 10,000 mosquitos to the square inch, And the malaria is simply dreadful,” Mr. River gave a very interesting account of how they miue gold, with which most newspaper readers are familiar, Mr. River claims to have brought over from Alaska $75,000 in gold, He now seems to have plenty of money, and displays $50 gold cer- tificates almost without number, “I shall go to Klondike, which has come into great fame since I was in Alaska, next spring,” he said, Mrs, Fraley, who was sitting near by, admitted that she herself had as- pirations to see Klondike, and said she would leave as Mr, River's wife when he starts for St. Louis tomor- row or Monda, Winter Tow Rates, ‘The Illinois Central Railroad com- pany has now on sale tickets to prom- inent winter resorts in Florida, Geor- gia, South Carolina, Texas, New Mexico and Mexico at reduced rates, For further information apply to J. 'T, Donovan, C. A., Paducah, Ky, Radiant Home Base Burners at Scott Hardware Co, are fully guaran- teed. 2 IA LITTLE SLATE IS BROKEN, the Caucus Muddle, Which Is Stirring Up Democrats. the It Is Said That the Caneus Will Be Held Over, or Else Ree pudiated, and a Regular Election Held The Svs has previously stated that it was possible, if not probable, that the council-elect’s siate would be broken before the time for putting it through comes, and judging from in- dications its surmise is correct. It appears that the longer some of the} #0 members-elect 8 surpris slate the }opinion is expressed by them all. more conscientious think about this motley more determined they are to have that cauctis over, or else repudiate its proceedings when the elevtion is entered into. A ludicrous but perplexing prob- lem now confronts some of the mem- bers. There were for one of the of- fives to be filled not less than twenty candidates, and fifteen of these, from data collected since the cauc: That opinion seems to **totio’ a councilman himself puts it. One candidate approached a mem- ber-elect the other day and said: “See here, I was a candidate before | °Very , that caucus and I understand I didn’t] affects the kidneys. vote. Can you tell me how that] forms of the trouble—one an ment and the other a shrinking of the} kidneys.’ was “No, I can't,’’ replied the coun- cilman, ‘‘unless it was because there were seventeen candidates and only twelve councilmen to vote.’’ a great many complaints. Another thing that may be destined ]*2y ease of albumineria to occasion trouble in the ranks is the selection of men to fill the places of] these eases are curable. r a man dies of kidney trouble is the lockup-keeper, livense inspector, market master, and overseer of the chain-gaog. Judging from Mayor- elect Lang’s statement, the offices are to be made appointive instead of elect- ive to conform to the idea of increas- ing the police force. It will then de- volve upon him to make the appoiut- ments, although he agreed for the council to select the men for the places, men for the places would indicate such an arrangement. Yet the Ma; or would have to make the appoint- ments, and the responsibility of them would rest entirely upon him. And there is considerable objection to]" some of the nom But the slate itself is principally] ous what occasioned the trouble, It not popular, at least some of it is not. Democrats claim it is compris- ed of bolters, free silverites. Repub- licans, men with Populistie tenden- cies, and others. “It looks like offering a premi- um toa man to bolt his party,’ lu-|clares: prominent] Bright’s disease has been largely ex- perimental, I t is quoted | enough and frank enough to com gubriously observed ot Democrat the other da: One of the council-e assaying that if motion is made on]! the night of the election to go into] ¢ an election of officers the caucus not- withstanding, it will carry by a vote of at least nine to three. Some offi the members are sadder and wiser]® men, and are somewhat suspicious that somebody slipped up on them on the night of the caucus and is sponsible for a slate that is so gever- ally distasteful in some respects, not only to their constituents, bat to] lisease of the MMuyeys, I prescribe ny of the new councilmen them-|it in my practice | selves, Dr. ©. Warriogton Berle, of Chi-| It is probable, judging from what | ago, say ases of “the kid- | one councilman says, that the slate]neys may be slight or aggravate: will be broken in at least one in stance, and this is in the selection of a city engineer, It appears that some of the councilmen-elect were con- vinced as early as the day following the caucus of the error in making a change in city engineers at this stage of the game, and will remedy it when the time comes, “OLE OLSON” At Morton’s Opera House Monday Night, A bicycle contest on the stage is somewhat rare in theatricals Olson,”’ the organization, which is to appear at the opera house Monday evening, introduces one,and on that o casion the only Lawson, better known as ‘The Terrible Swede,’’ will ap- pear with Mr. Robert McCune, one of the best ridersof Paducah as his contestent. As Mr. McCune is known to be quite speedy an exciting and interesting contest will no doubt be the result, The best is the cheapest ec the line of Rogers’ Triple Plate Knives and Forks, Tea and. Table Spoons at Hank Bros, & Jones.’ Elegant lunch at Merchants’ Ex-! change, Second and Broadway, at 7:30. 1 costs about half as much. Burns better than grain alcohol, and PURE WOOD ALCOROL A& : POR SALE IN ANY QUANTITY BY ‘ ed by similar efforts in America, | Careful inquiry great modern disease is kidney trou- ble, and that the kidneys are the first | organs of the body to be attacked by over-exertion or over-indulgence, and | the first to become weakened by the grip. fact there can be no doubt, but that these troubis can be prevented and | claim | cured amajority on the first ballot, despite clearly show. In the interest of hu- the fact that there were only twelve | manity we have made similar nay’ votes cast. ‘The question is, who is|@ations.and the result is given here- ater on both shoulders?” as | With. “The term Bright's disease covers In fact, is called Bright’s disease. The majority of functions.’’ was atime when any man or woman suffering fromany form of kidney trouble had cause for,dispair. time has passed: intimates he| Years d have treated every variety of kidney trouble in both men and wo- and in fact the}men, and I do not believe there is a action of the council in nominating | ¢ase 80 severe, no matter of how long standing, that it cannot be relieved entious use of Warner's Safe Cur , the kidneys. patient within a few years unless he receive proper treatment.”’ United States Medic “Acute Bright's d s curable. re-|C S} self had been curd of 1 AMPLY CONFIMED, Karopean } The Most Important Subject of the | Present Day Settled Beyond = | Question. ‘The cable dispatehes which recent- | ly appeared in the daily papers indi- | cating the great interest felt through- | out Europe upon a subject of international interest have naturally awakened grent attention, not to say excitement, in this city and through- out the land. It is a well known fact that the demands of modern life have baused a strain which seems to shorten life and undermine health universally, The efforts made abroad to investigate its cause are most commendable, and we are} pleased to say have been supplement- é has been made prominent physicians, and it) rising what uniformity of be that the That this is a most lamentable the investigations made abroad ti Der.N. 8, Davis sai Ver do not know what Bright's disease The term is applied popularly to trouble that even remotely There are two ean eolarg- Dr. Frank T, Andrews says The reason y of the organ to perform its “There Dr. 8. Clarke declares: That For the past eight or cured by the careful and conse Dr. Charles W. Purdy says: ‘There are many diseases grouped ander the head of Bright's disease of One of the most seri- forms is almost always accom- panied by heart trouble whieh fre- jueptly causes the death of the pa- ient. The acute form will kill the dean of the College, de-|f ‘For years the treatment of Dr. R. A. Gunn alk independent mend most heartily that great rem- vdy— Warner's Safe Cur Dr. A. B. Hos aflirms: e in children|® he kidneys, you see. es, and when they y closed trouble must result Pyre York, of Washington, D “I think Warber’s Safe great blessing to mankind, and ken regularly will cure almost any The object to be attained is to lint the overworked and worn-out organs to as little exercize as possible.’’ Dr. Jehn W. Mapes, of Paris, IIL, says: ‘I am a living example of the virtues of Warner's Safe Cure, with- out which I should long since have been dead,” Throughout the land, wherever iu- vestigation has been made, the senti ment seems to be the same. The above unquestioned and un- questionable testimony proves beyond a doubt that Bsight’s disease of the kidneys can be cured. Mr. knew whereof he aflirmed, f Warner vt he hime hv’s dis- ease in its worst form, 1 reader has peculiar pains, strange sensations or unaccountable feelings, which far too often announce the coming on of kidney trouble, there is no need to despond; there is eyery reason for hope. Acure has been found and proven beyond «question or the possi- bility of a doubt Yoal Bills by Hank If you want to reduce use weather — strip Bros. & Jones. W. A. CLEMENT, M.D, Ph. 6. nd Hours— Fourth a 4:80 Lo 11:00 ain. 200to 1.0 pan FwMto 8.00 pan, jee, 808 Washing? ton street ust the thing for alcohol stoves, chafing dishes, vapor baths, OEHLSCHLAEGER & WALKER Fith a6 DRUGGISTS Proadng 3 $ ime PF COAL BUCKET Made from us now will be put away and reserved until wanted. Make your selections now and get choice GEO. 0. HART & SON HARDWARE AND STOVE COMPANY GEO. ROCK & SON2 For the past thirty nine years this familiar sign has been seen on + ad Every schoolboy or girl in Paducah knows the name of ock, We carry the same quality of goods today that we did thirty-nine years ago. That means the best goods you can buy for the money. We areupto date in style, color and price A picture free with every cash purchase. GHO. ROCK & Son, THE FAMOUS ALWAYS LEADS LET Handsome Bedroom © Da | The'T'ailor ‘ The most wonderful heater made, TEN CENTS A WEEK REDUCED PRICES ON . FIRE SETS, COAL VAS Our store is the cheapest place in town for these goods, ON ! Ab) s Best quality coal buckets as low as 8¢, PRIMUS OIL HEATERS NO WICKeesoNO SOOToeosNO ODOR Gives an intense heat at $ Burns air and oil—more air than oil. a minimum cost, HOLIDAY PURCHASES OF LEAFAPS FINE CHINA CUT GLASS from an unbroken stock —_——-— INCORPORATED 303-307 Broadway. 109-117 N. Third-st. BOOTS AND SHOES $21 BROADWAY Suits of which we have but one or two sizes yet in stock. We want to clear them out before we take inventory January J. Zz vr Stacks 1 and 2 Men's Suits that for- merly sold at $10.00 and Stacks 3 and 4 $12.50 reduced to y B.WEILLE & SON at $15.00, $18.00 and gss 409 BROADWAY 411 BROADWAY $20.00 reduced to...+++ iMOTIOS SUIHLO 137 MON CUT PRICES ON MEN'S SUITS Bee eae hor an eeoeed = S HELP YOU We arrange that it won't cost you much, ‘Vo have a comfortable and handsome home, You will be delighted and surprised at our stock, with our low prices, with our reason- able terms, Our store 18 crowded with Q ets, Lounges, Rockers and Folding Beds, Latest : Patterns of Carpets, Rugs, Mattings. 4d. Our Stoves for both cooking and heating are unsurpassed for beauty and quality, See Our Ranges, our Trunks—in fact, anything that will furnish your house. Onur promises have been fulfilled in the past, which inspired public confidence in us, rgains, and we always live up to our promises—we on every evening until 9 oclock. astonishing We promise many ppoint you, will never «i Remember our stores are « JONES INSTALLMENT COMPANY CORNER THIRD AND COURT STREETS Can Please You uilor-made suits to order for less money than. ge Everybody cay ye uit at the prices charged byge* ton ones of same quality. - Kes ngs