The Paducah Daily Sun Newspaper, December 11, 1897, Page 1

VOLUMECII—NUMBER 78 PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, SATURDAY DECEMBER 11, 1897, cabin YOU SAVE When you can, do younot? Well, try a pound of .Soule’s... Ground Pepper! eee It will cost you 1sc. Soule would of sell it if it was not PuRr. Place orders at once Huyler's for Christ mas delivery. for J. J. PURSLEY ~ All Kinds Upholstering and Repairs ON FURNITURE. Mirrors replated and made good as new. Mattresses made toorder, Old stoves and second-hand furniture TAKEN IN EXCHANGE FOR WORK Send word, and I will call and make eatimate work nar; easonable. No. 712 South Special Sale. Three smoked bloaters for 5: Two-pound pkgs. self-rising buck- wheat 10¢ Pare maple sugar, per tb., 12 Heinz’ best mince meat, per Ib. ,10c. Choice onions, per peck, 20c. Northern potatoes por peck, 20: Choice pigs’ feet, per doz., 0c. Choice raisins, 3° pounds { Choice dates, 8 pounds for 1. L. Raxvoirn, cond street, Frankfort, Ky., Dee, | 1.-—Farmer ireen, who lives at Penk's Mill, this al was sited by whitecaps Thursday night . "le had previously been warned that fy would be at. tacked and was om. the lookout for then At a lafo, hour answered a call to come, outside carrying his shotgun with bim\y Four men seized him, but he manage! to tlischarge the contents of one bm el of his gun nnd his assailants ran Green thinks be lit one of the men. He suspects parties whom he bad refused to allow to bunt on his farm He came to town to-day and asked aid of the Federal officers in bringing the whitecappers to justice. Order your oysters tomorrow from Tel. $24 direct from The Delicatessen, 327 Broadway. If you want the best goto Scott e Co's. If IT IS EWELRY want you will make no ling to see me you mistake by FOR I have rece ment that wa view to econ able for CHRISTMAS PRESENTS T can assure you that 1 tock this year is larger than ever, and inqite you to SEE for yourself, feeling that it will be mutually profitable Joe Petter, Third Street. ved a special ship: ted witha ind be suit- sele my Repairing neatly done and guaranteed. We Originate Others Copy led to my already ate bon ine of cam T have mare and a anapproachable lin bons an extraordinarily fine dies which I have styled the Oriental Chocolates, Bon-Bons and Frappe: These candies are ext the like was never before“nade or sold ja this city. I have also the finest line of boxes ever offered to the people by anyone. jn Telephoite 243, Jinarily fine 417 Bioadways | NO CHANGE. |The President’s Mother Lingers Though Growing Weaker— The Yresident Still With Her, Atlanta Has an Epidemic of Small Pox—Kentucky’s Eyer Present * Toll Gate War—Other Late News, Canton, O., Dec. 11.—Mother McKinley is still in about the same condition as yesterday, except that she grows weaker each day, The President is still at her bedside. ‘Toll Gate War, Bardstown, Ky., Dec. 11,.—The toll gate on the Shepherdsville pike was demolished last night. uards had been placed on five roads last bight and yet this gate was destroyed. The county authorities will ask the governor for troops. Ox, ‘There is pox in this city, Epidemic ot Small-! Atlanta, ¢ an epidemic of smal Two hundred cases have been re- ported. The authorities are com- pelling euerybody to be vaccinated. SUICIDE AT HICKMAN. Hickman, Ky., Dec, 10—Mabala Gibson committed suicide by hanging herself. The suicide was the result] ‘ of a love affair, i CELEBRATE GOLD DISCOVERY President Invited to Attend Ca‘i- fornia’s "49 Reunion. San Francisco, Dec, 9.—A slab of quarts with veins of gold prominent- ly showing will convey California's inyitation to President McKinley to attend on January 24 the golden jub- ilee of the discovery of gold. Chair- man Parsons, of the executive com. mittee, has promised to secure a suit- *Jable piece of precious rock and have engraved on its face the mes+ sage which will bid the President to come to California to reecive a min- er's welcome, SLAVE UNVER JACKSON Jobn Smith, Colored. Aged Dies at Steubenyille, O, Steubenville, O., Dee, 1!1—John Smith, a ceotevarian colored man, died at the Brooke county poor house across the river, aged 109 years, He claimed to have been a slave under Audrew Jackson, and said he lived so long because he had always been a ight eater. Hts wife died a year ago at nearly the same age. GRAVES COUNTY WEODINGS. Mayfield, Ky., Dec. 10.—Mr. James Mullins and Miss Iva Hollo- way were married at Wingo, teo miles south of Mayfield, last night. Edward Puryear and Miss Hattie Rickman, two of the county's most popular young people, married last night six miles south of ber Mr. Wood Gordon, a farmer living near here, and Miss Mildred Carver, of Mayfield, will marry this after- noon at the parsonage of Rev. Shel- ton, two miles from here. Mr. Rufus Skinner, of Paducab. Ky , and Miss Daisy Quinn, of this city, will be married here December 16th. WHEELS BEGIN TO TURN. 109, The two struck in the hurt. disorderly on North correct parents, On last Monday night she disappeared from home. She left note, saylog that she had joined the band of gypsies, which were showing vu Main strect in that cit, The manager of the gypsics lias been advertising here for girls to go A SECRET MARRIAGE, That Occurred Over ''wo Months Ago. Mr.G,S, Kreutzer and Mrs, Ls A. ‘Turner Married by Judge Tully, A secret marriage that occurred over two months ago is now made public for the first tune. One day last October Mr. G. Kreutzer, the well known and popular steamboat engineer, and Mrs. L. A. Turner, a young widow, who resides on Court street near Fourth, decided to be married. They coftcluded a secret wedding would be more romanti than, and equally as goo! as, an an- nounced marriage, and M.. Kreutzer went to the court house after the li- cense. How he succeeded in getting the license without a record being made in the county clerk’s office is a mat- ter he laughingly declined to explain when asked about it this morning by 4 reporter. newspaper reporters caught on to it. At any rate none of the The license was procured, how- ever, and the marriage was perform- ed at the residenc of County Judge Tully, on Jefferson street, one even- ng after supper. The marriage was kept a close ret, being divulged to no one ex- cept the immediate family. Mr. Kreutzer left several days ago days ago on the Beaver for Pittsburg where he accepted a position on the Ad whi caught in the machinery and almost broken. home for repairs. nce. Day before yesterday, cleaning the engine, his leg was He was compelled to retarn ATTENDANCE INCREASING In the Paducah Pablic Schoojs— 188 Greater Than Last Year. The average attendance in the pub- lic schools for the past week was 206 188 better than for the corre- sponding number last year. Supt. McBroom is greatly encour- aged over the increasing attendance, despite the fact that it crowds the rooms to some extent. Supt. McBroom says that the statement in a contemporary that a pupil at one of the colored schools bad an eye knocked out by a play. mate a day or two ago was an crror, hada fight, and one was ye, but not seriously, FLOURISH Thon Escaped to Cairo On -a man was druok aud Fourth street near Broadway, tlourishing a dirk knife and having a good time gen- Last night a erally. Justice Winchester was awakened about midnight, and a warrant was issued against him for carrying con- cealed a deadly weapon, ‘The warrant is issued against Wm. Stone, but it is said this is not bis name. He was waroed in time to escape by boarding a steam- boat for Cairo, getting away just as a constable hove in sight. "SQUIRE GANSTER’ The Lock Singletree Company Begins Operations. Will Revolutionize the Manufact- Christmas tre E, ebureh on Christe ure of Singletrees, CHRISTMAS TREE, it Will Be For the Benefit of Poor Children, S. Ganster will give a at the Third street M eve night for Justice J. the poor children whom Santa Claus unsually neglects. The Lack Singletree Company, whose factory is near Third and Hus- bands streets, started up this morno- ing, and an industry that is destined |; to revolutionize the manufacture of singletrees was begun, The incorporators of this concern are Messrs. F Lack, the inventor, W. F. Paxton, E. P. Gilson, Jos, L. Friedman, W. F. Bradshaw and Geo, Grief. The capacity of the plant will be abovt 400 dozen singletree clips a day, At present it cannot be told how large a force will be worked. Mr, Lack, in a short time, will prob: bly assume personal management of the concern, ASKEW MUROER CASE. The murder against Wm. Catto abd John Holly, charged with beia- iously butchering Comic Askew near Star Lime Works, not far from Ed- dyville, is set for Monday in the Lyon county circuit court, nuw in session, The self-confessed murderers have been in jail for several months, and will probably han; LEFT A 6000 JO Lerona Peters, the misguided maiden who was persuaded by Mar- shal Collins yesierday to return to her home in Evansville and leave the fakirs who call themselves gypsies, was an employe of the Evansville Sanitarium where she ran away from home last Mond: The girl resided at No, 505 Upper Ninth strect, Evansville, with hey Any one having presents or dona- tions will confer a favor on the Jus- tice by notifying him or sending them in to him in time for distribution. LOFTIN LEFT, rged With Calling Another a “D—d Rascal.” Yesterday afternoon a warrant was wed by Justice Winchester aguinst Clay Loftin, of the Florence Station neighborhood, charging him with calling a man at the court house d—d rascal."’ The two men, it seems, fell out over alaw suitinthe circuit court. When the warrant was sent out to be executed Loftin was reported to have left the locality. DERANGEMENT OF ELECTRIC WIRES. - Last night the fire department was led out by the derangement of electric wires in the Campbell build- ing. connected with an iron pipe, and there was a brilliant di tricity for a few minutes, An electric light wire became play of elec+ The trou- ble was soon remedied. A SMALL RUNAWAY. ‘The horse attached to the Southern Express wagon ran away this fore- noon. It started on Third street, near Broadway, and was stopped at the Palmer House, no damage hav- ing been done. Look out for Noah's Ark M: for Christmas, | BEE WHIZ! Andrew Washington Confesses to Stealing One Hundred and Twenty-seven Chick- ens in Paducah. The Prince of Chicken Thieves in the Lockup—He Confessed His Stealing “to Escape Hanging.” he most persistent and successful ken thief ever captured in Padu- cah was caught by Oflicer Crow be- fore daylight this morning out on Washington street. His name is An- drew Washington, his home is in Wingo, and he had a basket of dressed chickens with which be had started to the city to dispose of. He was promptly taken into custody, and could give no satisfactory ac- oount of how be came into possession of them, Marshal Collins went to see Lim in his cell this afternoon, “Look here, man,” said the Marshal, “you'd better be telling us where you got those chickens, You've been running around here at night stealing people's chickens, and now I'll just turn you over to them and let them ‘tend to you.”’ “Fo’ God, Mis’ Collins, I'll tole oall I kno laimed Wash- ington, terrified beyond description. “Bat doan tu’n me obah to dem white fo'ks, kase I know whut dey’ll do—dey’ll bang me.’’ “Well, hurry up then. short.’’ “Dll clah to Ged, Cap'n, I'll tole yo de tru, I’se stole so menny chi ens, fo God I kant remember whal dey wuz. all f’'am,”" “Ob yes you can; where you got some of them, “No I kant, Mas’ Collin. I'll tole yo’, I’se stole chickuns fo’ foal ur five munths, an’ I Kant tole whar dey all cum f’um,”’ “PIL juse turn you over to the people, then. I believe I'd rather do that, anyhow.’” “TI fioks mebbe I kin fink ob sum ob dem chickuns’ ownalis—only gib me time—gib me time.’’ To make a long story short Wash- ington he places and number of kens he has stolen here within comparatively Even the police were app revelation, and Marshal Collins says Washington is without doubt the biggest chicken theif in Southwestern Kent This afternoon the police were se- curing the names of the people to whom be was disposing of tie stolen fowls. He will no doubt get a long term in the penitentiary, 1, G. NOTES. . Copies of the new time card which goes into effect tomorrow on the Ili- nois Central were received last night 203 will reach Paducah at 2:43 instead o p. m., bat will leave Louisville twenty-five minutes later: thus reducing the time between Louisville and Paducah fifteen min- utes. No, 201, the other ‘cannon ball,’’ will arrive about four minutes eather, at 1:16 a, m., instead of 1:20, My time’s you can tell a Beginning tomorrow the “home sleepers’’ will be taken off the Iili- nois Central, These are the sleepe which were put on and cut off at 1’ ducal for the convenience of those who desired to travel between Louis ville and Paducah, and preferred re- tiring ia the sleeper at the depot at 9 o'clock or later instead of sitting up to wait for the train, The object of the company in do- ing this 1s not known, but it has long been known that these sleepers were a great loss to the company, The Illino's Central Railroad is distributing pamphlets showing and routes for three grand Mexican tours via their line. First special train will leave Chicago Jan, 18th, and will be under the supervision of Mr. Reau Campbell, the celebrated tourist expert, who will conduct an other excu p. leaving Chicago . ye other will be one of the celebrated ‘Gates tours,’’ leav- ing Chicago I 1th, on special train consisting of vestibuled sleep- ing and eompariment cars, obser tion, library, dining and baggage ding bath room and barber shop. This tour will take in Mardi Gras, at New Orleans, and after ev- tering Mexivo will travel principally by daylight, going via one route and returning another, and arriving back in Chicago March z1st. A copy of the descriptive pamphlet can be had by addressing or calling on Mr. J. 'T. Donovan, Com'l Agent, Illinois Central Railroad, Paducah, It If you want parlor ornaments you can be pleased at Kentucky Glass acd Queesware Co, 11d3 oisoning it Graves. ris, near the Mayfield college, who | thoved tliere recently from the Farm- Seth | ington vicinity, have been affected | h something similar to arsenic poisoning this week, according to the Mayfield Mirror, Qne of the chil- dren, seven years old, died Tuesday, | ¢, a | and one is still sick. The other two] Nlsf Woods Wilt Tuke Charge! have about recovered. + Dr. Prince, who is treating the efses, says he nor the family knows pf any possible thon was gotten Goes Out of Office Next Monday Evening. OAL BUCKETS COAL BUCKET Our store is ‘the cheapest place if coalTucket and Make Some Changes, | | $ PRIMUS OIL HBA; Chief of the Fire Department C NO WICK+esoNO SO0TesseNO ODO! Voight will turn the fire department | Burns air and oil—more air than oil, ” theory how the pet into the system. over to” the newly elected Chief, Mr. | James Woods, | Chief Voight and his men have ev- ery thing in readiness to be trar | ferred to the new administration, and all the paraphernalia, fire plugs, and rm boxes, as well every= else, are in excellent condition. t Chief Voight aud his men have done goud work for the city and cilizens is amply attested by the sta- istics in fires and losses, which were reduced from $49,000 to $1,000 in one year, purr. Childers case was given to the jury this morning, but the jury disagreed, afd was disc ed, Childers is chatged with steal- ing $60 from Wm. Rommel, and has been in jail several upnths, ‘The case against Kil Owens, charg- ed with malicious agpault, was con- tinued, i Chas, Cassell, tort killing stock was fined $10 and c The manslaughter case against Rob Smith, colored, was continued until the twelfth day Of the term. POLICE CORT. well, a colpred bootblack ed with usidg insulting lan- guage on the streets. ‘The case was left open. H The case against George Scribner, charged with a breackh of the peace, was contint The case against ‘Laura Lloyd, charged with using? insulting jan- guage. was continued, Louis Ray and Jolin Wadlington were fined $1 and costs fur drunken- ness, t The case against Rive Miller, for a breach of the peace, as continue The Pinekne The most wonderfal heater made. 4 minimum cost, Lesecéeteebas 000-004 . HOLIDAY PURCHASES OF FINE CHINA LAMPS Made from us now will be put away and reservedsuntil wanted. Make four as CUT G DREW A-PISTOL, | ny ein nooner ms ater GEO, O, HART & SON HARDWARE AND STOVE noon on South Third: | INCORPORATED a | . Leeper Draws a Pistol on} Harry Allen, Who Defies Him to Shoot, from an unbroken stock. 803-307 Broadway. 109-117 N. An exciting affray occured in front of Rodfus’ saloon, on south Third street between Court and Broadway, shortly after 1 o'clock this afternoon, Harry Allen approached R. L. Leeper, of Illinois, and asked him for $15 he claimed the latter owed| him. Loeper denied that he owed ss and Queensware Co Jit, and the dispute developed into 11d] very bitter denunciation on the part pi § of Leeper, which Allen resented, A handsome, useful Xmas present] Allen kuocked him down. Leeper can be found at Wahl & Sons’ Furn-| drew a pistol and pointed it at Allen iture House, 311 Broadway. 1 who tore open his coat and vest and shoot, Leeper, it appears, was cowed by Items of Marine News Picked Allen’s defiance, and took to his heels, running through Rodfus’ sa- Up on the Levee of In- terest to All. loon. A large crowd soon collected, and four or five policeman were io asbort time on the scene, but no The Dick Fowler cleared for Cairo as usual this moroing. fiat on the the arriyal trace of Leeper could be found, Basiness was very anc. depaj sexen pac wht I bad Allen went to the city hall and sur- levee this morning & ight re- ceipts. rendered himself, and was told to re: port at police court Monday morning Leeper boarded the ferry boat and left for Iilinois before Ofticers arrived. The City of Clarksville arrived out of the Ohio late yesterday afternocn, carrying an excellent cargo of grain. She left for Elizabethtown today st OREXTED X noon, The tow boat Gate City arrived here late yesterday afternoon from the upper Ohio with a big miscella- neous tow. She hft on her w St. Louis after disposing of a barge of salt here. She had two new gov- ernment barges in tow, which were recently built at Jeffersonville. The P. D, Staggs is due here to- night from Tennessee river points. She will lay over here until Monday moruing when she leaves on her re- turn at ten o'clock, The John S. Hopkins was the Evansville mail liner this morning. She was in and out on very fair time. The palatial big Troubadour in command of Capt. Brown, the coal king, of Pittsburg, arrived here yes- terdap from the waters of the Ohio, and left ou her way down, for the southern clime, after laying bere several hours. She enroute to New Orleans on a pleasure jaunt and has on board a paryy of hunters who will spend several weeks in hunting on their way down the Mississippi river. The steamer here yesterday nessee river polnts freight and several hundred head of cattle for the stock 1, She left on her return up the Tennessee this afternoon at 5 o'clock, carrying a tine freight cargo, whigh consists ipally of Christmas goods, IF YOU’D SAVED WHAT YOU'VE You might now be a rich man. If you go of never have a competency. ‘One way you waste for your SHOES than is necessary to get the bd we CAN H&LP YOU is to sell you— faions #2 Al If you want queegsware call at Men's Green $5.00 Shoes tor .... ay és William Kneeland Men's Patent Leather $6.00 Shoes for Banister's Men's Patent Leather $6.00 Shoes, for.... Ladies’ Green Coin Lacé or Button $4.00 Shoes, for Ladies’ Dongola, Pat. Leath. Tip, Needle Toe, button $3.50 5 Men's Embroidered $1.50 and $2.00 Slippers for.....+.. Ladies’ Satin Quilted, Fur Trimmed Slfppers for..... GEO. ROCK é CPROAR, And Then it All Proved to Amount to Noth y This morning a report rency that a darkey named killed his wife. He lives on § Fourth street and Oficer Etter sent up to investigate it, He found the neighborhood consid- nly excited, and the residents wed the woman had screamed as if she were being killed. When questioned by the officer however, she denied that her husband had touched | and no arrest: was made, Suits of which we have but one or two sizes yet m stock, clear them out before we take inventory Jani —\ 4— o—u 77 ~~ Stacks Stacks J and 2 ; 7 48 Jhk's Suits that aie $15.00, $18.00 Men’s Suits that for- merly sold at $10.00 ani $12.50 reduced to. One brindle-colored cow. de- horned: white spot on right shoulder. When she left she had on a bell, col- lar laced with rawhide. Left Glau- ber’s farm, near Rosington, Novem ber 28, 18% Any information will y rewarded, Leave infor t J. A, Gilauber’s farm or 11d3 . Glauber for pasture for your horses or avy other stock. 11d st, Strayed or Stolen. $20.00 reduced T B.WEMLB & SOP 409 BROADWAY 411 BR CUUTSRICES ON MEN'S SY be libe motion stable, THE FAMOUS ALWAYS LEADS See See the beautiful Christmas pres- ents at Scott Hardware Co's, MYCALE'S SECOND NIGHT. Myeale,’’ the opera given for the benefit of the Home of the Friendless, was presented to a small crowd at Morton's opera house last night. The performance was mach better than on the previous night, and the young people whotook part in it deserve much credit for the zeal aud ability they showed in its production. The amount of money netted is not known but it will no doubt fall short of ex- pectations, Tennessee arrived afternoon from Ten- blocked off with ats Hats, For Cranium Styli Comfort prin The Mississippi river between Cairo and St. Louis is down to its lowest ebb, Three feet and one-half is about the best water, and packets are having considerable trouble, E ». Aaron, of the tow- boat Monie Bauer, is now taking his Christmes, and left this morning for Eldorado, Lll., to pay a visit to his family, He expects to remain away several weeks, and engineer Sergent Moss will fill the vacancy during his absence. Of Manly Beauty BAILEY, THE KNOX HATS Everybody knows his address, Fo M The Saturday niy Merchants’ Excl lunch served Christmas ()pening « Du Bois & C0. FINE LINE OF Walking Canes, Silk Suspend Look out for Noah's Ark Mscott for Christmas. Look out for for Christmas, Noah’s Ark Mascott Umbrella PY Wednesday Noon Dec, (5th, The Saturday night lunch at the Merchants’ Exchange is the best lunch served anywhere in the city, WHEN YOU Y AT He € THE DOCTQOS ORDERS WINE YOU SHOULD GET THE BEST Cheap wi, Alwaygin stoc Malaga, Claret, Reisling, Dry, We furnish our customers atawba, Muyys Mggleira