The Paducah Daily Sun Newspaper, March 5, 1898, Page 1

- 1 | The Sun is the only Western VOLUME LI—NUMBEB 146 Pure Catawba Grape Juice A mild and pleasant tonic in general debility. Especially adapted for ladies’ use, .... «35 cents a bottle. AT SOULES Tooth Brushes «Fine | a8 of Imported ioe) Brushes just i al DuBois & Co's: Weare selling Sarsaparilla... At 60 cents Bottle: Our own make. J.D: BACON & C0... ORUGGISTS... GOLD FISH AGENTS ORDINANCE DAY, A Large Number of Cases Dock- eted Today, A Bad Man Fined Por the Free} of His Gon. | This wa lice court, and eighteen men and failing to pay ) bat two paid their licenses, the | warrants against all the defendants ordigance day in the po-| or twenty dl for The 1 all onceros were de license Republican daily in Redtucky. 1 DAI UNCLE SAM Will Be Ready For Any Emer- geney that Circumstances Can Cause-—Japan Of fers us Kight Ships. Another Spanish Warship May Reach Havana Today—Report dition to od court. Whereupon, the defendant waived exau tion, and was held to answer in the Graves circuit court, whi: convenes Mon- day. The amount of the bond was not changed,and remains at $10,000, with the following sureties: G. W. Ligon, 8. A. Norman, G. R. Allen, W. 8. Cook, H.S. Bennett, H.C. Allisov, J. H. Happy, W. BE Nor- man, and others, ‘The exact cause of the difficulty was a business matter. Mr. Clark handles tobacco, and Mr. Carney is president of the Western District Warehouse company. The warehouse company bad declined to pay checks érawn by Mr. Clark, nuless he would sell all of his tobacco through their house; and the quarrel with Mr. of Court of Inquiry Ex- pected Thursday. Washington, March 5,—Spain ad- mits buying two war ships from Bra- zil and one from Chili. Washington, March The indications this afternoon are that the United States is ready for war, and that the administration real- izes that war may be declared at any moment. The naval board of inquiry is in wion again at Havana this after- noon and the verdict will certainly be rendered the last of next week. President McKinley will take no chances and has opened 1 with England for the purch warships now under construction in England , 3p. m— Washington, March 5.—The ad- msnistration is ready for war at any moment. All the work at the various arsenals and at the navy yards is be- ing pushed as rapidly as possible. Whatever the result may be, the United States will be ready for the apan has offered to sell the Units erStates eight modern warships in case of trouble, and the offer will ted should war be prot \ bly be acer ed Another Spanish war vessel reached Havana today and was greeted with cheers by the Spanish. It is now stated that the verdict of the board of inquiry that is investi- p disaster will be re- | wile Quick March Orders. Salt Lake, Utah, March ete ing under orders from department headquarters, the entire comand at Fort Douglas has been inspected for marching orders. The equipment arms and every important detail of the Twenty-fourth infantry was found to be in excellent shape for move- ment on short notice. Secretary Gage Al Right. Washington, March 5.—Special to the Louisville Post.—The adminis- tration has thoroughly and com- pletely repudiated the statements of Secretary Loi Never in the bis- tory of the country has a cabinet officer fired such a deadly boome- ra The relations between Long ser are very strained in conse- | quence of Alger's interview setting Mr. Long strai It is now learned that this inter- view emanated from the White house and was framed by the president. The attitudes of the various cabi- eeert these two were dismissed. M. F. Hall, a stran on whose a pistol, and weapon threateningly | who ion was found Nourished th i at Annie Cox's, was presented in the | police court this morning and fined | £50 and senteneed to twenty days in| \. Louis Tucker, colored who claimed | he had been robbed, was fined $1 and} costs for drunkenness, and Warrants | gainst the alleged robs | ders, as told in another column, | Will Rice and W. A. Torrence, for| foiling to procure license, were fined £5 and costs each wore issued Phe case against Frank Lawrence charged with obstructing the side walks, was dismissed ILLICIT WHISKEY SELLING Hill Mayes. Colored, Lodged tn Jail Here. by Deputy Marshal La} Aviested Rue at Hickman, | es, colored, arrested at Hickman last night by Deputy S. Marshal LaRue on a charge of violating the internal revenue laws, and brought to the city this morning He was lodged i the county jail, | and Commissioner Puryear case for Monday morning, witnesses are expected. was when It is believed at Frankfort that the | prison commission bill aad the Goebel election bill will pass over the governor's veto, Don't forget the GRAND LUNCH tonight al 7:0 at the Merchant's ja |net officers are gradually becoming big freight trip as usual. known While at the treasury department | this morning I took occasion to sound Secretary Gage as to the report that] he favored pe ; Peace at any pric ex: | claimed. “Not go to war about the siuking of a battleship /"" “IT would go to war over a birch bark canoe, if the conditions were ripe.’” By conditions 1 learned subse- | quently that he meant if the treachery Jor design theory could be substanti- i, It is definitely stated, though not in au official way, that the admini- stration dl the accident | wory entirely on accountof a cor- has abaudou which is said to explain to the satis- faction of the president and bis cabi- net that the Maive disaster was not due t accident, lref'is here that the naval mrd's finding will be reported of- jally not Inter than next Monday or Tuesday. dis sail to have been or- dered back to Havana, leaving Key West this afternoon about 4 o'clock BRIGHT HOPES For the Reeovery of Mr. 8S, R. Carney, at Maytield— He Continues To Improve—Mr. Clark, His Assailant, Waiver Ex- amination, Reports this afternoon from May- Carney continves to improve, which Lipdine --- Is an article that x satisfatetion for chapped lips hands, s universal ane ‘Tooth Powder Is recommended by the medical fra. ternity when it thoroughly cleanses the teeth without an injurious after effect. We prepare ours, and guar antee it, Lyne & LYNE, Druggists... 224 BROADWAY. will be welcome news to the many \friends here who daily inquire of him, | Mr. S. R. Carney spent a restful night at Mayfield, and was visited by many friends. The case against Mr. Sam D. Clark, who shot Mr, Carney, was called in the cuit Jcourt at Mayfield yesterday. The commonwealth was represented by W, H. Hester, county attorney, and W. W. Robertson; the defense, by SH. Crossland and J. I, Webb, ‘The commonwealth announced not! ready, on account of the absence of Mr. Carney, who was yotin a con- {field are to the effect that Mr. 8. Ro Carney grew out of this. BRONSTON PRISONS BILL Passed by the Senate Over the Gov- ernor’s Veto. Frankfort, Ky., March 5,—The sevate tod passed the Bronston Prison Commission bill over the gov- ernor’s veto. THE THREE RIVERS, Items of Interest Gathered From the River Front for the Sun Readers. The river continues to gradually fall here, with 18.4 on the gauge. ‘The City of Clarksville got away for Elizabethtown today at noon. The Tenne: is due here from Evansville this afteraoon en route up Cumberland river for Nashville. The Reuben Dunbar, from Evans- ville, will arrive tomorrow aud le: immediately en route up the Cum- berland river for Nashville. The Sunshine, from Cincinnati, was due here today hound for Memphis. She will report this afternoon. The Evansville and Cairo packets were in and out as usual on good time with nice trips. cinnati, en route to the southern me- tropolis, New Orleans, will pass here tomorrow. The Peter Hontz passed out of the Cumberland river with a big trip of cross ties late yesterday afternoon She leaves on her return after another tow next Tuesday, River traffic was much improved this morning over that of its four days previous, there being a much larger arrival and departure list, and all incoming and outgoing boats bad good cargoes. ‘The towboat City of Chattanooga is expected out of the Tennessee river this afternoon or early tomorrow morning, She has a tow of ties for St. Louis, The R. A. Speed is also expected with a hig trip of ties. The City of Sheftield and Clyde arrived out of the Tennessee river early this morning with good freight receipts. The former lay here se ‘al hours receiving and discharging reight and left for St. Louis at noon, The Jatter will leave on her return trip up the Tennessee this af- ternoon. She is expected to carry a The big State of Kansas, from Cin- |" ‘MUNICIPAL MATTERS, The Kilgore Company Must Be ‘Taxed, Says the Mayor—De- clares the Ordinance Void. Prospectors Here Looking Fe Location—People Shipped to Relatiyes— Other City Notes, Mayor Lang today instructed City Assessor J. V. Girrief to assess the big plant of J. L. Kilgore & Co., in Mechanicsburg. ‘This action is based on the mayor's opinion that a special ordinance exempting the Kilgore plant from taxation for a period of five years, passed two or three years ago by the council, is illegal. The plant, as will doubtless be re- membered, was destroyed by fire, and as an inducement to rebuild, Mr. Kilgore was exempted for five years from paying taxes, the action being based on the following, sec- tion 17, of the city charter: “Tbe common council shall not exempt any person or property from taxation, and shall not refund to any person avy taxes lawfully col lected. nor extend the time for pay- ment of taxes, nor release any penalty incurred by non-pay- ment of taxes; but may, two-thirds of all the members elected cuncurring, exempt manufacturing establishment from toxation for a period not exceeding live years, as an inducement to its he position taken by the is that ‘as an inducement to its loca- tion,”” makes the section apply only | (4 Religion and Merals, which is to manufacturing concerns located is Seed 1é wale of " 4 here somewhere else. ‘That after a plant) C¢mPore’ inte i gia ablisbed here it exhausts the) The race horse Byron McClelland ate que’ and. if has been sold at Churchill Downs for it burns down it cannot se exempted as an inducement to {its location, as it has already been locate: The mayor stated that he placed the matter before the finance committee and City Attorney Lightfoot last night, and they concurred with bim in his opimon, As a result the city assessor received instructions to pro. ceed to assess Mr, Kilgore or any one else exempted under similar con-| ditions. once, A conference was last night held by the mayor, the city attorney, tax collector and finance committee of the council, to consider the matter of franchise taxes. Last year all taxes or franchises were settled on a basis of 50 cents on the dollar. This year the matter was referred to City At- torney Lightfoot to look up the legal question involved. ‘A man named Bishop and his wife, aged and decrepit, applied yesterday to the mayor for deck passage to Shawneetown, Ill, The woman was delicate looking and thinly clad, and stated at the city hall that for two days there had not been a morsel of FRIEND OR ENEMY? Mr, Joe Yeiser Severely Hurt Last Night Struck on the Head By a Rock Last Night, Mr. Joe Yeiser, the well known drummer, and son of the ex-mayor, was painfully hurt on Seventh street between Broadway and Court streets, about 7 o'clock last night. He was riding leisurely along on sborative report from General Lee, | his horse when somebody struck him! on the head with a rock, cutting such | ; a gash that it had to be sewed up, He under the impression that it was the Spanish bombarding Padu- cab at first, bat now doesn't know whether it was a friend or enemy. It is likely some boy did it accidentally. Stecher's Special Brew Pilsener raught at Detzel’s old The senate committee on Military affairs decided to recommend a joint resolution abandoning the Klondike relief expedition. Stecher’s sener at Detzel’s old place, Corn 4 i Broadway. Paducah | Lump, 8c bushel | i Nut, 7c bushel / Why not patronize a home the Telephone company when you can get best coal at the least money? food in the house The couple was sent to Shawneetown on the afternoon boat. Louis Defoe is the name of an old soldier who was yesterday furnished with transportation to Princeton, Ky. He is 78 years old, and lives in Arkansas. He has been making his way toward towards Marion, Ind., to enter soldier's home, and has been helped along in various places when he exhibited a cara of admis- sion to the home at) He was given a lift to Princeton, ion. ntlemen from Ft, Wayne rguson 1 Three Ind., representing the mer company, Messrs, Earl Paluer J, K. Ferguson and R. R, Robertson have been in the city for the past a location fora Today they called y or two, seekin: ardwood factor many blasts will be blown from Lang- staff & Co.’s whistle as a curfew sig ‘nal, but the present inteation is two {at the proper time, It was suggested | j that eight blasts be blown, the hour | ny’s fire alarm, this was of course (out of the question, | E, W. SMITH, President. GEORGE ROCK, Vice-President. ISAAC REESE, Secretary and Treasurer, Coal and Miners and Shippers of Celebrated... cor "Tradewater Steam <23!Coal 254. any |s t mayor PADUCAH, KENTUCKY S40 URDAY, MARCH 5, 1898 The He J. . Beckham, of Sheldyville, is formally announced as a canlidute for Judge of the court of appeals in the Third district, Chilian government officials char- acterize as absurd the report that Spaia is negotating to buy three war- ship from Chili. in Newton Henderson, former ‘Treggurer of the Confederate States, is. d¥ing at Staunton, Va. Inthe Kentucky senate the Orr leaf toba hill, the passage of which, it is claimed, would have ruined the Louisville leaf-tobacco market, has been killed Among the resolutions adopted by the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers’ association in session, at Cleveland was one declaring in favor of gold standard, It is said that the chances for sale of 36,000 of coal land, ,compri: ing practically all the Jellico mine to an English syndicate are better than ever before. Mayor Join M. Good, of Spriog- field, U,, has been ousted from office by a circuit court decree because he spent more campaign money than the Garfield election law allows. Jt was a test case, All the turnpikes in county have been made free by the fiseal court except thirty miles em- braced in the two State roads, one of which is under guard Jassamine The cubans have become more act- ive recently and have won a number of victories, A filibustering expedi- Livn is said to have effected a landing near Matanzas, The Spanish papers are censuring the Spanish government for replying genily to the demand of the United es for explanation of the DeLome dent. The liquor men received a black kfort Wednesday when i refused, hy a vote of forty- six to forty, to take the Local Option bill out of the hands of the committee a big price toa man believed to be Itis said ack, a Kentacky Derby will be sold to the same candida man today, The Jefferson county assessor's bill andl the bill to gerrymander the Phird essional district both fin- pally passed the lower house of the geners bly and have gone to the governor, Insurance commissioner McNall is still driving companies from Kansas. His lasest edict is that all companies must report the aries id each olficer. Those who decline will be re- fused lisense. Senator Frazier has joined the sup- porters of t oebel election bill, although he opposed it before. He has introduced a bill to restrict the powers of the county election com- missioners by requiring them to select election officers from lists fur- nished by the principal — political org zations, \ movement is ssid to be on foot for the organization of the Interna- tional American Bank, with a capital of $25,000,000 and branches ighout the United States, Cuba lsouth America and offices in London and possibly Paris, Head- juarters will be in Washington and New York. ener now on draught at Detzel's old place. New City Ste muddy water—clear Lauadry distilled sno water tt. Have You a Camera? -ctmeuc Velox Paper, wii'eplewed Plates and on the mayor and several ‘of the | Rice councilmen, and this afternoon went * up the Tennessee river to look over Fixers, ihe timber there. Every inducement yy (ct, everything pertaining to will be offered them to Jocate here, : 1 is st and thus secure another good manu-|%"!teur photography. factory. 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