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= s* VAA000000 000 Our New ~ 3 SpringGoods VVVEVUVSEVE 733 UO0O088888 $ : $ $ : : | $ For 10 cents yard--.-..-.-- and best patterns for house dresses and children's wes For 12's cents yard”... -- Arriving Daily Here are some values for you that we offer to open the season. Each one is worthy of your attention. CCRIQDWIY Four Qualities of stot Percales we - For shirt waists, boys’ waists and men’s shirts, the colors all fast. For 5 cents yards. sees seseeseeen cree renee You can buy inch standard percale, manufacturers’ seconds, just a verfection in the print occasionally, worth 1oc y ard Wen these are gone there will be no more at this price . One of the For &'s cents yard.--- best makes thirty-two-inch goods in choice shirt patterns. secececeevood All the newest .ssaeThe best percales made, in choice designs wA SATINE SPECIAL... Cy One case—about eighteen hundred yards—of light satine, fast colors, worth 10c yard, suitable for dresses or comforts, 5 CENTS YARD 5 Don’t Delay Buying Your Spring Dress YOU'LL FIND THE PATTERNS YOU WANT AMONG THESE Thirty-four-inch shepherd's plaids and mixtures in black, blue, brown and green with white, at.......25 cents yard All-wool novelties in the newest designs, especially suit- able for fancy skirts, ate.seee seer ee eeeeeeee 39 cents yard SILK WAISTS Are too convenient ever to lose favor. You will need one or more made of these;new silks ! at p14 St1.Ks, delicate stripes cents yard Pretty checks and plaids, in light and dark colored India silks at 50 cents yard Changeable surahs, a new silk this season, for waists and sELLIS~ handsome livings, at 50 cents d fandsome figured Foulards at 59 cents. Superior quality bl for serviceable waists at 89 cents yard, k “satin 69 and 3 f Ruby & PHILLIPS 5 ia | we DAAABAAAAAADAARARARAAARADARARARARAT $ WBS VOUS VECVTEVBVB The Skeleton Is bad plumbing. the health. human skill can bring it too you to come fo us. in Most Houses It’s out of sight, its defects are sometimes unsuspected, but it is none the less a constant menace to) When we do plumbing it is well done—it is as near perfection as It stays done, it isn’t constantly getting out of order, Safety and economy both urge ED D. HANNAN, 132 Sout Fourth St. HIGH-GRADE BICYCLES Agent for Shagnighest D 1896 Stearns for $ 1 ~-best on the market, wheels before buying. Complete repair shop. AND BICYCLE SUNDRIES. rades of Bicycles made, We are pany wheel made. Don’t fail to call—remember the place, Paducah Cycle Works, 126 and 128 North Fifth stroet, near Palmer House repared to offer 6 .6ODon't fail to see our, $45.00 Overlands and Rugbys jon’t fail to see our line of e are the only exclusive Bicycle house in the city, Free riding school to those buying wheels from us. | Daily, per annum.. THE PADUGAR DAILY SUN, | Published every afternoon, except| Sunday, by THE SUN PUBLISHING COMPANY, INCORPORATED Fisnen. RW. CLE yohn J rian W. Paxton pimectow FM. Pisher, W.F. Paxton R.W. Clements 36. Williamson John J. Dorian 118 North Fourth Standard UL $ 4.50 Daily, Six months. daily, Ore worth, per week. . Weekly, per annum in 40 10 cents} | vance... . 1.00 Specimen copies free ooo SATURDAY, MAR. 5, 1898 oe Tuk story of the work of the pres- ent session of the Kentucky Legisla- ture will be simply an account of to do. what it fail Joun L, Sunttyan is ready to go to Cuba, Ifhe will take Corbett and Fitzsimmons with him, the war will not have been entirely in vain. | | ‘ | Ovy two men were injured in the Irish celebration yesterday at had business els that the reporter where. Tue great question now confront- ing the Popuilists of this end of the state is whether they can survive without the companionship of Mr. L. |K. Taylor, Ir is rather strange, but it is a fact, that there have been more bur- aries in this city during the present city administration than all daring }the preceding one. Wuatever the outcome of the {Spanish war cloud may be, it is safe ten years the United {to say that io | States will be the greatest ship build- jing nation on the globe, Mippiesnonoven, the once ous Magic City of the mountains of Ken- tucky, bas demonstrated her right to fame. tol in vaccination down there. the late lamented again They now use a pis- Tne opinion of | political possibility, one W. J. Bryan of Nebraska, is not being sought af- ter in the solution of the difficulty with Spain, Mexican 40-cent dollars don't g now —_—_— Srain denies that she is preparing for war,but goes on buying warships just the same, Uncle Sam says he tov wants peace, and is preparing to get it very shortly after the first gun is tired, and on his own terms. jasti¢ man at Danviile 10 Aw entbu: offering his services to Gov, Bradley to fight the asked to be stationed near Mammoth Cave. We imagine that many warlike editors would like to join bis command, paniards, Papucan ought to send & delega- tion of her leading business men to Frankfort to fight the Lecal Option bill. The Sus believes in local self government, but it does not believa in the right of citizens of the county outside of Paducah having a voice 19 Paducab’s city affairs. Iv is Governor Bradley's time to smile, The fused to ps ate bill over his veto, and ed that the Bronston Prisons bills Senate has already re- s the McChord Railroad Freight Goebel Election it is Jand the re the Governor gets through with the will 8) same fate. In fact, when work of this Legislawure, there won't be a thing left of it but a bad odor. Cuarmmax Bascock, of the Repub- lican Congressional Committer camp coming campaiga will be fought out of the ign this year on the lines of the platform adopted at St. Louis. That will be our only guide save as new issues are created as contingencies arise and new poli- cies made in Congress. No commit- us a right to make a platform party, and so we will be govenred by that adopted in 1896,’" STHiKE one Fall River cotton | work, and several more southern mills mill have resur have been added. | Ohio, a One more iron furnace in new tin plate plant in Peansylvania, | in} the establishment started, and Bethlehem works: crowding production to the and a nail Washington have wire Bessemer department at has resumed, Many are utmost, and the Penasylvania Steel, company reports 4,419 men employed at full and some extra time, against time 3,742 employed three days per week 9 374 year ago, which is practically an in- cent. ip the working force. So large a part of the works are now fully employed, though it is usually the dull season, that no great increase isto be ex. pected.—Dun’s Review, 26, 1898, crease of over 62 6-10 per February Ir must be rather disappointing to those eminent financiers who insisted that the duty on raw hides would in- crease the prices of boots and shoes to the dear people, to discover that boots and shoes sre actually lower in price than they were a year ago, 2.25) 2 fort, so the papers say. We fear! Dun’s Review of last week qhotes prices showing that namerous of footwear sold in the last w February, 1898, at a price con ably lower than in the first wee of January, 1897, and adds: “Od the basis of the latest quotations which have been le known, the prices now ruling average slightly lower Shipments con: | ler- ma than a year tinue the largest ever known in Feb- of prices it buff shoes, r In its table shows that which at the beginning of last y ruary.”" women’s a predic by the opponents of the Dingley act? | Tue first year of McKinley's ad ministration is closed and the Repub- licans have made good many of their promises, Contrast the condition of | the people today with their condition one year after the second inaugura- tion of Grover Cleveland, and the | true difference between Republican: | Democracy will apps aley said he believed in mills he uttered the ke: note to prosperity. Such is the ob- ject of a Republican tariff, and ever Republicans ism and When Me) opening Ul has been from the first assumed the responsibility of It has been the ple characteristic of Re- | in national alfairs. most noticea publican administrations times past that the Republican party is the party of execution; that it has a pol- icy and carries it ont; that compai pledges are not made merely to catch | unwary voters, but are made to ful-| 1 ' Society (Robert Burns Wilsoo's “Life and sold at 80 cents, were on Februsry |The braggart March stood in the sea- jleft for Paris, Tenn., at (Jossip THE PASSING OF MAKCH. Love.’") 23, 1808, 77s cents; that wax bro- son's door — gans, No. 1, bave dropped from} With his broad shoulders blocking OFFICERS. | 97% cents to 95 cents i e| up the way, Jas. A. Rupy * President | cents to 95 cents io tUARBSMe | king the snow flakes from the|W. B, PAXTON Cashier period; creedmore splits, from§t to | sloak be Wore, Be. Biot ‘Aee't Cashier | 97's cents; Men's grain shoeisfrom | Aad from fringes of his kirtle - 1.07's to $1, ete. How is that for gray. DIRECTORS. the tremendous ‘advance in prices’? | Near re m April stood, with tearful Sap ot ae hee | With violets ia her bands, and in her hair Pale wild Anemones; the fragrant lace Half parted from her breast, which seem like fair, Dawn-tinted mountain snow smooth drifted there. She on the bluster’s arm laid one white hand But he would none of her soft ban- ishment Yet did she plead with tears none might withstand, For even the fiercest hearts at last relent And he at last in ness With one swift, crushing kiss her lips did greet. Ah, poor starved heart, for that one rude caress She cast her violets underneath his feet. ruflan tender- The Ladies’ cooking ‘school closed yesterday and today Mrs. Johnson and will from there go to Portsmouth, Obio, where she will take charge of quite a large class Tuesday. fill, The first year of President Me- Kinley’s administration will be mem- country’s | for the | marvelous change from depression to orable in the history of the commercial development prosperity that it witnessed. on | ConcressMan Dinciey slept’ well | lon the night of February 28th, He! | witnessed at the close of the treasury | that day the fulfillment of his prom- ises that the newrevenue law would / with which | to meet the current expenses of the | In the 28 days of Feb- | | produce sufficient funds government ruary the receipts of the treasury de- partment were 3, an aver- age of $1,020,417 per day, $17,000 a day in excess of the aver- age daily expenditures during the s. February, 1898,un- ey law was (he first Feb- ruary since the election of Cleveland to show a surplus, and the customs which is} past five yes der the Dio, receipts alone exceeded those ia any February since the inauguration of | Cleveland. The in the} amount of money brought into the increase treasury under the new customs law has been very rapid, averaging in its first month $225,409 per day, and ip its seventh month, February, $5 140 181 per day, an increase of per It is evident that the framers of the Dingley law were justified in that the law would meet business requirements when bus. cent. their assertion iness resumed its normal condition, CHAMPAGNE FOR KEARSARGE. Miss Bradley May Be Required to Christen the Kentucky With the Same Beverage. | (Newport News Telegram to the Cinctamat! | Commerciale Mrs. R. H. Jone: Woman's — Christian Union of Virginia, has just {a letter from Mrs, Elizabeth Mayn-/} ard Winslow, in which the latter de- | chnes to consider the use of water at} | the launching of the battleship Kear- | sarge Thursday, March 24. Mrs. Winslow states that has | no personal objection to christening ith water, but, in def- cieuve to the wishes of her husband, Lieutenant Commander Winslow, U, S.N., she will break a bottle of champagne across the ship's Bow when it leaves the ways. This authentic announcement will be sure to set at rest the fears enter- tained by naval officers and Jack Tars that a ‘‘hoo-doo’’ must surely befall the rsarge if christened with water and in the hands of a married lady, both customs wanting precedent at naval Jaunchings. It is very probable that Secretary Long and the officers of tue Newport News Ship Building and Dry Docks company will require Miss Bradley to use champague in christening the Kentucky, in spite of her frequent utterances in temperance magazines that she will break a bottle of clear Kentucky water, president of the ‘Temperance received | she Nthe hig chip Stecher’s Special Brew Pilsener now on draught at Detzel’s old place, MAYFIELD’s BOUM. | been contined to the house for several | | spending several days in the city will Mr. R. W. McKinney, who bas days with the measles is somewhat! improved today, Mr. Chas. James who has been leave tomorow, The Shakspeare club is meeting this afternoon with Miss Lucy Ro- biou, ou North Nioth street. Mrs, F. M, Daugherty returned to her home in Louisville yesterday after 4 very pleasant visit to friends here, The friends of Rey, K. B, Ramsey will be glad to learn that though the accident in breaking his leg was very painful, it is not serious, and he is| daily improvi ng. The friends of Mr. R. 8, Carney rejoice in his improved condition. Miss Lelia Goodwin leaves for Evansville next week on a visit to friends and relatives. Dr, King Brooks will return the first of April a full fledged doctor. Whether he will locate here or else- where is not yet fully decided. There is little if any change in the condition of Mrs. Joe Hart, and her friends are sad to know that she is very ill. It seems that Paducah has some dramatic material after all, as one fair one from this city was seen on the vaudeville stage in Louisville and another in the far western town of Denver, Colo. Tho’ it seems to be known to a very few, an old Paducah boy now a resident of the Blue Grass country played « prominent part with Clay Clement's Co., when they were | charming the play goers with ‘+A/ Southern gentleman.’ It is needless | to say that each of them have played | their parts well, for it’s seldom that any one from Paducah becomes fa- mous by means of a failure. Mrs, McNary has returned from al pleasant visit to friends in Louisville. | fh left this morn- to friends in Miss Martha Le ing ona short visit Princeton, Prof. Moses’ dancing school was a scene of enjoyment last evening, many of the society people being present. Miss Willie Gould’s friends will be glad to know of het improved con- ing a very successful and interesting | revival at the Second Baptist church, On the same square down in the! heart of the city there are two young | druggists, and way out in West End CITIZENS’ SAVINGS | Capital and Surplus, $120,000.00 Open from 9 a. m. to 3 p.m. On Sat | dition, secure a liquor license in Graves Rev. Gilbert Dobbs, former pastor |County and sell whiskey at their of the First Baptist church, is hold. | Store on the county line beyond BANE, 226 Broadway, Paducah, Ky. urday nights from 7 to 8, | Interest Paid on Time Deposits F, KAMURITHR, W. F. Paxton, Gro, O. Hart, K. Farry, R. Ropy, Galt House LOUISVILLE, KY. American Plan $3.00 to $5.00 per day. Rooms only $1.00 and upwards, A. BR. COOPER, Manage BROADWAY HOUSE. Rest hotel in the city. Best accommodations, nicest rooms. MEALS 25c—$1.00 PER DAY, Corner Broadway and Kighth street MAYFIELD, KY, J. J. Meavows, Propr. HENRY BURNETT — Attorney - at-Law Will practice in all the courts. 118 South Fourth St., Papucan, KY liott were married at Cleveland, O., in the presence of only a few friends on February 20, They will star to- gether next season in Nathan Hale and in Madeline Lencette Ryley’s new play, Richard Savage. MISS CRAIG ELOPEO But Was Intercepted by a Tel- egram, to a Friend at Evansville. She Left Paducah with James Clutter, of Indiana, on the Hopkins. The elopement of Miss Fannie Craig, daughter of Mr. R. B. Craig, of Court street, recorded day before “ ® = ’ Noubliez pas... § About the old story of the camel—how turee philosophers heard about the an- imal and determined to investigate. The Englishman hunted through the folios of the British Musem, to find what had been said about the beast; the Ger- man went into his study, locked the door, lit his pipe and began to evolve a con- ception of the animal from his own con- sciousness; the Frenchman went down to EN Sahara to ‘ you'v heard a good deal about the great clearing-out sale going on here. This week we're selling ladies’ shoes for $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00, worth as high as $6.00, Misses’ and Children's at 7c, worth up to $3.00. The styles are ee not the latest, and we haven't all sizes of each lot, but why not do as Frenchman- See for yourself? You'll learn more re- garding this great sale in five minutes at the store than we could tell you on a whole page of this paper. 00 To keep our great factory 1 introduce early our splen- 8 models we have concluded to c & marvelous offer direct to the rider, Tor So days we will sell samples of oar swell 98 bicycles at met cost to manufece ture and will ship, C, O. D. on approval toa sldress on receipt of the nominal sum of $1.00 ( of Denver, $5). This © it is ow good faith on purchaser's : if you don't want tosend money in advance, send ranty for chargesone way and we will pay the ther if you don’t want the wheel, eee Mighe embodying every Inte improve. joints, Improved two-picce cranks, arch orc foish and decorations, Morgan & Wright, quick repair tires, single or double tube, high grede equip. ment. Bpecial price on sample ‘ ; $29.00. merely t a athe en epreckets, handee al to any for serviee and easy ranning. Best 1% inch piece cranks, arch crown, detachable sprockets, finely finished and decorated, Monga \ repair tires, single or doable tabs, igh grade equipment. Our special ea: price «+» $24.00. Aen KLONDIKE. Rest mediatn grade for } h tubing, striped and decorated, arch ‘ to proet le pre, best Iudiana or New Brunswick tires, standard equipment, Bpecial peice un eample, wo. $19.00, NOTE. Choice of Color, Style, Height of Frame, Gear, etc. Fully Guaranteed. wheels, Don't wait, order You can make Big Mone: . the tree use uf © eam! gent, « vel, oF gitt of coordisig t Do You Want Cheap Wheels? We have numbers of 156 and 1897 model w stylee, some a little shop-worn, but all new Wheels Slightly Used, Modern Types, - - Onur basiness and reputation are express companies, or any be The J. L. Mead Cycle Co., « Chicago. $8.00 to $12.00. |. References, any of the Beoure agency at once, ESTABLISHED 1864,—e yesterday, was a failure. Yesterday's Evansville Tribune says : Yesterday evening == James O' Mera, the bartender at the Acme hotel received the following telegram : “Paducah, Ky., March 3.—J. O’Mera: Meet steamer Hopkins to- morrow. If Fannie ts aboard and not married, stop her and wire me. ‘i “R. B. Crate The Hopkins got in about 9 o'clock this morning and brought as passer- gers James Clutter and Fanoie Craig. They lost little time in finding their way to the county clerk's office, but did so only to learn that the telegram of the irate father had preceded them. Mr. O’Mera had given it to Clerk Sibler and_he was on the lookout for the runaway couple. Their applica- tion for license was refused and they turned away sorrowful and disap- pointed, Miss Craig is very young looking to aspire to the dignity of ‘head of the house,’’ and Clerk Sibler says he is informed she is but 13 years of age. It 18 not known what course the couple will now pursue, but it is quite sure they will fail to get license here unless Miss Craig's father re- lents. LICENSE REFUSED Graves County, ‘The efforts of Adair & Evans to Farmington, was refused by the coun- ty court in Mayfield, he county judge decided that al option law voted for that in 1878 was still in force and not the distric operative; and license could be there is one young lady, and which of the two young men this young lady | will take is a question which seems! to be troubling the mind of the pub- lic. Now whether the young lady or either of the young men know ‘any | more about it than we do is another question we can’t answer, but if t do they will relieve the minds of the public greatly by making it known. We understand that Mr. Boldt, of the Waldorf hotel, New York, con- templates having a banjo quartette| play during dinner, Then indeed | we may look forward to the spectacle | of society doing ‘stunts’ in the big! diving room; for 1 hear that at all ‘|tion now and private dinners where banjo music has enlivened the company, it bas been the proper thiuk for the guests | to rise between the courses and in- dulge in a sketchy little waltz or two steps, and some of them have broken into song avd led choruses while as- tonished waiters placed dishes upon the table and endeavored to curb their natural desire to execute a few fancy steps themselves, 1 think my- self, that a butler waltzing in with a bottle of wine in one hand und a! She Is to Have a Branch of the Y.M. C. A. Mayfield is soon to have a Young Men’s Christian Association and free library, according to dispatches from that place. Interested persons, according to reports, are working on the organiza- have received many members, A free library will also | North, along the Ohio river. woman prisoner for a minor stuffed her skirts in astove and burn- ed herself to death, granted under it, the applicants contended the law had been repealed impliedly by subse- quent legislation on the whiskey question, and prayed for an sppeal | from the county court to the circuit court, COMPANY DISBANDS, Harry Semon's Aggregation Did Not Last Long. The Harry W. Semons Dramatic company. which played in Paducah last week and went to Evansville last Saturday with the intention of giving a performance in that city this week, | has disbanded. Mr, Semons, with a! part of the company, has gone to the | Another part will appear in | and other small cities Henderson Fannie Baker a middle-aged in Henderson jail offense, deliberately Martial law has been proclaimed at To Sell Whiskey Near Farmington, | ‘The attorneys for | be established through the efforts of the Ladies’ Magazine club, Quite a handsome sum has been raised by them and the work of securing books and a hall will be begun sooa, bee, Ob. re, makes eas All drugginia corkscrew in the other and a waiter doing the two-step as he entered with clean plates would be an innovation that would be appr smart set. led by the Nat. C. Goodwia and Maxine El- Skaguay, and United States soldiers are enforcing law. The death rate at Miss Mary B. E. Greif & Co | GENERAL INSURANCE | | The '98 model of the New Densmore is ball bearing in all. See sample with ©. B. STARKS, Agent for Densmore, Yost and Caligraph Typewriters. Supplies for all standard j machines. 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Davis, ARCHITECT, Oitice Am.-German Nat, Bank For Sale vy rreiderick, Chas, Paducah, Ky yes