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TOMORROW MAY BE THE DAY members agreed with the president When President McKinley Will Sond the Inquiry Report To Congress, |the insurgents accept free MONITORS ORDERED TO PREPARE, | tary Secretary Long Issues Important Gen. Orders—War Preparations Show No Signs of Abatement. WKINLEY CONSULTING PARTY LEADERS, wou! accept nothing iu ‘ed By Democr pport of y the SP AlN SECRETLY FORTIFYING HAVANA. table, The matter bas gone yo gar] Washington, March Presi- that diplomacy ¢ a a“ hig .€ a com: {dent McKinley is very rapidly con bat. The stroggie wi, ) cobably be | summating his plans for immediate very short. Cuba will ie treed, the United States will Set whatever in demnity she bes gemanded, and that will end the soatter. “AS “o the President being on the verge of a mental break@gwn, 1 do wot believe it. 1 was iv Washington and had long talk with Mr. Me- Kinley less than two weeks ago, and there was no signs of any weakness on his part. He will not break down," Liberty or Death. Ifavana, via Key West. March 23.—It is now known positively that the negotations between Gen, do's delegates, Ramirez and Char- wer, and ( Calixto Garcia and ether prominent insurgents. in which ‘the Radical Autonomists made what gare said to be final offers of practical independenve, have proved an molute fuilure. No particulars have et been received at the palace here ‘asto the place or the particulars of tthe meeting, bat that the negotiations haye failed is shown by the resump- tion of hostilities. The insurgents recently captured and destroyed Fort Oleso, in the dis triet of San Juan Martinez, province of Pinar del Rio, Five of the Spanish garrison were killed and five wound- ed, abs The Case Wasn't Tried. Marshal Collins returned this af- 4ernoon from Mayfield, where he went to attend the Warren-Baker trial, The case was put off. cerien 3 Crown Raisens per Ib Seedless Raisens, per Ib Choice Prunes, per Ib.. Hominy and Grits, perlb. Oat Meal and Buckwheat Flour. Choice Dates, per Ib...+ «+ ‘Choice Maple Sugar, per b.. . Hest N.O, Molasses, per gal Best Chewing Gum 2 Best Kraut, per gal. Best Dill Pickels, per gal.. Oyster Crac ens per lb.. . RANDC »LPIL, ond Street, "Phone 89. nothing ta 2 pac 125 South Linwood, — Linnwood, else. TOOTH POWDERS! We prepare a tooth powder that endorsed by the dental profes- sion. Besides being a pleasant addition to the toilet, its continued use will prove of the greatest util- poh to the health of the mouth and ‘eats feothache drops give quick ‘YNE & LYNE DRUGGISTS action af! as early as tomorrow. McKinley has today sent for many of the democratic leaders of congress assured and he has been of gunani- mous support. In today auniton this great uestion Intervention The} decided upon by the president. The time even bas been ad it will but next week, is the plan, settled a short time, possib! Cables from Spain are that she is y up the fortification of H approximately, hurryi vana, though her plans are all secret. retary of the : Long has ordered the eight monitors into ser- vie ‘The Puritan has been ordered to Hampton Roads and Texas to Key West. ator Galli ris today making a speech and is telling the senate of the horrors he saw in Cuba on his recent visit there, Congress is ripe for action and will permit of no delay on the part of the president, Washington, March 23,—The ree- ognition of the independence of Cuba at an early date was favored by Pres- ident McKinley, Secretary of State Sherman, Secretary of the Navy Long, Secretary of War Alger, Sec- [retary of Agriculture Wilson, Post- »}master General Gary and Attorney- General Griggs at the session of the! cabinet yesterday morning. pendence stood Secretary of the ‘Treasury Gage and Secretary of the Interior Bliss. ‘The cabinet council was not of un- usual duration, but it will go down in bistory as being the meeting that broke the backbone of the non-inter- ference policy, and the one which will make Cuba free Kvery member of the president's oificial family was present, Presi- dent McKinley informed his official alvisers that the Maine was blown up by a mine or torpedo, and the time had arrived when there was left no alternative but intervention, Af- Vee some discu CONGRESS RE READY FOR ACTION. War Regarded at Washington as Almost a Certainty and May Come at Any Time. IMPORTANT MEETING OF THE CABINET YESTERDAY. cour «with a mess er the sending of the report, court of inquiry of the board of inquiry to congress. | ington Thursday night {tis feared that a big flood is emi- It is now very probable that the send-| A long dispatch has been sent to} "°° ing of the report to congress will not’ Mr, Woodford, at Madrid. It was| Pittsburg, It be delayed until Monday. The/an explanation of the intention of |Prelicted here today that « tlood is coming equalling that of I891, A President has been strongly urged to | this government. send it in at once and he may do so. that the Cuban question would soon fact congress is | has asked for relief, and that it is a{h as absolutely been | compelled to do so at this time. only thing that he is undecided about | tole Against the recognition of inde.) ion, six of the cight| popular will, ) PADUCAH, KENTUCKY WEDNESDA TEN CENTS A WEEK q , MARCH 2: t. Hitt informed the speaker that hold the commit- tee on foreign affairs in check, This committee is the most conservative body in the house, and isa pretty good political weather cock as far as the feeling in the house goes, to a public that he man who called on him had not settled upon any definite line of policy, and would not until the court had reported, but there was just one thing that would be done, that being his determination to send what protest should be made or who objected, People may be from prepared for any now on, With his eye Bxed definitely on the freedom of Cuba, the president will move toward that point, ments, surprises There will be side move- and no halt. A fox does the less fast because he ed. not run any runs crook- will be action until the Spain's intention. mittee asked to withhold president finds out be turned over to congress to handle and the reply will be as positive as it will be vigorous, and two—Gage and Bliss—thought there should be no intervention yet, as they knew that would mean war. and war shoould be a8 possible. Secretary Congress now is a unit for the first averted as long an issue, THE LAST OF THE MAINE, Gage favored a plan formulated by him which he thought would settle the Cuban question and prevent war. ‘'he plan was to have The Wrecked Mattleship Will yovern- 8 Abandoned and Blows, Up Secre with- draw all her troops from Cuba, recall ment without independence. Gage said With Dynamite, ain would Washington, Majoy All ofti« Blanco and send the fleet of cers of the Virccked Maine have been warships away from the island. pro-jordered } wome. It bas definitely ecided to abandon the Maine, ue wreck will be destroyed vided the United States could get the | been ¢ Cubans to accept the plan, Secretary Gag hy y- gued his schew mite, FLOODS COMING. but it was the or that the i for some time, vinion of the cabinet , -ssurgents | wut independ- ence and they also shought it was too late to try the plan, The Valley of the Ohio Filled IU WAS decided to send the Maine With the Rising Waters “cot inquiry’s report to congress ge or either Monday Reports From the Various Rivers |Tuesday, Spain will be furnished) ties Wak with a copy also, After waiting for| **° Omenous of Bigh Water, apm reply a second message will be sent to congress stating time has! Cincinnati, O., March 29,—Re- arriyed when the independence of| ports from all parts of the Ohio Val- Cuba should be recognized and ask- | !ey are ints of ie water and z i ete “la big flood, From all over Ohio, OE COT Uae Bay MRS ne Nee Indiana, Pennsylvania, Hlinois and ingly. Kentucky come reports of rising Secretary Long stated after the] streams, of bridges being carried cabinet meeting that the report of the| away, river bridges being sunk would reach Wash- | houses inundated and families moved, He was informed | the streams are rising are fea and river mer Cincinnati, U., March 23,—The Ohio riyer reached the danger line (45 feet) last night. The river is not only risiog at most all points between d Pittsburg, but all southern tributaries are swelling rapidly. The Big Sandy rose over six feet last night, The Kanawha not jyet rising. be solved. Admiral Sicard is to be relieved, ‘ely on the ground of his health, The admiral’s friends assert that he hitter disappointment for him to be Washington, March 2 ram to Louisville Post }.—(Special of yes- terday. )—House leaders have already ~Asa sec- Pittsburgh, Pa., result of the heavy rains in this tion during the past forty-eight hours the rivers are rising rapidly and a flood that will inundate the lowland begun the retreat before popular) opinion With a united house and a united senate back of him, it will be only a Be weriaetea wie Ge Macon: matter of days now when the presi-/gahela has heen suspended aud the dent shall take a decisive step which | water is now over the locks, The will lead ultimately to the indepen: | Beaver river is a region torrent, and ence of the island of Cuba, The) {etortes on Hs banks have closed president and his advisers realize now | a that intervention by recognition does} Big Blizzard, not necessarily mean Cuban, inde-| St. Louis, Mo., March 23,—A pendence, nor is it believed thing | LOFT Dieser fe raging ip’ the Spain will make this form of inter- Soessdemimrcnearnias vention cause for war, WON'T VETO THEM, The recognition of independence, — Cigarette, Pure Food and Other however, cannot stand long as a hak Would be fol Bills May Become Laws. single proposition, lowed up by a practical intervention of force based on the flexible Monroe Frankfort, March 2 overnor Bradley said yesterday that 2 would not act on the remaining other bills thus leaving the cigarette, pure food, Louisville school census and oth important bills, for Gov. Worthbing- ton to veto or to become laws with- out his signature, doctrine. Having once recognized the Cubans this government would undoubtedly fol- low this step by another wherein Spain would be asked to withdraw her troops from Awerican territory, just as France was asked to withdraw her troops from American territory, just as France was asked to withdraw its army from Mexico. itis understood here today that! Speaker Reed’s visit to the white) house yesterday evening was solely for the purpose of telling the chief | executive that congress could not be held in check longer, and that if the independence of Cuba was not recog: the independence of Gov. Bra '# Sister Dead, Somerset, Ky., March 23,—Mrs, Margaret Scott, daughter of Dr. W. Scott, former superintendent of the Lexington asylum, died here yes- terday, after a short illness, Mrs. Scott was the sister of Gov, Braclley. The governor will not change his plans for attending the launching of | the battleship Kentucky. Hitehcock Sees the Czar. St. Petersburg, March 2 Ethan Allen Hitchcock, the new United States Ambassador to Russia, had an audience with the Czar yesterday and yresented his credentials, nized at an early date congress would force a more far-reaching measure upon him. What passed dent and tha speaker, however, is| mere rumor, based on conversations of Mr. Reed at alater hour, But as a result of that visit the house lead- ers have decided to retreat before the As 1 wired yesterday, An Arkansas man was yesterday arrested on the charge of burning his wife and child to death. between the presi- Mr. Gladstone was enthu-iast'c ally ‘cheered yesteday on leaving Bour- nemoath for Hawarden Fire at Col., jyesterday caused a loss of $120,000, President McKinley said yesterday | supplies to Cuba, no matter Claims it Was an Accident—John sometimes there may he] years, was diplomatic delays, but there will be] The report will be sent to the com-] wounded in the breast, the knife pen- mittee on foreign affairs and the com-| trating his lungs. If Spain refuses}home from to meet the demands of the executive} Milliken in ali matters, the question will then] #0ve. time since the Cuban question becamg 41 the boy and bis father were to MALICIOUS CUTTING, Extract of an editorial taken from the Western Review of Commerce, published at Chicago, Ill., dated November 19 last: A Compliment to Paducah... Brook Hill Garrard county whiskey Paducah, Ky. Both dealers and consumers can this firm, both in general an Is the Grave Charge Against a 13-Year-Old Boy, Willie El- lithorpe—Cut Dan Milli- ken Very Badly, When we recommend an article or prod- uct it is accepted without question that we thoroughly by tests, of its value and The foregoing is sufficient to illustrate our posi- tion, and to justify what we may say when make recommendation and extend our editorial commendations to the distilled Friedman, Keiler & Co., of haracter ot the products of and we have no hesitancy in recommending them to our readers. Although we have no personal interest in the matter whatsoever, we believe in the policy, ‘‘merit to whom merit is due. ations and preparations of liquors, it behoov from the lack of proper facilities, such precaution To supply such want we have caused to be me cal examination and a searching chemical analysis, with the inten- tion of printing the same, whether favor otherwise, The result, however, leaves us but one thing to do, and that is to state, regarding the Brook Hill Whiskey, that purer or better liquor has never been placed upon the market, and we recommend same to our readers in unqualified terms and advise them to place an order, at least for a trial, as their product is recommended by physicians as an aid to digestion wholesome food supplies have satisfied ourselves, and worth, that it is all that it may claim to be. severe we specific Smith, tor Alleged Wife Beat. ing—Another John Smith Was Robbed, Kentucky by rely upon the n particular In the light of too frequent adulte every one to scrutinize every brand, but, often neglected William Ellithorpe, aged about 13 charged in the police irt this morning with malicious Cutting with iatent to kill, His victim is young Dan Milliken, sou of Mr, Bailey Milliken, of South Eleventh street, who is dangerously le close and cr ble or artsinereeweneeeed and is place o ure a The ditticulty occurred yesterday Placed oft our list of pure and afiernoon between 5 aud 6 o'clock, While young Milliken was on his way school. When over, was stabbed as described Ellithorpe was subseqnently ar- rested by Officer Gray, and released on bond, his father and Mr. Jake Biclenrsia becoming his bondsmen. Tus morning the case was called, The Brook Hill Whiskey is also bottled in bond, under the direct supervision of the United States internal revenue department, which is a guarantee of its absolute purity, age and excellence. Sold by all the leading drug stores, saloons and club rooms, Friedman, Keiler & Co. Distillers... Paducah, Kentucky an Milliken was unable to ap- peat, and by agreement the case was eontioned until next Monday. he boy is reported as being dangerously wounded, by the attend- ing physicians, Drs. Reddick and Brooks, Ellithorpe stated to a reporter that sowe of his companions had pistols hidden in a loft to keep their parents from finding it out, and that young Milliken knew their whereabouts and took them. selling them to him, Elli- thorpe. He then accused Ellithorpe of stealing them. 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