The Paducah Daily Sun Newspaper, March 25, 1898, Page 1

PADUCAH, KENTUCKY FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1898. BALLS FOR EVERYBODY ! A full stock of every- thing you require for house cleaning. Ring Nelson Soule for your} “drug wants, Believed That McKinley will « Bring Things to a Climax by Tomorrow. We are selling Sarsaparilla... At 50 cents Bottle: Our own make. J, D, BACON & CO, ORUGGISTS... GOLD FISH AGENTS PERCY SULLIV The United States Buys One Bat: tleship and Ten Smaller Vessels For Torpedo Boats, THE NAVAL REPORT CAREFULLY GUARDED. “Will Geta Pardon, it is now The President and Cabinet de ering the Keport of the Claimed, Session All Day and Convicted For Raising Bills Mere During the State Naval Court. Guard Encamp- ment. SENATOR THURSTONS WONDERFUL SPEECH Percy B. Sullivan, the shapely former adjutant of the Third Regi- ment, Kentucky State Guards, who is well known in dlucab, having Deen very popular during the en- campment a few years ago, is about to get a pardon, He was convicted of Counterfeiting some time since, at * Andianapolis. A dispatch wsy?: ‘Perey B. Sullivan will be free in afew days. Sullivan is a smooth Young man who passed raised bills at Evansville and Vincennes. He Was arrested at St. Louis and sen- ved to four y tiary. He is now at His influential friends have secured a wpromise of a pardon from President McKinley. The federal authorities "py bere regard a pardon asa travesty Upon justice. Sul'ivan is one of the smoothest crim nals ever arraigned » > here."’ Washington, March 25,—An portant rumor is current afternoon ani is believed a to be re le that the president has decided to take a radical step tomorrow af- but that he will wait till after the markets close im order to avoid a ternoon, trom Indianapolis, panic. It is said that he will order the flying at Hampton Roads to intercept the Spanish tor- Ha immedi- to the Cuban war must cease squadron pedo fleet before it reaches a aud that this order will be ately followed by a notice Spain tha wll S| Cuba the rumor is believed to be authentic, and is apis armies withdrawn from While this is not confirmed, : 25 25. March mander Marix delivered the report of the paval board of inqniry to the President this morning. The leu- tenant his Washington —Com- THE MARK Roported by the Lacyt’ 3 cuivae commander and naval raiv Co itt, March 2, | companions reached 1:50 last night, Washington at They were met at Lieutenant Ward, ot who was the | Open | i the station by the navy depariment » wine bs sole representative of Sec ary Long and he informed them that the would the report until this re: tary of the navy not receive morning. To- sent to Secretary to the Presi-| May lara May rive. ca May cotton day after} being Long it was delivered dent. The report will not be sent to cons Monday. Lieutenant 1. H, Gross, the sub- Ject of the recent court martial at Ft, Thomas, Ky., will be taken as a lbaals Fskigton < § care: erg prae guarded today to prevent any part of ite for dri it g ess or made public until The report is being very made public, Fur ne cabinet has been in session a'l ish, Fresh and salt water fish received daily, Salmon, red snapper, cod, suielts, Spanish mackeral, trout, ete, 8. H, Crank, 125 S, Second St. the subject of the mecting be naval report. day; ing the It is learned this afternoon from a that the report says was blown up externally reliable sour 24flmo the Mane As a result of a conference of del. | by @ submarine in‘ne egates at Nashville yesterday, it was decided to hold a Tennessee indus- trial convention at Nashville May 11. = One vote will be allowed for each one) thousand population. ‘The report exonerates the Cubans, and does not directly implicate but charges that the Spaniards con. nived at the crime, It developed today that urging McKinley port until the Spanish report is ready. The Spanish report will declare that the Maine was desiroyed by an inter- nal explosion, The situation ANT Tobacco Spit aud Smoke Your Tae away, * 19 quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag t of life, nerve and vigor, take No'To wonder worker, (hat makes weak mep Strong. All druggists, Hc or 81, Cure guaran (ed. “Booklet and ‘samplo tree. Address Merling Remedy Go, Chicago or New Yorks TOOTH POWDERS! We prepare a tooth powder that “js endorsed by the dental profes- sion. Besides being a pleasant addition to the toilet, its continued s use will prove of the greatest ulil- ity to the health of the mouth and teeth, Our toothache drops give quick LYNE & LYNE DRUGGISTS ©. to hold up the re- is graver today, fighting for time to use measures, The war preparations iadicate that the crisis is here. chasel abroad today by the United States, and ten vessels have bought to be turn-d into hoats. Commander Schley made commander of Roads flying squadron, was An /merican Squadron Sent to Intercept the Spanish Fleet Now on the Ocean, {the Spanish torpedo fleet BUYING MORE WAR VESSELS, | days. \cial to the Disp: |says: Spain is though it is believed the president is pacific Another war vessel bas been pur- been torpedo today the Hampton jurst or The start- ling announcement was made today Jramors. WAR SITUATIO MORE SERIOUS. May Be) REPORT OF THE INQUIRY DELIVERED TO THE PRESIDENT. But it Will Not Be Sent to Congress Before | Monday. A Message From tho Presi- dent Will Accompany the Report, TOMORROW MAY BETHE DAY)! Comaoter ssiey sot a) | squadron may bi seut to intercept now on the sailing for Havana. It is cost sic ‘aren by this government most important that the not allowed to reach Cuban waters March today New York, went all to pi Stocks 208 ne fer #, anda beavy decline were the ures of nearly all lines, Shippers *ze today demanding heavy war policies Washingtov, March 2 pee have been pe the war departinent car American tr Nothing the cted by which 1 land 80,000 ¢in Cuba within ten remains to be done necessary routine or. but ders, To make uj the force ments will be necessary. regiments will be they stand, The this e been made he matter of transportation, m itary stores, etc been provide issuc new enlist- mustered in just as preparations for has be issued when the occasion Ample tel have been provided at r department, Ev. ery point where troops are assemb Tegular or militia, can be reached al- most in an instant with perfect se- creey. Columbus, O. arises ilities March 25.—A spe ie Lima, O., Mrs. Wm, H. Jones, of this city,has just sonata a letter from her cousin, Lieut, Jenkins, who lost his life in the explosion of the Maine. The lette writen to his mother in Pittsburg a few days before the explosion. He states in the letter that he had discovered a mine under the Maine. He writes much of startling nature, but the relatives re- fuse to make it public, ing that it will all come out in the report of the board of inquiry. The letter has be forwarded several different relatives, and reached Mrs, Jones Weduesday. Washington, March 25—Seer-tary Long yesterday made the following | statement “We are still making preparations | for the defense of the countr ins: any possible emergency. | We are working practically day and night and are leaving nothing undone which might bly add beg the strength of the ns “We are to buy ships abroad, but it now seems doubtful whether we can secure more vessels—at least poss! pal de! hose that are io any Way near completivn, — Ships j that can be put into immediate com- mision are the ones we want. “We are endeavoring to purchase torpedo boats and torpedo boat de- stroyers, and while we have not made any definite purchases the outlook appears bright for the acquisition of several of these,’? at Speech, Vashington, March (Special ndent of the Louisville Posi) With koitted brows aud set jaws, the the Senate of the United States list- ened through Thurston's great speech yesterday. The tide of popular ex citement fre: its zenith in ihe morning, Coming into the senate from the very valley and shadow of deat. as he himself said in bis opening line under the command of seated lip Senator Thurston's story of Cuba contained a touch of tragedy which se and com- albless silence, Not for the past five years have there been such crowds in and about the capitol. The suppressed excitement of the past week foudd an outlet in the out- pouring of the people At noon there were lobbies of the senate marble room a notable company of women,unable to get siandiog room in the galleries. Phere were Mrs. Alger, the wife of the Secretary of War; Mis Lodge, of Massachuseits ; Mrs. Mil wife of the head of the Awerican army ; Mrs, Gary and the daughter of Secretary Interior Bliss, ‘There was no influence that could rob a citizea with a card of bis or her seat to make a place for these women. ‘They loi eved around the capitol ax thousands of others did, along with statesmen, «diplomais, clerks, lobbyists, wer jobbers and red ithered in the speculators, Messenger boys and peo- ple of the streets, asking ‘each other if war really was ut band, if the clouds hovering over the he dissipated, The atmosphere All is tension, torpedo fleet be} on the war | —Arrange- | -|ots onve mote take up th | The militia | ‘| for, and it remains only for orders to | still making every ‘effort | any] city would is electrival with excitement and anxiety. ‘Lhe Proctor incident, | dramatic as iv was, hard| comy!ares with the scene enacted terday, land feariag the result of Thurston's story on the pnblic mind and the et- fect of the knowledge that the court's report was in the city, the senate |wisely decided that when it ad- journed yesterday it would be until Monday, The conclusion of Thurston's speech was even more dramatic than at the beginning. As tlie final Words |fell from his lips, his voice choked, his head fell between his hands, and he wept. Leaning on his desk, he seemed clasping a collia, while bis tears coptinued to flow. ‘There was not a dry eye on the floor of the sen- ate and Women wept audibly in the galleries, No effort made to stop the cheering or cease the flow of tears, ‘There are some who lift their voices in the land, and {n the open | ight of day insist that the republican pacty will not act, for they say itsold out to the capitalists and the money | changers at the ional ele It is not so. God forbid. The 000,000 free men who voted for the republican party and for McKinley {did hot mortgage the honor of this ion for a campaign fund, and if he time ever comes when the repub- Hic ‘an party hesitates iu its couse of duty because of any undue anxiety for the welfare of the accumulated wealth of the nation, then let the re- | publican party be swept from the face of the earth and be succecded by | some other party, by whatever name it may be called, which will re the patriotism, the Hionesty,th and the Gevotion that the au patty exhibited uader Lincoln in 1861." He believed in the doctrine | peace taught by the lowly Nazarene |but men must e liberty before abiding peace can come. Force saved the Uaion, kept the stars in the flag made *'p rs’? men. The time for God's force has come again. Let the impassioned lips of A patri- was L republi-|* Abraham |° of In the beauty e Christ was th ag ery tt w to make t | “Mr. President, in moored me to life c t I strongest strands gre broken. 1 have | bat ft to altar of freedom’s sacriflc I » glad to give—I am 1 | my couniry as best I can, on the sea or on the field. My dearest hope Jmy earnest prayer to God is this: That when death comes to end al : od f. wrlessly,” ittle | m ‘did my betov.d manity, under the J | The crowd dispersed as silently |from a funeral: | intermingled in every heart. | The speech will prove a piercing |sheet of hghtoing im th k clouds hovering over Weshi 0 fittiny | signal of the storm to come It do not mark an epoch in the Cu |drama, as Proctor’s did, out it added another light to this | thrown another calcium upon the hore |rorsin the background, Certain por- , | tions of the speech are taken as a re- flection on the President's anda warning to him that act with force, decision | promp tness. Thurston's speeh is the most signif- icant delivered so far, and makes war | Jalmost certain, His staiement that |the republican party was not mort- ed to the national campaign fund ds no resentment among republi- jeans, but only arouses a feeling of jsympathy, and a fixed determination jto rid the party of this cha: A PROMINENT SUICIDE. |‘ as scene, t hesitancy Phe Capital of th the ) Blue Grass Se tion Horrified Today, Ky., March 2 Henry A. Guthrie, one of the wealth- iest merchants in the city him- self to death in a store this after- noon. No cause for the assigned. He was of a wealthy family and was a popular, suecessful|t business ma) i Lexington as passed iv the flood ‘The Ohio river is falling |b At Pittsburg and the sinaller streams | ( ia Ohio and Indiana are leaving paths of da tion, The Ohio is rising every voint from Cincinuati to Cairo, bat as the worst has come above there little fear of a flood. Great damage}! was done by the overflow at Pitt burg, and by washouts in thet vicin- ity. In Ob'o much distress}, s been caused by small stre swollen out of their banks. Railway traflic in}! Ohio and Indi: is still demoralized, | ¢ but s have bei le to re- sume service, Others will be blocked for days. b The Kentucky Glass & Queens: ware [Co., will offer Saturday, Mareh 26, 200 sets of semi-por- celain plates at 2: worth 40¢, The crisis situation, | receding, e and destrac- ome ro} t is out in an the populist of Gee elected. Thom atson letter declining ion for governor could not be open nowing i He says he no matier how the needs clean- ing or repairing, telephone Sam Giv- ens, and he will do the work cheap and guarantee satisfaction. ‘Tele- phone No. 20, Corner Sixth and Trimble. All work led for and delivered free of charge, There are now fifteen cases smallpox in the pest house at Ri munod, The tion is improving at Middlesborough, po new cases makes sony druggists we without mayor fur White, sorrow and hatred] here. with | u) hall hi deed is] f to have ITEMS OF A LOCAL Mayor FLAVOR, Lang Sends Paupers Away—Story of a Would-Be Soldi ier—Death Visits The City Hospital. Many Are Those erage Th CONSIDERING THE TAX QUESTION, Who F y Inspector Work Will Be Pushed \s Fine Weather, n Would Sew- OTHER NOTES FOR HASTY READERS. A young- man named John Kane, Lang home, Inspired of Owensboro, applied to Mayor yesterday for transpor’ ition bya arted forth from home to vindicat m Mai the honor of bis country and avenge the death of the unfort: of the ville, the ne: nlisi in the recommenda clerk aad p to become a sol At Evansviile » blasted could not be enlisted. He them started homeward rate sail Tie went to Evans- ‘e#t recrniting station lar amy, He from the county ssica from his father dier. however, his hopes He was only 19, and ine on his Here he found and called on stance, journey himsel the joney As he was able bodied and in good health the fayor dechned to him transpor tuoney, on the furnish but loaned him eogth of the cre- ved, on which to go ution The mayor yesterday shipped four LUpers, Princeton, were n, e unknown mau Arkansas, W m Livingston in the city hospital afer a leagthy: was a nativi days were spent in Livingston. remains Ww The pre the water from the big on North Third o remov n for nes our Ther ple here f way of B he must} and loods that pper fer There ants for spector of are to he ber of the Dean's albert K oncert License they objec Prof, De ert ep: The pegin work oday L ular bree in The te n regard Yan M Will Ellit 0, was He is 5 nidication hange f The city alled sess tative to aj of equalize WE SEL two a are now about thirty the position of sanitai Louis Herr was sent to Mrs, Fisher and Mrs. 1 and destitute wom- to Memphis, and an was sent on his way to 1 Vanderdort, aged 28, of county, died this morning of consumption . The decensed io, but his latter The buried e of Il probably be imivary work of pumping sewer trench street. pre y z the dirt that has caved y a block, bas been en- the pretiy weather. salarger crowd of peo- Illinois than usual to- v all now have to come by klyn on account of the render inaccessible the landing appli- in- he city, The mspectors poiuted by the board of the first meeting next ¢ applications continue to f there is an infinite num- and and the Prof, Murray etoscope Company { entertainment it toa fairly la pector Jarvis, pursu from the mayor, required en to pay license,to which dd, but finally consented claims it is the first ume required to pay s band comcert, It see 1 the other part of the which necessitated the »1 census enume next Friday, a week from y were elec the last ting of the board, and are aber. ators will ment in today’s Register » the condition of young en, who was stabbed by yrpe two or three days awarranted by the facts to the boy’s physicians. nproving, and there is no { pneumonia, or a he worse, they state ouvcil meets tonight in n to appoinl a represe» pear before the state board on next Tues’ay. City | L The Vive, Globe, Adlake, Cameras..,/ American, We instrt keep ever ing pict m'P Diamond, Ray, Zar. t you thoroughly. ything necessary to tak ERSON'S RUG STORE lofty patriotism, he] ¢ | Clerk Patterson will in all probability | be appointed, EX-SENATOR ibibo | | Workmen are today engaged in| building a culvert under the Benton | gravel road, as an outfiow for the ‘sedis ements were today sent) Suffered a Severe Stroke of Par- otit to the meinbers of the Y. M. C. : C-) alysis This Morning When water that accumulates during a rain, and which has occasioned much in- A. to attend the conference of 1 members. The date has | Comingetivine From the Launching, convenience and damage in the past. | Heretofore there has “been only a small pipe to carry off | the water, hanged to April 1. It was origi- set for tomorrow. » S. McPeeters, of St. Louis, will ad Kress th o ation. HOUSTON RAN Sheriff Rogers Soon Caught Him, Ed Houston, colored, was arrested by Deputy Shetiff Gus Rogers this morning on a bench warrant charging hin with gaming. He was carricd to the jailin a buggy, and when whe officer stopped Houston jumped out of the baggy and ran, The officer MAY BE CAUSEO BY PNEUMONIA. gave chase and captured bim about four blocks away, Houston made no more efforts to escape after that. He was lodged in k of Marriam Park, ailed to open yesterday, ),000 of its capital of 850,000 having been invested in the forged government time checks recently disvovered. tacky. | His condition is considered very serious, NOW IN A CRITICAL CONDITION, But Deputy The Family Frevsied and Fear the Worst Results—Pull Par- ticulars of His Ilness Unknown. e Washington, Mareh Ex-Sena-| tor Joe Blackburn suffered a stroke of paralysis this mor. .ng as he was ‘leaving the steamer on his return] from the christening of the Ken- The has gz the $ over, over bis condition that The Chicago city council adopted an ordinance prevent fature construction of buildin en stories high His family isco frenzied | it is diMentt} | to get acorect report of his con-| Linnwood, dition, H's nothing that he bck | Linnwood, , tf physicians say TEN CENTS A WEEK tracted a cold at the launching exer- cises yesterday, It i* thought that the ex-senator may have an attack of pneumor Whatever the cause of his illness, he is now ins most serious condition and is unc vonse ‘ious, kent ICKY NOT! Hopkinsvi ill. Sad The jury in the damage case of Miss Gertrude Lucas against the Louisville and Nashville company, brought in a verdict yester- day for $25,000, the full amount claimed, Miss Lucas went to the depot at Pembroke to board @ pass enger train for this city one day ia February, of last year, and in cross- ing from the depot to the platform, she was struck by the approaching train. She was thrown upon the rai? and her left leg was cut off below the knee and three fingers also eut off her right hand. Hopkinsville—Heory Owsley, a colored brick mason, attempted sui- jcide by banging Wednesday night. He tied a rope around his neck snd then, pinioning his feet and hands, jumped from the top of a tlour bar- re’. The rope broke. He assigned no reason why b he was tired of life. Owingsville— muall-pox is so un- comfortably near Owingsville that the City council held a special meeting yesterday and passed an ordinance requiring all persons to be vaccinat- ed. Italso called upon the county oard of health to take the necessary steps to prevent the further spread of the disease. The Bath county fiscal court has contracted for turnpikes to the } amount of $22,600. Three roads are yet to be purcbased, Comfortable We don’t claim to be the only people selling are the only store selling good footwear at such easy footwear, but we low prices. We have alarge variety and a fine quality of shoes, and can guarantee great satisfaction. Our men’s shoes at $3.00 are unsurpassed. Ladies’ and children’s shoes at very low prices. GCHO. ROCK & SON THE APPLE gi [896 SPRING SHOES 1898! MEN'S AND BOYS’ UP-TO-DATE F' OOTWEAR. STACY ADAMS and WILLIAM KNEELAND'’S Latest and Best cre. THE NEW TOE, THE NEW COLOR, boy by ations. THE MASTIFF” LIGHT ORANGE.” And all the new shades of chocolate. B.Weille & Son, 409-411 BR OADWAY. Sole agent in Paducah for THE HARRINGTON, is) THE NEW STYLE. The best $4 hat or Artie OLD PRICE $300 ed Derk y ~~ The Hat for PY RS ST Sait in P. en Can P TheTailor 333 BROADWAY lor-made suits te made ones of same qual Est REAL ESTATE Baraains.| $100.00 BUYS residence site 250x450°0n Lovela ame road, next Simmo. feet above the street level. $250.00 BUYS Fountain Ave. lot, northeast corner Clay street, ————— sireet improvements paid -1$500.00 BUYS 5-r00m house, north side Broad street, corner —— nr sth street, lot 65 feet rront; new fences, newly painted, good renter UYS soni storage w arehouse property east Be EO eee tiie Macatee wean ance belt railroad line tis ree lot, This property will bring fancy price when wanted. Brings in now 8 per cent and taxes eville grocery, 2 miles « ravel | ten Cedar, Oak, Black, n earth; colors— etc. NEAT, STYLISH DRESSERS, lease YOU——_-+-me > order for less money than ready? ty. Everybody can wear a tailore made suit at the prices charged by Dalton's Tailoring ablisliment HANDINE \ForJChapped Hands fand,Face,Use WINSTEAD'S ~lAN DIN Ein There is nothing to equal it. Sold by all first- class druggists. fad LORRI on price asked I own all above property, and will make terms to suit, or trade fo ¢ city bank stock. GEO. C. HUGHES. 312 Broadway. ‘Second Hand Goods Highest cash prices paiel by