The Paducah Daily Sun Newspaper, August 16, 1898, Page 4

~ GIGANTIC NNIVERSARY SALE: A In order to show our appreciation to our many patrons in the briet year ot our business career in this city, we have inaugurated the mc- gigantic anniversary saleevey veld in Paducs.u Smyrna rug, well worth 5.00, with every 25.00 coupon. Millinery Department All our trimmed hats go at half | pric ‘Three hundred yards very finest quality dress percales, former price 12¥e, anniversary price sc a yard. ‘Three hundred very best quality | summer corsets, former price 50 nd 75¢, anniversary sale price 25¢ e; ya oad "Ode bondted and fiky lad Il our straw sailors go at half gowns, full size and well | Price; ‘ aaa. EON our anniversary sale| All our walking hats go at half rice— at 25¢. Pp All our 1.00, 1.25 and 1.50 very phon Great fine shirt waists, every conceivable oiversary Sale shade and style, anniversary sale} One hundred and fifty new school price 49c. | Tam o’Shanters, regular prices 25 All our 75¢ percale, dimity and | and 35c, anniversary sale prict roc. madras cloth shirt waists, anniver-| N rriving daily. sary sale price 2 | Just received, a lot of new felt Two hundred splendid percale| sailors, the very latest things. aists, odd sizes, former price soc, | sk to see the new Dewey and anniversary sale price 9c. college caps for children. All our §.00, 6.00 and 7 00 very} Colored wigs complete from 50c fine silk dress skirts, comprising up to 6.00. - twenty-five different styles, anni very finest quality of hair versary sale price 3.98 while they | switches at very low prices, last. You ought to see our Don't forget—A very fine 30x60 switches, 25¢ and upwards. THE BAZAAR! 215 BROADWAY 215 creole GREAT NAVAL DISPLAY ON- LA BELLE PARK LAKE! The battle of Manila will be reproduced on the above lake Monday, Wednesday and Friday, AUGUST 15-17-19 Beis: Six? 1 is display will be the nicest and most complete ever seen here. All work has been done under the personal supervision of Mr. Ellis Bour. Mr. Bour has just returned from St. Louis, where he had a spe cial order of fireworks made for bombardment purposes. One night during the week a sixty-foot ‘‘set piece’’ of Niagara Falls will be seen burning on the water. The picture of Dewey is seen in the background just as the fort is blown to pieces. ADMISSION TO PAR“% TEN CENTS Regular street car fare—sc each way. Battle at 9:30 o'clock sharp. Show before and after battle. MIneraL WeELL House Why go fo other health resorts when you can find an unrivaled one at home? I have taken charge of, renovated and repapered the hotel adjoining the GREAT MINERAL WELL One-half block from the Nashville, Chattanooga and St, Louis railroad depot on South Fifth street, and am prepared to accommodate both sick and well at very reasonable rates. MEALS 25 cenis; LODGING 25 cents, rates to regular boarders and invalid CHAS C. CARR, Proprietor FOR A dOKE, OR FOR NEGESSITY Special » HARRAES, Who has established an optical par- lor at 423. Broadway, comes highly recommended by the best citizens of | Princeton, Ky., and are such as: Mrs, RR. Pickeriog. Mrs. W. 'T. Dodds, Miss N. Guess. Mrs. Dr Burchard, Miss N, Nichols, Mi:s Maud Jones, | Mrs. W. R. Short, W. Bennett Henderson, Mrs Dr, N. Carr, PARK £24 interested. A subject in neral interest is the subject of glasses, There are few people who do not need them, May run great risk in not having them. We fit your eyes aud give you better sight. “You are pleased with what we do for your e; I charge you $1.00} to $1.00 for same quality spectacles other parties charge you @3.50 to #6 jor. Mrs. GL. Spink, Miss M. Tomlinsor, Mrs. B. Farrow, Mrs. A. J. Bucker, Miss N. Jones, Mrs. W. H. White, Harry F, MeCamy, Mrs. $. Me¥atrick, Mrs. Anns Morgan, William R Short, Anil bundreds of testimo: all over the state, SrECIAL NOTICE.—Eyes test- ed at night as well as in the day. ‘This gives an opportunity to those who cannot come in the daytime, BAKER AND RANDALL. ials from JOAN T. POWERS. FORD AND DEVERN. rformance before snd immediately after the battle. Change of bill Thursday night. The floest thing of the season will be the Chicago Excursion August jbundred letters were BREAD IS THE STAFF OF LIFE CONSEQUENTLY HAVE IT PURE Diploma Every barrel, half barrel, sack or package guaronteed to be made Fros PURW SOFT RED WINTER WHEAT ‘All fir.t-class retai) Best families buy it. EY BACK if not as rep. none finer. grocers sell it YOUR M resented. ~ SHORT LOCALS. FOR SALE. $5.00 to $10,00 monthly payments. 100 choice residence lots, 50 feet front. Prices $100 up. Graveled streets, W. M. Jaye tt 328'y Broadway. CAPT, JACK OUT AGAIN, Capt. Jack Lawson, looking hale and hearty, despite his ninety-odd years, strolls up and down Broadway these days shaking hands with his (riends and rejoicing over the down- fall of Spain. BETTER THAN EVER, The August number of the Padu- cah Progress will be ont tomorrow It is better and prettier than the first umber, Stutz's orange sherbet beats them all; try it. BIG CROWD AT LA BELLE. About 2,000 people visited La Belle park last evening to see the vaudeville performance in the sum- mer theater, ride the ‘flying dutch- man,’’ coast dows the chute the chutes and take in Ellis Bour’s spec- tacular reproduction of the battle of Manila, which took place at the park lake. The mimic sea battle was ex- cellently produced, a Jarge quantity of fireworks being used. The display will be repeated with variations to- morrow night and Friday night. up-to-date on cold Lagomarsino beer. BADLY NEEDED, TOO, The democraic somebody in authorit West Broadway, between sireet and Fountain avenueg*bo -8Fe) by the dumping-of—a—tew loadg o! gravel in the ruts and gullies, TRACKS BEING RELAID. park The tracks of the pete pe car fine, in the neighborhood of the new fair grounds, are being over- hauled and repaired. A new switch is being built vear the front entrance to the fair grounds. BICYCLES AY WHOLESALK. step-fathers, or is Harry R. Geer, world’s cham pion trick, faney and perilous eyclist,has ten $75 new Lum Min Num bicyeles for sale for a song. Call at the Palmer House and see them at once. Prices will surprise you, 16a4 PLENTY OF CDILDREN Mr. and Mrs. Sam .Green, of Gol- der Pond, Trigg county, who are visiting Mrs. Gardoer at the corner of Fourth and Washington, have had plenty of children in the house at times, Although Mrs. Green weighs less than 100 pounds, she has been the mother of twenty-one sons and daughters, eighteen of whom are dead. In addition, the couple raised four orphans, NDLESS CHAIN, The endless chain started by the board of lady managers for the ber \efit of the home of the friendless, is expected to bring good results. One sent out asa starter and already contributions are pouring in on the secretary of the fund, Mrs, J, A. Rudy, with every wail, LENDLER & LYDON Will give you a shoe to $3 50 which others sell for $5. 16a2 FAST RUNNING, THIs. The towboat Katherine Adams bound from St. Louis to Cincinnati did some wonderfully fast traveling for a towboat between Cairo and Paducah Sunday, She made the ran of 52 miles up stream st a good swift current, in less than four hours. LETTERS FROM « NsOrr, Joe Sinnott, who, like Zach Bry- ant, another Paducah boy, is an or- slerly on the staff of Gen, Wilson, has written gome highly interesting letters home from Ponce, regarding the sights aad scenes in the army of occupation on Porto Ricanfsoil, He says the Spaniards welcomed the Americans with open hands MES BAC Last night for the third night in succession a strauge negro was de- tected prowling about residences on North Second street between Jeffer- son and Monroe. Qoe man made an effort to wing hin iast night but the RFORMANCE EVERY NiGHT | 23d. Only $5 00 for the round trip, good returoiog until Aug. 31st. td darkey escaped to the year of Second street power house. _poveeraensennonosoneoen, PERSONALS. : this morning. den Springs today Fivig |f0F the season the paving | LaBelle park will feel lost. ee Guy Rollston left for Louisville Braedon, ) Rev, Bayless pounty, is in the L. W. Robertsoa went of Trigg | to Critten- Max Hapberiy goes to Frankfort tonight on legal business. Will Sanders went over to Dixon today for a ten day-’ stay. Mr. Max Hanberry leaves Frankfort tonight. Louie Kennedy, of Wingo, Ky., i at the New Richmond, J. B. Henningford, of Cincinnati isintown. He is registered at the for BULLY FOR “KY” No Sickness inthe Padueah Com- pany, Writes Lieutenant Aif stewart, |Our Hoys Are Best Drilled in the Third, and Haye a Good Time to Root, A letter from Birt Liew enant Alt Stewart, company K, }hi.! regiment at Newport News, to Mr. Ky Daw- son, of this city, brings good news. The letter was written last Friday, Aug. 12, and at that time acvording to the lieutenant all the men in the company Were either well, or getting well. There was no serious illness io the ranks. Stewart says he hopes company K Palmer. Mrs. L. D. Sanders and daughter, Mise Kate, have returned from Smithland, Will C, Morton, of Madisonville, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs, W, E McGary. Dr. Ragsdale, children, of Metropolis, city today, J, R, Williamson and Miss Ma- belle Williamson, of Louisville, are at the Palmer. Miss Fannie Jones, of the county, is visitiog Miss Nellie Henneberger in the city. J. M. Walton left yesterday fot Evansville. From there be goes with a party to Niagara, Mrs. J. Leslie Thompson and daughter left yesterday moraing on the Bute ff for Canton, Trigg coun- ty. ou a vi Mr. H. W. Shinn has resigned his place with Noble, Overby & Co. and will return to his “former home in Piiladelphia. d J, A. Robiou and daughter, Miss Robiou, Mrs, Jacobs and Mrs Wa. Nolan left for Old Point Com- fort this morning. Mrs, Lyle, Miss Brightie Lyle and Mrs. Geo. H. Dains and daughter left this morning on the Buckeye State for the Ciocinnati round try. Mr. J, F. Tanner entertained a party of ten friends last evening at the New Richmond im honor of his 36th birthd: Col. Mike Bozeo was the caterer in charge. Mrs. Thompson, of this city, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. Bettie Taylor, over at Brooklyn, re- turned home this worving. Her sis- ter, Miss Ida Taylor, sccompanied her. TO OVEN UP A MU: Cosy Theatre Will Provide Fun For Park Patrons This Winter, his wife and three are m the HALL, When the summer theater closes regulor visitor to Bat they yn’t feel lost long. @ thoy music hall to ruo all wioter. fact preparations are now being made to transform a@ buiili.g io a dowa-town portion of the city into a cosy little theater. Well known ¢iti- zens are behind the scheme, and ““Billy’” St. Clair, @ well known com- edian, who was here lately, will prob- ably we the place. He bas had considerable experience and much success in that sort of line: lient vaudeville performances will be given nightly, and nothing that borders on the ‘naughty’? will he permitted. snl on * FIRST GUN FIRED, Wheeler and Reeves Open Con- aressional War at mayfield, A big crowd turned out ai May- field yesterday afternoon for the fir- ing of the first guns in the congres- sional campaign. Wheeler and Reeves made lengthy tpeeches and both were liberally ap- plauded Col Reeves, or ‘Col. Bad,” his friends call him, astonished his auditors by his eloquence, A good many from this city at- tended. FOR BALLARD BUYERS, 8 George Lovelace to Open Up a Big Store at Bandana, ice, Who has been in business with Stokes Payne, wi}l opeo up on the first of September a general store at Bandana, Ballard county, It will be one of the largest and best supplied village stores in Southern Kentucky. Bavdana now has seven good business houses, and is growing steadily in a commercial point of MASONIC NOTICE, é Plain City Lodge No 449, F & A. M., will meet at their lodge room in the Leech build- ingon North Fourth street at & o'clock tonight in stated communica tion. All Master Masons welcom By order of W. M. G. O. Inoram, Secretary, LENDLER & LYDON Is the place for mea's shoes, it you want to save money. ‘Try us. 183 Broadway, 1 K. & . OFT, Esther Lodge No, 1162 Knights and Ladies of Honor, will meet in regular session tonight at their hall in the Camptell building at 8 o'clock. All members are urgently requested to be present, J. G, Swirzen, Rec, Seo, WILSON SOCIETY, The Wilson society of the Trimble- street M, E church will have aa ige cream supper next Thursday p the]on the vacant lot opposite the chy on Trimb ¢ street, it he , will yet be sent to Cuba, to do gar rison duty, now that going to Porto Rico is out of the question. The boys are mi ment ship to Norfolk and the Roe Buck beech at frequent intervals, Lientenant Stewart winds up his letter by statiag that K is acknowl. edged to be the best drilled company in the Third. TROWEL AND SAW. Werk on the vew building, now being erctel by Max Bo Nahm, of Bowing Green, on Broadway, near Fourth, beiag pushed rapidly. The wails are completed to third floor. of the bandsomest honses op wrth Side will be the big store and stone which Grocer Pat is putting vp at Tenth and 'e. Lt will soon be ready for Ow of br Lall Trin oceup re Ths old Martin warehouse at Tenth and Madison will be converted ints a tobaceo stemmery next spring. A gool force workmen are eo- gaged in removing the debris from the interior of the White building, on Broadway, which was gutted by fire last month while being occupied by the Kentucky Glass and Queensware }company- Toe structure will be re- placed as before, De. Murrell’s new business house, ou Broadway near Sixth, while small, will be quite pretty. The masons have bricks laid on the side walls al- most to the level of the second floor, A capsule manufagtory and a stor. age warchouse for raw cotton are amorg the new industcies talked of for Paducah. Mrs. Ida Wilson, widow of the late Alex Wilson, has let the con- tract to George Ingram for the erec- tion of a pretty cottage ia Mechan- icsbug. NEWS OF THE RIVERS. boats ia and out were doing fue freight business, The Dick Fowler departed iro at 8 o'clock this morning. The Buckeye State from Memphis passed up this mounlog early for Cinvianati, for The Jobn S, Hopkins was in and out for Evansville this morning oa time doing good basiness, ‘Phe City ot Clarksville left today at noon for Klizabethtown. She brought down a hig trip last night, ‘The towboat Klk arrived yesterday afternoon from Cairo with a barge in tow en route up the Tennessee river to Perryville after a tow of lamber. Bat on her arrival here something broke about her machinery and she had to return to Cairo for repairs Her barge was taken up the river this morning by the Wm. Towle. The City of Coattanooga has been delayed on account of baroing a boiler and bad to retura to Memphis to have it ‘set up The Buckeye State put off on the wharf here this morswg 600 barrels of sugar, besides a big lot of miscel- laneous freight. The Sunsbive, from Cincinnati passed down this morning for Mem- phis. She was doing a heavy freight business, The river rose here last night 12 inches, making the gauge read this moroing 20 feet, which was predicted to be the highest stage, buat it will robably reach five-tenths highey be- ne going back, Cairo, 28.8, rising. Chattanooga, 12.4, falling. Cincinnati, 82 6, falling, Evansville, 28.1, rising, Florence, 9 0, rising. Johngonville, 11 4, ising. Louisville, 1¥.9, falling, Mt. Carmel, 2 01,falling. Nashville, 18 5, falling, Pittsburg, 4 8, falling. Davis Island, ¢ St. Louis, 9.2, ig. Paducah, 20.0, rising, HAND PAINFULLY BURT, Ceorge Green, an employe of the Paducah Veneer and Lumber com. pany, had one of his hands badly out by a saw while at work, late yester- day afternoon, He lives in Me- chaniesburg. TUE THERMOMETER, The temperature 2 p. 88 degrees in the shade, COLORED BROTHERS ChLA- BRATE, A joint picnic is being given over at the lower lake today by negroes from this city and from points in Massac county, Illingis, A big crowd of happy darkies went over from here this morning, DEATH AT CITY HOSPIT ‘The 2-days-old child of Lilla Ben- ton died at the city hospital and buried this afternoon ia Qak Grov sae STREET CAR SMASH-UP. A motor struck a string of trailers at LaBelle park last night and knock: edone of the cars off the track Later, a draw-head pulled out of a car on the homeward ran. No dam- age resulted in either lent. ‘HARMS OF THE CARIBBEAN. Beauties of Santiago de Cuba Described by One Who Has Been There, Santiago used to resemble nothing go much asa cockatoo. It was just as colorful, just as talkative, just as inane. It enjoyed the supreme dis tinction of being the one civilized town of its size in which not a book shop could be foung. t was in ante-bellum days. The color must be there still, the loquaciousness-can not have departed, or the inanity, either. It is permissible, however, t suppose that the cockatoo of recent years may have latterly assumed som of the attributes of the buzzard. But the heavens, at least, are unchanged Those who have there seen night ur loose her leash of stars have H aflame in parterres of indi pression is unfortunate it has the merit of being exact. How ever it may be in the South Pacifie, ir this part of the world there is r play equal to that which the ¢ ean sea affords. Santiago has other charms. our troops want a cl ting Spaniards, there i ed partridge. | Unles will be very nice. T fat turtles there, for which, they have gone also, the soldiers may fish, and which are very nice addition, the the fr as the eyes of the well t times eweeter, T volante, which Havana ness gave up long ago, tles yet, ar 4 very the startled: stre are the houses. ey are q Some of them are 80 cove vines that, seen from look like mounds of p gardens is the brilliance o: and granadillas. On ther yond the yellow walls is th put there perhaps to «! The ex poetic, but ‘arib Wher m pot head ne, it tol 5 from the suffocation of 1 * Busines, was very _good_ gv tue ako" partridges ‘and wharf this’ moroing and the five] the girls are—or were—very They have, indeed, a ha ing ‘their feces w shells, which ge but c’est a la g nerve, and, be te has its cloud.—Eug Collier's Weekly ic DANCED TQ PAY THE DEBTS. A King’s Scheme for Settling His Pred- ecessor’s Bilis Tn 1719 Louis NIV opera, then esta salle of the Palais been two) with a the better accomn ministration, archivie, This hotel is situa ise. The building designated under “Magasin,” when e term “Filles du Magasin” (no} magasin”) sub- fequently, not only to the female choristers and supers, but the f dancers themselves. It so happenc that the king forgot to pay his archi- tects and workmen. Jp order to satis- fy them, Chevalier de Bouillon con- ceived the idea of giving ball opera house, for which i ceived an annual pension of 6,00( francs, He was paid, but the king’s debtors were not, for although the leiters patent were granted somewhere ut the boginning of 1713, not a e ball had been given when the most magnificent of the Bourbon sov ereigns descended to his grav One day, shoytly after his death, WArgeusoh, the then lieutenant of pe was talking to Louis’ nephew, *hilippe d’Orleans, regent “Monseigneur,” he said, “there arc people who g about yelling that inte foafesty of blessed: wicmory was a bankrupt anda thief. I'll have them arrested, and have them flung int: some deep underground dungeon.” “You-don’t know what you are talk ing about,” was the answer. “Thos people must be paid, and then they'll cease to bellow.” “But how, Mor Seigneur?” “Let's give the balls that were projected by Bovillon.” Sosaid so done. And the people dd to pay Louis XIV’s debts, as, according to Bhadwell, people drank to fil Charles IL.’s coffers—~ “The king's most faithtu In ‘a service are not dull; We drink to show our loyalty And make his coffers full," here hav of its ad ears Ru nerally name was th the nl lan ubjects we It you wish to escape disease you must fil- ter your driuking water, both winter and sum- mer By using one of our germ-proof filters you are certain of having pure water. Fully guar- anteed. Prices within reach of all. INCORPORATED A : OADWAY® PADUCAH KY Screen Doors ; and Windows! . CHEAPEST TO BE HAD. a ee: “There is a Tide in the Affairs of Men which, taken at the flood, leads on to There is a time in buying your coal when you can lay in*your winter supply to great advantage. catch it while it The best grade of coal for fam- ily use at summer prices. Highest Awards at Chicago and Atlanta Expositions fortune."* ‘ow is the time flies. St. Bernard Anthracite, four sizes Bernard Coke, three sizes - Bernard Lump - Bernard Nut $7 60 per ton 5.00 per ton S cents per basbel 7 cents per bushel DELIVERED, FOR SPOT CASH ONLY a SOE HOP ANY. INCORPORATED 427 BROADWAY It's goin PADUGAA Tradewater Coal TELBPHONE NO. 8 4 \ COAL AND MINING CO, INCORPORATED Now is the time to put in your winter supply of this celebrated coal, Lump 80, nat 7o bushel. Otice at elevator, Tele- - BOAL “BESM? COAL SOLD AS CHEAP AS THE CHEAPEST Lump, Se per bushel Nut, 7¢ per bushel. All sigea Old Loe Anthracite 87.60 per ton, THESE PRICES ARE FOR SPOT CASH We keep a stock on hand allthe time and would be pleased to have your orders BARRY & HENNEBERGER. ” Fender Coal Is mighty good to start with. ‘Then after it is specially prepared over the FINEST SYSTEM OF SHAKER SOREENS that money can buy, you get the best value for your coal money you ever got in your life when you fill up with our Prime Render Lump at 8 cents; Prime Render Egg and Nut at 7 co waPlace your order for Anthracite at $8.00 per ton for future delivery"wa Central Coal and Iron Company * JEFF J. READ, Manager “4 —London, Saturday Review. Dalton, The Tailor Should Have Your Patronage, for Three Reasons... Growing in Popu- ae a Yard, Tenth and Jefferson MRS, R. BURGAUER, Agent FOURTH AND BROADWAY OVER M’PHERSON’S DRUG STORE FIRST, SECOND .. He does all his work with home labor, THIRD «He guarantees a perfect Mt. «+» He will sell you a su't of clothes made to order 4s cheap as you can buy a custom-made |