The Paducah Daily Sun Newspaper, August 17, 1898, Page 1

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PHARMACISTS Seventh and Jackson PLAYING IN LUCK. ‘The Swift Dispateh Boat Sent to Overhaul the First Ken- tucky Broke Down. And Genera! Gra and Kentucky flag. ‘Troops Are Therefore Now in Porto Rico. Washington Aug. 17 —The | nited States ship Dolphin, which returned Saturday to Norfolk with a broken shaft, has made its report om the ac- cident. It develops in the report that this smart dispatch boat was the vessel dispatched to overhaul the Al whi¢h bad on beded the biset The Ceptaiv, én making bis report, says that he could bave overtaken the ‘Alamo but that the shaft breaking made any further efforts .along that Tine impossible. OFF TO THE BARBECUE, A big crowd from the city will at- tend a barbecue at Champey’s bridge on the Mayfield road, five miles from town today. See the burning of Niagara Falls at park tonight. Awarded (itighest Honors—World's Fair, Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair. ‘DR: D BAKING POWDER Grape Cream of Tartar Powder THR STAMDARI f THE PADUCA' DAILY SUN. PADUCAH, KENTUCKY WED OLD GLORY NOW WAVE (Scripps McRae HONG KONG, Aug. 17; by Steamer Zafiro, from Four of Admiral Dewey’s ships bombarded Malate for A little later the American flag was raised ove DAY, AUGUST 17, 1898 @ Service.) r S OVER MANILA anils Bay, Aug. 13.---Manila surrendered today.) pone hour, when the Spaniards ran up the white| the Philippines and the surrender was conlete. | The: urrender includes 8,500 soldiers, 12,000 stands fr arms andan immense amount of ammunition. |: The Spaniards were allowed all the honors of war. |Five American soldiers were killed during the at- tack and about 45 wounded. The combined naval and land forces were employed in the attack upon and the capture of Manila. The inhabitants are rejoiged that the city surrendered. SMOOTH MR. CROKER. fle Wants the Nominate Admiral Dewey for the Presidency in 1900, Democrats to Says McKiniey Will be Renomi-~ nated, But That Dewey Can be Blected That Won't Work, A Great Scheme service New York, Aug. 17 —' Richard Croker's organ, in a strong editorial today de- clares for Admiral Dewey for presi- dent in 1900, It declares that Dewey isan American of the purest strain, Phe republicans, it says, cided on McKinley's renomination, and now democracy should nominate and in the fiowh McKisley uk his name is Manila. WILL INVESTIGATE. ne Tele- graph personal have de- Dewe: will th Washington, Aug. 17.—Surgeoo General Sternberg hus sppointed 9 board of medical oftivers to invest- gate the causes of the prevalence of Lephs' campe. FITZHUGH LEE, JR. Serippe-MoRae Service Washington, Aug. 17.—Fitzhugh ice. Jr, dae son of General Fitz- hugh Lee, bas been appointed a lieu. | tepant in the regular army, PRIZE SHIP BURNING. Scripp. McRae Service | Key West, Fla, Aug. 17.—The cargo of the British ship Tracken ham, during the war loaded with coal for Cervera’s feet, is on fire, and the ship is endangered. | DAVIS DECLINES. captured Scripps Me Hag Service Washington, Aug. 17.—It is said this afternoon that Senator Davis, of Minnesota, has declined to take a place on the peace commission. ‘Thig is thought to be due to the fact that the stale legislature that is toelect his successor is to be elected this fall and Davis wishes to remain at home and look after his interests, THANKING FRANCE. ( S aainn a Pres: Grateful, Both Queen ¢ ident McKinley Beripps: Me Rae Servier. Poris, Aug, 17 —At eouncil today M, Delcasse, the ister of foreign affairs;read telegrams from Queen Regent Christina sod President McKinley thanking France for her friendly offices in bringing about a cessation of hostilities. SILVER IN LEWIS. Large Vein Found on the Farm of A. J, Morgan, sear Laurel, cabinet n= Vanceburg, Ky., Aug. 17.—Mis- eralogists prospecting in this county discovered a large vein of silver ore ou the farm of A. J. Morgan, at Laurel, this county, The finest lithograph stone was found in the same neighborhood ; a!so a fine quality of iron ore- ON FILED, Mr, W. A. Lawrence Takes Ad- yantage of the New Bank- rupt Law, The first man in Paducah, or Southwest Kentucky, to take the new bankrupt Jaw is Mr. W, A. Law- rence, the ex-grocer, who filed a list of his liabilities, amounting to over $4,000, yesterday afternoon in the United States court, Petiiions of bankruptcy are ex- pected topour in rapidly trom now on, ATTEMPTED MURDER. A Dynamite Bomb Thrown Into} the Bedroom of a Promi- nent Chicago Man Today. The Head of the Civic Federation the Subject of the Cowardly Outrage—No Lives Were Taken, Scripps McRae Service Chiewgo, Aug. 17.—An attempt was made to assassinate John Hill, jr., of the civic federation, early this morning. A dynamite bomb was thrown into his bed-room, which ex~ ploded and wrecked aimost every- thing in the room. He accuses his bucket shop and race track enemies of the attempt at His daughter, Jessie, received a painful scalp wound. The detonation of the exploding bomb was terrific and affected Mr. and Mrs, Hill's hearing so that both be rendered deaf permanently. The city is thoroughly aroused over the outrage. assassination. THK KMIRD KENTUCKY | Left "»wport News Yesterday for Its New Camp at Lextogton, Scripps McRae Service Newport News, Va., Aug 17.— The Third Kentucky Jeft yesterday for Lexington, Ky., where it wiil go jnto camp. \ FLECTION ISSIONERS, The State Commission Selects the County Ejection Boards. —— Frankfort, Ky., Aug. 17.—The state election commission met terday and named the county boards in all but six counties of the state, As made up the democrats have all the commissioners in eleven counties and the democrats and populists bave all in thirteen counties. In the re- aing counties the republicans have representatives. Some of the county commissioners are as follows: MeCracken—Ed P, Noble, (D), R.'T. Lightfoot, (D) and L. K. Taylor, (P.) Marshall—R. M. Neale, (WD), L. P. Farmer, (P) and Jeff Dean, (D.) Graves—J. T. George, (D), J. PD. Danghaday, (P) and W. D. Sul- livan, (D.) VERY CLOSE CALL, Lady Almost Suscumbs to the Ef- fects ofa Dose of Cocaine. A lady, suffering acutely from toothache, came down town last night in search of a dentist, Not being able to find any dental offices open, she Gnally went to a physician’s con- suitation rooms and asked for some- thing to ease her pain. The doctor gave her cocaine, and she came very near dying. It re~ quired heroic measures to restore her to consciousness. It was a very close call, although the doctor could not be blamed as he administered only a very small dose. The drug it seems had an unexpected result upon her system. See the burning of Niagara Falls at park tonight. W. MecKuight Secures White Residence on Broadway, J. the A real estate deal of some import: ance was closed today. Mr. Jobn W. McKnight traded his pretty country place in Arcadia for the handsome brick residence at 1332 Broadway, owned by Dr. White. Mr. McKnight will move into his new home November 1, Be sure to see fire works and hat- tle tonight, More fire works, better at the navy department this morning: forces after a combined attack shelled the fort and the entrenchment back the enemy. time. Lieut. Brumby, About seven thousa: On August 7 General Merritt and I the city FIGHT MAY BE POSTPONED. Corbett’s Bereavement May De- lay His Meeting With “Kid” McCoy in the Ring at Buffalo, N. Y. Plenty of Other Pugilists, How- ever, are Willing to Take Cor- bett's Place, and There May Be a Fight Yet. Scripps: McRae Service Buffalo, Y., Aug. 17.—It 1s quite proouble that cae COrmett- me Coy fight, which has been set for Sept. 10, will be postponed to ac- commodate Corbett, who is so broken over the father and mother unable to do his best. Sharkey, Fitzsimmons arid Ryan and others haye offered to take Cor- bett’s place, so a fight may yet take place.? FOOD FOR HAVANA. Many Ships pisecting to Take Proyisions to the Late Blockaded City. his bi up terrible deaths of that he will be Scripps McRae Service Key West. Fla,, Aug. 17.—Four schooners loaded with food for Ha: vana, and carrying many passengers and some newspaper correspondents have sailed for Havana, Several more vessels are loading and will sail as soon as possible. AS SANE AS ANYBODY. No Grounds For Believing Honeline to Be a Lunajic. Hope H. Honeline, an elderly man living on Broad street, is not of uns sound mind as some of his relatives evidently believe. Charges of lunacy were preferred against Honeline yesterday afternoon and County Attorney Graves began to investigate. He learned from a physician who attended the man that he was not @ lunatic, but was only suffering from despondency. Con- sequently the case was dropped. BIG NEGRO EXCURSION. The biggest negro excursion of years will pass through Paducah Friday at 8;15 p. m., picking up quite a number of happy darkies here. The l. C. will conduct the trip, The route will be from Dyers~ burg, Tenn., to Louisville, where a big colored fair is to be given. There will be eight or ten coach loads in the train, which is due back Satur- day night. GEN, FITZHUGH LEE'S Great book on Cuba, The whole trath by the one man who can tell it all. No other book ever sold 80 rapidly. Over 500 pages, Mag- nificent new illustrations, AGENT'S WANTED, Wherever there is a roof in all America at least one copy of Gen, Lee's book can be sold beneath it, Many agents average over 25 THE OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: ScrippssmeRae WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—The :® dispatch was made public Our army advanced on ‘The city surrendered at 5 p. m. ican squadron suffered no casualties, which Governor General Augusti vice. MANILA, Aug. 15.—Manila surrendered totlay to the land and naval A division of Admiral Dewey’s squadron Jate, south of this city, driving hat side of the city at the same e American flag was hoisted by nd prisoners were taken, The Amer- andj no vessels were at all injured. tonpally demanded the sarrender of fused Dewey, at ANOTHER GOLD FIND. The Klondike Has Been Outdone % the Latest El Dorado | of the Frozen North, on Pike Creek, } Gold Is Found From the Grass Roots Down to Bedrock—For- ine Hunters by the Thou- sands Now on the Spot. Scripps McRae Bervice. Seattle, Aug. 17.—The steamer Ja8t arrived fron north, bringing fresh news of the big gold strike on Pike creek, a stream ruaning iato Tagish lake, 50 miles from Ski territory. taken place from the coast and Dyea, in British Columbia A general stampede has Skagnay, Juneau and Wrangel sre An official of the Canadian government says it is the richest strike yet made in the North ahead of the Klondike. partially deserted. and is away Gold is found from the grass roots to the bedrock, five feet down, run- ning from two to six dollars to the pan. Eight thousand people have already jut up their tents at the new Eldorado, FOR VISI TING ‘ ALOONS, ganitary Inspector Schroeder Put Off the Force by the Mayor, At 3 o'clock this afternoon Mayor Lang issued orders revoking the com- mission of Oftic J, T, Schroeder, as sanitary inspector. Visiting saloons is the reason given hy the mayor. See the burning of Niagara Falls at park tonight, Por © WINSTEAD Pleasant to take, a ase a bot osts only WINSTEAD’S LIVER ANO KIDNEY TEA ure for constipation, dyspepsia, kidney complaints of all ds—25 Cents per box Manufactured hy S.H. WINSTEAD seventh and Washington Sts,, Paducah, Ky Mosauitos Pick THEIR TEETH... while they aver the fu suffering stings and ot try our VIOLET WitcH HAZEL on the back feuce now, aud gloat eal they have yed om your le, For mos bee F iuflimations f ect pests Most liberal terms. Twenty days credit. Prices low. Freight paid. Send for terms and 25 or- ders per day, fire works, sducate Your Bowels With Cuscarets. Candy Cathartio, cure b Wee. 120. 0-0.falle deve *ereton mones, territory. L. F. SMITH & CO., St. Louis, to allevite pain, and cure all irritations of the Ye fF ersens ESSELS DISAPPEAR. Several of the Alaskan Gold Fleet areJMissing, and Much Alarm Has Been Caused. The Missing Vessels Have Large Numbers of Passengers Going to and Coming From the Gold Fields, Scripps McRae Service, Seattle, Wash., Aug. 17,—Two vessels of tke northern sailing fleet and no news of them The bark Alaska is three weeks overdue Kotzebue Seund from St. Lawrence island. Collier Albert Nansaimo for Port Clarence is also missing, Alas- have disappeared can be learned, ka has a large number of passengers. | This mysterious delay and disappear- ance of the boats going to and from the Alaska gold great uneasiness and much alarm, GERMANY AIDS THE SPANIARDS fields has caused Washington, Aug. Gen. Augusti gave it out at eo wng that he left Manila on oe the hattle— i nice one aecount oF ABS ie i he escaped from the city while the]. Sage fight was going on. —_ Unless this is true it is difficult to account for Au- gusti’s accurate knowledge happened and f battle received at Hon, other ship besides the Kaiserin Au~ gusta having arrived from Manila, The position of Germany will not be improved if it should turn out that a German cruiser carried a the Spanish commander after ordering the figh Kong, no Be sure to see fire works and bat- tle tonight. More fire works, better fire works. ae ‘ell! Now is your VER: CHEAP. They at} 17, —Although} of what} or the account of the | A LARGE NAVY. All the Warships Will Be Put in Good Trim, and the Auxilia- ries Will Be Retained, Washington, Aug. 17. — The strength of the navy will not be pre- cipitately reduced on account of the cessation of hostilities, but on the y, the administration has de- that a very large naval force is necessitated by the increased obligations the United States has un- dertaken or had forced upon it. Or- ders have been given not only for the secution of energetic operations | naval stations to speedily put! in fine trim all the regular warships of the fleet, but a very large propor- tion of the auxiliaries whici were | purchased, to the number of nearly a| hundred, will be considered in the| {category of permanent additions to the navy, and will not be turned | back to ‘the original owners or sold} | to the highest bidder. Such a policy was tavorapiy con- | sidered by the authorities a few weeks ago, but hardly had the peace protocol been signed than there re- sulted a more adequete realizatic the great change which the national policy of the United States had al- | most invisibly undergone, and today conviction forced upon the American |Sea power cannot be safely curtailed, if, in fact, it will not be essential to materially increase the service afloat as rapidly as possible, SUITS COMING 1 | No More Actions Filed for the Sep- tember Term of Circuit Court. cor court at a lively rate, as all actions |to come before the September term | must be presented by Friday, Aug. 3. No suits were brought to the house today, but two were | late yesterday afternoon as dueah Ruilding Trust company gainst Mrs. J. Robiou and J. T. Robiou, on a wortgage for $800, Nichols, Shepherd & Co,, manu- facturers of farming implements against R, L. Nelson, et al on a note of $65, See the burning of Niagara Falls at park tonight, THE WEATHER— Partly cloudy tonight, and fair and cooler Thursday. TEN CENTS A WEKK. ARMY'S CAST-OFF. Civilian Clothes, Disearded For New Uniforms, Come Baek From Camp, Great Quantitics of Bundles, Sent Home by the Volunteer Sol- diets, Pass Here, » government began rina to the volunteers at amps in the south huge oldjcivilian garbs sent by the newly recruited iroops, have been coming through this city. A few of the nondescript parcels stopped bi t for the most part the shipments were en route ta northern stules, there being an espe- cially large nomber consigned to points in Wisconsin and Michigan. Since peace is at hand and Uncle Saw has ceased citizens into- soldiers this sort of and ex-— press has fallen off greatly, but still quite a number of the bundles go past daily. A local railroad official said today in an interview with a Sun reporter that he believed fully 6,000 of these old clothes consignments have gone through this city in two months over the I. C. alone. This does not in- clude the lots handled by the N., C. & St. L Sometimes a dozen full suits are rolled up together. Sometimes only one or two garments make up a pack- age, but one and all show signs of the hardest kind of wear, There are trousers with legs torn by Tennessee briars and seats soiled by the damp sea sands of Florida. There aro coats bearing reddish stains from the red clay hills of Georgia, and hats still coated with limest dust of our own Kentucky turnpikes, Each of them is a story in itself, A farmer's fifty cent shirt and a cap- italist’s fifty dollar suit led to- gether tell plainer than words that a poor boy and a rich one are mess- mates and comrades now. A streak of bacon grease down the front of a ragged waistcoat indicates where part of an army meal went astray, The railroaders have tea to call the bundles ‘old soldie: Orange sherbet today at Statz’s ‘BREAD ~ IS THE STAFF OF LIFE CONSEQUENTLY HAVE IT DIPLON Every barrel, half barrel, sack or | package guaranteed to be made F PURE SOFT RED WINTER WH none finer. All tirst.class retail grocers sell it. Best families buy it | YOUR MONEY BACK if notasrep- resented. IS ABSOLUTELY PURE A Clearing Out of Summer Goods. The big run we have had on summer shoes and slippersisa caution. We have more left. ime to get bargains, for they must go. may just fit you. ODD SIZES GHO. ROCK & Son YMBO t will please your *A DRUG STORE ™ Xe BROADWAY, 321 BROADWAY. LENG TRE > |roun oo wants | Y M BOD THE DEWEY SuIT ALL THE RAGE boy. It is cheap and nobby aT WASHABLE SUIT 'AND CAP FOR It will clothe your boy in style. It is washable. B. WEILLE & ~ON+*B, WEILLE & SON