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The Paducah Evening Sun, 1906-08-09

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HENDRICK WOULD BE ATTY GENERAL Announces His Candidacy For Tho Office Today Ctmilt Juilfte Will Rend Will AVi noiinro Shortly for Cong c s It Jauiex 4 Seeks i < > vcni < irslili > IlKltUV WOULD SUCCKKI IILM There Is something doing politically In this and of the stale these days and the timeworn political pot Is kept stirring and doing Its duty turn turning - ing turning out announcements There are new ones every day and enough now to fill an average size balloon They aro nearly all rumors and the truth Is hard to get Every Democrat no Kepubljca ll ever thinks of such a thing In this part of Kentucky has a bee of i some sort In his bonnet but as yet few poiiyvo announcements have been fortlcomlh Heiulrlrk for Attorney Irnmil Col iJohn K Headrlck Is the first west Kentucky Richmond In tho field lie announced his Intention this morn ing of being a candidate for the Dem Democratic - ocratic Democratic nomination for attorney gen general - eral general There Is only one other aspirant so tar for the place but as the office offices - s offices a good one there Is no doubt of a big field Veins out Co Hendrlck la very popular all over the state and will be a strong factor In the race Ho haw canvassed the situation thorough ly and hasa strong following behind him and his friends contend he cant be beaten itui ors of Olllo James Intention The race for governor In the Demo crane ranks Is attracting the greatest attention because the announcement ot subordinate offices hinges on thla mat matter - ter matter It Is stated positively that Ollle James will announce for governor This has been current on the streets for two days and It Impressed local politicians to such an extent that com complications - plications complications affecting Paducah and the ountr ofMeCracken directly are In prospect It ItUtated + on good rella he I authority that If Ollie James an nominees for governor that Circuit Judge William Reed will resign hla of flee and announce his candidacy for congress It will be necessary to ro < lgn because Judge Uteed would not bo able to make a canvass unless he gives up his court In event of those development It Is further assured that Coy Hockham who has the lower of appointment will appoint Judge W A lorry circuit judge for McCrackon and Marshall countiesTint Tint Congnsioaal itnec As to the congressional race there Is much speculation County Judge R T Llghtfoot and Senator J WhoJ er Campbell as announced In The Sun yesterday are to be candidates Judge LIghtfoot gave his announcement to a Sun reporter several weeks ago con ditionally and this I morning Senator Campbell alto gave a Sun reporter hit announcement conditionally I will run in event Ollle James in nouncei for governor he stated It seems that all Interest Is centered In James the strong man There are other minor offlcct bleb will bo affected liy the decision of James and the public will patiently await any expression fromthe Gig con congressman - gressman congressman In tome quarters as will be seen by another article In todays paper Ollle James Is credited with having aspira aspiration - tion aspiration for the vice presidential nomina tion on the Bryan ticket and if he has there Is I hardly any doubt but what he will go after the governorship at this would bring him before tho country better Meanwhile his return from Europe Is as eagerly awaited by Ken Kentucky - tucky Kentucky Democrats as IJryant by nation al polltlcans M CHIPAfiO HANK Son of IlxsliUnt Comes In Rescue and Tunis Over Ills Iroperty Chicago Aug 9Thoodorll Siena and vice pteiklent of the Milwaukee Avenue State bank and son of the fugitive president of that Institution has come to the rescue of the 22000 depositors and today It Is the gon oral belief of those who are endeavor ing to straighten out the affairs of the bank that there Is an excellent chance J for nit of those who have deposit tc 1 receive almost dollar for dollar when the final settlement Is made The Improved conditions of the banks affairs were brought about by young Stensand who last night an I flounced that ho would turn over to Uivcelrcr F tzcr all the teal estate andj j 9l k

ALDERMEN WILL I MEET TONIGHT Carruchiso Street Car Franchise Ordi nance to CHino III Effort to Ilnvo Resolution to Onlnr Roml Issue fur Municipal < Plant to lie lode OTHEIt CITY HALL NEWS NOTKS I f The aldermen will meet In regu regular - lar regular session tonight and will have u good dual of routine business to transact transactThe The ordinance granting a street streetcar - car streetcar franchise out Broadway to Nine Nineteenth - teenth Nineteenth street and over to Worten addition will como up for first pas passage - sage passage and tho resolution giving the park commissioners 1500 this lear I conies up also It la probable that an effort will bo made to have the resolution to let the people vote on a proposition < o Issue bonds to construct a munici pal waterworks system and im prove the city light plant to enable It to furnish lights for commercial purposes will bo made Tho resolu lion has passed the lower board and I when brought before the uldormeii failed of passage Circulars wore Is I sued by some municipal ownership advocates last night calling on the people to ask why they arc refused an opportunity to vote on Iho ques question - tion question and Mayor Yeiser will bo asked to bring It up again tonight I dont know anything about it the mayor said today but there are a number of people who are tniloin to havo the question submitted to a vote and I think they should have the opportunity to express them selves I think the people should be allowed to express their views on oj Inch propositions I know a number of people who should like to have a proposition submittal to the peopl to satin bonds for tho construction of Rowers n prolOs > lon to which I am opposed yot I think If they want I It they should have 1L filtVM IIDKK NICHOLAS To KJIVU tat nnlinte Onmimml of the hole Iraq St Potorsburg Aug 9Notwllh standing the Improvement In the situ situation - ation situation predicted by the cbllapso of the strike the Noroe Vrcmya today an nounces that It Is still the Intention of the emperor to plnro Grand Duke Nlch olna Nlrholalcvltch In Immodlato com nand of the whole army concentrat ing the direct authority over the troops composing each separate corp and di vision In his hands The paper rays the announcement of his appointment may be expected In a tow days and adds that this will not make the grand duko a dictator at the administrative functions will re remain - main remain In the hands of the minister of war M Riidfger minister of war h understood 10prolelt vigorously against the step and this led to the report that he would bo succeeded J > y den Trepoff but It appears now that Gen Rradlger will probably remain In ores offlcsRoosevelt Roosevelt Soils for n Hunt Colorado Springs Col August 9 Lieut Emory S Land of the United States navy will visit his par lion was 10500000 bales In 1905 eats at GunnIson this month accom panied 1 by Theodore Roosevelt Jr and George Roosevelt son and neph ew respectively of the president The boys will spend a short time at Gunnlson where Lieut Lands fath father - er father U superintendent of a fish hatch hatchery - ery hatchery From Gunnfeon the Koosevclts will ° 0 to Glenwood Springs nnJ from lucre to tho White river cotta try on a big game hunting expedi lion At Glenwood Springs they will be joined by hunters from Pltttburp and New York Guides Golf and 110 ray who piloted the president on a hunt out here will be with the par party - ty party For Service on the Piiiininn Canal Chicago III August 9The gov government - ernment government wants 500 skilled mechan mechanIcs - ics mechanIcs for service on the Panama canal Henry A Smith employment agentI I of the Isthmus yesterday to recruit these men The class of men wanted are mechanics boilermakers black blacksmiths - smiths blacksmiths locomotive engineers cbu ductors and brakemen Agent Smith will remain In Chicago for three I weeks to receive applications anj II soon as the men qualify they will be furnished transportation and cent to Panama Ho has established quar quarters - ters quarters In the new post omce building 11

FALSE STORIES ABOUT PADUCAH Regardless of Denials Race rouble Story Does Work Tim Orlehrntloiui Yesterday However Wen Unusually Orderly and Croud NinnlMnil 1 IJOOO 1 AN UNUSUAL HIOHT AT DEPOT + It Ito Ii Is estimated that the total num her of colored visitors In Paducah yes terday wit over 12NJO There If I no poeltlvaiway to gel at tho true figures but the Illlnola Central alone with leu than a down excursions sold a total of 9740 ticket into Paducah The N C St It road sold over 1 000 and the boats brought many via itors here The railroads were pre prepared - pared prepared tor any emergency and handled the crowd with vase Tho truing were scheduled to leave nt 12 oclock but did not nil get away before 1 oclock this morning A denial never v4tchcs the story as the following from the Cairo Bulletin of today will attest Fow negroes went to Paducah yes yesterday - terday yesterday from Cairo and the ntirnbW from other places In that city was also much smaller than In former years on Bmanclpatltm Day Tho rea son was that warnings were sent out by tho mayor of Paducah that they wore not wanted there and In Home rates as In that of Cairo there warn ings were accompanied by threats Word was sent hero that there was a disposition among some of the whltu friends of the young baseball player who was shot In Cairo recently by Hardln Davis were Inclined to ar arrange - range arrange a shooting and would kill five or the Cairo ncgrooa should they come No less than five would ap pease their wrath It Is said that an attempt to charter the steamer Dick Fowler for an excursion from Cairo to Paducah failed the owner of tho boat refilling to entertain any otter The Illinois Central excursion train which usually carries several hundred negroes to Paducah on these occa sions had only about Ctf yesterday morning morningH H Is thought that hereafter the ne negroes - groes negroes will go to some town In central Illinois to celebrate the day 1 Mayor Yolter when shown Ihlj j above article wan justly wrought up over It There Is absolutely no 1 truth In It t at all and such reports j veto spread by enemlM of PaducaJi merely to Injure the city he said How such a report started no one knows We heard It hero at the city hall some time ago and through the press had the story denied but as usual tho correction Is never made 1 never MW a more orderly crowd of people than tho darkles who were here yesterday and Chief Collln reports a remarkably quiet day which tho records of his olBco boar him out In Unusual S ftnilo at UIINI The variety of baggage earn and coaches attracted a great deal of at tention at tho depot It was some something - thing something unusual and thin fact that over 100 cars were stored away aluno would attract A great deal of atten attention - tion attention There were cars here from all the big roads Ju the middle west Tho following roads were represented here Wisconsin Central nurllngtaif Route Rock Island Southern Pacif ic GvansvIUo and Terre Haute lR Four Gulf Ship Island Frisco and IlllnoU Central roads I Tennliuil PolnlK Tho following are the terminals of the excursion run Into Paducah by the I Ct Three from Memphis u Jackson Tenn Wlckllffe Cairo o Louisville Owcnsboro Nashville Rv ansvllle and Hopklnsvllle c nisH > Hltloii of Triilns c The disposition of trains was left n to Mr W A Carter and his assist c cant - ant cant Mr Frank IJudde coach In t spectors and tho Igcnl yard crew p The sidings were all cleared and not a hitch In side racking the trains occurred It Is a feather In tho cap for tho efficient Paducah II u llnols Central yardmen and was the t most successful handling of trains u ever scon In this section v August Ihe eighth passed off qul I ctly and with credit to the dusky e colcbratorn Not an arrest for any I serious offense was made and the a conduct of the negro was excellent a Ono or two arrests of drunken no It 1 croes were made but the men were u released when It came time to re return i - turn return homo i The police department had made n preparations to preserve order ande

o FIRES ENGINE WITH HIS ANKLE BROKEN J W Wilkins Exhibits Re inuikablo Nerve v J Sustained a llmken Anklo Injury In Yards Hut Centimes jiff nun to Cairo f IIN IN TIII HOSPITAL riiowFviit Wt J W Wlllclni of Paducah a fireman on the Illlnola Central rail railroad - road railroad exhibited the < truq cuaracterld tic grit of the American when be fired a passenger train engine from Paducah to Cairo n distance of 35 miles with a sprained ankle last night He held out remarkably well and would havo tackled the return trip this morning but for the fact that his ankle would not permit his standing1Wllklni Wilkins loft here last night at atC - C atC 1 Ii oclock on the Cairo and Padu cah accommodation passenger train lie started to coal his engine In the yards when a curie threw c him against a lump of coal which had fallen In the passage way between the tender and englno cab Ills right foot was thrown against tho cqaland he lost his balance The anklo turn ed and Wilkins felt a sharp pain lie continued his work although ho could hardly hobble about the engine cab < cabAt At Cairo he found that the ankle bad j welled to an abnormal size and he went to a doctor who announced It as broken This morning he was returned to Paducah and went Into the hospital 1 LIGHTNINGS JI1s After h lillndlne Kladi the Photograph of 1r16 I i Found on WonmiiV C9t Welltton Oj Aug 9A strange fate overtook the members of a ptcnlo party that vent from the neighborhood of Coalton to a grove near Springfield Switch td spend the day When the merrymaking was nt Its height ui ten rifle storm broke and seemed to center over thegrove The thunder crash that followed was I drowned In the screams of women and children n7 > the huddled mass of hu manity parttj dlicloslntr nearly thirty of their number writhing on the ground The strangest feature of tan affair was the fact that while Mrs Souders clothing was mot burned or displaced the biitllno of a br ncbot a tree was photographed on her back by tho electric fluid i Athe fix MAIlAUiHNO EXPEDITION Arw Traveling Through Wyoming Kllllnu Stock and Game Rawllngs Wyo August 9 Sev Seven - en Seven hundred Ule Indians bate left l the reservation here and are traveling through Wyoming killing game and stock They cams across Utah line where their reservation lies and brought horses wagons and tents showing they Intend to stay out some sometime - time sometime Grave fears are felt sa s Ly i TIm 8AMB MM STORY WomnnM Hidden Money IN Found by Robbers Who Itt Viirr Mqunt VernoS Ohio AugYj 9111d den away In a tin bucket in a dark closet 3500 In gold waastolen from Mrs Matilda Footo near here last night Leaving the house In charge of grandmother Mrs Footo went to the home of a neighbor and limo aged woman did not hear the robbers QUEENS MOTHER STONED While on an Auto Tour Through France Countrymen Stono tier Madrid August 9 The queen mother Maria Christian while on an automobile tour coming front France wag stoned by countryman near San Sebastian Many stones were thrown at the automobile but no one was hurt CAPTAIN MOOIIK Continues to Improve at Rlvernldo Hospital mid Early Recovery 5 Captain T J Moore Is mueh lm proved today and It Is thought will recover He has been slowly in proving over since the operation for appendicitis Saturday and his many friends will be pleased to learn of his bettered condition C I J SY

fly HID consent of tile people of Paducah The Sun has the largest clrculnllmi III the city und county The average for July was 4 IM n tiny I w the county also had deputy condo bles on duty to see that no Intoxi cants were sold and no gnmbllngjm gaged In Eleven railroad and soy eral river excursion piled thousands Into the city and Iho traction com puny was taxed to lU utmost tb han handle - dle handle the crowds crowdsItUNt1VAY miNAWAV noitsi Sevens Jugular Viln nnd Hail to He Killed nt N < HIII I Fred House son of Y D House who runs a grocery store near Wallace park while down town with the do livery wagon at noon left It standing In front of iWarreng Jewelry store While doing tome shopping and an au tomobile coming down Broadway frightened the horse which ran away going south on Fourth street It ran Into a te > grnph polo at Fourth and Kentucky avenue and severed tho Jugu lar vein Dr Warner was called but announced the horse could not be Nyed and It was ordered 1 killed It was vahod at 120 llrynn In Home Koine August 9 William J Bryan and his party spent the day sightseeing here visiting St Peters tho Roman Forum the Colllecum the Applanway and the Catacombs Mr Bryan did not see tho pope hay hayIng - ing hayIng had an audience of him at the Ume of his former visit to Rome Tho American party left Rome for Lugano this evening EMPLOYERS ISSUB j nrFIANT NOTICB TO MIN MINI - IN I MINI TIIKIIt IXMPIX > Y T IV Tie OiKniilalioii lti > irts nG JJIj lIhl Mlllloil l Dolluiw lnvi liniiit In the 1hllllII City o Detroit Aug IThe Detroit Em ployers Association representing eight million dollar Investment has Issued a prorlamatloc ttieatenlng to discharge every union man In their employ rmployPOPE POPE STRICKEN ATTACKKII WITir IIHART FAIL URE AiTiit CIUIM MIS Phyolrlnn Suiimitiiril Itrlii s Relief and OntcrN Quiet nod Rest for Pallenl Rome August 9 Pope Plus X wan seized with an attack of heart weakness this mottling after a fa fatiguing - tiguing fatiguing ceremony > ln celebration of Iho third anniversary of his corona coronation - tion coronation The physician railed was able to relieve the patient and directed that thin pope mutt have absolute teat teatLHtTIlHItIV01KiIt4 LEATIIERWORKEIUS UNION RrfiiMtl 10 Kndot o Central Tjnhoi Union Resolution Mr Olllo Allen secretary of the union speaking for the Ixatltorwor ors union today sold lho union at n meeting held last night voted that It mild nut endorse the resolutions pass passed - ed passed by the Central Labor Union com commenting - menting commenting on local questions at It iwas contrary to the bylaws and constitu Ion of the leatherworkers I to tako any part In politics or religion I Snake III Suck of Flpur Gallattn Tenn Aug 9 eta un usual occurrence took pace a day or two ago near Buck Lodge a few miles north ot Onllatln Mr J H Kirley a veil known citizen of that community In i emptying a sack of flour discover I ed something very much nUvothcreln I Upon Investigation It was found to be I I make about eighteen inches long I and of the nonpoisonous variety bat j III safe to say that Mr Kirley did not use any of the flour Upon examining the tack It was found to contain a I mall hole probably made by a rat or I mouse through which the ell ko found I entrance to his new home I

I Slumors this afternoon prolt fairL I tonight nod Friday Tim highest I leinpenilure rvuiheil yei > enluy nuns UO l und the lowest today was 70 Itiilnfnll 87 V personal property of his father The son places tho valuation of 000 000 on this collateral and ho stated last night that ho had full authority to make the transfer for the benefit of the depositors This transfer will bo made tomorrow President Stentand and Cashier Baring are ttlll at large and a thor ough search for them Is being made IIUKL DKKIANCK AT GOVKUNOK I The Lid Will Not Go Down nt Cov liiKton and Surroundlnic Towns I Cincinnati August 9 A meeting of the mayor of Covlugton West and Central Covlngton Ludlow and Latonla will be held tonight In Cov lngton Mayor Beach has tqcureJ from City Solicitor Hanlon a written opinion that as no Covlngton ordi nances or bylaws provide for tho Sunday closing ot saloons the mayor has no power to put on the lid Other mayors have similar opinions from their legal adviser They will agree < o defy the letters of Governor Beck ham directing them to put on lima lid Negro Hanged Dyersburg Tenn August 9 John Mitchell a negro was hanged here today for the murder of Mote Wcddle In December 1905 Mitchell proclaimed his Innocence to the last On tho scaffold he charged that Bill Weddle a son of the murdered man fired the fatal shot l GERMAN BANKERS Foul COSIIANY TO IltOTKCT RUSSIAN UN OWNUItH Will iiinrantee Them Agahisf Any Losses fly AppnipHitlon and Ineut Disorder SI Petersburg Aug 9Sevlral I German bankers havo formed an In surance company to guarantee the Rus sian land Owners against losses from agrarian disorder or appropriation of their lands CASHIER OF CHICAGO HANK TO COMB OUT OK IliniXfl Ijoyx the Responsibility for tin Dlsns ler on thn Ireidileiit nf tie Wntktil Institution Chicago Aug 9 Henry W Hcr Ing cashier of the Milwaukee Avenue State bank which closed Monday will surrender himself to the police this afternoon according to a statement he made to a newspaper man He has not been out of the city since Monday 1 when he returned after a short vaca vacation - tion vacation He claims bo had nothing to do with looting the bank that President Stontland 1s soles responsible He accuses StenslanJ of neglecting the banks affairs i CONVICTS MAKE ESCAPE Seize I Locomotive OIHII tlic Throttle 1 and lash DOWM the Track Valdosta Qa Aug 9A special from Mllltowu Oa says two negro convicts flab Henderson serving a life sentence and Peto Wllllanr ten ng a twentyyear term escaped from the convict camps there today tor boarding a loconiotlvn near the canpi opening tho throttle and dashing down the track about four miles where they abandoned the engine Tney reversed the enklne tending It back to fl1ltown it the rate of 40 miles an hour where It was stopped by sending It against n row of empty freight cart on a side sidetrack - track sidetrack A posso Is In pursuit but the fugitives are still at large Cloudburst In TtI1 Fort Worth Tex August 9 Information I received from Durango Mexico says a cloudburst flooded lbIlre ll of the city six feet deep and three people are reported drown led

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