The Paducah Sun, 1905-09-07

HUSBAND IS DEAD FROM PISTOL SHOT Iowa Man Shoots His Wife nUll Then Goinmits Stiichlo Couple Fall 100 I Feet From Ferris Wheel nt til Paul and Woman Was Instantly Killed A PKANUT HOASTKIt iXPIXll Kellortpwn laj Sept 7Frlln Mcaiilro shot his wife through the neck and then shot himself dying almost instantly The wife will recover The shots set McGulres clothing aOre and they wore burning when friends reached him Jealousy was the cause Fell Iroin Ferris Wheel St Paul Sept 7lu the present of thousands of visitors at the stat fair yesterday afternoon Mr and Mrs P II Seventhal of Eau Claire WIs fell from the upper car of a Ferris wheel to the ground nearly 100 feet Mrs Seventhal was Instantly killed and her husband probably fatally In injured - Jured injured The accident created a scene bordering onto a panic The car was descending and the seat In which they were sitting broke precipitat precipitating - Ing precipitating groundI Killed by Peanut I Houston Waggoner I T Sept 7Irs Robert McGuire was killed and three others were Injured and plate glass windowb in half the block broken to today - day today as the result of an explosion or a gasoline tank of a peanut roaster CONTRA NOT LIST For Wrecking the Stable On the Klk Property Bids wore opened yesterday after noon for tearing down the old Terrell Uvcry stable on North Fifth street to make way for the Elks now build buildIng - ing buildIng A question was raised however as to whither the bids were for the Wnolc stable or for the part owned by the Elks Mr Terrell rents a frame addition back of the stable from Mr W H Patterson who owns property back of the Elks property The lodge owns about 116 feet while the stable is 173 feet long Every Everything - thing Everything will be straightened out In a few days and the contract for wreek Ing the stable will be let Mr John Terroll expects to get into his new stable on Jefferson street inside of three weeks weltsii 13 DROWNED On the t Voyage of the t Tronic Front Chill Charleston S C Sept 71lIe British steamship Tropic from Val Valparaiso - paraiso Valparaiso Chill arrived hero after a voyage lasting nearly throe months The second mate Purser and fifteen seamen are missing While off Petu 15 t miles from Constitution the ship went hard aground not three hundred yards from the beach High seas were running The see ondmato Purser and 15 seamon put putout - out putout In the lifeboat for Constitution for aid but never returned When the storm abated somewhat the ves vessel - sel vessel was found to bo undamaged DIIAXK I POISON After lelng Arrested For Alleged Embezzlement St Charles Mo Sept 7 When placed under arrest at hla homo Ed Edward - ward Edward M Solby seized a bottle of car bolic acid drank the poison and fell at tho officers feet expiring soon af terward Solby had been a sewing machine agent and alleged discrepan aloe In his accounts amounting to 1 100 led to his arrest IX OCTOHJJH liidgo Heed Will Take Un tho Homo Purchasing Cases There are a number of demurrers motions and such things walllug tu tube - be tube filed In tho suits against directors of the Homo Purchasing company In circuit court here but Judge W M Heed has announced that he will con elder nothing whatever In connection with the case until October when the regular civil term of court begins J begins11t

In tho surrounding region According to reliable report troops have j been forced to withdraw from suburb of Ualakhun whereon Tuesday the rioters set lire to the all works and that placo Is now In the bands of the Tartars who have com completed - pleted completed work of destruction and who It Is paid massacred tho Inhabitant who did not accompany troops In their retirement retirementlhousnnds Thousands Greeted Them New York Sept 7 Thousandspl f persons greeted the Russian pease envoys when they arrived at < tht Grand Central station yesterday af afternoon - ternoon afternoon at 535 There was a great demonstration when they left the train and hurried to tho Storgls hotel whore they win remain while In this city Wltte ac accompanied - companied accompanied by Uoson walked from tho train to the carriages and It 1 was only through great efforts on the < part of the police and secret service servicemen - men servicemen that passageway was cleared Both envoys smiled and doffed their hats continually at cheers of the crowds The crowd became so great that the party was brought to a standstill and everyone wanted tc shake hands with tho two men Both grasped ninny hands its they slowly made their way to the sidewalk first Crowd III Hoston New York Sent 7The Japanese onvoyz arrived from Boston last nlghi Baron Kaneko Japans confidential representative here with his secre taries and two score Japanese stu students - dents students was at the station to greet the envoys Another great crowd was on hand to cheer the returning plenipotentiaries and secret service servicemen - men servicemen city detective and a heavy guard of police had to make n way for the Japanese party Ono of the Final Dallies Toklo Sept 2dolnyedAn onieial report says The Japanese army attacked Rus slams at Chyongtuyang on Septem per 1 The Russian forces consisted of four battalions six guns several hundred cavalry Tho district wan mountainous and difficult but till all tho Japanese artillery successfully at attacked - tacked attacked the Russian left and occupied tholr position at nine In the morning Tho Russians strongly resisted the west of Chyongtuyang but were forc forced - ed forced to retreat at 11 Anothor Japa Japanese - nese Japanese detachment attacked the Rus sians at Hcaulenkokal and pursued I thorn The Japanese casualties were one officer killed live omens ant sixty men wounded Russians l left forty dead on the field V i KUFS PLATT Mao Woods Files Suit lit Omaha Nebraska Omaha Nob Sept 7Mao C Wood has filed civil suit against Senator ThosC Platt and the Unit ed Stales Express company for 25 < IOO > lor alleged services rendered dc fandanls She alleges that while emI I ployd In the postofllce department rat Washington she rendered services to defendants by tipping off Inside workings of the office and by assist ng to keep out of Postmaster Gen oral Iaynes annual report Of May 1903 recommendation of post check1 system thus saving tho ex press company several hundred thousand dollars Hector Wright Hetimis The Rev David C Wright has re returned - turned returned to the city and will resume his services and Sunday school atI I Grace Episcopal church next Sunday morning During his absence Mr Wright took a postgraduate course of studies for ministers at Wlnona Lake led i 4M1

MAIL WAGON DRIVERS 9 f Go On n Strike In Now York and Oc Occasion - casion Occasion Much Delay New York Sept 7The drivers of the United States mall wagons In this city struck last night for an In increase - crease increase of wages and to compel the company employing them to abide by time contract between the two parties A score of them Jumped off their wagons when they drove to the Mall street end of the postof ice and quit I their Jobs It Is reported that 300 quit at the foot of East Fifteenth street where New York mall wagons are kept The officials had trouble today handling mall in the central busi business - ness business section of the city and automo automobiles - biles automobiles manned by mall clerks and po IIcomen are used to handle the malls between the railway stations and va various - rious various postofllces The drivers all want higher wages A + A Terns Matron Gives BIrth to Five Children V i ycp y < cpA A tj i Mrs John Jackson of this city A A d gave birth to five girl babies nil of whom are living The heav < lost weighs five pounds The J + mother Is seventeen and the S efalher e nineteen years old V tX 3 4v IN SANITARIUM rIII m FAUTHINO IXWMEHLY OF MAYFIKLD IS SAID TO UK 1 Ho Is I Now Hellcved to He Crazy 11111 Shortage Will Ho Paid Evansvllle ind Sept 7H II Ogden of this city who ban been going over the books In the Haub stadt id State bank for the past two days staled that the examina examination - tion examination would l + probably be completed soon Several mistakes have been discovered In the books up to this tlmo but 4t Is stated most of the mis mistakes - takes mistakes have been In favor of Thebes Farthing the missing cashier who mysteriously disappeared from thl3 city last Thursday night Friends and relatives of Farthing are still searching for him and a re reward - ward reward will be offered for him Local officers say they have a trace of Farthing and that they will probably be able to locate hlmshortly They say he Is several miles from Evans vllle nnd that he Is undoubtedly In insane - sane insane A report was current thai Farthing was In an Evansville sent tarium for treatment and that at the proper time ho will be produced K M Usher of Mayfield Ky brotherinlaw of Farthing stated that It there Is a shortage in the ac accounts - counts accounts of Farthing his relative wlli make It good goodrOSVNS TOWNS HAIDKD liy Hebcls in Herman Est 1 Africa and Destroyed Zanzibar Sept 7Hebols In Get man East Africa raided and destroy destroyed - ed destroyed the towns of Massacra and Mek Indanl Missionaries from the unl versity In one town raided were re reproved - proved reproved to a place of safety t Jeffries to Referee San Francisco Sept 7 Nelson lust night expressed his willingness to accept any ono as referee for the fight with Britt except Billy Roche Britt declared the fight will take place Saturday and bo refereed by Jeffries TODAIS I MARKET Wheat Open Close Dec 74 74 I May > 7G31 76i Corn ri I Doc i 38 i 39 DocMay May 38 I 38 Uuls = I Dec s23Tf 24V4 Iork Cooct I 1x41465 i 1447 f Cotton Oct jL35 1037 Dec 1 1049 1047 Jan 1064 1051 Stocks OJ I C U7 175 IJr L 8 N 145 14C Rdg to Vll7 4 118 u119 4 iF JIvt

FEVER GASES ARE SLOWLY DECREASE I Fewer Ne6ses and Deaths Than foi io Days Now The District Outside of New Orleans Worso Than tho City Itself It Now Seems QUARANTINES AUK RELAXING Todays Report Now Orleans Sept 7Elevcn now cases and three deaths were reported up until noon noonYesterdays Yesterdays Heportf New cases 31 NoW Cases 2142 Deaths today 4 Total deaths 928 A Good Report New Orleans Sept 7Yestor days record was again a favorable one with diminishing number of pew cases and deaths only slightly above recent days While now foci contin continue - ue continue to appear they offset by elimina elimination - tion elimination of foci from which there has been no secondary infection durIng tho thirty days sot as a mInimum limit for tho federal authorities Ono In Vicksburg Vicksburg Miss Sept 70no now case of yellow fever was re reported - ported reported yesterday making a total of llf A quarantine guard died of the fever last night FOUND HIS WIFE Hut SIlO Escaped Through a Window and Left Again Muncie Ind Sept 7James Summers of Kokomo has been hun ting for his pretty wife for a month Ho found her In a Muncie restaurant and aided by the police got her tc consent to return home with him though she first declared No nev never - er never She finally consented went to a hotel with the happy m nbut In slated on a separate room for a few minutes and out of the window to freedom from Summers she went Summers went home disgusted and says he will thrash a Kokomo business man when he gets back v to that town Ho will not give the mans name though SCHOOL IJUILDINGS Are to Ho Connected With the Saul tary Sewerage Councilman John Rohkopf last night at the council meeting wanted the school board to connect the san sanitary - itary sanitary sewerage at the Lee school at Fouth and Ohio and Jefferson at Eighth and Harrison streets before tho sewerage Is extended to the High school building There are fewer pupils attending Fourth and Ohio and Jefferson at but tho connections should be made and It Is assured will be made at onco as soon as tho board meets again KENTUCKIAN LOST Grcciiui County Man Drowned in the Philippines Washington D C Sept 7A ca cablegram - blegram cablegram received at the war depart ment announces that Vernon II Tay Taylor - lor Taylor of Load Greenup county Ky medical Inspector In the Philippine constabulary was drowned In a river In tho province of Tarlac The par tlbulars afro not given Henry Tay Taylor - lor Taylor of Greenupcounty has been no IWbd JUDGE GUFFVS SON Dim at Morgantown From HronchhU Trouble Morgantown Ky Sept 7lIon Speed Guffy one of the most promi tent lawyers hero died at Glast night of acute bronchial poisoning I Ills death 4s the first to occur In JudgeD L D Guffys family of nine children childrenIfad t Had Good Control of Flying Machine Columbus 0 Sept 7Roy Knit bensbue mado another successful flight in his airship today Ho had remarkable control of time machine describing a perfect figure eight six hundred feet above the ground < e IIi I

1 t l tNN < < I i riBAItU I i BAKU IS t i4InmdOn Sept 7A UUSslan wV t firm hero has received a telo J gram from Haiku which says ti iff the arsenal there has been ta H 4 i blown up nnd great havoc was 1 caused by the explosion Many Y I casualties resulted > V I SU Petarnburg Sept 7The V fa latest advice from Baku say fr 4 Ji tho condition them Is l hopeless 4 rfA A e 1 t 1 > l t > < MWH WOIUv IN TOKIO t Toklo Sept iUClllCIlsU Ice attacking the olllic of the Kokn niln orpin of the jptviriiniont TIUK IJay a moh bent on manifesting UN dlxplraxuro at tho IKMICO terms pro reeled to l tho rr ddonco of the m inlii Vtcr of tho Interior the police guard was ovcrpowrnU hy rioters tho building burned and the moh then threatened to attack tho residence of other iahjnct members lie pollw Interfered and forcibly prevented l tho rioters doing further damage Tho moh liurncil l n ChHstlaii churcheM and one IIIHHOII school Aiit < lulK Ito Stoned Taklo Sept 7 MsrrjuSs Ito Ja pans foremost statesman and for years tho Idol of the populace and Edward H Harrjmnn nn American railway tnaghato were stoned In the streets t today by a mob Neither was I 1 Injured s Service nt Ieterhof St Petersburg Sept 71ho great ToligfouH servico to cc1ii1H ttiI I tho signing of tho pcnco treaty at Iprtsmouth was hold at Icterhot today nnd To Deum was sung Tho ijzttr and Imperial family attended tho services IliiMMlaiiM Destmy Much 011 SU PqlorsburB Sept 7Tho trot bias nt Ilaku continue unabated ac cording to the latest reports receiv ed and the situation Is growing worso constantly Over five hundred oil wells are reported destroyed and tho naptha refineries nnd most every everything - thing everything says a telegram from Halakha ny whoro many of the largest oil wells of Russia are located und tho entire place Is reduced to ashes Tjjb czat has telegraphed peremptory or filial the revolt must be stamp I lilt at any cost Tho demonstration Is regarded as asa - a asa manifestation of tho bitterness with which the Japanese people re received - ceived received tho news of the peace torms agreed upon at rortsmouth When Ito and Ilarrlmnn appeared a m crowd nulckly gathered The leader of time rioting yester yesterday - day yesterday In tho crowd began limo trouble by jeering nt Marquis Up lIe took the matter cooly until some one throw a atone Jn a moment tho crowd wag transformed Into a wild inob and missiles wore thrown The pmllco charged tho mob ells persing thorn To Hitild New Jliisslnn Fleet I St rotorslmrsr Sept 711 Is ro portcd thit flvo hundred million roubles are already sot aside for the construction of n new UusHlan fleet Streelii of f Uaku Unsufo 61 IQlqrsburg Sept 7Nowli from Haku la of tho gloomiest charao tor Arm Qlan aucj Tartar warring fac ions now a pear to bo Entirely be vpud control The streets of Ottkn are unpafo for ihabttaut and lroolll orp Inadequuto to restrain the anar rhlttal tenancies of the t cowbatauts combatautat 4 J

Ing been notified of tho accident En Engineer - gineer Engineer Armstrong resides near 24th and Broadway and has many friends I here hereConductor Conductor Starr Milam Is a son of tho late Dr M O Mllam and sonin law of Col Jl G Caldwell He re resides - sides resides on West Broadway and escaped serious Injury according to reports The missing and Injured reside In Fulton Memphis and Paducah but the reports do not state where some of them reside Tho block signals are used between Fulton and Memphis and It Is said this afternoon that the operator at Oblon let 151 get by him giving It a clear board If this is true the train crew was not to blame as It did not receive the signal to stop at Oblon Conductor Mllam It Is understood was recently promoted to a passen ger run but had not taken It on ac account - count account of the yellow fever situation In the south where he would have had to take a run Tho Illinois Central sent Dr J Q Taylor of Paducah down to attend Engineer Armstrong and ho < wl4 probably be brought to the hospital 1 here today It Will probably require an official Investigation to fix the responsibility for tho disaster The pfflclal reports of the accident merely state that tho 151 went past Oblon without orders It should have waited there for thr 184 but It is understood that the train crew claims it got the signal to go on In which case the fault would lie with the operator If the crew had orders to wait at Oblon however which it Is evident it was expected to do the blame will rest on tho train crow Tho loss of property to the rail railroad - road railroad cannot be estimated as the con contents - tents contents of the cars will bo practically ruined while the damage to the two locomotives the bridge and the cars will be many thousand dollars A telephone message from Oblon this afternoon stated that the body of the other colored brakeman < Noah McFadden had been found and prob probably - ably probably the remains of one of the bth ersIlls It Is also stated that the blame had not been fixed for the wreck some claiming the train crew and others the operator at Trimble Tenn was to blame HOTEL MAN DEAD And ills Widow is Almost Dead From Typhoid Fever Glasgow Ky Sept 7J Tom Carter one of the proprietors of tho Murrell House here and formerly n well known Louisville drummer died last night of typhoid fever ills widow Is barely alive with tho same diseaseForeign Foreign Mission Report Boston Sept 7 American board of commissioners for foreign missions completed Its report Total receipts for the year 812149

rILE DEAD AND INJURED Engineer A II Williamson Mem phis missing Fireman W A Smith Paducah missingBrakcman Brakeman Noah McFaddcn color colored - ed colored Paducah dead Hrakcinan JamcM Lewis colored a Fulton dead deadTILE TUB INJURED Flagman S II Cook Fulton hack hips and arms Injured serious Engineer J T Armstrong Padn call internally and otherwise Injured very serious but believed ho will re coverFireman Fireman W S Stevenson Iadu call hack and hip Injured serious Alonzo Utley Fort Worth Texas trespasser right leg broken and other Injuries A headend freight wreck almost unequalled in the history of the Memphis division of the Illinois Con tral in loss of life and property oc occurred - curred occurred this morning at 253 oclock on Oblon river bridge about threw hundred yards south of Oblon Sta lion when freight trains Nos 151 and tho second section of 184 met In tho center of the trestlo while going at a high rateof sped and with an awful crash reared high Into the air and rolled over into the river Several lives were lost but tha bodies of all the victims have not been found News reached Paducah early this morning but details of the disaster were meager Train 151 southbound engine 722 was In charge of Conductor Starr Mllam Paducah and Engineer J T Armstrong Paducah Train No 184 second section northbound engine 538 WAR In charge of Conductor C M Beams Memphis and Engineer A H Wil I liamson MempblsI I Oblon is 25 miles south of Fulton Ky and 95 miles above Memphis Tenn The freight had gone only 300 yards beyond the point It should have waited for the other train when they came together on the trestle with tor rifle force Both engines and twelve or thir thirteen - teen thirteen freight cars together with seven empty coal cars went over or through into the river no doubt carrying with them several persons Twelve panels of the bridge were carried away practically destroying the main line for twentyfour hours at that point The surviving trainmen Immediate Immediately - ly Immediately carried news of the collision to Oblon and rendered what aid they could to the Injured Wreckers and physicians were sent out as soon as possible and every ef fort Is being made to open tho lino again all trains being detoured in the meantime meantimeIt It was reported In Paducah this forenoon that Engineer Armstrong was killed but a telephone messarc to the Sun at noon stated that ho was thought to be better Ills wife went down to Oblon on an early train hay

It IH authoritatively announced this afternoon that tho Illinois Cen Central - tral Central and tho Southern railroads have leased tho Tennessee Central set setting - ting setting at rest tho rumors that havo been afloat for several months of tho Frisco and other roads gaining con control - trol control of tho road These two big systems today leas leased - ed leased the Tennessee Central for a pe period - riod period or ninetynine years The Illinois Central gets tho divi division - sion division from Nasuvllle to UopklosvlUe t 1fi c iJ ecc oA It