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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-05-29

st. Louis, May IA tornado
blowing at the rate of eighty miles an
hour struck st. Louis at 5:l5 o'clock
this evening and ragged for half an
hour with great fury. As result
hundreds of lives were lost on both
sides of the river. Many buildings
were blown down and several river
steamers sunk with all on board.
At present it is impossible to esti-
mate the number of lives lost. The
hospitals are full of injured and the
morgue contains many dead, while
numbers of slain lay everywhere
among the ruins of the demolished
buildings, A portion of the east end
Of the Eads bridge was destroyed.
The grand stand of the fair grounds
and the woman's portion of the Jail
we're blown down. The Waters a.
Pierce Oil Works are burning and
buildings in various sections of the
town are on fire. The Plant Flour
Mill, the st. Louis Iron & Steel
Works were demolished, and the i'm
mense Cupples block was partly de-
stroyed.
The dead and injured are being
taken from the ruins.
At East st. Louis the destruction
seemed greatest. 81. G. Rye, the
Western Union manager at the relay
depot on the east side, climbed across
the demolished bridge and reported
the National Hotel, fremont House,
DeWolf Cafe, Hazel Mill
ing Company's mill, Horns cooper
shop and great many dwellings east
of there as far as Fifth street district
were gone and many killed. The
Baltimore q Ohio and Vandalia
round-house, Standard Oil Works at
East st. Louis and Crescent elevators
and twelve freight houses on the le-
wee were demolished.
The Republic and several more ex-
cursion steamers, with all on board,
are reported sunk in the river, and
all the steamers on the levee have
gone down.
A rough estimate would place the
number of killed and wounded at l..
600. Both the western Union and
Postal companies have lost every
wire to st. Louis.
This was sent from a suburban sta
ton.
The sender says the city is in total
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-05-29
ouinine jim Has Small Pox.

Galveston, Tex, May ga cable
gram received here tonight from Lima
Peru, says United States Minister
James A Mckenzie, has the smallpox.
The case is said to be light one and
the patient is resting easy.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-05-29
CUT PRICES !!

Many people always looking for cut prices and they
are good thing and it is well worth the peoples while to
TO look for them. By way of aiding in this hunt will
lay heres day but that there be found in
flock hundreds of pairs of Mems, Womens and Chidrens
SHOES, broken szes-a little off stye--odds and ends
prices cut from oneha to One-fourth the original price,
Just now We have our Cut Price Table
100 pairs womens and misses fine hand turn button Shoes
all rs and l-zs, original price $3.50 to S4OO Cut tO5Oc
Is pairs womens patent tip button Shoes broken Sizes original
price $L25, Cut To- Use
rs pairs womens glove grain lace Shoes all Sizes original
price 81 co. Cut -- I5C
AZ pairs wOmens kid BUTTON heel and spring heel plain toes
and patent tip only Ill., and orig price S5O Cut to 81
81 pairs Andersons Wonderful S99 Shoes sizes Ill., 22
and 3, Cut to $50 Sl.5O
rs pairs Zegrs fine hand turned button shoes worth $780,
broken sizes, mostly small, Cut to Sl.5O
rs pairs finest patent leather shoes broken Sizes Stacy
Adams & Co.'S make original price 5000, Cut tO $500
IA pairs mems calf shoes, sizes s. and H. original price
$500, Cut t0--------- SLY
70 pairs mems calf Shoes sizes g. 62 4 g. and TO- original
price 81 90. Cut to 81.
Is pairs mems buff Shoes sizes 9, and g. original price
SL25. Cut to -- --- 99C
40 pairs mems oil grain CATERS broken sizes, original price
$l5O, Cut to - 81
As pairs boys Shoes sizes z2 to FL original price $780,
On our Price Table have over thousand pairs of
MEMS boys, wOmens and Chldens shOesgOod solid GUS
ton-made shoes which offering at less than the
prices of the cheapest shoddiest shoes made. COME IN
AND LOOK OVER THIS LOT OF SHOES
The same is true in our CLOTHING DEPARTMENT. Odds
and Ends and Carried Overs at BIG CUTS viii tell you
about them next time.
IN ANDERSON g. CO
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-05-29
A NIGHT OF HORROR.

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Zone cannot imagine the awfulness
of the calamity which has befallen St.
Louis. | have no definite informa-
ton, but, from what have been able
to CLEAN from the few people who
have come out here from the city, l
know that the result of the storm is
simply Understandable.
"A boy has just come into my office
who went into the city to STE the
wreck. He says the streets are piled
full of debris; that in many places the
city is under water, and that the dead
and dying are scattered everywhere.
Women and children are shrieking in
the streets, mingling their voices with
the p!teous msaDs Of the wounded,
many of whom are still PINNED in the
debris of ruined buildings, and who
must perish before assistance can get
to them.
The boy says people seem to have
lost their reason, and many are run
ming about in the dark and dreary
night moaning from excessive grief at
the loss of friends and loved ones.
Everywhere state of confusion ex-
lists, and, Notwithstanding the heroic
efforts of those who escaped with
their lives to render assistance to less
fortunate fellow beings, little progress
can be made until daylight, for. with
the exception of such light as is af-
forded by burning buildings, the
whole city is shrouded in darkness"
The tornado proper was preceded
by fierce wind from the east. Strong
and steadily the wind, came. and then
it sweiied to hurricane and there
were three distinct attacks which rip
ped up roofs and commenced the gem
.eral destruction which followed.
When this wind met one that was
coming from the southwest the tor
nado was born, and returning began
its work Of destruction. 1t struck st.
Louis on the southwest at point just
north of Tower Grove Park and trav-
ersed the city in northeasterly di-
rection till it reached Grand avenue.
From there it followed the Mill Creek
Valley clear to the river, turning
slightly to the north when it reached
Tenth street.
AT the levee IL swung around almost
at right angle and swept straight
up the river to beyond Venice and
Madison, where it veered to the east
again. Judging from the report of
the greatest damage done, the path
OF the storm was on an average Of
CONTINUED on Fifth Pagel
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-05-29
THE LATEST REPORT.

St. Louis, May 2S, 8 a. MO Re-
public Bureau, New York-Impossi-
BILE to give more than a rough esti-
mate of the damage and loss of life
here and at East st. Louis. Probably
500 or GOO killed twice that number
injured. We havesrumors of cyclone
at Moberly, Warrensburg, and other
towns in Missouri. Thirty killed at
Vandalia, III. Local situation ter
rible. The REPUBL1c.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-05-29

which John Skinner was hanged in
1888, was blown down.
About Crofton many fences and
much timber were destroyed.
Around Pembroke the same kind of
damage was done. The storm seem
ed tc abate after passing Pembroke.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-10-22
From n Great Domocrnt.

A depreciation of the currency is al.
ways attended by loss to the labor
ing classes This portion Of the COM
nsunity have neither time nor oppor-
tunity to watch the ebSs and flows of
the money market. Engaged from day
to day IN their useful tolls. they do not
pcrceive that. although their wages are
1oaiaaiiy the same. or even somewhat
.islsasher. they are greatly reduced. III
fact, by toe rapid increase Of currency.
which, rs II appears ~ fnalse moaeY
aleullsi, they IRE mt n FIRST inclined 10
consider 4 h.essiss AntlfeW Jackson,
Eighth Agnaal Message
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-10-22
yherc ARC tho r,enctlts7

IF 5o-cent silver dollars should double
the prices of farm products, it is quite
rs certain that the prices of al the
products which the farmer consumes
would double in the same way. In that
case it is not easy to see how the farm
or would gain anything BY the free
coinage of silver. Even the wages OF
labor, the last to rise in an epoch Of de-
preciated currency and inflated prices.
would finally, after much distress OF
the workingmen, struggle up to the
common level.
But whether the farmer should re-
ceivc 500 for 100 bushels Of whent anf1
pay out $50 for the necessaries of living
or should receive 5000 for the snmc
wheat and pay out $3.50. in both cases
the balance on hand would have inst
the salae purchasing power. But In NO.
icomElshing the degradation Of the
monetary standard, which could 4,
neither the farmer nor the wage-earner
any GOOD an enormous depreciation Of
values and confiscation of accumn,o+a,,
earnings, involving public and nr,vo+e
oredit IN a maelstrom Of Destruction
would inevitably ensuc. Are tho for,,,.
efs and workingmen Of the connt-v
wiling to invoke such cata stra,haa
hiladelphia Record
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-10-22

Mr.. Bryan is now trying to pose Us
the friend OF the laboring man but his
record emphatically coatradicts that
claim. He was an active memher Of
the ways and means committees in con
gress which drew the Wilson FREQ trade
bill to which is Cue oar present hard
times and had rs much 10 do in pre-
pairing that bin as any other man, not
excepting Mr.. wilson.
Mr.. Bryaa's action on that bill was
prompted 10y the same feeling which
led him to declare, when he was rum
ming for congress six years ago in
Nebraska, that "tEo men who worked
in the shops hal controlled tho policy
of this government too long; that the
wages of the men who worked il the
shops were too high"
Mr.. Bryan's respect for workiagmen,
and for union men in particular, was
shown in another little iacidcnt which
should be kept in memory rs the day
approaches when the votes OF the
workingmen Will determine his politi-
cal fate. Whea. two years ago, repre-
sentatives of the union glass workers,
whose trade was pa alyzed by under
paid foreign competition, appeared be-
fore the house committee on ways and
means asking protection, MI, Bryan
denounced them Us public heggars.
Yet in the face CT these undisputetl
facts he unhlushinsly claims To be the
laboring mans ftisGd, and has the gall
to ask them for their votes.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-10-22

scribe to the free silver faith, denounce
the Republican financial doctrine, and
promise to vote for Bryan
Mr.. Garfield is one of the pioneers of
Western Michigan. He came to Mich
igan first in the early '40s, but after a
few years Of pioneering he returned to
Ohio and tried it again in Michigan af-
terward. He lives on Il farm in Otta-
wa county about fifteen miles from
here, which he carved out Of the prim-
eval forest and where he has lived for
u quarter OF a century.
In writing the letter. indorsing Bry-
anism Mr.. Garfield was made the VIC
tim Of q confidence game. Chairman
l.. K. Bishop Of the Republican Con-
gressional committee has just received
from him Oh explanatory letter, which
at the same time gives his true senti-
nonts. In the letter Mr.. Garfield re-
lates how two strangers came to his
home, one of them claiming to be u
minis ter of the gospel, and how the
talk driftod to politics. During the
conversation MIR. Garfield was asked If
he was III favor OF using both gold and
silver MS money, and, knowing 1t was
the policy of the Republican party TO
use bota gold and silver us money. un-
der such restrictions as should vt all
times preserve the parity OF the two
metals ana make thon interchange
able with each other, he answered
yes. On being asked II he would sign
his name TO u paper to that effect, for
their personal benefit, he said that he
would, and signed the Same after it
had been read to him as above.
Mr.. Garfield AIDES: ANY other
statement not consistent with the
above that may appear In said letter
was placed there without my knowl-
edge or consent, and was done to do
ceive people by using my name as Il
brother OF the martyred President,
james A. Garfield. T"
II further desire to define my poss-
ton as being in favor OF the principles
of the Republican party ~ laid down
in the platform ut st. Louis. and | am
anxiously waiting for the Bird day of
November when ] shall cast my vote
for the boy soldier. the mature states
man and magnificent example Of
American citizenship, William Me-
Kinley, and the entire Republican
ticket. the election of which will
bring protection, reciprocity aid pros
perity and give us the assurance of the
maintenance at all times Of u sound IL
nancial policy. - Evening Wisconsin.
The News, Of this week, contained
the alleged letter spoken Ct above
which shows conclusively the desper-
ate straits to which the popocrats are
driven to bolster tlp their waning
cause. AS the tmc for election draws
near they realize that they have no
chance to win and are ready to try any
disgracefpl or dishonest scheme that
promises to aid in drawing u few votes
to their ticket.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-10-22

Notice is hereby given that the e.
suing general election at which are TO
be elected the following officers to-wit:
Tw 1--we electors oi president and vice presi-
dent OF the United States.
4 2overuor In place OF William H. urham,
whose term OF Office WI eYEEnire on the tlFst
Monday OF january. A. ID, 1897
A lieutenant governor In the place 81 Emil
Ranesc&, whose term OF office VIII expire on
the first MonpaS of January. A, y, 1897.
A secretary oi state in the place oi Henry
Casson, whose term ~ office viii expire on
the flrst Monday OF January A u. 1897.
state treas srer IN the place - /, Sewa ll A.
the urst Monday oE January A. y. tSa..
An attorney general IN The place oi VIII
liam Il. Mylrca whose torn OF i.ice Ill eN~
pire on the FIRST Monday of January A, y,
1897.
state suporlntcnpeut in The place John g,
Emery Nhose term ~ otfirc y. i'll expire ca the
hrst Monday OF ,lannary 4. y, 1887.
A railroad commissioner in the place OF
Duncan j Mckenzie whose term ri office
WIN exLi@a on the first Monday OF January
A, u. 1897.
commissioner OF Insurance in the place
OF iliam A. Fricke whose term of o'iice
will expire On the first Monday OF January
A. u. 1897.
A representative in congress Tor the ninth
coma rcSsionai district consisting of econu-
Ties nf Clark. Taylor, Price. Ashland, Oneida,
l.inHolu, Marathon ShaWno, l.angiale, For-
Iron,
trlet consisting nt the counties Us Florence,
Forest, t.ang, ale, Lincoln, Oneida, Price;
Taylor and Villas.
member Of assembly Tor tbs assembly
district consisting oi tho counties ri oneida,
Price aud Was.
Amendment 10 DEMONSTRATION:
Notice rs further given that at said general
.leeti u the Following proposition ii 70 be
submitted TO the people in put%uaNce OF the
requirements Of Chapter LII y! the laws ol
1895 which read as follows:
Chapter ~ laws o. iS6, An act to sub
mts 81 the peonle ssn amendment Ia section
oi article . oi the constitution OF wisconsin.
Whereas AZ the nsennlsl session OF the legis-
lature al this state tor the Wear iSaS IA
amendment To the constitution os this state
MAS l,ianosed and agreed 20 by Il majority
of the members elected to both hnuees which
language,
Resolved by the assembly Tho senateeop-
cnrriM. taat sectun /, article 10, of the cons
stitutsun ~ the state az wisconsin he ag.entl-
ed - striking ont this septeace; sprovisled.
that his rcnllefsation shall not exceed the
sum III Slss,svs hundred dollars annually.
The people uf the State as wlscoaatn, repre-
senec,l Ii senate and assembly, ia eaaet Is
ioiluwSs
section |, The foregoing pronosei amend
nlent til the constitution Of the stat. OF Wis
cunSn shalt he submitted to Il vote OF the
peoplt ~ this in the maaner now pro.
visiel by law tr the submission ot proposed
amen,lnlcnam~nts ut the neat election hi
November / 1870,
Section =, This act shall TAKE effect AMI be
In force from and alter Its passages and pub
tcatiaa.
Approved april IL, 1898,
VIII be hold ia the election precincts
in .he town al Eagle River, on the sr1
day OF November. 1896 next as follows;
IN precinet NJ. l. u - Town Hall
isi tle llAse ef a.aeia
IN Arecinet No. =. 1t OItua mill ~
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-10-22

-Four years ago the Democratic
party Of Wisconsin unanimously adop-
ted the following money plank:
1--WE maintain that the true inter-
ests Of the people demand sound, hon
est and stable money, composed of, or
based on, and redeemable in, gold and
silver coin of equal intrinsic value.
we therefore oppose the project of un-
limited coinage OF silver dollars, as uu-
Democratic. dishonest and especially
hurtfulto the farmers and laboring
classes, the first and most defenseless
victims of unstable money and tiuc-
tuating currensy."
This year the same party is doing
all in their power tor the success of u
policy which four years ago they de-
clared to be dishonest and un-Demo-
cratic. IT four years ago "the project
of unlimited coinage of silver dollars, y
was especially hurtful to the farmers
and laboring classes" it is equally SO
now. So that our Democratic friends
arc convicted out OF their own mouths
of trying to establish u policy that is
especially hurtfnl to the farmers and
giaboring classes.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-10-22
WHO is TO ELAME7
The free silver Wolf Says That tho S0r
Money I.nmb Is Disturbing nnsln ess

The Free Siiver Wolf Says That tho SOun Il
Money lamb Is Disturbing business.
The wolf in the fable blamed tho
lamb for stirring up the bed OF the
stream and making the water muddy.
"But," said the lamb, ''the water runs
from you toward rae. could not have
disturbed your drinking" 'Oh. we'll"
the wolf rejoined, If you did not, your
grandfather did" And he straightway
dined on young mutton.
The silverite wolves who are bowling
calamity ard threatening to overthrow
our sound financial system pretend to
find an excuse for THEN, sixteen to one
schemes in the unsettled condition OF
business. Because loans are being called
in md capital is tinidly waiting the re-
suit oi the elections, the advocates Of
free coinage say, in the words of their
presidential candidate: "Gou are iater-
ferinu with business" All uafavorablc
Indicators in trade and industry they
loudly ascrihe To the gold standard. aud
the manufacturers who are forced to
fusal OF merchants to buy while there is
$40 much uncertainty about prices are
accused Of being rolGhugs who are pur-
roseiy making hard times,
1t should be easy for ell intelligent
voters 70 see through lie Hypocrisy Of
the silvcr,te claims. .Iotaiag can be
more certain than that instead Of being
due to the gold standard any financial
stringcncy which may now exist is al
tt,,,,
for n debascd currency. With large
number CT ot1ice-seeking politicians 60
ing up ard down the country shouting
for cheap dollars. and promising 10 cut
the measure OF values in two il they
gain control ar the government, how
can business be good? 4 tight money
market simply means that the owners
OF capital are unwilling to make loans.
Does any reasonable man expect that
the threat OF enabling borrowers topay
their debts in 5o-cent dollars is going
to encourage investors to part with their
capitslo On The contrary, is 1T not self
evident that the clamor for u debt re-
pudiation policy is the real source Of
business depression?
So lorg us there rens ms any doubt
as to the Future financial basis Of our
grent Industrial and mercantile orera-
lions SO long will there lie anxiety and
fear IN the commercial world. Distrust
vii! continue 10 breed fa;!urcS' capital
will he scarce ard Interest," h'Ga, debts
will be hard to collect a,;1d Investors
viii hesitate to engage in productive in
Gustr,cs, This condition OF affairs can
only Ee relnedietl, in SO far as our money
standard lis concerned, BY an emphatic
declaration at the polls against free sill
yer anl I'LL other cheap money fallaeies.
| hold sound. staele cufrRey to bel
among the greatest encouragements to
industry and business generally and an
unsound and iluctuating now expand
ing and now contracting, so that no
honest man can tell what to do-as
among the greatest tliscouragements.-
John c. Calhoun tS3S
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-10-22
A STABLE STANDARD.
Eyr. Hobart shows Why Gold Ii tho Hest
Standard OF Values.


standard OF Values.
In his letter accepting the republican
nomination for vice president Hon. Gar
ret A. Hobart said:
'"The money standard of great ma
ton should be as fixed and permanent
us the nation itself. To secure and re-
tain the best should be the desire Of
every right-minded citizen. Resting on
stable foundations. continuous and un-
varying certainty OF value should be
it's distinguishing characteristic. The
truth that every coin. made under any
law, howsoever that coin may be
stamped, will finally command in the
markets Of the world the exact value Of
the materials which compose it. The
dollar Of our country, whether of gold
or silver, should be Of the full value OF
100 cents. and by so much as any dollar
Is worth less than this in the markedly
precisely that sum will some one be de-
frautled.
"trhe necessity of Il certain and fixed
money value between nations as we'll
as individuals has crown out OF the in
terehangc OF commodities. the trade and
business relationship switch have arisen
among the peoples Of the world, with
the enlar@ements Of human wants and
the broadening Of human interests.
This necessity has made gold the final
standard Of al enlightened nations.
If we arc to continue to hold our
place among the great commercial ma
tons, we E.ust cease Juggling With this
question and make ou,' hS.e@tv CT pur-
pose clear to the world. Noroam should
be left for misconceptioa rs to the
@ee@iGg OF the languages used in the
bends OF the government not yet r,a-
tured. rtshould not be possible for Guy
PARTY or individual TO raise question
cs TO the purpose Of tho country to nav
al It's OBLIGATIONS IN TIE lost form cf
money recognized by - commercial!
Werld.
amy raticn wh;cA is wartay of credit
or eonf,s'2nce ean AFFORD to say explicit
~ on n question ~ VITAL to every IN
tcrest what it l,,eaus when such nsean-
Ing is challenged or G3rhteA. tits de-
stable ts9t ve &Acuil rake Unknown at
Gree and authoritasVely Cat au hen
est collar rseGrs any collar equivalent
to 4 go'd dollar Of the present standard
OF weight ast f,rere5S.'