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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-28
RAPE AND ROPE.
QUICK WORK MADE WITH A FlEND AT
HAWESVlLLE.
Struck His Victim with Coupling Pin
She May Yet DE.

Hawesville, KY, Sept. 26.-The
first daylight lynching to occur in
Kentucky sin e the murderer Barker
was hanged from the church window
in Lexington fifty years ago, occurred
here at 5 o'clock this afternoon, when
Raymond Bushrod, a 2O-year-old
negro, was hanged by mob for as
saulting Miss Maggie Roberts.
The crime occurred near Petrie
Station, three miles from here yester-
day afternoon.
Miss Maggie, who is only l6 years
OF age, had been sent TO the station to
buy some groceries. Half mile
from home she was assaulted by the
negro. He had large coupling pin
in his hand and when she resisted he
struck her on the head, rendering her
unconscious. She came to about an
hour afterward and managed to get
home,
Her father quickly gathered
crowd of neighbors and they chased,
the negro into a thicket- There
Roberts left his friends on guard and
came to Hawesville for Sheriff Fuqua.
The latter gathered posse and went
to the scene, but the negro was so
carefully hidden that he was not cap,
tured until nearly midnight. The,
Sheriff found him secreted in some
underbrush. He got him cut of the
thicket without attracting the atten-
ton of Roberts and his friends and
placed him in Jail.
The news of the capture did not
spread until this morning, when men.
from the Petrie neighborhood began
coming into town in squads. They
continued to come all day and at 4
o'clock in the afternoon fully 300
strangers were here
At 4:30 o'clock Judge Adair told
Jailor Brown to give it out that
Bushrod had escaped. This caused
the mob to scatter and begin search
for the negro. Some of the mob re-
NAMED behind and they soon learned
that the reported escape was but a
ruse of the officers 10 spirit the negro.
away and prevent his being lynched.
They sent runners to overtake the
members of the mob who had left
town aud at o'clock they were back.
at the Jail demanding admittance.
A report had spread that Gov.
Bradley or Tered the State troops to
come here and this spurred the mob
on to action. They procured ham
mers aud axes, broke down the jaiE
door and soon had the negro.
They led Bushrod into the court
house yard, where he confessed that
he had assaulted Miss Roberts and
asked the leaders of the mob to let
him pray. They granted him the.
privilege and he prayed for nearly
five minutes.
When he had finished a moose was
placed around his neck and he was
quickly jerked up
After waiting until life was extinct,
the mob departed without firing a
single shot. The execution was wit
messed by fully 900 people. Bushrod
came from Rockport, Ind. There ne
was charged with assaulting his aunt,
aged 60, and also with assaulting a
white girl.
Miss Roberts is badly injured and
may die.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-28
Railroad Agent Badly Hurt.

Mr.. Robt. Cayce, L. & N. agent at
Herndon, while returning home from
Liberty church, was thrown out of
his buggy and badly hurt. He was
kicked in the breast by the horse
and was otherwise seriously injured
The accident will probably lay him
up for some time.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-28
List of ,arand Jurors.

Following is list of the grand
jurors drawn for this term of the court.
Geo. r. Pierce, foreman, r. G. Pace,
Henry Howard, COL, r. w. Francis,
Tom Hale, COL, John Thurmond, G.
B. Powell, j. W. Redd, E. d. Jones,
Ed Boyd, w. G, Holt and G. V.
Campbell.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-28
Burned All Her Tobacco.

A tobacco barn, we'll filled with the
weed, belonging to Emily Fox, col
ored woman living near Howell, was
consumed by fire last Wednesday
night. The tobacco caught in some
way during the process of "firing."
Her loss amounts to several hundred
dollars.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-28
Three ofalxInd.

Anderson, Ind, September o.
That free silver is not a dead issue in
this county was amply illustrated this
morning when the task Of naming
triplet boys, born to Mrs. Richard
Weaver, at Oaklandon, fell to the
father. The boys all showed a great
deal of activity, and Weaver decided
that they could be called William
jennings and Bryan.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-28
CREAM OF NEWS.
IFlT is NEW AND TRUE THIS COLUMN
HASIT.
List Of Jurors-Barn and Dwelling Burned
Took Poison-Aeeidenta1 Shooting
Not yellow Fever
sunday Night Blaze.

The dwelling house of Minor Will
Jams, colored, Of Fairview, caught
on fire Sunday night and was soon
reduced 10 ashes The contents of
the house were saved. The loss
to about $500. There was
no insurance. The fire originated in
the kitchen, adjoining the dwelling.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-11
RAILROAD FACTS FROM POOR'S MANUAL.

The last issue of Poors Manual shows
that at the close of 1896 there were IN
the United States $4,000 miles of rail-
road, an increase of 1857 miles over
1895. The capital stock was $o,29O,-
$50. 56T: the funded debt, $5,416,074,-
900: unfunded debt, $3.50, 5O2,3o2 cur
rent debt, $3.50, $50, sos, the total liabili-
ties being $11 SOS, 544,oS6. The passen-
ger mileage was 1864 ,S40,243 miles;
the freight mileage, 93,SS5, S53,634 miles.
Earnings were, from passengers, SGD
313,25s; from freight, $77o,424,o13;
from other sources, S9,S94,7o4. De
Quoting operating expenses the net earn
ings are found to have been S332,333336,-
,56 and total revenue S436.341 ,29S.
The average receipts per passenger per
mile were 2,O32 cents; the average dis
lance travelled by each passenger PA
miles, and the average number of pas
sengers carried to each mile of road was
1886. The funded Indebtedness of the
railroads decrease d, in consequence of
congratulations, as much as $119.OS5,-
969. or 3.17 per cent Share capital for
like reason, in part, increased 81 per
cent. The average cost of roads per
mile, as measured by stocks and bonds.
was $59,732, or S456 less than in 1898.
Net earnings were 1893 per cent better
in 1896 than in the previous year, though
the earnings per ton per mile were 10
per cent less. The tonnage moved and
number of passengers carried were ap-
probably greater than in 1895, the in
crease of the former being 6 per cent;
of the latter 3.46 per cent. Over SO per
cent of our railway mileage is now in
steel rails.
The manual shows that the new rail-
way construction in the South during
1896 was greater than that in any other
part of the country. 1.-The increase in
railway building in the South since 1870
has been phenomenal. 1t was never
eaualled in any region of equal extent in
IN an equal period and is all the more
that this development should
have taken place in a section so recently
devastated by war;" says the Atlanta
Journal.
The total railroad mileage of the South
in 1870 was only 14,735. BY the end of
1896 it had risen to the enormous fig
ures of 67,279. 1.-The prospects of rail-
way construction in the South for the
next year or two are fine and the condl-
ton, both financial and physical, of the
railroads in this section, has been much
improved during the past year." adds
the Journal.
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DAMAGE INSIGNIFICANT.
Prompt Attention Prevents a Disastrous
Fire.

what a great matter a little fire
kindleth." This was demonstrated last
evening when an alarm Of fire was
turned in at 7:47 from box No. %. at
MacRae's drug store. The companies re-
sponded quickly and, of course, a great
crowd, composed of men, boys, women,
children and babies, gathered about the
corner of Fayetteville and Davie streets.
However, when the clans gathered there
was no fire to be found, much to the dis
appointment of the small boys and to the
delight of the thoughtful, for a fire here
would have been of serious consequences.
But the alarm was not given without
reason, for VIII Moore discovered that
the roof around the chimney of the house
occupied by Mrs. George Williams was
on fire and he ran over and notified the
man at the fire station just across the
street, and in few seconds a stream of
water was turned upon the roof and the
fire was thing of the past. However, it
was thought best to have the ladders so
as to examine the roof, and for this
purpose the alarm was turned in. While
the stream was playing upon the roof the
inmates of the house were quietly taking
tea, perfectly oblivious of the fire over
head. The origin of the fire was evidently
a spark from the chimney.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-11

her love and affection A man has no right
| to sacrifice his life il the mad race for money
| by neglecting his bodily health. A man
owes it to himself and to his wife and chill
dren to live a long and helpful life. If a
man would live he must keep health.
Health is a matter of little patch here
and there. Look after the little ailments
and the big ailments will take care of them
selves. They will never come. DR.. Pierces
Golden Medical Discovery keeps the body
in perfect health. 1t promptly eradicates
the little ailments that bring serious illness.
If the serious nalady has already arrived it
1t corrects all disorders of the digestion,
invigorates the liver and makes the appe-
tite keen and hearty. 1t makes the assimi-
lation of food perfect and supplies the blood
with the life giving elements that build new
and healthy tissue and firm muscles. 1t
tones and builds up the nerves. 1t drives
impurities and disease germs from every
organ of the body 1t cures all diseases due
to overwork and worry and faulty nutrit-
ton. 1t is an unfailing remedy for weak
lungs, splitting of blood, shortness of breath,
severe cough bronchitis, asthma and kim
bred affections. It cures % per cent. of all
cases of consumption.
Mr.. Isaac +. Downs of Spring Valley Rock
land Co.. n. Y, writes For three years had SUIT
fered from that terrible disease, consumption and
heart-disease. Before taking Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery had wasted away to slSele-
ton; could not sleep nor rest, and many times
wished to die to be out OF my misery. Step by step
the signs and realities OF returning health slowly
but surely developed themselves while taking the
Discovery To-day tip the scales at 1877 and am
elland strong. The Golden Medical Discovery
has also cured my daughter OF a very bad ulcer
located on the thigh"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-11
DICK MORSE ARRIVED.
He VIII Preach from His Gospel Wagon
Tonight

| Dick Morse is here, and tonight he will
| reach his first sermon from his now cele-
brated wagon in the rear of the post
office. He is from Charlotte, but has
been proclaiming the gospel from his
wagon throughout the State. OF course
this has given him notoriety, and that in
the majority of instances implies miscon-
lception. Those who are expecting to see
wild man Or savage will be disappoint-
ed when they behold the countenance of
Dick Morse Why all kinds of queer no.
tons prevail about this man. Some peO-
pie have conceived that he is a Nor
mon, but he most emphatically denies
this charge and says that he is the hus-
band of one wife. Here are his objects as
set forth by himself
"The gospel temperance wagons mis-
sion is to help destroy the works Of the
devil and get every child to go to Sunday
school and learn how to accept Christ and
i live Christian life, and all grown people
to accept Christ and go to church and
Five Christian life, so that all will shun
hell and gain heaven.
''If you wish to take stock in the wag
on and help it accomplish It's mission, you
can do so in any way you wish. | will
thank you and believe God will bless you.
If you cannot give money give what you
can, your prayers and influence"
A letter is given below which will con-
vey some idea of the man.
To All Whom it May Concern:
This is to certify that the bearer here
of, Richard Morse, is a faithful, consist
ent member of Tryon Street M. e.
church, South, of which am the present
pastor.
Brother Morse is known here as man
of upright Christian integrity and char
acter, an uncompromising foe u of the
liquor traffic" and to evils of every sort
within and out Of the church.
| He is an untiring laborer in the Lords
vineyard. an earnest street and "field"
preacher in the lay capacity; having been
| constantly at work here in that way,
with his gospel temperance wagon" and
having the entire confidence Of his church
and good people generally. as an honost,
upright. sincere Christian man. I COM
mend Brother Morse to the esteem. love
and confidence of those among whom he
shall labor for the cause of Temperance"
and "pure and undefiled religion before
God and the Father"
W. w. BAYS. Pastor. etc.
J Charlotte, N. c., June %, 1897.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-11
"REFORM" COMES HIGH.

The office of the Register of Deeds
under this regime has come to be about
the best office in the State. We notice.
in the published proceedings of the BUSH
ness Of the county commissioners in our
State exchanges, that the pay Of the
Register of Deeds for the month Of Au-
gust avera ged between $500 and 5000. In
most instances this office is held by
men who got into office promising that
the fees should ''be reduced in proper
ton to the reduction in the price Of agri-
cultural products" Instead Of doing so,
they have been largely increased.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-11
BROKE UP IN A ROW.
Republicans Meet, Cuss, Caper Around,
Bolt and Make Two Nominations.

A Motley Crew-Pandemonfum Reign
ed Supreme-Dr. J. III. McBrayer
Nominated for Shelby Postoffice by
the "Bolters," While the Regulars
Nominated MorrisVn-A Merry Crowd.
The Star adds
every decent Republican in the couh
ty was disguised with the convention,
(if that crowd of hoodlums could be dig
nifed with that name) and several of
them so expressed themselves to the
Star. 1t was representative Republi-
can gathering. The negro was very
much in evidence and his continued clam
or for recognition was a source of never
ending annoyance to the convention man.
ayers. No razors were displayed, but
the negroes and the white Republicans
cussed each other and made themselves
equal in other ways than before the law.
The self respecting Republicans, in, the
county will not longer affiliate with such
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-11
THE LUETGERT EXPERTS
THEY REFUSE TO SWzAR THAT TIE
FLESH WAS HUMAN.
The Matter Collected in the Cre,ie-s Of the
Knife Pronounced Blood and Mus
cuIar Tissue.

Chicago, H., Sept. 10.-There was CON
siderable progress in the Luetgert trial
today, particularly during the afternoon
session. The day was devoted to the hear
ing of expert testimony. 1t was shown
that the matter collected in the crevices
of the pocket knife given by the alleged
murderer to his former sweetheart, Mrs.
Feldt, on the evening of his arrest con-
sisted of blood and particles of muscular
tissues. One fact the State continuously
attempted to establish, namely, that the
particles of bone, flesh and organic mat
ter taken from the vat had at one time
heen pieces of human body but while
their experts readily assented to the prop
osition that the stuff resembled the flesh
and bones of the human being, they re-
fused to deny upon cross examination
that they bore an equal resemblance to
the flesh and bone of any other warm
blooded animal who eats similar food.
The three experts who testified were
Prof Mark Delafontaine, teacher of
chemistry in Chicago high school; Prof.
w. s. Haines, professor of chemistry in
the Rush Medical College, and George
w. Bailey. PSYCHOLOGIST of the Field Co
lumbar Museum.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-11
EXCHANGE OF COURTESIEs.

Every now and then the New York
papers read a lesson in journalistic
courtesy to the provincial press. I'm.
fortunately they do not set an example
worthy of emulation, as the following
paragraphs show:
II heard in Wall street yesterday
that Thomas G.. Platt had at last
succeeded in obtaining a controlling
interest in the New York Sum-
Press.
To this old man Dana makes reply as
follows:
eve did not hear it in Wall street
yesterday, but we affirm it to-day,
and none shall gainsay the fact,
that Mr.. Henry L. Einstein, the
putative editor of the Press news
paper of this town, is vicious and
cowardly liar and shame upon
his race" New York Sun.
Arizona journalists couldn't use strong
err language than Dana. Nobody can
his language.
Hanna defends the -SSerfdte~ and says
wisdom prevails there. Now will the
Senate return the compliment?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-11

James Bryce, author of 1.-The Ameri
can Commonwealth" has publicly as
and that men fare caring less and less
about learning, their chief absorption be-
ing either business or athletics. He says
that in the future all must look chiefly
to women to nphold the love of culture
and learning, and that the best educa
ton for men is the best for women
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-11
SATU RDAY, September il, 1891.
GOLD DEMOCRATS AND POPULlSTS CON-
POSE DIVISIONS OF HANNA'S ARMY.

Joseph H. Cultivate and Jacob ).
Coxey are Hanna's stool pigeons in ONO.
Cultivate, who is kept in S5,OOO job
by Mckinley, is expected to see that the
so-callel gold Democrats do what VIII
hest help Hanna, and Coxey, who is
not permitted to be in want, has the
contract to deliver the Populsts at the
right time.
1t is hard to tell for which of these
two Dugald Dalghettys honest men
have the most supreme contempt.
Mr. Cultivate represented a Demo-
cratic district of Ohio in Congress many
years. In 1893 he deserted bi-metalllsm
and became a gold standard advocate.
He was defeated by his constituents
who were outraged at his betrayal of his
trust. Mr.. Cleveland rewarded him
nv giving him sinecure under the War
Department at salary of $1,000 year.
Though most other Ohio Democrats have
been removed, Cultivate still draws
his S415 every month regularly-thanks
to Mr.. Hanna. Whatever else he is
Mr.. Cultivate is not an migrate. llama
needs help in his fight for the Senate
He appeals to Cultivate to keep the
handful of gold Democrats in the mid
die of the road'' so as to keep them
from supporting the regular Democratic
nominees. The appeal is equaf to say
ing, Help me now or surrender your
$1,000 job As no goldite was ever
known to resign an office, Mr.. Outh-
waite has had himself nominated for
United States Senator and will run ais
a dummy candidate in Hanna's interest.
And he does it on the plea Of "restor-
ing time-honored Democratic princi-
pes.'' If the gold Democrats of Ohio
are really animated by conviction, as
some of them elsewhere are, they will
repudiate this disgraceful trade where
by they are used as catspaws by Outh-
waite to keep himself in office, and to
elect the most INSCRIPTIONS boodler Of
the age to the Senate.
Coxey is notorious humbug and
LFlCkSlcI 1uC Diydh hCA pCiASfS i>
made himself conspicuous in support
Of Bryan last year by direction of Ham
ma, and that Hanna paid the freight.
1t was believed then that he could hurt
Bryan most by posing as a leader of
the cause, and his noisy support cost the
Democracy many votes. This year Han
ma uses him to draw Populists ostensibly
in the middle Of the road" but really
to get them to vote for his legislative
candidates. 1t would seem that there
were no creatures having the ballot so
depraved as to follow a blatant and
ignorant demagogue like Coxey, but it
seems that there are enough in Ohio
to make it worth Hanna's time to keep
Coxey employed in organizing the un-
employed.
With Cultivate marshalling the gold
Democrats ON the right, Coxey the Pop
ulist cohorts ON the left, and Mckinley
leading the central army, with money
enough to "grease" all the marchers,
Hanna's drive for the Senate seems to
have the right of way.
1t is enough to make every honest
gold man and every honest Populist
hang his head in shame to see their par
ties commanded by Mark Hanna's
agents.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-11
A CONTEMPTUOUS REFERENCE TO "pOOR-
eR CLASS OF WILLS"

The Winston Reublican, which has re-
comfy emerged. badly wounded, from
controversy with the Danbury Reporter,
has an article in its paper this week in
the course of which it says:
"ITnder twenty years of Democratic
rule the negro has so far outstrippcl the
poorer class of whites in the race for ed
ucation that thoughtful men predict that
with twenty more years of like manage
men the negro will be the better educated
class and viii he contesting with Suchs
men as Jarvis for the SpOilS of 0ffIo-
rather than with the poorer whites fos
the best places in shop and factory, us s
now the case"
If this were true why are the negroes
almost solidly arrayed against the Dern0-
cratic party? 1t is true that when lhe
Democrats were in power they gay2=the
negro justice. and selected negroes of
character to fill such positions as the 1t
groes held, not permitting base arl i'll
competent negroes to teach Their. owE
race in preference to the best cOlorad
i
wanted justice and fair chance vas far
better under Democratic rule, but there
was no chance for the Jim Youa gs aud
Joe perrys to control the negro institn
tons to the detriment of the negroes.
But there isn't scintilla of gFouud for
the insulting reference to whaE the Re
publican calls 1.-The poorer: class of
whites" The negro has nevers "far OCT
stripped the white man, whether rich or
poor, and in our judgment he never will.
Have you ever noticed that Evhen speak
ing of white men who toll for their bread,
the white Republicans always adopt the
opprobrious term of the negroes, Insult
ing them by the language used to de-
scribe them? The poor and shumble white
man of to-day lis the ricF and honorcd
white man of tomorrow, and the one Is
as good as the other
Under Republican rule, negroes a q al
ready holding positions they are not com
petent to fill, denying to intelligence and
merit leadership which has belonged to
them in all ages. The Republican seems
to be as happy is this degradation of the
State as it IS that the negro seeks 10 drive
out the laboring man from the best
places in shop and factory"
If what the Republican Extensively calls
"the poorer class of white men" vote
with the Republicans they help that pa
per and that party to accomplish the in
jury to them they contemplate.
Whatever educational progress, more
over, the negro has made during the last
20 years has been made,as the Republican
admits, under Democratic rule and with
taxes paid in the main by Democrats.
But if this has been done, as the Repub-
lican claims, at the expense Of the poor
er white" it has been the nursing Of the
adder AS it is, the negro with his white
candidates. convert the sweat of those
who sustain them and the State into the
poison that would injure their true de-
liverers.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-11
SHERIFF. CALLS FOR HELP.
MOBILIZING THE TROOPS.

Harrisburg, Pa, Sept. 10.-Governor
Hastings tonight ordered out the Third
Brigade, of which General Goblin is
commander and instructed General
Schall to hold the First Brigade in rea-
diness. The troops will mobilize at
Hazleton and are expected to be ON the
scene before day break. Superintendent
Creighton, of the middle division of the
Pennsylvania railroad, was called into
conference at the executive mansion and
has arranged for the speedy transporta-
ton of the soldiers.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-11

The Atlanta people are now claiming
that Chattanooga is in Georgia. II At
lanta is in earnest, the Chattanooga
folks might as well write "Ga" after its
name, for Atlanta has habit of get
ting what it goes after.
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