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Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1899-03-07
ISLAND OF GUAM.
Commander Taussig is Its First
American Governor.

Commander Taussig of the Ben
nington is the first American Gov
ernor of Guam. The American flag
went up over the island at 1870 a.
a. m. February l, 1t was raised
over Fort Santa Cruz, in the har-
Dor of San Louis D'Apra, the main
hasbor of Guam, and saluted by the
guns Of the Bennington. SImul-
taneously it was raised over the
government buildings at Agana,
FIVE miles distant, and was saluted
by battalion from the Bennington
and company of militia with a
field battery.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1899-03-07
BiIlionD Dollar Congress
Better Than That Even By More
Than One Hall Again.
Sundry Civil, Naval, River and
Harbor and District of Column
bia Bills Still in Confer
ence.

Washington, March 4-The best
estimates available place the ag-
gregate of the appropriations OF the
present session of Congress at $672,
S05, 489. OF this total the following
items are determined, as the bills
making the appropriations have be-
come laws.
Agriculture IS, 726,O22; diplomat
ic and consular, 81, ia, 533; fortifica-
tions, So, $50, ,902; Indian, 81, 7,604, ,75S:
Legislative; ETC., S2S, 405, 740; militia
ry academy, S575,774; pensions,
$145, 133, $50; postoffice, Sl95, ga, 1888:
urgent deficiencies, Sl40,64O; Span
ish treaty obligation, $4,000, 600.
The total permanent appropriation
is also fixed and is $128,078,220.
At ? o clock this morning the sun
dry civil, naval, river and harbor
and District of Columbia bills were
still in conference and the final fig-
ures were not available. The fig
ures as the bills passed the Senate
were as follows: District of Colum-
bia, $3.50, COS; navy. $50, ,979, ,369;
sundry civil, S51, 299, ,262; river and
harbOr, (about) S16, 100000.
On the army and the sundry civil
bills the latest figures available
were those showing the amounts
appropriated as the bills were re-
ported to the Senate from the Com
mittee on Appropriations. These
are: Army, $50, ,43O,19+; general
deficiency, S21,126,254.
To these figures should be added
the following: Omnibus claims bill,
So, 100. 900; in aid of expositions,
81, 100000; miscellaneous, $50O,OO0.
The total appropriations for the
last year $S93, 231, OILS, making the
grand total for heCongress 81, 900,
117,104
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1899-03-07
WITHDRAWN.
America Wooldridge's Damage
Suit Against Col. Jordan Giles
Is Compromised.

The sensational damage suit filed
by America Woodbridge against
Col. Jordan Giles has been settled
by compromise and further pro
ceedings will be quashed.
The terms of the compromise, Sc
far as The Sun can ascertain, are
kept secret, hence the public is left
to guess at random. 1t is known,
however, that the compromise was
effected by Mr.. Woodbridge and
Col. Giles without the aid of the
formers attorneys.
This compromise leave the pub
lie as much in the dark as ever as
to the foundation of the charges
made. Col. Giles declares that it
was blackmailing scheme and that
the suit was brought for the pur-
pose of extorting money from him
but whether it worked or not is not
given out with the announcement
of the compromise. Sun.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1899-03-07
FROM A $4,000 BEAUTY.
FOurteen-Year Old Kentucky Girl
Warts a SuitOr.

Mount Vernon, Ind, March l.
A little son of Dr.. Hanthotf picked
up halt pint bottle floating down
the river yesterday, which con
tanned a letter, badly stained from
the exposure to the sun and
weather. 1t read as follows:
"Dundee, ohio county, Ky., Nav
8. 1898. ! am 4 girl with dark
brown hair, deep blue eyes and
fair complexion. am about four
feet four inches in hight and weigh
about lO8 pounds, and am II years
old. am the only girl at home
and my father Is going to Will me
everything at his death and he is
worth about S25,OOO The one who
gets this bottle will please write to
me and let me hear from you.
From a beautiful girl,
"PRUDIE FOREMAN.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1899-03-07
THE AMENDED CALL.
For the Convention TO Nominate a
Railroad Convention.

The official call for convention
to be held at Hopkinsville to nom-
nate a Democratic candidate for
railroad commissioner, issued by
the Democratic committee of the
First railroad district, is as fol-
lows
Resolved, That district conven-
tion shall he held in the First rail
road district of Kentucky on Fri
day, March 10, 1890, for the pur-
pose of nominating a Democratic
candidate for railroad commission
er in said district. Said cOnven-
ton shall meet in the city of Hop
kinsville at o'clock p. IN. Dele
gates to said convention shall be
chosen at county mass conventions,
to be held at the various county
seats in the district at 2 o'clock p. m
on Saturday March 4, 1899.
That the basis of representation
from ca n county to the district
convention shall be one delegate for
every 200 votes and each fraction
over 100 votes cast for the head of
the Democratic electoral ticket at
the presidential election in 1896
That all known democrats and
others who will pledge themselves
to support the nominee of said dis
trict convention shall be entitled to
participate in the county conven-
tions to select delegates.
J. ID. MOCQUOT, Chairman.
CHAS. NJ. MEACHAM, Secretary.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1899-03-07
PROMINENT DEMOCRATS
On the List of Speakers For the
Bryan Banquet At Chatta-
nOOga.

~ uttanooga, Tenn, March 3
The Committee on Arrangements
for the Bryan banquet has made
out the following list OF speakers
and assigned the subject, to be dis
cussed by each.
w. J. Bryan -"The Money of the
Constitution
Gov. Benton McMillin, The
Democratic Party and Reform.
Ex-Goy. Turncy The Constitu-
tion Does Not Authorize Imperial
ism.
Congressman John a. Moon -
"The Democratic Party and the
Spanish-AmcrIcan War.
Major Watkins "NatIonal Bank
ing System Not Authorized by the
Constitution.
There will be several other local
speakers. The banquet will be
given on the 2"th INST, and there
will be 400 covers, nearly all Of
which have already been taken.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1899-03-07
Murder StatiCticS.

The Hartford Herald publishes a
list Of murders that has occurred in
Ohio county in the last - years,
which shows that "a human lives
have been taken in that time. AS
that county is not noted for its Jaw
lessness and as its killings may be
very conservatiyely taken as an
average, it will be easily figured
that 2,042 murders have been COM
mitted in the State in the last three
score years. Verify human life is
the cheapest thing in Kentu ky. =
Interiors Journal. y
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1899-03-07

The March number of Scribners
shows Governor Roosevelt in the
sort of description that he likes best
"a narrative of a fight. With his
usual candor he calls this General
Young's Fight at Guasimas," and
pays hearty tribute to his brig
ade commander and to the regulars
who won equal honors with the
Rough Riders in that skirmish.
Any one who reads the colonel's ac-
count will have no belief in the sto-
~ af an ambush. The advance
was carefully planned out by con-
sultation of the leading officers, and
every commander knew exactly
what was expected of him.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1899-03-07
THE LAW OF LYING.

Tue calling man liar is a crime
in Virginia. The legislature Of
1895 % passed this law: If auy
person shall in the presence or hear
ing of another curse or abuse such
person, or use any violently abusive
language to any p-rsOn concerning
himself oT any Of his female relatives
under circumstances reasonably
calculated to p ovOke breach OF
pea t, he ehall he deemed guilty Of
mrsdeme1nOr, aud on conviction shall
be fiued not less than 81 nor more
than SIS"
To call man Il liar in Georgia j.
: auder, for which one may bs given
81 .OU0 or one year in the penitenti
ary or both He has the right how
ever to prove his charge aud go clear
Ou the criminals side Of the courts
the law holds that the lie constitutes
the first blow and jIsti6es violeut re
spouse.
The Missouri statute says that if
victim Of an insult used language cal
culated 10 pr woke a breach Of the
peace and the assaiIant can prove it
there is no Otfeusr of calling a man a
liar
In Arkansas to use au epithet is
n mi-demeanor punishable by fine,
In Mississippi law iS not specifically
mentioned, nut all Insulting words
are made civilIy acri mablr. Iu
South Cdroliua it is not crime, but
may he used as basis # civil action
for defamation of character.
The West Virginia statute declares
that: "AIl words which, from their
uaualconstructiou and common accep-
tation, are construed as insults and
tend to violence and breach Of the
peace, snail be actionahle."
1t is not a crime to use the liar" in
Alabama, but if man assaults you in
consequence Of your application of The
epithet to him he may give evidence
in justification Of any abuse or oppro.
brious language yOu htve used to
him. The average jury in that state
holds that the lie is equivalent to the
first blow.
10 North Carolina the user of the
epithet and the man 20 whom it was
applied are held equally guilty in
cases of assault and battery.
There is no specific law 10 Tennes'
see against calling man liar, but
the use Of language calculated to pro.
woke a b each of the peace is punish.
able by a nominal fine.
1t is also dangerous to call man a
liar in Kentucky.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1899-03-07
HOBSON'S RANK.
Near the Top OF the Command
er's List and Soon a Captain.
Whether he Accepts, However, is
Curiously Enough Matter of
Doubt.

| " dSnlnS lOD, Midi Gil D. L hS
Presidents nomination of Rich
mond Pearson Hobson to be ad'
vanced ten numbers from No. l on
the list of Assistant Navy Con-
structors, is said by naval officers
to constitute the greatest material
promotion as a recognition OF gal
lantry in the history of the naval
service. 1t will make Hobson a
Captain at the age of 80.
His advancement amounts to 25O
numbers in the line of the navy,
which is remarkable in comparison
with the single number secured by
Admiral Dewey, eight numbers by
Admiral Sampson, and from three
to five each by other officers during
the war with Spain. When it was
proposed to promote HobsOn to the
foot of the grade of Lieutenant-COm-
manders, the jump amounted to
about $50 numbers only, but under
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1899-03-07

Antimony is following the lead of
the other metals and is increasing in
price. Last but not least b4bbit
metal shows a marked tendency to
increase in price All the above are
in the hands of trusts or syndicates
who control either the production or
distribution or both, and who accord
ingly put the price where it will do
them the most good.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1899-03-07

President of the
without
application All druggists sell
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1899-03-07

1t is also dangerous to call a man a
liar in Kenturky
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1899-03-07
ELLIOTT'S FACTORY GUTTED
BY Fire at OwensbOrO Friday
Afternoon-LOss $25, 900.

Owensboro, Ky, March 3.-John
D, Elliott's large tobacco factory
and re-drying house was gutted by
fire and ruined by water this after
noon. The loss will approximate
S25. 600.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-09-27
Music Glass.

Miss Eta Shihett has taken up
her Music Class again, and has
now 81 pupils, three more pupils
will complete Miss Shihett's num-
Der 80 pupils, which is as many
as she thinks she will handle this
winter. Miss ShiAett is one of
the best instructors that ever had a
class in this city, and the GLASS she
has now is about the largest any
person ever had in this place. Miss
Shihett has been very successful in
the past with her students, and no
doubt but that she will be in the
future, as she is in every way per-
feotly competent and qualified to
do her pupils justice. Ifyou want
a good instructor, engage Miss
Shiflett.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-09-27
Beets in West Virginia.

sugar Beets in West Virginia.
Within the next few weeks two
or three thousand samples ofsugar
beets from various parts of the State
will be sent to the Experiment
Station of West Virginia Universi-
ty for analysis. These samples
are grown and analysed for the
purpose of determining the adapta-
bility of West Virginia soils and
climate to the cultivation of this
crop. This work has been going
on for two years and will be contin-
ued until it is possible to say with
certainty whether the production
of sugar beets will be profitable in
this State. The Investigation ne
cessitates FIVE or six Thousand de
nominations each year by the chem
ical department, but if it should
prove that West Virginia is oapa-
BILE of producing the sugar which
is consumed by the people of the
State, for which enormous sums of
money are expended annually, the
Investigation will certainly be we'll
worth the time and expenses in
Cured.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-09-27
THE SUMMER

is almost past. We have in stock
and at LOVES PRICES, Stone
ware of all kinds, quarts to gal
lons. Fruit jars, speciality
Mason's Glass Fruit Jars-pints
to half-gallons. Stone churns 3
and 5 gallons, with lids. Best
grades of Glover and Timothy
Seeds, Blue Grass aud Red Top
Grass Seeds Best grade of grain
bags, always OH hand. Best as
sortment of Bread Crackers and
Cakes. The best and finest line
of Candies and Confections; and
remember you can buy the celc-
brated Princess Coffee, only of us,
also Java and Mocha and Golden
Rio Cottees direct from the i'm
porters, thereby giving our Gus.
toners the profits that go to Job
beers. Remember the Princess
Coffee is only 1Oc. a pound and
far superior to any package coffee
at that price. Don't fail to ask
for Princess, and an endless va
riety of all kinds of fresh Goods
at prices to suit the times. High
est market prices paid for all
kinds of country produce. Re-
member the place 514 Main st.
ID. S. SNYDER,
THE GROCER.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-09-27
EINing The Bows.

Dawson is daisy. He can give
democratic officeholder's a great
many pointers on how to keep up
party papers with the peoples
money. He advertised for bids for
the capitol annex in hundred re-
publican newspapers, more or less,
and "blowed in" between twelve
and fifteen hundred dollars on it
and got four bids. An advertise
ment in four papers of the state
would have brought the same re-
suits. This is republicanism in
West Virginia Charleston Cour-
Ter.
The Mason County Court, which
is solidly Republican, understands
the trick of keeping up its party
organ, as we'll as does Secretary of
State Dawson.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-09-27

Our people seem to have gone
mad, dog mad, over the second con-
viction of Dreyfus by court mar
tial composed of officers of the
French army, and the entire French
nation is to be boycotted and mall
treated because prejudiced court
an unjust decision. The
world appears to think that ORGY
fus is innocent, and the evidence
given ont through the press will
not support any other conclusion.
But it was not the French people,
nor the French nation that declared
him guilty. 1t was court com
posed of his enemies that did the
wrong. The French government
righting the wrong as rapidly as
possible, and the cablegrams tell us
that a complete pardon will be
granted him in few days. perhaps
within few hours. If the United
States desires to tear it's shirt over
an unjust foreign court finding it
has case of its own more brutal
than that of Dreyfus. 1t is that of
Mrs. Maybrick, an American wo-
man, who is serving life sentence
in British prison for murder
that the world knows she never
committed. She was first SEN
fenced to death and only. her sex
saved her from the gallows. Her
case is one that appeals, it ought
to appeal, to every Americana
sense of humanity and Justice, and
if flood of righteous indignation
is to break out over the land it
should rather be first in favor of
our own countryman. But it was
an English court that convicted
Mrs. Maybrick and in the estima-
ton of the nasty, snobbish senti-
ment that now rules this country
Great Britain can do no wrong
Parkersbutg Sentinel.
You are right Brother Horner.
The American people will never
forget the debt they owe to France,
with all her faults, and they are no
worse than our own. The French
nation has shed rivers of blood for
liberty. Shed it for others, the
noblest sacrifice humans can mako.
The Monarchical Government OF
Austria, Germany, Russia and
England, never drew sword in such
holy cause. They are to-day des-
potisms. We welcome and adore
their people, but their governments
we hold at arms length. The wis
dom of Washington shall never be
forgotten. Entangling alliances
with mono, though it is now ne
elected by Hanna's man, now in
the White House" He may live
few years, under the pretext of
subduing the Philippines, to sus-
tain his undemocratic and unrepub-
lican regime, but the other people
will call a halt, ere long, and SO
loudly that it's echo will fill the
twentieth century.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-09-27
Take The Two?

There is nothing short about the
New York people. General Boggs,
of the Governors office, Charleston,
had an offer by mail Thursday, of
a house on Riverside Drive for use
during the Dewey parade and other
demonstrations Incident to the
great Admiral's welcome, for the
modest sum of $1,000. This New
Yorker had another house nearby
that he would, in a pinch, let GO
for $500. After reading these prop
ositions the General fell over the
ouspidor and physician had to be
called.
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DOCK


Books, Magazines, Periodicals,
Music, Etc, bound in any style
at reasonable rates.
Worn-out Books, Bibles, ETC.,
rebound. Pocket Books, ETC.,
lettered in gold leaf Work guar
anteed to be entirely satisfactory.
Estimates cheerfully furnished.
Books, Magazines, etc, may be
sent by mail, express or freight,
according to the size and mum
Der of volumes) and will be given
careful attention. Binding in
lots of Ave or more volumes at re-
duced rates.
@. III. BOOTON.
GAI.LIPOLIS, OHIO
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Lericho.

JeH1chOs
Corrcspo 2Srd.
Mrs. j. w Icenhour was visiting
Mr.. j. W. Foldin this week.
Roy. Burdette has been returned
on the Bethel circuit.
Mr.. Frank Bennett. who has
been quite sick for some time is
better at this writing.
Ed. Powers, while working on
his new house, got his foot badly
mashed.
Charley Oliver is working ont the
water works in your city.
Sam Bennett has been on the
sick list this week.
Mary Kathleen, only child of
Mr.. and Mrs. O. w. Eads, died
Thursday morning. She was born
August 25th. 1898, died September
21et, 1899. She stayed long enough
on earth to endear herself to her
father and mother, and every one
knew her but to love her. Bntshe
has gone to Him who said suffer
the little ones to come unto Him,
and to Him we would point the
bereayed father and mother. She
was tender bud on this earth and
has gone to bloom in heaven, and
we must'console ourselves with the
thought that we can go to her.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-09-27
New York and Washington Grand Re-
ception to Admiral Dewey.

For Dewey Day Celebrations at
se and at S5n Sna
I'd and 3D., Agents of Ohio Central
Lines will sell excursion tickets to
either point at rate of one and one
third fare for the round trip. Tickets
to New York will be on sale Septem-
Der 26th, 9th and 2Sth and to Wash
ington, September Both and October
LIST. For full particulars call on
agents of Ohio Central Lines.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-09-27
Home Seekers Excursions via Ohio
Central Lines, Sept. 10 and
Oct. 8 and IL, 1890.

On the above dates Agents of the
Ohio Central Lines will sell Home
Seekers Excursion tickets to points
in the West, Southwest and South.
The rate will be One Fare for the
Round Trip, plus 50 90, Children Half
Fare. For full information call on
dress
JOHN MooREs, t. r. A, Findley, o.
w. a. PETERs, Pass Ag't. Column
bus, Ohio.
d. G. PATTERSON, Pass. Ag't. Char
lesion, w. Va.
ID. j. CARGO, Pass. Ag't. Toledo, o.
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LaDorIng Men, Isead rhis.

Another distinguished Republi-
can has joined the ranks of the
great army against Mckinley and
his imperial purpose to put you in
competition with the millions of
cheap laborers of Asia. Hon. Geo.
S. Boutwell,, of Massachusetts,
President Grants secretary of the
treasury, was invited a few days
ago to attend a dinner given in
honor of ten veterans of the labor
movement. Mr.. Boutwell, could
not go, but he did the next thing,
he sent q letter in which he said:
"To mo and to you one topic is
supreme over all others. The ma
ton is passing through crisis, or
rather it is in crisis, which por-
tends all of evil to the laboring
population that can ever como to
them their downfall from con-
dition of independence, to state
of servility through competition
with the millions of the Oriental
world. The Philippines are never
to be surrendered So says the
President They are to be con-
quered and they are to be kept
within or under tue jurisdiction of
the United States. The laboring
population of this country have no
means of averting this evil, and /
do not hesitate in advising its use
Let them unitedly and with ener-
gy oppose the reelection of Presi-
dent Mckinley and their days of
peril will be ended and the coun.
try will be saved from the grasp of
imperialism"
Tho man who wrote these words
is not an anarchist, he is not
Populist, he is not labor agitator,
and not even Democrat, but an
original Republican. He was
Republican in the day of Lincoln
and Grant You must believe him
sincere. Take his advice and save
yourself from utter ruin.
From all points in Ohio comes
the news that John r. Mclean
stock is steadily rising. The aver
age Buckeye Republican has
scared look, and only sleeps with
an effort.