The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-09-14

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MILLIONS of bushels of corn are now
used i'm the manufacture of smokeless
powder, and for this purpose much oil
the grain is shipped from the United
States TO foreign countries.
OLNEY, Sec'y of State under Oleve-
land, has published a letter urging the
election of Bryan. So has exp. M.
General Wilson. Both supported Palm
er ana Buckner in 1896.
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In selecting parts of Pekln TO be guard
ed and occupied by the different allies
France by trick, it is reported, has
taken the palace of Prince Ching from
the Americans. The palace is the rich
est IN the city, and is supposed TO con
tam much jewelry and millions OF dol
lars in gold.
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Still they come. Two new national
political tickets: National union reform
party - For president, Seth Ellis OF
Ohio; for vice president, Samuel 1. Mich
olson. of Pennsylvania. The national
party-for president, Donaldson Gallery
of Louisiana; for vice president, Archi-
bald Murray Howe, of Massachusetts,.
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THE mobbing of physician down IN
Illinois because he failed 20 cure pa
tent Will be likely to cause gentlemen
of the medical profession some uneasi-
ness. That sort of thing may be all
right when applied TO Christian Scient-
lists and other unconsecrated healers,
but when directed against a regularly
anointed doctor with medical college
diploma it is in the highest degree alarm
ing and revolutionary.
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REPORTS of the end Of the war in the
Philippines continue TO emanate from
Washington. and reports of long lists of
American soldiers who have succumbed
to disease in the Philippines continue
TO come from General Macarthur. Not
withstanding its repeated assertion that
the Filipinos have been conquered, the
administration has taken no steps to
withdraw the troops from the islands
where disease is declmating their ranks.
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A New YORK dispatch says that staff
of Italian detectives will be sent to this
country with the assent of the Ameri-
can authorities. A special body of thir-
ty secret police agents, all picked men,
will be dispatched to operate in the
cities here where Italians abide. They
will be under the command of an In
spector who will have his headquarters
in New York. The foreign budget APP
propriates $50, 600 for this secret service
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THE outlook for Democracy is grow
ing brighter every dav and New York
is now being claimed with confidence
for Bryan. Five members of the Cleve
land cabinet have come out for the tick
ct. and it is believed ex-President Cleve
land will do the same, as he has declin
ed to accept an appointment ON Mckin
ley's Peace Conference. The Olnel
letter has done great good in the East
and predictions are freely made that
is to be o landslide.
SPEAKING of the Special Session o
the Legislature and the election law
the Winchester Sun says:
The Legislature is Democratic, an
we hope ii will pass such law as vii
be satisfactory to all. To pass any 9th
er kind of law will but aggravate tn
present trouble and sink the party int
IL treacherous quicksand OF politics
folly. There is an irresistible deman
for fair law that Will not down, and
those charged with authority TO giy
such a law know the temper Of the pee
pie they will do their duty.
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The destruction of railroads and {
telegraph wires has made it impossibl
TO gather the full extent Of the damag
done by Saturday nights storm alon
the coast Of Texas, but enough is know
to reveal an appalling disaster invol'
ing the loss of hundreds and perhaI
thousands of lives. Galveston is sti
inundated and cut off from commun
cation, and it is feared that the city WI
swept by tidal wave In the absen'
of definite information estimates OF Il
loss Of lite run into the thousands.
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THE coming election in November
made the more important by the nun
Der of great public questions, the sc
Element of which has been deferred
the Republican administration until a
ter the election. 1t is reasonable 20 O
sumo that this pOstponement is dictate
by fear that the Republicans won
be hurt on election day by having di
posed of these issues in accordance wi
Republican designs-that is, the par
- ..,,sts ond innarialiam was afraid