The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-08-17

THos. f. FERREL, a Kentuckian, ma
tive of Ballard county, has been nomi-
mated by the Democrats of Idaho for
Lieutenant Governor.
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THE candidates for President and Vice
President on the Prohibition ticket will
travel across the United States ON
special Prohibition train.
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Tar Prohibition State Convention TO
nominate a candidate for Governor and
other State offices will meet at Louis.
willie the Dist of this month.
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THE Sultan of Turkey Is in no hurry
20 pay that indemnity TO the United
States which he has so often promised
TO pay. Another demand has been
made upon him.
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A REPUBLICAN leader connected with
the Congressional Campaign Committee
says that the Democratic party has the
better chance of having majority in
the next Congress.
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THE Republican imperialists OF Hi
nois are making frantic efforts 10 save
the State to Mckinley. The voters are
not inclined to look with favor ON their
desperate efforts.
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ABE LINCOLN often referred to "the
plain people" and the common PEG
pie" but let a man do 1t now and he Is
called a demagogue by the leaders of
the Republican party.
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II the case of Caleb Powers goes TO
the jury by Saturday it is probable the
trial of Henry f. Youtsey, indicted as a
principal in the Goebel assassination,
will be begun. Ii Is believed il can be
finished in two weeks.
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Count VoN WALDERsEE, who is TO
command the allied forces in China, is a
long ways from taw. IL is his purpose
TO come from Berlin TO the United States
and then sail for China. The real dan
ger is that the Count may not get there
until the show is over.
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FIVE new American battleships are
TO be contracted for this year. They
win be the largest in the navy, with a
displacement of from 14.6OO 20 $1,000
tons, and a speed of nineteen knots.
Within three years this splendid addi-
ton TO the navy will be ready for SER
vice.
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THE National Democratic Committee
of Commercial Travellers is daily in re-
ceipt of letters from all parts of the
United States showing that the travel
ing statesmen. at least, have at last seen
a great light. The scales are falling
from their eyes so fast that the rattle
has reached the ears of Hanna and his
crowd
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The Democrats in the South are Ger
tainly having their innings this year.
They carried Alabama by $4,000 major
ity, last week, and besides electing the
State and legislative tickets, voted TO
call constitutional convention TO deal
with the negro just as North Carolina,
South Carolina, Mississippi and Louis
lana have done. and as Virginia and
other Southern States will do
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HERE'S a little straw that shows the
new direction of the wind Grant Egg
bert, salesman for the Goodfellow Shoe
Company, of st. Louis, was on the San
ia Fe train, one day last week, going in
TO Wichita, Kas., when a poll of the
drumme.s on the train was taken. There
were fitty-eight travelling men present.
Fifty were for Bryan and eight were
non -committal. Out of the fifty who
voted for Bryan thirty six voted tor Nc
Klnley in 1896.
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Az officer of the Treasury Depart
ment estimates that more than Sl5,
600 worth of the old-fashioned fraction
al paper currency is still outstanding.
and. though some of it has doubtless
been destroyed, the bulk of il is held by
collectors and private individuals. DC.
casionally some old person dies, and the
heirs, finding quantity of the shin
plasters" in a disused pocket book OF
some other hiding place, send them tC
Washington 10 be redeemed
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THE dispatches state that Vice Pres
idenual candidate Roosevelt will b,
actively in the campaign from this tim'
until the election, and especially tina
after October 10Th he will devote all hi
time to the State of New York He ha