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Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1900-06-08

Yerkes is a clean man himself,
but he will have TO make it plain
how he stands on the assassination
question. He will be called upon,
if he is the Republican nominee TO
saw whether or not he would par
don the assassins of Gov. Goebel il
elected Governor.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1900-06-08

Thos. M. Gilmore, the widely
known distller, is Democratic
candidate for congress iu the Fifth
district
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1900-06-08

Misses Alta and Brender Kenner,
Of this city, left Wednesday for
Howell, on lengthy visit to rela-
tives, and before returning home
will visit relatives 10 Clarksyille.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1900-06-08
MCCORMACK NAMED.
OwensbOro rIan Appointed Super.
intendent.

Frankfort, Ky, June Gov.
Beckham this morning appointed
DR.. E. B. Mccormack, OF Ovens
boro, Superintendent Of the Western
Asylum.
No other appointments have been
made.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1900-06-08
FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1900
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For Congress, second District.
HON. HENRY ID. ALLEN.

Lord Roberts entered Pretoria
with but little opposition, the Beers
having retired.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1900-06-08

Judge w. H. Holt, the newly APP
pointed District Judge of Porto
Rico, will go to the island about
August l. The place pays $4,000 a
year
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1900-06-08

The census is now being taken
and 52,65l enumerators are at
work, 1913 of them, in Kentucky.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1900-06-08

Stephen Crane, the American au-
thor and war correspondent, died
at Badenweiler, Baden, Tuesday,
aged 80 years. He had been i'll a
long time,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1900-06-08

Three store houses in the Dryer &
Young block, opposite the Latham
Hotel, for the year a 1900 See
Johu Young
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1900-06-08
NOTICE.

All persons having claims
against the estate OF Mont.
gOmery Adams are hereby noti-
led to file them with me yeri8a
fled and proven according to
law within the next sixty
days.
Lou v. Adams,
ADMINISTRATIVE with the will
annexed Of M. Adams.
June 9. 1900.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24
DEcADENcE OF FAMILY LIFE.
The Instinct of Motherhood Ii Rap
idly Dying O0t Among Ghe
Women OF America.

''There are other and graver facts on
which 1 can but hint here which prove
how deep is the decadence of the old
sacred family life,and how rapidly the
instinct of motherhood is dying out
among our women" writes AN Amer
ican Mother" "One is the rapid and
enormous increase of divorces in this
country, especially in the northeast
ern farming states. 1t is not only the
gay: self-indulgent husband and wife
who tire of each other, but the plod
ding farmer and the woman who IS
old and worn out with work. Another
fact, even more tragic and significant,
is the number of childless homes in
the northern states. Hundreds of the
oldest leading American families have
become extinct in the last decade. The
women of these families were notably
active in public work. So large has
been the decrease of births of Ameri-
can parentage in one section of this
country that there IL a real danger
that the native stock there will entire
ly die uot. There are darker depths
here which l shall not uncover. All
women have looked into them."-La-
dies Home Journal.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
FIFTY-sixTH CONGREss.

In the senate on the 14th, after dis
cussion lasting five full days, the naVai
by committee with the exception of the
armor plate provision. As passed, the
secretary of the navy is authorized to
If not, he may contract at s545 per ton for
armor for the "battleShipS Maine, OHIO ana
Missouri. and proceed to erect an ar aTmor no.
The free homes" bill was passed with
out word of debate. -. In the house the
passed, substantially without amendment
The bill carries s., ,021.
In the senate, on the 18th, Mr.. Clark
CMont.) fairly swept the chamber by sur
prise when he arose and announced his de-
sire to address the body on question OF
privilege personal to himself and, analyZ-
cation, arraigned the committee's action
and report. He explained political and
coriated Marcus Daily and his friends, de-
clared his ambition to hand down to his
children name untarnished by the breath
of disgrace, and announced that he had
forwarded his resignation to the governor
OF Montana the house the Iast 2I
tary academy bill, was passed and sent to
the senate. Matters of minor importance
occupied the remainder of the session.
In the senate, on the 18th, discussion OF
the administration of affairs in Cuba
by agents of the United States formed the
chief topic. ~ number of bills of minor
Importance. including q private pension l;at}a
was accomplished beside the passing OF
senate bill to incorporate the American
National Red Cross. The Alaskan c1Vil
code bill was taken up, but no progress
was made owing to the inability of the
two sides to agree as to the time to be al
lowed for general debate. The conference
report on the District of Columbia ap-
preparation was returned, after extended
debate.
In the senate, on the 17th, the post Of
flee appropriation bill being under consid-
Grafton, the committee amendment for
the extension of the pneumatic tube serv-
ice encountered some opposition and was
under debate when the senate adjourned.
An amendment to reduce by ten per cent.
the amount to be paid the railroads for
transportation of mail matter was reject
ed, IL to H......In the house a special
river and harbor bill, carrying 100000, for
survey and emergency work, was passed
The remainder of the session was devoted
to the Alaskan code BILL four of the 611
pages of the measure being disposed Of
In the senate, on the 18th, nearly the
entire day was devoted to consideration
of the pneumatic tube provision of the
post office appropriation bill Senator
Morgan introduced a resolution calling for
an investigation of the Panama Canal
Co., and, in 4 speech, severely criticised
that company. Senator McCumber spoke in
favor of retaining the Philippine Islands.
In the house a bill introduced by
Mr.. Cox CTenn) to pay confederate SOL
dIers who surrendered at Appomattox for
the loss of horses and other personal ef-
fects taken from them in violation OF
Lees capitulation to Grant, was passed.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24

'EIe was open, frank, bold anc az
gressive in the expression of his views
and the advocacy of his principles.
whether popular or obnoxious at the
time, and yet so tempered them with
geniality and magnanimity that few
could keep from admiring him, and
few. indeed, were his personal enc
miles,"
Senator Hoar said in part.
.sThe whole country approves the
choice of Missouri. When the figure of
Benton is unveiled the genius of Mis-
souri-rather, the genius of the west
has come. He is the last and among
his peers, the representative, the em->
bodiment, of a great history.
missouri did well that she waited
nearly half century after his death
before electing him to the greater and
perpetual senate, which is to sit for
ever in yonder chamber. 1t would be
well if this example were always fo.-
lowed. No party spirit, no influence
or friendship, no mere personal graft
tude, no temporary or fleeting popu-
larity has influenced the choice We
know now what manner of man Mis-
souri, delighted to honor and what
manner of man the American people
delight to honor.
Thomas III. Benton was a sturdy
and courageous champion. He under
stood, as no other man ever under
stood, the interest of the great west.
He is, beyond all question without
competitor or rival down to this mo-
ment, the foremost statesman of the
states beyond the Mississippi.
''He loved Missouri. He loved the
west He loved the south. From his
coming into public life, indeed, from
his first coming to manhood, there was
scarcely a pulsation of the popular
western heart which he did not share
Yet when the time came for him To
choose between office, party, his state,
popularity, the love of old friends and
companions, influence, power, the mas
ter passions of his soul, as ii seemed,
on the one hand, and freedom and
country upon the other, he did net
hesitate in the choice.
"That is the character which tho
great state of Missouri, speaking
through ner governor and honOresl
senators, gives to the American peo-
pie to-day. Certainly Massachusetts
feels herself and her great children of
the days of the Puritan and the days
of the revolution honored b. the COM
pan;onshiE. Sam Adams, if need b.,
will draw thought more nigh to John
Winthrop to make room for him. Web
ster will greet his old antagonist. The
marble lips of Charles Sumner, whom
Benton welcomed in the senate in 1851,
will return the greeting row from
yonder stately ante-chamber. The old
strifes are forgotten. The old differ
ences have vanished. But the love OF
liberty, the love of justice, the love OF
national honor, the spirit that prizes
liberty and justice and honor above
gain or trade or empire-the spirit of
this great statesman of the west
abides and shall abide forever"
Iron County register., 1900-05-24
Kingdom.

Special prayers of Thanksgiving were
offered, yesterday, in the churches of
the United Kingdom. The lord bishop
of London, DIR. Mandell Creighton,
who preached before the queen at
Windsor, alluded to the RELIEF of Mafe-
king, and clergymen generally found
in the event their topic for the day.
The situation in the field has changed
but little since Friday. Lord Roberts
troops are in fine form, and abundant
ly supplied. Indications seem to point
to an early movement. His cavalry,
riding over several hundred square
miles in a semi-circle beyond Kroon
stad. have received the submission of
hundreds of Free Staters.
1t now appears that the De Wet,
who offered to surrender, with 1000
men, was not the well-known general
De Wet, but Commandant De Wet. He
stipulated that his men should be al
lowed to return to their farms. Lord
Roberts replied that the surrender
must be unconditional.
The Botha who was captured the
other day is Philip Botha.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24
.The French WOrI<naan m .

Writing Of 'The Paris of the Fau
bourgs," Richard Whiteing says of the
French workman:
He is the creature of the street fur
the sense of the joy CT life, and the
creatupre of the home and the wook-
shop for the sense of the hardship
and sometimes of the sorrow. Fash
ioned as he is in this way. two cut
side forces contend for the possession
of hip. The question of questions is:
Will he take his guidance from the
recognized agencies within the law. or
from the agencies of revolt? The state.
and also, as we have seen, the church.
offer him all sorts of bribes and
bonuses to consent to work in their
way. They recognize his trade and self
help societies. They try to get him to
the altar os devotee, and TO the urn
as a voter. But he has heard of Ito
pias, and he longs to have one more
struggle for absolute perfection at
short notice, though he naa have 10
lily down his life in the attempt. The
key to modern French history is TO be
found here. Every piliticaI movement
has to be n compromise between the
aspirations of the fauborg and the
world as it wags. The French work
man has been bred in the belief in rev
oluticn as recognized agency of
progress, end by instinct and habit he
loathes second-best. The older order
offers him the churches, the thrift AMI
henefit societies, con-operation, insur-
rance against accidents, education,
technical and other-the old political
economy, in a word, and the paternal
state. The new whispers socialism. the
Commune, anarchy sometimes, and
with these the arricadc.-Century.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24
NOW ANXIOUS FOR PEACE.
President Kruger Said to Have Asked Lore
Salisbury for Terms of
Paaee.

London, May 21, $40 e. m.-Dis-
played in the most conspicuous style
in the Daily Express is the dominant
war news of the morning:
"We have the best reason ior stating
that in the last "a hours telegram
has been received at the foreign Of
fee addressed personally to the prime
minister from President Kruger ask.
ing terms of peace.
1.-THE exact terms of the message can
not be stated, but we believe it is
couched in an exceedinly humble
strain"
1t is inconceivable, of course, that
Lord Salibury can have sent any reply
except the one that stands ready on
the lip of every Briton-unconditio
surrender.
The boisterous rejoicings over the
news from Mafeking have become
riots in parts of London, Aberdeen and
Belfast, and elsewhere in the United
Kingdom.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24
BOER WOMEN CARRY RIFLES.
Anxious to Go to the FrOnt--Say the
British Will Not Fire on Then,.

Anxious to Go to the Front--Say the
British VIII Not Fire on Them.
Dundee, May II, Thursday.-The
British infantry passed through New
casale at five o'clock. A few residents
were congregated at street corners,
wearing the national colors. After
their walk of % miles the men ap-
peared in splendid style.
The Beers are endeavoring to reor-
ganize along the Heidelburg hills. Many
rebels have been found on the farms
well supplies with ammunition and
arms.
Recent visitors to johannesburg say
the Beers are beginning to realize the
seriousness of their position, and they
are anxious to know what is to be-
come of them. The Boer women carry
rifles in the streets, and are eager to
go to the commandos. They say the
British will not fire upon them.
Muller, a former officer in the Prus-
sian army. refused e go per month
and command from the Beers to
succeed Col. Schiel, the captured artil-
iery commander.
A tremendous quantity of looted
furniture was found stored in the town
hall. Evidently the Beers he'd intend,
ed to burn it, but they were prevent
ed by the hurry of the evacuation.
The three-span bridge at Ingagone
has been destroyed, and the station
burned. The Beers blew up the water
tank and destroyed the waterwork:'
pipes, but the system can be renewed.
Dispatch from Lord Roberts.
London, May 21, 1855 p. m.-The
following is the text of Lord Roberts
dispatch:
''Kroonstad, May 20, 3 p. m.
''No Official intimation has yet been
received, but Reuter- states that the
relief of Mafeking has been effected.
''Rundle reports having occupied
Bresler's Flat, Trommel and Clocolan.
the enemy falling back on Senekal
and Fricksburg. Fifty rifles and 5000
rounds were surrendered by the Free
Staters to battalion of yeomanrv
working along the telegraph line from
Boshof to Bloemfontein. A field cornet
and 20 burghers surrendered ut Boshof
yesterday.
while at Hoopstad, Methuen Sc
cured $50 rifles and between four and
five hundred thousand rounds"
Iron County register., 1900-05-24

Wild with enthusiasm as London was
over the relief Of Ladysmith, even 1norc
crazy scenes were witnessed, on the
night of the 18th, when the news OF
the relief of Mafeking was received
The metropolis fairly went mad in
demonstrations of delight over the
event. The gallant defense of the
place is hkened to that of Lucknow,
during the Indian mutiny.
AT the cabinet meeting, on the 18th,
the question of the reception of the
Boer ENJOYS was discussed. 1t is un-
derstood that they probably will be
presented to the president by the sec
retary of state. They will be received
with every courtesy, but only as private
citizens
The United States ambassadors car
riage is allowed the same privileges on
the streets of the City of Mexico as
that of the president of the republic,
and two policemen have been dis
charged for refusing to allow the car
riage in which were the ambassadors
daughters, wife and the British consul
to stand in front of dry goods shop.
n PfocldIndioh PuIPoIlihS 70 Adfe
been issued by Aguinaldo, and dated
May 4, from Polillo island, one of tn :
Philippine group, east of I.uzon, is
circulating in Manila. 1t says the COM
mission appointed by President Nc
Kinley was appointed without the au-
thoriZation of congress, and that.
hence, it can not treat officially.
Congress will investigate affairs in
Cuba. The president favors this strong
ly. He has communicated his wishes
to leading republican senators and
representatives. There is a general
agreement that the recent develop
ments call for thorough overhauling
and ventilation.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24

The first announcement of the re-
lief of Mafeking in London was made
by the lord mayor, at the Mansion
House, on the 18th, at $40 p. IN In
less than an hour the city's hundred
square miles was a seething cauldron
of joyful enthusiasm, demonstrations
of all kinds being continued upon the
streets all night. Col. Baden-Powell
was the hero of the hour. The 18th
was the time limit set by Gen. Roberts,
some time ago, for the relief of e be-
leaguered town.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24

The steamer Empress of India,
which arrived at Vancouver, B. c., on
the 10th, brought the unwelcome news
that the plague had again broken out
in Japan. There were four cases of
the disease in Osaka during April, all
proving fatal
Iron County register., 1900-05-24

The Pensinsular Sugar Refining Co.,
of Michigan, has brought suit in the
United States circuit court for New
York, against James Speyer, Ferdi-
nand, Herman and Martin Erdmann,
bankers of New York city, to recover
$4,000 on bond, which, it is claimed,
was forfeited.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24

Commissioner Wilson of the internal
revenue bureau holds that building
and loan associations making loans on
collaterals TO their own members only.
and paying Withdrawals of small
amounts on demand upon receipts of
their own members from whom they
receive such deposits of money, are
not liable to tax as bankers.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24

The annual meeting of the German
American Publishers association took
place in Chicago on the 10th. The
meeting was attended by every Ger
man-American newspaper publisher of
prominence in the country. Important
matters of general interest were dis
cussed and steps taken accordingly.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24

Missouri supreme court, division No.
1, in an unanimous opinion by Judge
Valiant, on the 18th, decided the fell
low-servant law of 1897, applying to
railroads only, to be COLI stitutional and
valid.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24

Secretary of War Root has ordered
three battalions of troops, con-
sisting of one each of infantry, cavalry
and artillery, from the department OF
the east, to take part in the Otis day
celebration at Rochester, \. Y. A mod
ell camp will be established by the
troops at some location within the city
limits
Iron County register., 1900-05-24
Julius Courtney Acquitted.

The jury in the case of Julius Court
ney, in the Scotland county circuit
court, charged with the murder OF
William Hill, and after being out
about thirty minutes, returned a ver-
dict of not guilty. On the night of JAN
uary 27 Hill was taken suddenly ill in
a saloon in Memphis, shortly after
drinking some beer purchased by
Courtney, and he died within half an
hour. Courtney was indicted by the
grand jury, charged with. having
caused his death by putting strychnina
in the beer. The trial lasted all week,
and the case was hotly contested.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24

The supre court of Nebraska has
cited Edward Rosewater. of the Omaha
Bee, to appear, June 5, and answer for
contempt, based on the publication in
The Bee of four articles relating to
the action of Gov. Poynter and Judge
Holcomb in the pending fire and police
commission case
Iron County register., 1900-05-24

Acting Gov. Spriggs of Montana, on
the 18th, appointed w. a. Clark, of
Butte, United States senator to serve
until the next legislature shall elect
his successor. Senator Clark's resig-
nation was filed early in the day with
the governor, and at night he was ap-
pointed by Gov. Spriggs to succeed
himself
Iron County register., 1900-05-24

The supreme court of Nebraska, on
the 10th, ordered that the briefs of at
torneys for the Standard Oil Co. be
stricken from the files for the reason
''that they contained improper and Of
fensive implications" toward the court.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24

The steamship Maasdam, with the
peace envoys from the South African
republics, arrived at New York. on the
18th, after a voyage of II days from
Rotterdam, They were met by COM
mittee which went down the bay to
greet them, and later were welcomed
by larger body of sympathizers gath
erefl on the pier at Hoboken.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24

The supreme court of the United
States decided, on the 14th, in the case
of Erb VS.. Morasch, that the ordinance
of the city of Kansas City, Kas., regu-
lating the speed of railway cars was
valid, notwithstanding an exception is
made in the interest of one road.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24

The Berlin Vossische Zeitung, on the
10th, severely criticised the tariff poll
cy of the United States government as
affecting Porto Rico, and calls it bru-
tally unfair to Europe.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24

The post office department issued an
order, on the 18th, forbidding the de-
livery of mail matter and the payment
of money orders to the American
School of Magnetic Healing, S. A
Weltmer, president, and J. H. Kelly
secretary. of Nevada. Mo. This actor
was based upon allegations that money
was being obtained under false pre-
lenses.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24
REPRESENTATIVES of the large o.

Representatives of the large oleo-
margarine and butterine concerns of
Chicago, Kansas City, and other points
were before the house committee on
agriculture, on the 18th, in general
defense of their industry and in oppo-
sition to proposed additional restric-
tionS.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24

Gen. Bates, paymaster general of
the army, and Gen. Ainsworth, chief
of the bureau of records and pensions,
were before the house committee on
military affairs, on the 18th. and added
their opinion against a change in the
present staff organization of the army.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24

Senator Nelson, from the committee
on public lands, on the 18th, reported
favorably the bill making regulations
for settlements between the United
States and the several public land
Iron County register., 1900-05-24

When man goes in to pay a bill
that has run disgracefully long, he
likes to take out a whole lot too much
money to show that he is not broke.
after all.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24

Geo. I. White, brother OF Justice
Torrance g. White, of the New York
supreme court, shot himself at Buffalo,
n. Y, on the night of the 18th, while
standing in front of a mirror in his
Office. Up to within short time ago
he was very wealthy, and the head of
q prominent real estate firm. Finan-
Sial reyerses are undoubtedly the cause
of his suicide.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24

As man grows older he pays less
attention to keeping his feet clean
when he comes into the house.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24

One bald-headed man may tease an
other with impunity, but any other
man would better not try Id.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24

f.eneral Reioicing Am Canada.

New York, May 20.-According tc
the specials received by New York pa
pers from various points throughout
Canada there is general rejoicing
among the English speaking residents
of the Dominion over the relief of
Nafeking.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24

Rain has quenched the forest fires
north and west of Menominee, Wis.,,
and most of the danger is now passed.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24
G. A. r. State Officers.

The officers elected for the coming
year st the encampment of the G. A.
r. at Springfield, were: Department
commander, w. F. Henry, OF Kansas
City; senior vice-commander, w. H.
Skinner, of Bethany; junior vice-com-
mander, A. r. Mcdonald, of Spring
field; chaplain, Rev. T. J. Ferrell, re-
elected; medical director, DR.. A. Van
Nutre, of Lamar; assistant adjutant.
general, Thomas 3. Rodgers, of st.
Louis. Council of Administration-Ira
T. Bronson, of Sedalia; Arnold Beck,
F. P. Becker, John NJ. Wherry and N.
w. Taylor, of st. Louis.
Iron County register., 1900-05-24

President Mckinley signed the free
homes bill on the nth.