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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-05-03
DEAD WHEN FOUND.
Body OF Dick Sutcr stripped Of Its
Clothing and Placed iu IN Al
ley For a Joke.

Frankfort. Ky. April 2.-Thc tes-
timony before the cproncr'S jury Fri.
day developed the fact that tho death
os Dick Suffer. whose nude body was
found in Catfish alley Thursday night,
was caused by fatty degeneration OF
the heart. \ few moments before
his death he was clrrind ont Of a
saloon apparent, dead drunk, but
probably dead then. and placed in the
alley. Howard Masters confessed
F'iday that he too, Suffers clothing
OF after he had been put in the al
ley. Masters boastcd cf the good joke
he had played on Suier in taking
his clothes. Nlstcrs is IN iaiI.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-05-03
Assessment Of HALLWAY Franchises

Frankfort, Ky. April 26.-The stat,
board of assessment and valuation
Thursday fixed the assessments of thu
franchises of railroads in this state.
The total valuations show an increase
OF about IS per cent. over the fraE-
chise assessments of last year. Th,
I tai assessment this year is S15,3oj.
Gr5 against Sll,09i.i26.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-05-03
Locks ASKED Away.

Frankfort. Ky, April 26.--Word
was received here Thursday Of the
washing out of the lock gates at
Lock No. Z. High Fridge. The dam
age is estimated at several thousand
dollars. and raviga ton above High
bridge VIII be suspended ut least n
week in consequence. The gates viii
probably be replaced by steel gates.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-05-03
Forest Fires.

HOughton. Mich. april @o.-Forcst
fires are raging III number of up-
per peninsula points anG unless there
is Il drenching rain sooi. great dam
age will be done and many hamlets
and villages endangered The whole
north country Is very dry. less than
a quarter OF an inch of rain having
fallen during the month.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-05-03
Must suspend Business in Missouri.

Jefferson City. NO. April 2o.-Su-
periniendCnt OF Insurance L. G.. Grear
has notified the Manhattan Fire In
sur1ncc Co. of New York. 10 sus-
pend business in Missouri until the
impairment of lis capital stock shall
be made good. The company il
charged with having made mislead-
ing statements 20 the insurance de-
DarfmCuf
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-05-03
Railway Accident IN China

Picking, April 29.--Whilc the first
train from Peking to Tein-Tsin was
traverSing the bridge be tween 10 Fa
and rang Tsun Sunday morning il
was dcrailed fhroueh the collapse
of cul,err. Eleven Chinese were.
killed and 20 Chinese and 90 Amer
leans injured. One of the Americans
rln nOt rccNNer.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-05-03

Frankfort, Ky. April 26.-Hon.
John T. Hinton of Paris. and a com
mi.tee of bankers were before the
state board of assessment and 'alu3-
ton Thursday and urged that the
franchises of the banks be assessed
on the same basis as the railroads =
80 per cent. on their stock on a per
conf basis
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-05-03
Death of james Douains Hcis.

New York, April 2a.-.Iames
Douglas Reid. known to photographers
throughout the country as The
Father of the Teicgra ,,h," died sun
day afternoon at his residences in
this ciiy. lie had been i'll for many
N.reEs
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-05-03
The ColoncIS Win.

Louisville, Ky. April 29.-In The
pTcssnce of Sunday crowd OF 3,oC3
pecple, Louisville and indianapolis
played an exciting game, which was
won by the first named team in the
richth Ms the result of batting rally
thu. melted four runs
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-05-03
Two Trannps s,aught.

Niddlcsboro, KY. April 2..--oliv-r
Warner and Caleb Strong. the tramps
>v.,ocscd to have burned John Ed
,xs,rd's residence "a; Mineral Springs,
20 iyncl, whom an attempt was made.
wcre iailcd at Jacksboro last FRIDAY.
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Races Postponed.

Newport, Ky, April 27.-The race
track here was 50 badly flooded Fri-
day That the races were postponed
till Monday. for which day new en-
tries Will I've taken. \ season Of
co lays will then begin, making a.
days instead OF - days as at first
announced.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-05-03
Vcternn Dronpeh Dcnd.

birmingham, Ala. April Dur
ing the confederate memorial cxer-
cises at Tuscaloosa cemetery Friday
II. Foster llill, n prominent corfcde.'-
ate veteran, and vice president OF the
Merchants national bank, cropped
dead
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-05-03
Expre~s MESSENGER ,.obbcd.

Macon. Ga. April 2s.--Express Mes
senger j. y. White was hound in his
tar by two men, early Friday mora
ing, on the Central road, and $3.50
taken from the packages. The rob-
hers escaped.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-05-03
Fire at Chaftnnnncn.

Chattanooga, Tenn. April 29.--The
siaughterhouse and cold storage plant
of the Scholze Brothers Packing Co.
was burned Sunday night. Loss $751;
600; insurance not more than $4,000.
10th plants will be rebuilt 1T once.
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An.,s :s5.aoo Damages.

Henderson. NY. April 27.-,John
King has sued Mrs. Jane Flair. cf the
Pittsburgh Coal Co.'S mine at Eas-
kctt. fof $1,000. He was injured by
= fall of slate.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-22
TURKEY THE 1ERe1rERsAToR.

Perhaps Turkey exhausted her good nature in paying our little bill and thus surprising the Europeans who had been laughing at our efforts to get the money, Anyhow she is apparently up to her old tricks in her dealings with France, It appears that the Sultan, at the last audience which he granted to M. Constans, the French ambassa- dor agreed to send the latter the same or the following day document giving complete satisfaction to France re- garding the claims of French citizens and in the matter of the quays, in &C., cordance with the terms arranged be- tween the Sultan and M Constans ver- bally Instead of doing this the Sultan waited until Tuesday, when he sent M. Constans document in which the terms differed essentially from those arranged at the audiences Thereupon M. Constans declined to negotiate any further or to hold other communica- tions with the Porte and referred the matter to the French Foreign Office. As the matter stands, relations between M. Constans and the Porte are broken off, but France and Turkey are still in diplomatic relations through the Turk ish ambassador at Paris.
 Notwithstanding "the scare heads" in the sensational papers war between France and Turkey isn't yet in sight, but Turkey has got a much-needed reminder that she must play fair If she doesn't want trouble.
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4 NAD $ LIB4CK.

An interesting and important experi-
 Indiana, and though it has made some
 stir in that quiet place it has not at-
 tracted much attention outside. It will,
 however, attract some now, because of
 the unexpected and, on the whole, dis
 appointing and painful outcome of it.
 The superintendent of the Madison
 Street Railroad Company took, or was taken by, a notion that women would make good car conductors, and it must be admitted that the notion was plaus- ible. But he now admits that it was more plausible than practical. The wo- men were employed because they were cheaper and it was thought that men would go out of their way to patronize the cars on which they were employed. The superintendent sadly confesses that the latter expectation was disap- pointed. The lady conductors were content to work for less wages, but the tendency of each conductor to attach herself to a single male passenger and to reserve all her badinage for him, created jealousy among the other male passengers and induced them to avoid the cars. The lady conductors were also not popular with lady passengers. "It has happened" says the superin- tendent, that the patronage fell away till car contained only one passenger and he was talking to the conductor"
 So there are no more lady conductors great cause has received a sad set hack
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NOT so YERY SLOW.

Philadelphia may be little slow in or Boston, but she Is getting there. She is now facing a rapid transit problem. The limit of surface transportation has been reached, it is said, with cars run ming on forty to fifty seconds headway, and the congestion of the business streets with cars and other vehicles is such that the average speed of the elec- tric cars is not over eight miles an hour, while in some thoroughfares it is as low as four miles. This is little, if any, faster than the old horse-car speed. With the slowness of transit, there is the added discomfort of lack of accommodation. During the last year 292 237 924 passengers were carried in 1850 cars over 450 miles of road of the Union Traction Company, and about sixty per cent. of these were carried four, between six and eight o'clock in the morning and five and eight o'clock in the afternoon. This, according to the conservative estimates by compe- tent street-car men, means that during the hours of greatest travel not more than half of the passengers have ade- quate accommodations The only two solutions considered are elevated roads and a subway system. Merchants are already seriously inconvenienced by the congestion of the streets, and to build additional railroads in them would ag- gravate the trouble. The only com- plete remedy would be to put all the railroads on the business streets under ground
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Money, Money, Money.

The lover and the happy maid Who walked beside hlln through the shade Spake not of art nor life nor love Nor of the stars that gleamed above,
 But as they passed l heard
 The oft-repeated word,
 Money Money" Money" Above the sounds of tramping feet Where people hurry through the street, Where cars and trucks choke up the way And dark disasters of the day
 Are madly cried aloud,
 l hear the eager crowd
 Yell; "Money!' Money. "Moneyn saw mother with her child Upon her breast; she sadly smiled Down at the little face, but said No word of him whose weary head
 Lay pllowed heath the grass
 All that she said, alas!
 Was, Money Money" Money" Out through the spired temples door l see the pious people pour, And as they saunter homeward through Gay street and leafy avenue,
 Unmindful of the need
 Of sacrament or creed,
 They babble Money" "Money" A curse upon the word, l say It sickens me; I'll fare away, Far from the sordid. greedy throng, And listen to the West Winds song,
 I'll hear the cricket raise
 It's little hymn of praise.
 Lord love mel all 1t says
 Is: Money" Money" Money" S. F. Riser in Chicago Record Herald.
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MAUD wITHERSPOON, RAG-DOLL
 MAKER.

Miss Maud Witherspoon, a gentle, fragile girl, thrown upon her own re- sources has turned to account her wonderful gift of making rag-dolls and coloring them so as to represent the old time Southern black nanny" Miss Witherspoon used to make these dolls merely for her own amuse- ment as a. child, when she and other little girls of the French quarter played dolls together. With the death of her father, and with an invalid mother to care for, she bethought herself of how she could best become self-supporting, and, noting the craze for all thinga Southern she began some four years ago, while still mere chit of girl tc manufacture rag dolls, and painting their faces black, she sewed knitted hair on their heads, tied graceful bandanna turban, and then robed them in the old-time guinea blue dress, with white apron and white kerchief Then Miss Wltherspoon timidly sent some of her work to the big Canal Street stores. She met with immediate success Her black "mammies'' sold out in one day. She got more orders, and so her trade grew until she opened regular manufactory. Now she is supplying
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REFORM ATORT.

Mrs. Waggles--Are you sure this is domestic wine?
 Waggles-Yes, I asked for imported Judge.
 This is my Fresh Heir Fund ob- served Mir Richdadd, as he wrote another check for his sons college ex- penses,
 Truly, the fresh heir was blowing the fund right along.-Baltimore Amer ican.
 MT. Eatsem-What kind of sandwich is this. I enjoy it, but I can't figure out what it is made of
 Proud Host-We call that our Omar Khayyem sandwich. You like 1t, but you can't understand it.-Baltimore American.
 "We shall need" said the officer who was arranging for the government ex- petition, flood supplies for six men and boy"
 Supplies for eight" said the secre- tary, jotting it down. What else?"-- Chicago Tribune.
 don't appreciate her singing because they maven cultivated ears. 'Cultl- vated? We'll, guess they will have If they keep on listening to such har- rowing sounds ."--Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
 "So many of these city hunters mis- take us for deer" said the Maine woodsman, that I am going to wear a cowbell." But people will make game of you interposed his wife. Well, they'll make game of me if I don't wear t."-Philadelphia Record.
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HE FILLED THE PRESCRIPTION.
And the Absent Minded Henderson

And the Absent Minded Henderson
 Was Cured Immediately.
 Old man Henderson. good hearted and we'll meaning, though distractedly absent minded. started out from his home on a farm near Downer's Grove one day not a long while back, bound for Chicago. He was going to spend a whole day in the city; he was going to do the annual shopping for the family and he was going to spending the night with his son, Fred" who lives on the North Side-all of which go to make up an event of some moment in the Hen derson family.
 Now, John," said his good wife Mary at the breakfast table that morn ing, 'there are a few extra things I want you to get for me this year. You know things are So much cheaper in town"
 "All right, Mary" he returned good naturedly, you just make list of what you want and I'll fetch em to you"
 So just before MT. Henderson stepped into the carryall which was waiting to take him up to the station from the farm, his wife hurried out and handed him a slip oe paper
 q didn't have time to think of all the things l needed in the house, but here are few she said.
 MT Henderson put the piece of paper in his vest pocket. kissed his wife and was gone. It was quite thing for John Henderson to go to Chicago, al- belt he lived but twenty-five miles away. Therefore. when he did go preparations were made to receive him. "Fred's" wife met him at the train and went about on his shopping tour with him. But he forgot the slip his wife had given him. When he thought they had finished they went to an ice cream parlor and had some refresh- ments and took luncheon with Fred"
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CHANGE AT MONTE CARLO.
There Are Times When Luck is Set
 Against the Bank.

There Are Times When Luck is Set
 Against the Bank.
 To those who imagine that at Monte Carlo the gambling always goes sys- tematically against the players and that their gold flows increasingly into the coffers of the bank it will seem dif- ficult to believe that sometimes the banks accounts show deficit for months together
 Only two years ago at the end of ten months of the financial year the bank s books showed a loss of 9200,000, an av- craze deficit of a2O,O0O month which fortunate gamblers had put Into their pockets. This, of course. was excep tional, and this spell of bad luck was followed by such succeeding months of the year the deficit was completely wiped out and profit of e1,00o,000 was made in it's place.
 As the banks profits amount only to 3 per cent on the sums staked at the tables, it is clear that during tbese two months no less. than 33 1-3 millions of pounds must have changed hands, and that every day the stakes must have amounted to over R546000.
 It is, perhaps, difficult to grasp such amounts as these, but their significance becomes apparent when we consider that to furnish a single days stakes in gold it would be necessary to employ SS strong porters, each carrying bur den of over a hundredweight in sov- ereigns, and that this weight of gold
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ooop REASONS roR ACTION.

| It is not at all surprising that Hon. i John A. Kasson, the commissioner of
 reciprocity for our State department, heartily believes in reciprocity, nor that he is able to make a strong argu-
 ment in favor of the United States sen
 ate taking up and immediately acting
 upon the various trade treaties that for
 more than year 1t has had before it.. In Leslie's Weekly MT. Kasson points out that it is not only an important feature in the political policy of the
 Republican party to favor reciprocal
 trade agreements with foreign coun-
 tries, a policy indorsed by national con-
 ventions and eminent Republican lead
 CTS, but 1t is also a fact that such ex-
 periments as have been made along
 these lines have without exception
 been productive of exceedingly satis-
 factory results to the American people.
 We have, in his opinion, done so well
 in the past through the development
 of this line of policy that there is no reason why we should not continue to hold to 1t in the future. There is still another reason for immediate action to which MT. Kasson alludes, this resting on the fact that the trade treaties of almost all of the nations of continental Europe expire through limitation in two years more. Hence in 1903 these various countries will have new trade treaties going into force, by means of which special benefits will be granted protected will find their opportunities for trade greatly interfered with. MT. Kasson is of the opinion that if we act speedily we may procure for ourselves whatever benefits attach to the most favored nation. If on the other hand, we allow this opportunity to pass un- needed, then when negotia tions begin, if they ever do, we shall be placed at a sad disadvantage, as we shall have wit messed a great curtailment in our trade, and will then be willing to pay Q high price to re-establish it, while foreign the hardest possible bargain with us.
 Pretty good reasons for action. And like competition, is going to be the life of trade.
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ABOUT NOAHS ARK.
The Chaldean Record of Its Dimen-
 sons and Contents.

The Chaldean Record of It's Dimen-
 sions and Contents.
 Many readers of the Times would, I believe, be interested in a fresh witness to the Chaldeanl tradition of the de- luge. The best known account of this tradition is contained in the late George Smiths "Chaldean Genesis There was given the first connected account of the Assyrian version of the old Babylonian myths concerning the flood. This version has been drawn up for the library of Ashurbanipal, the last great King of Assyria, and has been brought by Sir Henry Layard from the ruins of Ninevah. A more complete edition, consisting of all the fragments of the story, preserved in the British Museum, has been published by Prof. Haupt
 Unfortunately, the lines which once recorded the dimensions of the ark are defective, and though Prof. Haupt con- siders it probable that the length was 100 cubits, while the breadth and height were both 120 cubits, we have no certainty about the length. By as- suming that the measure named in the text really denotes half cubit, as was once held by Prof. Oppert, the conjec tured length would agree with the 300 cubits of the Biblical narrative.
 Now one of the tablets probably also once in King Ashurbanipal's library at Ninevah, appears to give a different estimate of the dimensions of Noah's ark. It is catalogued as "a list of ani- mals and certain measurements" etc., and was recently copied by me for my "Assyrian Deeds and Documents" where the cuneiform text will appear as No. TIT. aiA closer examination of the contents has made me think they
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You pugilists don't seem to have nearly so much to say as formerly"
 "No," answered the eminent repre- sentative of the prize ring. ITO tell the truth, we got so interested in list ening to these naval gentlemen that we kind of forgot our own affairs.'- Washington Star.
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Eight hundred residents in South London have joined tenants protec- tive league, Ito enable weekly tenants to combine for self protection against the extortionate and illegal demands of landlords and rate collectors, and for provision of the necessary legal assist ance."
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-22

A wine dealer in Malaga is about to plant twenty thousand coffee trees, as commercial experiment. While Porto Rico and Cuba belonged to Spain, cof- fee culture was not permitted at home.
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Be making up your mind that prunes iate as good as apples. It is expected that the apple crop, the country over, will average about fifty per cent. com pared with good year. The yield is highest in the Virginias and lowest in New York State. The prune crop of the Pacific coast, on the other hand, will be the largest eyer gathered.
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She-Colone Flrstnite considers hifn- self such a critic that he never smiles Curing a performance.
 He--But you should see him between the acts,-ToWn and Country.
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DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY 1b CENTS A WEEK, 50 CENTS A MONTH $S FOR SIX MONTHS, $8 A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL.
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exploits of the new submarine torpedo boats of the French navy prove that vessels of this class are safe and can be easily handled. A very optimistic view is taken of these naval terrors and the article concludes by saying that Heighteen months hence France will be able to defy the fleet of any other coun- try. Whatever efforts others may make, 1t will be impossible to overtake us in this respect
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WORLDS BIGGEST FLOWER.

w oFtLp Y LO w
 The biggest flower in the world has just opened in the Kew Gardens, London It is a species of lily found in Sumatra, and the flower Is sometimes yard in diameter. It has the rather cumbersome name of Amorphohalius This giant of its race was discovered in 1878 by Dr. Beccari, who sent seeds to Florence and one of the seedlings raised from them was sent, in 1S79 to Kew,
 The flower which opened this year on the plant remained open for twelve hours only, and then closed up again. The vase-like cup of the flower was supported by a stalk three inches thick. The cup was eighteen inches deep and nearly three feet across It was beauti- fully frlled and toothed on the margin. Outside it was smooth, of light green color spotted with white, the upper part being deeply f1uted with white ribs over half an inch thick and purple interspaces. Inside the cup of the lily was yellow at the bottom and purple at the top with a velvety sheen over 1t. From the bottom of the cup arose a columnar "spadix" three and half feet high and several inches thick
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4AE CARRINGTONP PUBLISHING co
 OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.

IHE WEEKLY JOURNAL, Issued Thursdays, Ono Dollar a Year.
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< The census commissioner of Quebec
 sent this circular to every parish priest
 in the province: After having consulted many eminent personages. I have come to the conclusion that the period of census is necessarily to be a unique occasion to discover as exactly as pos- our compatriots to the United States. This leads me to ask you to give your self the trouble to send me the name,
 the age, the occupation of every person of your parish who to your knowledge has emlgrated to the United States during the last twelve months.