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The bee., 1902-12-04
TELEPHONE COMPANY
IN UNION FIGHT.
Telephones Of MorsanfieId Com.
pany Ordered out Account
Alleged Sympathy.
CUMBERLAND COMPANY
MAY GET FRANCHISE.

Sturgis, KY, Dec. 2.-The union
and non-union elements in Sturgis
are still at war. The latest move is
on the part of the latter, who have
ordered all telephones of the Nor
garfield Telephone Company out of
their business houses and dwellings,
to take effect December l.. The al
legged grounds for 4his action is that
Manager Bradburn, of the local SER
vice, is in sympathy with the union.
They at first demanded his dis
charge by the company, but this
was refused. 1t is the opinion that
this action will cause the installa-
tion of the Cumberland Telephone
Company, which has heretofore
been denied a franchise.
The bee., 1902-12-04
David Coweil Entertains.

On last Friday evening David
Cowell entertained a number of his
friends In honor Of John l.. Long, OF
South Kentucky College, of Hop
kinsville, who is spent his Thanks
giving vacation with his parents in
this city.
The party was composed of six
girls and boys, viz: Misses Lizzie
Dean, Lille Evans, Edith Rootz,
Maggie Fenwick, Virgie Rule, and
Georgia Wyatt, and Messrs. Harry
WIthers, David Cowell, Ellsworth
Evans, Grover Long, John Long,
and John Robinson. After playing
a few games and singing all the lat
est "hits" of the season refresh
ments were served by the host, and
the party adjourned at late hour.
The bee., 1902-12-04
Married in Bowling Green.

George P. RIves, prominent
young Longview farmer and brother
of Master Commissioner Frank
Rives, of Hopkinsville, and Miss
Ella II. Claypool, of Bowling Green,
were married at the brides home
Tuesday. They will spend their
honeymoon in st. Louis.
The bee., 1902-12-04
weeks on this work.

A. M. McKennan is president,
T. B. May is secretary and r. A.
Rogers is treasurer of the Knox
vile Anthracite Coal Co., Knox
vile, Tenn, incorporated with
81, 900 capital.
Tunnel Coal Co., Birmingham,
Ala, organized several months
ago and working extensive Ala
bama coal lands, bas purchased
additional properties to the ex-
tent of 5000 acres. This proper
ty will be developed, the entire
output going to the Central of
Georgia Railroad.
The Nortonville Coal Com
pany is loading an occasional
occasional car of coal, hauled by
wagon from the shaft to the
transfer track near the station.
Mr.. G. B. Finley, manager of
the Central Coal and Iron Co. +,
of Central City, spent Sunday in
Darlington, the guest of Mr.. Jno.
B. Atkinson.
Mr.. Walter FL. Finley, superin-
tendent of the Atpontley coal
mine, In Tennessee, returned
home Sunday night, after several
days visit in Darlington. While
here he was the guest in the
family or Mayor Burr.
The bee., 1902-12-04
GOEBEL CASES.
Powers and Howard Cases Will Probably
Be decided
BEFORE PRESENT JUDGES
RETIRE IN JANUARY.

Frankfort, KY, Nov. 29.-The
Court of Appeals is expected to
decide the Powers and Howard
cases within the next two weeks.
The present term of court, which
closes on the second Saturday in
December, but may be extended
a week or so, winds up the terms
of Office of the retiring justices.
Their successors will be sworn
in at ihe opening of the January
term.
The bee., 1902-12-04
Elk's Anniversary.

The first anniversary of the
institution of Madisonville Lodge
No. 73S, B. P. o. E. was fittingly
celebrated in that city Monday
night.
A class of thirty-eight were
initiated into the mysteries Of
the order and a nice pair Of
antlers were properly fitted on
on every one of the number.
After the ceremony a banquet
was served at Armory Hall.
The bee., 1902-12-04

George A. Henty, the story writer,
died recently. In his death one of
the most prolific juvenile story writ
ers the world has ever known passes
personally off the stage, but as long
as time shall exist his name will be
held in high place by generations
yet to come. While his stories have
always had in view the amusement
and instruction of the young, many
an adult has passed pleasant and
profitable hour in their perusal.
The bee., 1902-12-04
Christian County Hunting Club.

The Christian County Hunting
Club has returned from two
weeks hunt In Arkansas. They
had a good trip and killed eight
deerr, besides several turkeys
and much smaller game.
The bee., 1902-12-04

In the Consolidated Alpine there
is no preferred stock, every man
shares alike in the distribution of
the profits and every share of stock
has the same voting power. There
is absolutely no chance for the big
fish to eat up the little ones. 1t is
so incorporated that the control of
the property is with the stockholders
all the time and the articles of in
corporation cannot be changed with
out majority vote of all the out
standing stock.
The bee., 1902-12-04

The anti-pass agreement which
was adopted by the railroads in
Trunk Line territory last year is
again up for discussion by the
president. Considerable opposi-
tion to the continuation of the
agreement is said to have devel-
oped.
The bee., 1902-12-04
Eight Hour Law Unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court of Ohio at
Columbus, Tuesday, handed down
a decision in the case of the city
of Cleveland VS.. Clement Bros,
in which it declared the contest
ed eght-hour labor law uncon-
stitutional.
The bee., 1902-12-04
No Home for the Children.

Chicago has "Home For Friend
less Dogs and Cats" but none for
friendless infants. Doubtless in
Chicago this is regarded as a pro-
vision for the survival of the fittest.
The bee., 1902-12-04
HAPPENINGS In KENTUCKY.

Thos. j. Cobb, of Sebree, has
been granted a pension of So,
reported from Washington Sat-
urday last.
Reports of fine condition of
tht wheat prospects for next sea-
son come from various sections
Of Kentucky. Corn and wheat
are bringing good prices for
present sales.
The Danville correspondent of
the Courier-J Journal writes:
The Boyle county turkey buy
ers furnished the Eastern Thanks
giving market with 81, 900 pounds
of the best turkey meat raised
in this section this year, The
birds were purchased at about 6
cents per pound. The annual
slaughter has been considerably
delayed this season by the con-
tinuance of warm weather, but
the crop will be moved rapidly
hereafter. The next big ship
ment will take place about
Christmas.
A three-year-old girl of Har-
rodsburg was stung on her finger
by bumble-bee while visiting
Versailles last summer. The
child's lips, knees and ankles
were paralyzed and for month
she was entirely helpless, with
no control or use of her legs.
The child is now able to walk.
Miss Neomi Duboise, of Bowl
Ing Green, and DIR. Charles Har-
wood, of Shelby county, were
united in marriage at Bowling
Green Tuesday morning at 8 80
O'Clock. Miss Duboise is a Gu
ban and the daughter of a fam
Gus Cuban general, who was kill
ed during the late trouble with
Spain. Since her fathers death
Miss Duboise has lived in the
United States, most of the time
in this city. DR.. Har wood is a
member of a prominent Ken
lucky family. Immediately af-
ter the ceremony they left for
Milton, Ky., where they will re-
side in the future.
The Henderson National Bank
filed injunction proceedings
against Henry Dixon, Sheriff of
Henderson county, praying that
he be enjoined from collecting
State and county taxes from the
bank amounting to $2,784. On
account of the banks refusing to
pay this sum the Sheriff has al
ready levied on the fixtures of
the bank, and is threatening to
sell the property. The bank
claims it does not owe the
amount, and that it should be
credited with overpaid taxes.
The case against j. H. Boatner
and A. B. Schleitzbaum, charged
with conspiracy to rob the Amer
ican Express Company, was con-
tinued at Hartford Friday, ow-
ing to the absence of witnesses
for the defense. Boatner has
dismissed his civil suit for dam
ages against the express COM
pany.
Frank Lindsay, the smallest
man in Kentucky, and Mrs. Mary
S. English, both of Benton, were
married there by Rev. B, 7.
Hall. The groom is 33 years old,
weighs II pounds and is four feet
high. His bride is 3S years old,
weighs 100 pounds, and is five
feet six inches high. This was
her fourth venture and his sec
ond.
In the Consolidated Alpine there
is no preferred stock, every man
shares alike in the distribution of
the profits and every share of stock
has the same voting power. There
is absolutely no chance for the big
The bee., 1902-12-04

ElKnOrn creek near w nlCeSDurS,
KY. A mining town will proba.
bly, also be located On Boone's
Fork.
Six Inemen at New Orleans,
charged with cutting wires and
berating employees during the re-
cent street car strike, have been
sentenced to four months impris-
onment for violating an injunc-
tion granted by Judge Parlange
prohibiting violence.
"We are looking forward to
the installation of an exhibit in
the department of mines and
metalurgy, which will adequate
'ly represent Kentucky's great
wealth." is the way Mr.. ]. A.
Holmes, chief of the department
at st. Louis, writes to the exhibit
association.
1t is estimated that in 25 miles
of coal basin at Princeton, B. c.,
there are over 100000, 900 tons
of coal, and shipments could be-
gin at once if there was a rail
road.
Because a hostler, having
charge of the mules in the Mont
gomery coal mine at Washing
ton, Ind, oversight himself and
the animals were not harnessed
as usual and at the proper time,
the drivers went on strike, throw
ing $50 men out of work last
week. (Queer the drivers did
not do the harnessing and have
it charged to the hostler. Fuel.
New Mexico has about 2,133
square miles of bituminous coal
fields which contains, it is claim
ed, "probably twice as much
coal as has been consumed by
the nation since its BIRTH"
!. Coal is abundantly found along
the Yukon river, where four
mines are operated, and is now
used in some of the steamboats,
on that river. 1t is, however,
frozen to a depth of $50 feet and
breaks up into almost "pea" coal
upon exposure. But it burns
well in a condition of granula-
tion.
Mr.. j. Letter, of Chicago, has
made contract with the British
Government to coke their btu
mlnous coal produced in India.
Mr.. Letter controls his process
and will build ovens for the pur-
pose at the collieries in India.
Anthracite has been discovered
in Spitzbergen. 1t is said to be
of unusually fine quality.
No. 8 mine was delayed Friday
afternoon and two hours Satur-
day morning on account Of the
fan engine, which drives the fan
for the ventilation of the mine.
The pitman rod of the engine
was thrown out OF line, and in
the attempt to straighten it, the
rod was broken. Machinist Mike
Hanna, who is an expert ma
chinist of the firm of darlington
Iron Works, was called to the
difficulty, which resulted in a
new rod made by Mr.. Hanna
Friday night. 1t was placed in
its position and after driving the
fan for 40 minutes, the men of
the mine resumed operation for
the day.
No. IL mine happened to an
accident. last Tuesday week
which might have proved seri-
GUS one. The cage which ele-
Yates the coal had started on its
ascent and when hardly half up
the shaft the loop of the rope
iswivel bursted, letting the cage
fall with a loaded car, which
luckily resulted in no serious
damages. Engineer VIM. Will
son had the swivel ready for the
following morning.
The humane heart of the great
st. Bernard Mining Co. was
The bee., 1902-12-04
LOCOMOTIVE BLASTS
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concerning the plan TO build a
railroad from Huntsville, Ala.
to Oneonta, President Smith, of
the Louisville and Nashville r.
r. is reported to have informed
the committee, composed of r.
E. Pettus and others of Hunts
vile, that he will take the mat
ter up with the board of directors.
The Wolf Creek Railway Co.
has been organized to build a
line along Wolf creek, in Ken
lucky, about twenty miles. West
Virginia capitalists are inter
ested. The line is to connect
with the Norfolk & Western one
mile north of Warfeld.
Gulfport, Miss.-It is reported
that a preliminary survey for the
Natchez & Gulf Railroad will
begin Immediately.
A. S. Berry, of Newport, KY,
M. L. Barker, w. S. Howe and
E. F. Layman are interested in
the proposed electric railroad to
be built between Louisville and
Covington. Mr.. Layman will
make the survey.
1t is reported that the L. & N.
will build an extension of the
Birmingham Mineral Railroad
from Altoona to Gadsden.
The Louisville & Nashville
Railroad will build a double
track through Calera.
Fifty men went to work con-
structing the roadbed of the Hop
kinsville division of the Tennes-
see Central Railroad out of that
city Monday morning. Five car
loads of machinery have arrived.
The work of construction will be
commenced at the junction Of
Che Tennessee Central with the
Illinois Central. d. r. Carpen-
ter, the Tennessee Central right
of-way man, is there and will
complete arrangements in his
line as soon as possible. There
is a scarcity of hands, such as
are desired.
When the new run is put on
between Evansville and Provl-
dence the agent and operator at
Madisonville will have a hot
time of it, as there will be six
trains there in two hours time.
Some of the r. r. boys are
fearful they will not be able to
get off during the holidays, as
business is unusually good at this
time of year.
Some one asked if the coal run
would be taken off when the
new Providence run was put on?
Not on your tin-type, it will not.
1t would take three or four
Providence trains to handle
Reinecke and Victoria coal, to
say nothing of South Diamond
being left out.
Henry Jones. who was injured
some time since at Edgefield
Junction, is improving and we
hope to see him able for duty in
a short time.
No. 92, the Chicago Limited,
was two hours and a half late
Tuesday morning, account of
Southern connections.
Hereafter when the dispatcher
runs a single-head 80 and a
double-head so to Madisonville
for 81 he should give LIST so a
message at darlington to go in
the branch, and thereby save a
lot of unnecessary trouble and
delay.
Dispatcher William Griffin is
suffering from an irritated
larnyx.
Dispatcher John DEWEY Wis
tied Evansville Sunday.
The boys say Dutch is going to
get married soon but we do not
believe it.
En0inaer Sam ManninO saws
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AZ DOWN IN The MINES. #

again opened by giving its men
a half day for Thanksgiving va
cation. The st. Bernard is a big
hearted company with its men,
as this is only one of the many
kind interests shown its men.
No. IL machine runners were
called to work Sunday night on
account of scarcity of coal.
Mr.. G. W. Wyatt, foreman of
No. 8 mine, has been spending a
few days vacation in Nashville,
but returned home Wednesday
night, accompanied by his wife
and daughter. Mr.. Wyatt has
been in charge of No. 8 for the
past IL months and has not lost
anytime, SO he deserves a vaca-
tion. He resumed his work last
Monday.
The new boiler has been put
in operation at the Arnold mine
and is a grand success, which
displays another great feat of
Foreman d. w. Umstead's me-
chanical crew.
The night force of the Arnold
mine was forced to retreat from
work Thurday night on account of
an 8-inch tee bursting in the
steam feed pipe, which supplies
the air compressor. Foreman d,
w. Umstead's crew had the pipe
completed for operation Friday
morning.
The Shamrock Coal Company,
at Providence, KY, has the big
mine which has been under con-
struction for nearly one year
! completed, and began loading
cars last week. The coal from
this mine ranks with the finest
of this section.
1t now appears that Sturgis
will become one of the largest
coal centers in the state. Be-
sidess the large colleries now in
operation, and the new shaft be-
ing sunk by the Hilman Land &
Iron Company, of st. Louis and
Grand Rivers, big company of
capitalists has entered the field,
proposing to spend something
like a million dollars in develop
ing the property which was re-
Gently owned by the Paducah
Coal Company.
Several veins of coal, said to
be excellent in quality, have
been discovered and are being
worked to a limited extent few
miles from the railroad and the
town of Gurley, Ala. Messrs.
Tom Gurley and VIM. Vincent
are opening one of these, which
is some three or four feet thick.
In the interests of Northern
capitalists, reported as prepar-
ing to buy promising mineral
lands in this section, Mr.. Henry
L. Crawford, mining engineer,
of New York, has been pros
pecting and investigating the
district surrounding Salem, KY.
Zinc and lead are most wanted.
Henry 7. Buie, Buffalo, Ark,
is president, and M. E. Merritt,
of Chicago, ILL.,, is the secretary
and treasurer of the Buffalo
Chicago Zinc & Lead Co., eapi-
talized at 81, 900, 200. This COM
pany owns 2500 acres of land,
partially developed and conve-
nient to the railroads; it is COM
paratively close to Buffalo, Ark.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron &
Railroad Co., Birmingham, Ala,
has started work on the extern
sive developments of the coal
fields near Henry Ellen. 1t is
intended to open mines that will
shortly have a daily output of
1900 tons of coal. The Central
of Georgia, the Southern and the
Seaboard Air Line will build ex-
tensions to reach this mine.
Messrs. Griffin d Mcdonald
are searching for the Boley
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The Quality of Mercy
(Tarboro Southerner.)

Just now there is considerable disap-
pointment of Governor Aycock pardoning
so many persons. Before criticising the
Governor too harshly even at all, it
would seem best to first ascertain the
reasons which impelled the exercise of
executive clemency.
1t would also be well to remember
that with advancing enlightenment our
laws have been made less severe.
With the advent of the last century in
England, no less than twenty odd crimes
were punishable with death. The num-
Der is now three, and yet crime in Eng
land has not increased.
The tendency of our punishment is
steadily in a merciful direction.
Laws that are ultra in their severity
are characterized as Draconian, because
of Athens prescribed, there were so many
death penalties. So severe were they
that they were said to have been written
in blood. Later. another famous law
giver, Scion, provided a code for the
Athenians, code whose penalties were
so much milder than Draco's that popular
usage made his name a synonym for wis
dom and mercy.
cruelty Is the part VI inc pIuI6 C1Sd-
ton, and finds itself undiminished.
though more refined in the barbarian not
in man in his high estate. We who
would criticise our Governor should be
careful that we are not permitting some
Of our brute. or unrefned nature to
crop out.
Governor Aycock is not the man to
turn loose upon society incorrigibie crimi-
nails. His whole life negatives this. He
is not the man to permit a maudlin
sentiment to warp his judgment.
But he is the man who, when he be-
lieves that the ends of justice have been
served, will say, it Is time punishment
should cease.
How much preferable is it that we have
Governor who is inclined to mercy,
that which we all so much need! How
much better than old Draco, who excused
himself because he could find no severer
punishment than death!
How much better it is that he thor
oughly appreciates that
'The quality of mercy is not strand
1t droppeth, as the gentle dew from
heaven
Upon the place beneath, it is twice
bless'd.
1t blesseth him that gives, and him that
takes,
Tis mightiest in the mightiest, it be-
comes
The throned monarch better than his
crown
Until it has been shown that the re-
cipients OF his clemency have failed to
appreciate this attribute Of God him
SELF" we had better withhold our criti-
cisms, believing that he has tempered
justice with mercy.
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Watterson on Cleveland.
u,ouisville Courier Journal.)

louisville Courier Journal)
We drew the line at Mr.. Cleveland. no
more and no less. But the Chronicle is
mistaken when it uses the expression
personal aversion to describe the
auimus of the Courier Journals writing
Democrats who really want to unite the
party should not deceive themselves
Personally, we entertain not the least i'll
will against Mr.. Cleveland. No un-
friendly word, or act, ever passed be-
tween Mr.. Cleveland and the editor of
the Courier journal. All stories to that
effect are absolutely baseless. On pri-
vate grounds there was never a shadow
of difference.
In his recent manifestation Of political
activity, Mr.. Cleveland may have been a
disinterested man. If he was he made
a serious mistake in supposing that he
could contribute to Democratic harmony.
But we do not think he was a disin-
ferested man. On the contrary, it is our
opinion that he never drew an unselish
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breath in all his life; that he goes out
after all there is in sight, or he does
not go out at all; that he blocked the
way of all sound money Democrats in
1896, and that. hoping for a nomination
then. he would not reappear upon the
scene if he did not hope for it now; and
that all his pretentious posing as re-
tired sage and patriot is but the crafty
and spectacular performance of man
who had been--like his younger proto-
type, Theodore Roosevelt candidate
for office ever since he came of age We
detest him not because of anything he
ever said or did to us. but for what VIE
have seen him do, and heard him say
to others. He is an artful, selfish, ignd-
rant and vulgar professional politician,
having had amazing good fortune ard
being possessed of rare skill in the pur-
suit of his own ambition and desires,
His reappearance upon the scene at
this time could have no other purpose
than himself in some form or other. 1t
could have no other effect than to in
fame and divide.
No real Democrat can regard Mr..
Cleveland other than as a marplot and
wrecker. Between him and Bryan, we
would support Bryan ten times over;
between him and Roosevelt, we would
support Roosevelt. OF course, the sug
gestion of his candidacy is kind of
absurdity. But not in his opinion. Nor
in the opinion of the wealthy nincom-
poops behind him. He means business,
and they mean business, and their bust
ness is destruction to Democracy
That ne and Hill came together-noted
by the Chronicle as of Significance
meant merely that each expected to get
the better of the other. They are pair
of professional politicians, naught else.
1t was an unlucxy occasion to Hill, who
did have something to lose. But, as
matter of fact, Cleveland has always
out played HILL
The Chronicle should not look for har-
mony in that direction. Real harmony
lies elsewhere. Mr.. Cleveland, if he be,
for once in his life, a disinterested man,
can only muddle things But if he be
"out for de stuff as is his habit and
character, he yet has the capacity to
kick the mud in the faces of all who
follow him. Hence. we draw the line
on him. 1t may be that the burnt child
breads fire. Anyhow, we are built that
way; and, recalling the past, we can see
nothing else either in it, or to it.