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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-05-24
WEEKS NEWS IN THE BUSINESS WORLD.

count OF the drouth and much OF the
growing crop is suffering.
Real estate continues very active,
as also does the building trade. The
demand for houses is phenomenal. AS
a rule every house built this summer
has been rented before the foundation
was completed.
The prospects for the opening of an
office in Paducah by the Bradstreet
Agency is very good, and the office
will no doubt be established in the
next few weeks. Bradstreet has been
considering raducah as q location
for some months. and if the office lie
esta blished it will be good thing for
the city.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-05-24

Clearings this week, S543, 900.
Same weeks last year, $500, 517.
Increase. $50, 392.
Business at the banks was a little
lighter the past week, yet the increase
over last year is very good. Money is
easy and deposits good.
Wholesalers report very satisfactory
business and fair collections. All lines
Of the trade is good.
The retail trade is very good al
though suffering some from the carni-
val reactions, The furniture people
especially are doing a good business.
Farmers are hoping for an early
rain IS it is very badly needed. The
straw cry season is about over on &C.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-05-24
PAUNCEF0YE DEAD
British Ambassador Passed Peace
fully Away This Morning.
A Severe Storm Passed Over frankfort
This Morning but no one was
Hurt.

Washington, May 24-Lord Paunce-
fote, British ambassador to the United
States, died this morning at the EN-
bassy at 5:35 O'Clock after a long ILL
ness. At his bedside when the dis
tinguished diplomatist died were I:
Mrs. Pauncefote, Msude Pauncefote,
Miss Sybil and Miss Audrey, DR..
Jung and Mr.. Radford, one of the
clerks attached to the embassy. No
arrangements have yet been made for
the funeral.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-05-24
STORM IN FRANKFORT.

Frankfort, KY, May 24-The sever
est storm known here in many years
passed over Frankfort this morning
at 4:30 O'Clock, doing IN uch damage
in the city and county. A half dozen
big trees were blown down in differ
ent parts of he city, and one tree o n
the state capitol grounds carried sew
ersl sections of big iron fence with it.
The storm lasted about thirty minutes
and was accompanied by heavy fall
of hail.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-05-24
BASEBALL YESTERDAY.

American Ass Observation-Disclosures
Louisville, wet grounds. indianapolis,
Q, Kansas City 6. st. Paul 10, Co
lumbus 4.
National League -Pittsburg ?, New
York /. Philadelphia s, Chicago
2. st. Louis 10, Boston 8.
American Lesgue-Boston 8, Chicago
8. Philadelphia 8, Cleveland 2. De-
troit 8, Baltimore 2. st. Louis 7.
washin gton 8.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-05-24

He would not state his business, but
his visit bad some bearing on the cleo.
ton, it is said. He returned at
noon today to Cent raj City. his home.
The next meeting of the union miners
committee and the operators commit
tee to sign the agreed scale will be
held here but the date has not YET
been fixed. He made preliminary ar
guments for this also.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-05-24
The Board Of Aldermen Held Another
Session Last Night.
Ordinance introduced to Give the City Clerk
Paid Assistant-The Gravel Con-
tract Referred,
OTHER MATTERS WE'RE CONSIDERED


The board of aldermen hold an adj
journed meeting last night OF the city
hall and the first matter presented was
the street railway franchises. The or
dinances were found not to contain
the provisions argeed on by the COM
mittee. They were drawn by the
street car compsny's stenographer, in
stead OF the city attorney, and were
all referred back to the committee
with instructions to have the city at
torney draw them himself.
Alderman Langstaf presented an or.
dinance creating the office Of assistant
TO City CLERK Patterson at salary of
$500 year. Alderman Boone want.
ed to know IL the opinion of the city
attorney accompanied the or dinance,
and was told that il did not. He said
that he had been informed by an at
torney that the city had no right to
create such a place. and that If 1t at
tempted il it would be enjoined
On motion of Mr. Barry it was de-
ferred until the opinion of the city at
torney can be secured.
The ordinance creating the board Of
FIRE and police commissioners was re-
ferred back, on account Of an error Of
the city attorney in not placing the H.
tie on the ordinance.
The ordinance authorizing the city
treasurer to select a depository for
city funds was given final passage.
Alderman Langstaff presented an
ordinance requiring saloon keepers to
remove all frosted window 5, curtains
and other contrivsnoes that conceal
the interior, on days when they are
supposed to be closed. Mr.. Boone was
inclined to think such an ordinance
would be unconstitutional but Coun-
Gilman Potter Of the lower board, was
present and said he was father Of the
ordinance and that many Of the saloon
keepers wanted it passed, and all the
police wanted it passed.
The ordinance was referred to .
Joint committee to ascertain II IL is
constitutional
An ordinance was presented giving
the Illinois Central railroad right of
way over 100 foot strip Of land near
the city pest house and referred to the
telegraph, railroad and telephone COM
mittee.
Several deeds to lots in Oak Grove
and several changes in liquor license
bonds, were ratified.
Chamblin and Murray were award
ed the contract for laying tile in Oak
Grove cemetery at 81. 90 q rod.
The Water company on request of
the requisite number Of property own
ers, was ordered to extend its mains
on Willie street.
The matter Of using new street
lamps for electric lights, at q proba-
BILE saving of $4,000 year, was re-
ferred to the joint committee.
HE. whitsides was sat'on good and |
strong. The board refused to recon
slider his request for coffee house Ii
cense.
The contract for furnishing gravel
to the city for the ensuing year at 10
and So from the Paducah Transfer
company was referred.
President Noble took occasion to
deny that he held any stock in the
company, saying that he sold the 800
stock no owned the .day he was sp-
pointed alderman.
1t was ordered that the license CON-
mittee be published on the cards Of
The board then adjourn.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-05-24
Not Great Deal Of Interest Being
Taken in Today's Primary.
IT is the General .0pinlon That lanes
viii Walk Away With toe
Nomination.
SMALL VOTE is PROBABLE

The indications are that there will
be light vote pollef in todsy's Dem
ncraiio primary 10 nominate a candi-
date for congress in the First district
to succeed Congressman Charles X.
Wheeler. Last night the closing
speeches OF the campaign were made
at the county court house to three or
four hundred people. and the friends
of both candidates were well pleased
with their efforts.
The prevailing opinion seems to be
that Hon. Ollie james, OF Marion,
Critterden county, will easily be
nominated over his one opponent, Hon.
Sam Grassland, of Mayheld, Graves
county.
Mr.. James has been holding of for
several years, and is solid with the
state machine, as we'll as the district
machine. The early primary was the
result OF his friends m the district
committee, and good work has been
done for him during the past week On
two, il Is claimed. by some Of the
Frankfort Office holders who came
down 20 assist him.
II is conceded that Grassland will
carry Graves. hut many politicians
givoi it as their opinion that he will
carry no other county, unless it is NC
Cracker. The result Of today's bal
lots, however, will be required TO de-
termine who is right
Hon. George W. Greenup. Of Padu-
cab, who was candidate for several
weeks. withdrew about month ago,
and has already announced his candi-
dacy for the campaign two years
hence,
Not over one.third Of the total num-
Der of voters had voted, it was estim.
sted at press time. At the North Side
Of the court house only 81 votes had
been cast st' press time and the South
Side showed only SO. This is a very
small vote and it Ia thought will be
one OF the smallest ever polled here.
This morning few appeared at the polls
but this afternoon they are coming q
little faster and . better vote Is looked
for.
Several who are registered Demo-
Gratis were not permitted to vote be-
cause they would not say they voted
for Bryan and Beokham or said they
did not.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-05-24
Remains Of the Late Judge VS. Bish-
op Laid to Rest Today.
The Lawyers Of Paducah Met and Passed
Appropriate Resolutions Of
Respect.
The BURIAL WAS AT OAK GROVE

The remains of the late Judge W.
Bishop were brought to the city this
morning at O'Clock from Hinkle
vile, where he died yesterday, and
taken to the home of Mr.. Alb Coleman,
at Eleventh and Monroe streets.
At 10 O'Clock the funeral took place
at the Broadway Methodist church,
services by Rev. G. W. Briggs, and
the burial was at Oak Grove.
The members Of the local bar met
this morning at the city hall at 0
O'Clock and adopted the following
resolutions of respect for the deceased
who had practiced law and been Judge
here for many years;
Whereas; after long. honorable and
eventful life, the never failing hand
of death, did on the 2Sd of May, 1903,
pluck from our midst, the Hon. W. S.
Bishop,
Therefore, be it resolved by the
members of the bar of Paducah, Ky,
that by the death of Judge Bishop the
bar Of Kentucky has lost one who dur
ing his career as lawyer added lus-
tire and brillianoe to the already not.
ed eminence of the profession in
Kentucky,
That as a jurist he evinced an hon
esty of purpose and clearness of judg-
ment seldom equalled and never sur
passed, and for years to come he will
be referred to as one of the most emil
nent jurists of the state,
Resolved, further, That in the death
of Judge Bishop, the community in
which he lived and the state at large,
has sustained an irreparable loss, and
the church and society, a membership
that cannot be supplied. As a judge
upon the bench ne was always kind.
patient and courteous, and there was
not one harsh attribute in his splen-
did disposition, that of him it may be
truthfully said, that his life was gen.
tie and the elements so mixed in
him, that nature might stand up and
say This Was A Man."
No htigant ever went from the
court over which he presided feeling
that he had not received q perfectly
far and impartial trial, and the
younger members Of the bar owe
him a debt Of gratitude that can
never be repaid.
His children and relations have
lost a devoted father and kinsman
who consecrated his life to their well
fare, without ever sordid or selfish
thought, and we join them in their
deep bereavement, with tears of sim
cere coincidence.
Resolved, further That these reso-
lutions be spread upon the minutes of
the order book of the McCracken cir
cult court, and upon the minutes of
the bar association of Paducah, and
copy furnished to the local press.
JOHN X. HENDRICK.
THOS. L. MOSS.
CAMPBELL FLOURNOY.
W. A. BERRY.
J. NJ. wORTEN.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-05-24
PRES. WOOD HERE
PROMINENT OFFICIAL OF THE
MINERS UNION VISITS.
PADUCAH.

President James ID. Wood, Of tie
miners union, was in the city last
night and this morning on business
to the union and also relative
to political matters.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-05-24
THE WEATHER.
Fair tonight and Sunday.

See James column for farm loan
terms
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-05-24

LOSS OF LIFE IN COAL CREEK.
Fernie, b. O. May 2i-The loss of
life in the Coal creek mine disaster
Thursday is greater than at first re-
ported. 1t is estimated that from 100
to l75 men met almost instantaneous
death.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-05-24
BROKE INTO A OAR.

Pineville, May 2i.-William Gibbs
was today convicted and sentenced to
two years for breaking into car at
Middlesboro.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-05-24
BIG FIGHT NEAR
TAYLORSvILLE.

Taylorsville, Ky, May 24.-News
mas just been received here of des-
perate fight on Briar Ridge in which
Tom Monroe was struck in the head
and badly wounded. He hlso was cut
by Homer Truax, receiving four
wounds.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-05-24
ANOTHER DEMO
CRATIC CANDIDATE.

Frankfort, May 24.-Colonel L. II.
Taylor. Jr., Of the city has announced
his candidacy for the democratic
nomination for governor before tho
next state convention.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-01-31
POLICY PLAYING IN GOTHAM.
The Infamous Gambling Scheme IL
Extensively Worked in the
New York Metropolis,

By the arrest recently Of one of
the gamblers of New York city,
known as the policy king, the extent
to which policy playing has been car
ried on in the metropolis was
brought to light. Papers in the place
searched by the police show that the
receipts in 120 shops owned by the
policy king amounted to $4,000 a Gay
on the average, and of this $1,000 a
day was profit. About 5000 a day
was paid for expenses of running the
business, including $1,000 a day for
police protection. An insignificant
amount a paid out in the shape of
winnings, care being taken by the
manipulation of the figures that
these should not amount to much.
The profits were SO great that
after paying all the expenses there
was a fortune left Of So, 900, 900, and
some of those engaged as assistants
were paid as high as $1,000 a month
for their work. These enormous
amounts came chiefly in small sums
from people little able to afford it.
and who did not realize that they
were being robbed by the most infa-
nous system of gambling ever de-
vised. The fact that the play can be
made for a few cents makes it very
tempting to the poor and credulous.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-01-31
ST. PAUL's ARMLESS MAN.
Though Unfortunate, He Has More
Attention Paid Him Than Many
Who Have Two Arms,

A man without arms is not to be
envied, although in some respects he
receives more attention than one
would at first suppose. The old man
who sits under the shadow of St.
Paul's is an example, says the New
York Sun.
He has been there day after day
for two years, some say longer. He
is there to sell his little wares.
He is fond of his pipe. There is
always some one around who fills
the bowl, puts the stem between his
lips. lights a match and fires the
tobacco.
All the armless man has to do is
to draw and puff. Many a mar with
two arms has greater difficulty il
getting his pipe to work.
If a storm breaks upon the curl
dealer suddenly some one volunteers
to bundle up his goods and carry
them to shelter. Occasionally a MAJ
with an umbrella offers the armies:
man protection.
He also has some one to feed him
He does not have the trouble of cut
ting a beefsteak. To him knives an,
forks and spoons are superhuous.
At least this is the superstition o
a man who has two arms, and VIII
stood looking at the armless mar a
| St. PaulS.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-01-31
FULL-BLooD INDIAN BABIES,
There Are But Few Coming Into Ex-
istence and the Number IL
Decreasing.

The present generation of full
olooded Indian babies is interesting
from many points of view. In the
first place, says the Cosmopolitan.
there is no doubt that in a few a
there will be no more full-blooded In
dams born, as men and women Of
pure Indian blood are rapidly marry
ing either white persons or Indians
whose blood is largely mixed with
that of the whites. Then, too, these
little copper-brown babies are some
thing of an anachronism, for MANY
or them preserve, to a great extent.
the bringing up and training known
to their fathers, and at the age of 10
or IA find themselves we'll versed in
the charms and lamentations of the
medicine men and expert in the use
of the scalping knife, but with a la
mentable lack of subjects upon whom
to practice their skill. Moreover, these
pure-blooded children inherit, in
many cases, large sums from the sale
of lands to the government, or own
valuable reservation property, so that
many of them have more suitors than
Penelope. 1t is only on the reser.
vations of the far southwest that the
curious little Indian babies arr to
be found. There are now among the
20 tribes only 5000 full-blooded In
dian children. In these same tribes
there are more than 10000 children
through whose veins courses a stain
of white blood. They are healthy, fat
youngsters, and, despite their rough
usage, grow up to be strong men and
women.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-01-31
THE WORD "PLEASE."
In England 1t Is Considered n Back
number and a Word for Serv-
ants Only.

An American just returned from
two years. residence in England was
recently speaking Of the different
treatment accordedSh word please"
there and here. SIN England please
is a servants word solely; here gentle
folk use it as WE'LL" said the Ameri-
can, and when the other Americans
said that they, having travelled them
selves, knew that as well as she did,
she added: Eyes, but you don't real
ize it until you've tried to bring up
children abroad. At home my young
sters had always been taught to say
please In England l soon found out
that they must not say it; if they did
it stamped them as underlined. Now
that we've returned to America the
old school conservatives look askance
at my children and observe senten-
tiously: Those little girls don't say
"please."' But sooner or later all
parents in this country will follow suit
and please will become a back num-
Der, just as a good many years ago
'ma'am' and sir became back mum.
bers."
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-01-31
A Il EXPERIENCE.
An Instance Where Wireless Teleg-
raphy Was Anything But q
Blessing.

A pathetic experience has been that
of Capt. Jorgensen, of the lightshup
on Nantucket shoals. That lightship
is anchored out in the Atlantic some
distance from Nantucket. Communica-
ton with the island of Nantucket is
kept up by wireless biography, says
the Rochester Democrat and Chron-
icle.
The other day the mysterious cleo
trio impulses from the land informed
Capt. Jorgensen that his beloved 49,
year-old daughter at Braintree was
dangerously i'll. At the time and since
thef wild Atlantic was sending its
mighty rollers against the lightship,
and it was impossible for the father
to get away from it. Every day the
wireless messages came freighted with
gloomier tidings, until the announce
ment of the young girls death was
made. And still the captain could not
be taken from his floating but an
chored prison. The Winds and the
waves ragged about the lightship, and
no vessel could get near enough to take
him off.
This is one Of the cases in which
wireless ~telegraphy was not a blessing.
Many hours of mental anguish would
have been averted had Capt. Jorgen-
sen not had intelligence daily from his
daughters deathbed.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-01-31
GUTTA PERCHA FROM PEAT.
A Discovery in Germany That May
Cheaper the Cost of Great
Ocean Cables.

Advices from Germany are to the
effect that q very satisfactory arti-
fetal gutta percha has been derived
from peat, and great things are ex-
pected to result from the discovery
in ch%eapening the cost of insulating
ocean cables. Gutta percha is the
only substance thus far discovered
for protecting a wire against the
corrosive action of salt water, and
the product is not only limited, but
is controlled by an English firm of
cable manufacturers, who w the
forests in the East Indies from which
the gutta percha is obtained.
Experiments to find a substitute
have been going on for years
throughout the world, but thus far
nothing has been entirely successful.
The price of gutta percha has been
advanced considerably by the de-
mands of the manufacturers of golf
balls, which has almost doubled the
cost Of cable manufacture, says the
New York Times, and if this German
inventor is able to make an equally
good insulator out of peat he will
make a very important contribution
to the worlds economy, for peat can
be found in almost every country on
the globe in quantities almost unlim'
tod
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-01-31
SEEKING A WORD.
officials Are Seeking q Designation
for Messages Transmitted By
Wireless T~ele4raphy.

Marooni's invention has set the Of
fcials of the navy and signal service,
where his system is in use, hunting for
a new word, writes a Washington cor
respondent of the Baltimore Sun.
They are casting about for a short
and simple term to stand for the labor-
Gus expression now employed: IA
message transmitted by wireless tele-
graph"
One genius Of the var department
suggests Acknowledgements" A stu
dent of natural forces in the navy be-
lieves that "Etherogram" would be bet
ter. "Aerogram" and "Airgram"
quite as convenient as telegram and
cablegram," find much favor, but Gen.
Greeley, chief of the signal service, has
not taken kindly enough to theseto ad-
vocate their use in official reports, and
therefore their adoption into the Ian
guage.
"Marconigram" has been suggested
by an ingenius layman, who says that
no matter what term is officially
coined, the popular word will always
be "~wireless."
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-01-31
he HAD HIS SUSPICION.
The Colored Southern Minister
Looked Askance at Andrew
Carnegie's $50 Bill.

1t is related hal on the last tour of
President Mckinley in the south, An
drew Carnegie was in the party, and all
were asked to attend a negro church in
Townsville, Ga, where a very fervid
colored minister oficiated, says the
Des Moines Leader.
1t is said that whenever a lull came
in the services the deacons took up a
collection, but through hospitable mo-
tives avoided passing the box to the
white visitors. The old pastor rose at
last and preached a ermon that was
at the same time eloquent, earnest and
ridiculous-preaching right at the
white folks-and his description of the
poverty of the church was so impress
sive that when the deacons passed the
contribution boxes around for the
third time Mr.. Carnegie intercepted
n and dropped a $50 bill in the box.
The old preacher counted their con-
tents. When he had finished he placed
a handful of small change on n side
and a crisp grenback on the other,
Clearing his throat he said:
~"Breddern, we has been greatly
blessed by dish yer contribution. We
has heah TO- dollahs an fo'ty cents dat
is good, an if de $50 bill put in by de
white gemman wild de gray whiskersis
also good we is blessed a whole lot
noah" And he looked suspiciously al
the giver of libraries and campaign
funds,