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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-02
PADUoAH MUST STEP LIVELY

| PADUCAH MUST STEf LlNELh /.
Greensboro is much smaller than
Paducah, but she has several miles of
fine, substantial streets. The people
of Daviess county, who seem to be as
progressive as those Of Owensboro.
the county seat, are 10 vote at the
approaching election on issuing $780,.
900 for the improvement of the county
roads. This is more than the people
of Paducah are asked to vote for city
improvements, which are needed q
great deal more than county improve
ments.
One of the good results sttained by
the people of Greensboro and Daviess
county was through the agitation Of
the press. The Sun has always advo-
Gated better streets and better county
roads, and hopes in time to see the
people here enth usiastic over the work
Of improv ng them. The present sys-
tenn OF both street and road improve
ment is q sheer waste Of time and
money. 1t costs the tax payers tens
Of thousands Of dollars q year, and
most of it goes to . few who sell
gravel, own teams and do the work.
The benefit to the people ~ q whole
is short indeed. The performance Of
spending. more money for the same
class Of improvement is repeated
for the streets and roads
which are % bad in few months as
before, and Thousands Of dollars of
good money continues to be thrown
after bad.
The soon her people see that perma.
nent improvements, both to streets
and roads, will give the people better
service and save money in the long
run, the sooner will they become eager
for such improvements.
There is now but one bond Issue to
20 before the people. This is $3.50. 900
for streets, and $4,000 for . new
market house and city hospital. II
for the voters ut the polls
to say whether the bonds shall be is
sued, or the extravagant waste Of
funds year after year must continue.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-02
STILL ALIVE
CHARLES ALLISON'S TENACITY
Is SOMETHING ABLE.

At press time Charles Allison as
still alive at the city hospital but he is
growing weaker and weaker every
hour. He is the Waterman who was
shot in the spine by Mate John Ben
nett, of the Nevins. day before yester
Day aud cannot possibly recover. He ID
unconscious most OF the time now.
Bennett has not yet been caught.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-02
A CARRIE MAN
MRS. NATION oUTCLAssED By
A BAD MAN.

Knoxville, Tenn. Oct. 2--Richard
Gaut, ct one time prominent broker
Of this city. did Carrie Nation act in
an uptown gambling room yesterday.
Going to the parlors over the Stag sa-
loon. which are patronized by the bon
ton, he found no games running and
but one man on duty. Walking up to
the rou lette wheel he drew q hatchet,
which be had concealed ina newspaper
aud began to use it. The wheel was
disfigured before he could be stopped
and put out.
Gaut then started on round of the
other places but his trip had been
tipped Off and he did not do so we'll.
Previous to this he had written let
ters to city officials and one to lead
ing minister, in which he told Of the
prevalence Of gambling. In one of his
letters he tells of having lost heavily
in the Stag and this fact is what drove
him to the courseIhe pursued.
Only last week Gsut won $3.50 on
the wheel he disfigured today and then
went to the races and played q skin
game on which he lost his winnings
and hundred or two more. Gaut
brought suit against the men who run
the games, and hopes to recover his
money.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-02
Texas Negro Who Assisted in
Murder Lynched
He Was Taken From Jail While Mem.
bers Parleyed with Militia There
to Protect Him.
CAIRO MURDERER HELD
QUICK WORK OF ASSASSIN.

QUICK WORK OF ASSASSIN.
Marshall, Tex. Oct. LAST night
a mob Of several hundred men forced
their way through the brick wall of
the Jail with the aid of a telephone
pole, and with sledge hammers and
crow bars took out Walter Davis, q ne.
gro, and marched him to the west side
OF the town. where he was hanged to
willow tree.
The lynching was the result Of the
killing of Constable Hayes yesterday
while he was taking . negro TO Jail.
He was shot from ambush, being lit
orally riddled with bullets. shortly
after the killing Walter Davis snd two
other negroes were arrested and lodged
in Jail Mt Marshall.
A mob formed during the afternoon
and attacked the Jail. The Marshall
Musketeers were ordered ont and ar
rived at the Jail after the mob had Sc
cured the negro. While part Of the
mob were talking to the militia Off.
GERS the other section Of the mob
slipped the negro out and had him on
his march TO death.
Just before the negro was hanged he
said he did not intend to kill Hayes
when he shot. When told they were
going to hang him, he said:
II don't want to die that way"
When asked il he belonged to the
church and believed in the hereafter,
he said he did not belong 10 the
church. and was then told to pray.
Some one said that the militia was
coming. and the negro was strung mp
in Q hurry. Several snots were fred
at the body.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-02
Swiss School Rule,

A child's absence from school in
Switzerland in punished with a fine,
which is increased daily unless the
child is ill-in which case, Of course
he is free to stay az home. Should
the school authorities doubt tho genu
ineness OF any child's illness they
send doctor to see him, and IL their
suspicious prove correct the parents
nave to nay his fee.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-02
NO CONTEST
MR.. ]. HENRY SMITH DECIDES
TO FILE NO CONTEST.

Ii was announced authoritatively
this afternoon that Mr.. J. Henry
Smith will not file contest for the
Democratic nomination for city treas
urer. After discussing the case it was
decided that owing to the probability
Of not getting q hearing before election
il Is best not to contest.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-02
To REPAIR CABLE
GANG EXPECTED FROM W. U,
T. q. HEADQUARTERS
SHORTLY.

District Superintendent Messenger,
Of the Western Union. has notified the
local Office that gang of men WILDE
here in a few days to dig up the cable
across the river here and repair the
breaks recently made as q result of an
inspection. The wires found have
been in bad working order for some
time but will soon be we'll again.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-02
A DASTARDLY DEED.

Cairo. Ill, Oct. 2-Thomss O'Neil,
who shot and instantly killed Con Shu.
ban and mortally wounded Mike Eag-
an Wednesday night. was held for
grand jury without bail by the coro-
ner's jury, and william Grimes was
held as an accessory. The tragedy oo-
Cured in O'Neil's saloon. Shuban and
Egan aooompan MED by two companions
visited a wine room in the place.
Trouble ensued in which o'Neil tried
to quiet them. Grimes. his bartender,
assisted him. O'Neil got q pistol and
shot Sh uban through the heart and
sent ball through Egan's right lung
Then he escaped but afterwards sur
rendered.
The tragedy has created intense ex'
oitement here. Neither OF O'Neil's
victims was armed. They have always
conducted themselves in a peaceabl,
manner.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-02
Mr.. c. E. ETIER
FORMER POLICEMAN IL ORTIZ.
CALLY LII AT DAWSON.

Mr.. Charles Etter received word
from Dawson last night that his
father, Mr.. O. @. Etter. the ex.polioe.
man. was much worse and in a preca.
rious condition. Mr.. Etter has been i'll
for some time and his many friends
will regret to learn Of his present con-
dition. His son went to Dawson this
morning to be at his bedside.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-02
LOST ARM.
UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT TO
/. @. EMPLOYE AT CAIRO.

Will Hunt, a switchman employed
by the Illinois Central railroad sus-
tanned. a badly crushed arm while at
work coupling cars in the yards at
North Cairo. Mr.. Hunt resides in
Jackson, Tenn. He was formerly q
conductor on the Mobile and Ohio. but
gave up his position during the recent
strike.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-02
A Touch Of Ireland in Spain.

When was at Malaga the light.
house was out of order, and some
Americans had complained officially
that their shipping interests were be.
for two years. Then 1t was declared
that 1t was the fault of the earthquake
which had taken place many years
previously. Finally. the light was put
out altogether, because II interfered
with the fireworks. When a pair OF
boots | had ordered did not At and I
complained to the maker. he arrived
Indignantly TO protest. They fit here. "
he said, prodding my tender toe, and
they fit there" (another proO; you
cannot expect them to fit everywhere
all at once. "-Blackwood's Magazine.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-02
FIRE AT CENTRAL CITY.

Central City, KY, Oct 2-Fire de.
stroyed the warehouse of T.. M. Gish,
the butcher shop of @. W. Moudlen &
90. and damaged the residences of e.
NJ. Gish and E. p. Mallory. The total
loss is about 81. 600.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-02
CIRCULATION STATEMENT,

DAILY AVERAGE, aIea.
Personally appeared before me this
day E. J. Paxton, general manager Of
The Sun, who afiirms that the above
statement of the circulation of The
Sun for the month of Sept, 1903, is true
to the best Of his knowledge and belief.
PETER PURYEAR,
Notary Public McCracken County.
Oct. 1. 1908. 'JY4'H 1fj1t
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-02

Colonel Bud Dale and family have
returned from Texas and are visiting
in the county. They are expected IN
the city shortly.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-02
Ancient Treasure Found.

A splendid marble .assorilievo has
been discovered in Pompeii, in a little
garden of house on the east side.
says a Naples letter in the Paris Mes
senger.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-02
MIsDIREoTED BENEvoLEN CE.

MlSDlhEOIED bENbNobENC E.
Eureka Springs, Ark, oct. q
France Lynch Of Greenforest. this
county, purchased gallon jug Of
whiskey while here TO be used by his
family as q precaution against mea-
sizes. After he reached h ONE, his two
sons, aged and IL, stole the jug, got
drunk and then quarreled, whereupon
the elder boy in passion secured a
shot gun, loaded with No. 8 shot, and
at distance of five PAGES, fred point
blank at his brother, tearing away the
little fellows jaw and filling his neck
with shot. The victim will probably
die
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-02
ELECTION OF 1899: ". S. TAY.
LOR, 1874 VIM. GOEBEL. 1871, 33l
JOHN YOUNG BROWN, 1910. j..
THE WEATHER.

Fair tonight and Saturday with pro-
bable showers Saturday in the north
portion.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-02
Supt. King Transferred by the
Illinois Central.
Paducah Flower Beds Will Win the
Prize Again-General Man,
Wallace Here.
OTHER r. r. NEWS NOTES

Announcement is made by Major NJ.
Gilleas, third vice president and gen
eral superintendent of the Yazoo and
Mississippi Valley railroad. of the ap.
pointment Of W. s. King as assistant
general superintendent of these lines
with headquarters in Memphis. Mr..
King was formerly superintendent OF
the Illinois Central railroad at Car.
bondale, Ill.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-02

Republicans must register ON Tues
day, October 6, IL they expect to vote.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-02

Freight Agent E. L. Mcmillan. OF
Fulton, has been offered q position as
livestock agent with . big western
railroad and will accept. His head
quarters will be at Chicago. Mr.. Nc
MILAN has rendered his resignation to
Superintendent Gaven and will likely
leave Fulton about October 10. Mr..
Mcmillan was formerly assistant live.
stock agent of the Michigan Central.
His successor at Fulton has not been
named as his resignation has not yet
been accepted.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-02

Mr.. @. N. Terrell of Chicago, has
been appointed assistant ysrdmaster of
the new yards in Fulton to succeed Z.
Cory. Mr.. Cory was formerly q con-
ductor and will return to bis old posi-.
tion.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-02

Republicans! You must register on
Tuesday, October 6.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-02

III hx.ENC For the Kidpey's. 4
LIZA GO0 Liver and Stouiache.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-02

Republicans Don't forget to regis.
ter next Tuesday, October 9.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-02

Mr.. Jimmie Mclaughlin, local gar
dener for the 1. o., has received no
tice from Mr.. J. II. Kellar, gardener
for the Louisville division, that the
Paducah depot lawn is the prettiest
and neatest on the division and that
he will probably be awarded the prize
this year. The inspector will be
around within the next ten days to
inspect and the lawn is being trimmed
to better condition. The Paducah
flower beds have been the prettiest for
years and the depot lawn here has car
ried the division prize for several sec.
sons.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-02

Mr.. ]. F. Wallace, general manager
of the ]. O., passed through the city
this morning at 8 O'Clock en- route to
Louisville from Chicago. He came
here over the Cairo extension on the
special and after changing engines left
for Louisville remaining in Paducah a
few minutes only. He will probably
stop longer on his return trip il he
does not return via Evansville.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-12
The Electrophone.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.

The name of the electrophone does not
disclose why 1t should be different from
the telephone, which sends sound by cleo
tricity; but the practical test of the former
In England seems to indicate that it is a
more adequate and satisfying invention
and one that our telephone companies must
presently add to their equipment, Or sub
sttute for IT. The telephone In our coun-
try is harassing instrument. MANY cam
not hear by means of II. The bothers and
delays IN connecting stations have short
ened temper and heightened vocabularies
But, according to the dispatches from Lon
don, Mr.. Chamberlain's speech was per-
fectly heard there. although the talking
was done in Birmingham The reporters
TOT the Daily Mail, seated comfortably in
their office and smoking their pipes. stem
ographed every word of their grafton, and
the paper was selling on the streets twenty
seven minutes after he had closed The
telegraph ended its work nearly an hour
and half later. This, says the Mail. in
augurates revolution in reporting II
may be, but ii the revolution succeeds IL
VIII be necessary to find speIlbinders who
are willing to talk into machines that ran
resent larger public than their immedia tie
hearers, and it will be necessary to rig
lines from every principal hall, church.
theater, opera house and academy to every
newspaper office of consequence Yet that
may all happen in time The orators. es-
pecially British ones, may object for a
While. but there Is nothing that will bring
great man to terms quicker than leaving
his name out of the paper for a counle of
days. We await the electrophone in Com
gress ana In Tammany Hall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-12
Antiquity of Civilization.
From the London Telegraph.


So far as the question of time is con-
cerned. 1t deserves notice that not merely
geology, but almost every form of inquiry
into the past, throws further back the I'm
its usually assigned. Egypt, for instance,
is continually furnishing fresh proofs of the
antiquity of civilization. Prof Flinders
Petrie expounded at Owens College. Man
chester. England, a few days ago the re-
suits of recent explorations at Abydos. in
upper Egypt, from which 1t appears that
the ruins at that one spot tell a continuous
story that carries us back to 5000 B. c.
Abydos was the first capital Of Egypt, and
remained for forty-five centuries the re-
ligious center. the Canterbury of the land.
and there the Egyptian exploration fund
has unearthed the remains of ten success
sive temples. one over the other" From
the age of the first temple group of about
200 objects have been found which throw
surprising light on the civilZa ton of the
first dynasty. A part of a large glazed
pottery vase of Mena, the first king of the
first dynasty about 4.7O0 B. c.. showed
that even then they were making glaze
on a considerable scale, and also inlaying
1t with second color The ivory carving
was astonishipgly fine. a figure of king
showing subtlety and power of expression
as good as any work of later ages" At
about 1900 B. c. an ivory statuette of
Cheops, the builder Of the great pyramid.
was found, the only portrait known of him
Making every possible allowance for the
marvellous rapidity Of art development,
must not many thousands Of years have
rolled over between the pristine dwellers in
the Nile valley and the men who carved
ivory statuettes and manufactured glazed
work inlaid with second colors? 1t is a
long, long march from flint implements to
the solemn temple. ivory statuettes and
human portraits.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-12
Decision Against Beavers.

A dispatch last night from New York
says:
Judge Lacombe of the United States cir
cult court gave a decision today unfolding
the United States district court in ordering
that George w. Beavers, indicted for COM
plicty in the alleged frauds of the Post
Office Department. be turned over to the
federal authorities In Brooklyn for trial.
at the same time granting an order allow
Ing an appeal. so the matter now goes to
the United States Supreme Court for final
decision.
Beavers counsel asked for a writ of
habeas corpus and a writ of certorari. but
Judge Lacombe. in denying the motion.
went over the several grounds upon which
the writs were asked. and said that none
or them was sufficient to justify him in
overruling the decision of Judge Holt and
United States Commissioner Hitchcock
Judge Holt. in the United States district
court granted today the application Of the
government for a warrant of removal to
Washington for Maurice Runkle of New
YORK, indicted in Washington for alleged
conspiracy to defraud the Post Office De.
partment through the sale of leather
pouches for the free delivery system.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-12
The Underpaid Preachers.

From the Atlanta Constitution
In religious journal we read the state-
ment that the ministry is the only one OF
the learned professions that is not over
crowded" We have no reason to doubt the
declaration and no surprise that Il is true.
To enter the ministry has for time untold
been to commit economic suicide The an
tique notion that just God calls men to
the ministry because they have been oc-
Guilty created by Him with stomachs and
other organs specially adapted to scant
ratlons and poor provisioning in creature
comforts is emphatically played out.
man is fool and an infidel to subscribe
involves the suStenance of his wife the
proper feeding. education and preparation
for life of his children.
There Is no more reason In common sense
and merciful religion why an educated
preacher of the gospel should receive less
pay than railway track hand-and the
average pay OF a modern American
preacher Is less than that-than there is
that an educated lawyer should work for
barefaced promises to pay. The notion
thai a preacher must be above the sordid
things" of sufficient bread and meat and
that his family should be compelled TO
suner hardships, humiliatfons and igno-
rance because the head of the house cannot
seem to preach for money" Is an ar
chaic and fanatical fad that i'll becomes the
temper and liberality of the present age.
Let 1t be understood that ministers of the
gree and there will be no lack of strong,
men who will enter its ranks and
still not ask or expect more than the hire
OF which the laborer Is worthy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-12
SEA WATER IS HYGIENE.
Sewers May Be Flushed With It and
Streets Sprinkled.
From the Chicago Chronicle.

rom the Chicago Chronicle
Several years ago the city council or
Hastings. England. tried the experiment of
employing sea water for watering the
streets and flushing the sewers. and its
example was soon followed by the local au-
thorities of number of other towns on the
coast. The wastefulness, not to say folly,
of using for such purposes water that had
at considerable labor and expense been Ill
tered to the highest attainable degree OF
purity seemed. obvious. and. though. OF
course, it involved the installation of a
separate system Of pumping stations mains
and hydrants. the fact that the supply was
IneXhaustble and itself cost absolutely
nothing was so evident that 1T was strange
that this source had been neglected so
long.
The sanitary and economic results seemed
more than to justify the innovation. for. to
say nothing of its slightly antiSeptic action,
the Microscopic property of the salt caused
the effects of each watering to last for a
much longer time, and the surface OF the
roadway was believed by some to be more
compact and cohesive than when fresh
water was employed. Besides the retrencll-
ments the new system presented a direct
source of revenue in the demand by many
private houSeholders for a salt water serv-
ice to their bath rooms so that they might
enjoy the luxury of sea bathing at home.
But few years experience has unfortu-
nately brought about no small dsiIIusion-
ment: the owners of carriages COMPLAIN of
the destructive action of the salt mud on
the varnlsh and paint. and the tradesmen
COMPLAIN of the injury inflicted on goods
or all kinds by the salt dust and its subse-
quent deliquescence. Lastly, the users
themselves, the local authorities and their
customers, have discovered that the salt
water eXerts such a corrosive and generally
destructive action on metal pipes and fit
tngs that the number of persons contract
ing for domestic supply has fallen from
200 to two, and the leakage from the joints
of the street mains has caused the death OF
the trees planted in the best streets and
promenades. so that the engineer to the
corporation that had been the pioneer IN
the movement finds himself compelled i'm
an exhaustive report of its experience to
admit that the system has proved a COM
plete failure.