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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-27
d,eft a Note That He Would
Jump in River.
W. J. Bryan Is Scored BY Attor-
neys in the Bennett Will
Case.
A NEW PULLMAN ORDER
DID HE sUICIDE7

Memphis, Tenn, Oct. 27-Saturday
night O. ID. CURE. night yardmaster
for the Illinois Central railroad disap-
peared from his boarding house and
J left letter ayine that he would com.
init suicide by jumping from train
on the Mississippi river bridge:
Whether the man carried out his In.
tention could not be ascertained.
That CURE did not carry out his in
tention is believed by some OF his
friends. He resigned his place with
the Illinois Central last Friday night.
None Of the employees have seen him
since.
In the letter Cure said that there
would DO no use in notifying his rela-
tives as he had already done so. He
said he was tired of life and that it
held out no prospects for him. He
also added that he could not swim and
would be sure TO drown.
The missing man had . IN nily. but
he was not living with them. He was
worried, il Is said. because he was not
able to support his children during his
recent illness
CURES relatives live at Asheville,
N. @. He had evidently written TO
them of his intention for = telegram
was resolved last night from them to
look out for the body.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-27
1t Located 1872 New Industries
on its Lines Last Year.
The Late Geo. y. Power, Industrial
Commissioner, Completes His
Report and Dies.
IS A FINE RECORD

Chicago, Oct Through the
efforts of the Industrial Department
of the Illinois Central railroad there
were located along the lines Of that
company during the year ending June
80, 1908. a total of 206 new industries,
representing an investment of IS, Y64,
500 and employing 10,416 people.
This remarkable record of industrial
growth is disclosed by the report of
the late George O. Power, industrial
commissioner of the Illinois Central
Railroad company and its allied lines.
This report shows that on the Illinois
Central Railroad proper, 1879 industries
were located, representing IN invest
ment Of IS, 1900 and employing
8 $40 hands. On the lines Of the
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley "a new
industries were started, representing
capital invested to the amount of
1894, 500 and employing 1896 peo-
Pile.
OF the southern States industrial &C.
tivity seems to have been the greatest
in Mississippi. Illinois also shows
remarkable growth with forty.four
new industries, employing all the way
from few to 200 people.
The preparation of this report was
the last work Mr.. Power did. Word
was received by the officials of the
company today that the commissioner
had dropped dead on the street in the
city of Minneapolis. where he had
gone to spend his vacation with his
sister.
Officials of the Illinois Central. to-
gether with division spperintendents
and roadmasters Of the company have
Left Chicago on fhsir annual tour of
inspsetien. Tn - y Aspasial u>in
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-27
BRYAN IN COURT.

New Haven. Conn, Dot. 27-Argu.
ments in the Philo $. Bennett will
case, the testimony which includes
the unsealing of . letter in which a
bequest had been made to william j.
Bryan, was heard by Judge Cleve land,
in the probate court last night Judge
Henry Stoddard, Of this city, counsel
for Mrs. Bennett, the widow; Mr..
Bryan. in his own behalf, and Ed
Henry q. New ton, his counsel, ad.
dressed the court. In the course of
his argument, Judge Stoddsrd ar
raigned Mr.. Bryan In severe terms.
Mr.. Bryan. in reply, said that II Mr.
Bennett could stand being maligned
for his political belief, he could endure
criticism for following friend e
wishes.
After Mr.. Stoddsrd had asked the
court to disregard the so-called sealed
letter, aud the paragraph in the will
referring to it, Judge Cleveland an.
nounced that he reserved his decision
and adjourned court, 1t being mid.
night
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-27
ATTENTION REPUBLICAN VOYERSOFPADUCAA
ANSWERS.

All Republican voters are urged to
go to the polls early on election day
ana not permit Democrats, who have
already attempted every legitimate
as we'll as several questionable ruses,
to prevent the Republicans from get
ting out and registering their vote,
from orowding them out at the polls.
Every voter is urged to be on hand
when the polls open, AMI to stay there
until he votes. The law allows every
man sufficient time from his work TO
vote and the man VINO attempts to
prevent it is liable to heavy fine and
imprisonment.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-27

Every voter who has been notified
that a motion is to be made to drop
his name from the registration books
should be at the court house on the
day named to prevent it. The Re-
publican campaign committee will see
that every man entitled to vote is per-
mitted to have his name Oh the regis
tration book, and to vote.
1t is reported that the Yeiser crowd,
as last resort, with their policemen
and others will attempt to crowd Re-
publican voters from the polls on cleo
ton day. Every Republican voter
should be at the polls Tuesday and
stay until he votes.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-27
The Great Press of the East
After the Faker.
And He was Forced to Reveal His
Life's Secret-Disowns His
Father.
DISPLAYS GREAT EMOTION.

New York, Oct. 27-In a broken
voice with tears streaming down his
face, and his body shaking with emo
tion, John Alexander Dowie stood q
the platform in Madison Square Gar
den last night before IN audience az
10, 900 persons and announced that In
truth he was not the son of John Muir.
ray Dowie Of Essex, Iowa, from WHOM
he takes his patronymic, but that his
father was . British army officer q
high family, by "Scotoh marriage"
He heaped vilificAtion and denuncia-
ton upon John Murray Dowie, whom
he declared had made his mother BE-
lieve her marriage to Dowie's father
was shameful, and the army officer
having been taken away by his rels-
tives, his mother, in the first flush Of
her shame, had sought to give her som
a name by marrying John Murray
Dowie.
He led up to the publication Of ex-
tracts from letters passing betwcea
himself and John Murray bowie, indi-
eating Dowie's Remuneration OF the
latter as a parent, and which were To
sponsible for the general overseer's
partial exposition of the great secret Of
his life.
Shouting at one moment in fit Of
violent rage at the newspapers, Mr..
Dowie would the next moment speak
in the most gentle voice of his mother
and wife. The great audience was
moved by his evident emotion. Women
went, and at times bursts Of applause
greeted his declarations.
Dowie announced that just one year
ago he had addressed q meeting in
Chicago at which he had told Of an
attempt at blackmail by man writing
from Boston who claimed to have GER
tain letters which had passed between
himself and John Murray Dowie.
THAT man wrote me-" said DR.
Dowie, THAT the letters, if published,
might cause me annoyance, and in thu
generosity of is heart said for $1,000
he would turn them over to me in
stead of to . Chicago newspaper. Gar
bled extracts from these letters were
published in paper in this CITY this
morning. challenge that paper TO
produce the original letters, what was
printed being only misrepresenting
extracts, dootored quotations, and
largely pore connections, obtained
either from the man who tried 70
blackmail me year ago, gotten from
John Murray Dowie by him at Essex.
Iowa, CT else John Murray Dowie.
poor wicked man, 80 far lost to me -
to sell the letters Of him whom no
falsely said was his son. These letters
have come either by robbery, or sin
much deeper and more wicked, the
basest of all SINS"
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-27

RIVER MAN SHOT.
st. Louis. Oct. 27.-John Arntzen,
q well.knovn steamboat engineer who
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-27
NEW PULLMAN ORDER.

Nashville, Tenn Oct. 27-An order
has been issued by he Pullman Palace
Gar company, the Nashville. Chatta.
nooga and st. Louis railway and the
Louisville and Nashville railway pro.
hibiting negroes from riding in the
same sleeper and from using the same
dining cars with white people in Ten.
nessee On September 26 Governor
Frazier was returning from Chatta-
nooago In q sleeper on the Nashville.
Chattanooga and st. Louis railway.
On board the car were five negroes.
They monopolized the porter's time
and otherwise made themselves obnox-
ious to the white persons. Following
this experience Governor Frazier adj
dressed the railroad commission citing
it and pointing ont the law that pro-
hiDits negroes from riding in the coach
with white people. He requested that
commission take the matter up. As
a'result W. l. Cranberry, attorney for
the Pullman company, this morning
announced to the commission that
orders had been OF would be. imme-
diately issued resembling the right Of
negroes to ride in the sleepers with
white persons or the same dining cars.
A meeting has been called in Chicago
Of Southern sg' nts of the Pullman
company. " is understood that this
IL to discuss the matter started here by
Governor Frazier. There is every
probability that the meeting viii re-
- q 4 ee.sseI esdes 4 shs PpIlgss
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-27

YOUNG ATTORNEY RETURNS
Attorney Jack Bloomfield, who has
been at Phoenix, Ariz., for the past
year, has reformed to Peducah, his
many friends will be pleased to learn.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-27

had been chief engineer on nearly
every steamer of Importance on the
Mississippi river in recent years, was
fatally shot early this morning during
a dispute on the street. Thomas Kill
len, a saloon keeper, is arrested charg-
cd with the shooting. Arntzen is be =
lieved to be dying. He is president of
the marine Engineers Association.
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crap games in operation all the time
1t is alleged, the police officers are put
to work serving election papers for the
benefit OF the Yeiser crowd. and de-
signed solely to iDtimidate voters of
other parties.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-10-27

trip, will make their home ON tho
train. The party is in charge Of
Unief Engineer II. U. Wallace. and
will spen four days in inspecting The
tracks from Chicago to Omaha and
from Omaha to Memphis, in six days
from Memphis south.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-10-17

The Little Heroine.
BY a schoolyard where the children
played
. paused while to see;
among them was little maid
> who sweetly glanced at me.
While others laughed and raced and
danced
with many graceful ain,
sne stood aside alone and glanced
with glad eyes at them there.
Her face was beautiful and sweet,
But, hapless little one,
she stood on twisted, withered feet,
mat ne'er were made to run.
I thought Of Gods mysterious way,
And watched her where she stood;
wondered If she gave Him praise
And deemed Him wise and good.
Her playmates joined their hands ere
long,
And, hedging her about
Danced around her with a merry song
And many a happy shout.
I saw her clap her hands, her voice
In gleeful accents rang,
She had the courage to rejoice
With those who danced and sang.
I left them where they gladly played
A sweet voice seemed to cry:
While she can laugh poor little maid,
il Why should you ever sigh?"
The Chicago Record-Herald.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-10-17

It BIackens.
There is an old story about Greek
maiden named Eulalie; she wanted to
be friends with Lucinda, a very gay
and worldly woman. One day she said
to her father, Sophronius, II would
like to call upon Lucinda; may I go
to-day?"
II cannot allow you to do that, my
daughter" replied Sophronius.
"But, father, you must think me ex
ceedingly weak if you suppose
should be injured by going" said
Eulalia, Grossly.
Her father stopped down and picked
up a piece of dirty coal and held it
out. "Take that in your hand, my
child; it will not hurt you.'
She did, her fingers became
smudged. Eulalia did not understand.
"Why," she said, did you give me
this? It blackens."
eyes," came the reply. Goal, when
it does not burn. blackens.''
Do you see the lesson of the old
Greek? Bad company will blacken if
it does not burn.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-10-17
Dickens School Pets.

When Charles Dickens was a boy
at wellington House Academy it was
the secret pride of the students there
that they owned more white mice, red
polls and linnets than any other set
of boys within their ken. These they
kept in hatboxes, drawers and even
in the school desks. A small but
very accomplished mouse, which lived
in the corner of Latin dictionary,
in Dickens desk, and could draw Ro-
man chariots, fire paper muskets and
scale pasteboard ladders, fell at last
into an overfull inlzpot and lost both
it's white coat and it's life. Dickens,
nevertheless, won prize for his
Latin, and we'll thumbed and blotted
Horace which he once presented to
his coach recently fetched high
price at an exhibition in England.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-10-17
The Flour Merchant.

The Flour Merchant.
The one who personates the flour
merchant will try every way to dis
pose of his stock of flour, by asking
question after question Of the others,
who must, in their answers, be care
full not to use these words: Flour, I,
yes or no; as they are forbidden, and
the one who is caught using them will
have to pay forfeit.
q. The flour merchant must persevere
in his endeavors to make the players
use one of the interdicted words.
For instance:
do you wish any flour to-day?"
There is none required"
'But you will soon want it; let me
persuade you to take some.'
THAT is impossible"
''Why So? It is the very best OF
flour; just look at it; it is so very fine
and white"
"The quality is a matter of indif-
ference to me-"
But it will make such good, sweet
bread. Do take some"
"You have had my answer"
'Have I? I must have forgotten it.
What was it?'
my answer was, decidedly not
any,"
But, madame, consider; it is q
very reasonable price,"
Il will not take any" ...
The flour merchant having succeed.
ed in making her say II" proceeds to
the next one.
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identifying Of the banks of the Poto.
mac. There will be terrace gardens
and broad boulevards.
A National Hall of Fame is also
planned. It will be in the colonnade
of American Galleries on the Poto.
mac.
Some Of the designs that have been
before Congress and met the approval
of leading Senators and Representa-
tives are published herewith. The
whole country is waking up to the
fact that residential Washington is
superb, while municipal, or legisla-
tive, Washington is shabby disgrace.
All roads will lead to Washington.
The city's ACKNOWLEDGMENT should be
national hobby-New York Times.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-10-17
PEoPoseD MEMORIAL PRESIDENTS v1A1A

is but One respet:z5se building be-
tween the Treasury and the Capitol.
The rest would disgrace a third-class
village. Most of the buildings are
low, old, weatherbeaten and ram
shackle.
Pennsylvania avenue, from the
Presidents house to the Capitol,
ought to be the finest of all streets.
1t has few trees; 1t should have
many more When "Boss'' Shepherd
spent $44,O00,000 on the outskirts of
Washington he sadly neglected i'm
portant thoroughfares near the heart
Of the city. These have been eyesores
for generations.
The second aggrandizement is the
conversion of 220 acres adjacent to
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hole, the size of a slate pencil. On
one half Of the strip the right, on the
other half of the left side is filed
down to a knife-like edge (see illustra-
tion). Cut a round stick Of wood
about 2he length and thickness of a
penholder, and insert it from below
into the hole of the flyer. The illus
tration to the right shows how the
stick CT wood is brought to a whirling
motion, causing the flyer to fly high
into the air.
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each home, accommodating all told
1880 visitors at a time. In ten years
1t is believed that 1850 at a time
will demand the accommodation.
Designs have already been SUBJ
mitted to Congress for a National Pa
vilion, adjacent to the Homes of the
States in National avenue, to contain
open air and covered halls, restaur-
ants, apartments and a roof garden.
1t is largely of glass, with easements
to be closed for warmth in winter
and open for pure air in summer
through Venetian blinds.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-10-17

in its construction. The station will
excel in size and magnificence every
thing of It's class in the, world. No
railway can be barred from it's facili-
ties. The mileage represented will
be about 41,000.
In keeping with this colossal under
taking will be the homes of the states
on National avenue. This is sug-
gestion by person whose name and
identity have been searched for in
vain. The idea is for the United
States to give tract OF land 5000
feet in length and $50 in breadth, the
frontage to be allotted proportion
ately to the population of the differ
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ent states, and in the order of their
admission into the Union.
The bestowal of this land by the
government would be an exact divis-
ion Of the peoples property among
themselves, as Franklin Webster
Smith points out. Speaker Reed
thought the idea fine one Pres
emily there will be fifty states in the
Union. The fifty State Homes along
National avenue will provide fifty
reading rooms, fifty writing rooms,
fifty sets Of home newspapers, fifty
bureaus of information, fifty halls of
social converse, fifty places for bust
ness appointments, fifty trysting
places for sweethearts, fifty public
comforts. There will be $50 seats in
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-10-17

The aggrandizements planned are
seventeen in number Louis Napoleon
wiped out miles of solidly built
blocks in the heart Of Paris for the
glory of France; what, it is asked, is
to hold the United States back from
razing the rookeries that besmirch
Washington?
The first ACKNOWLEDGMENT is the i'm
provement Of Pennsylvania avenue.
This broad, asphalted thoroughfare
has worldwide reputation, being
fully as well known as the Champs
Elysee and Inter den Linden, yet it
is the ugliest street on earth so far
as it's architecture is concerned. There
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dizement. The fifth is a Centennial
avenue as boulevard. The sixth is
a series of ornamental porticos for
shelter and a luxurious promenade.
The seventh involves the clearance
of Sixteenth street of rookeries and
it's establishment as bisecting boule.
ward to be called Executive avenue.
The Park astoria is the eighth az
grandiZement, calling for the removal
of museums and the construction of
a street of dwellings of mankind
through the ages. The ninth is the
National avenue, for Homes of States,
referred to at the outset.
The tenth aggrandizement is the
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-10-17

1t is tho intention to make Wash
lngton both the Paris and Berlin of
America. Plans which have been
considered by Congress for making
the nations capital grander, more
beautiful and more splendid in every
respect, call for the expenditure of
millions upon millions.
The first step in this long looked
for ACKNOWLEDGMENT will be taken in
earnest when the work on the Union
Railway station is under way. This
great building alone will cost $20,OO0,-
300. Several years will be occupied
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the Naval Observatory and 100 acres
Of Potomac Park into a breathing
spot, to be styled astoria Park. ..<..
The third is new White House,
or Executive Mansion. The, designs
are drawn by Paul J. Pelz, architect
Of the new Congress Library. The
present White House is to be pre-
served as a relic of the day when it
was of a size commensurate with q
population of 100000. We are to-
day S0,000,000.
A pavilion memorial bridge across
the Potomac is the fourth aggran.
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ened finger around it's rim. This point
being settled, the performer should
hold the glass in front of his mouth
and shout into it in a tone about an
octave higher than that Of the glass.
The result will be that the glass
will break Immediately, and for the
reason that it will not have strength
enough to resist the force exerted
against it by the waves of air.
The thinner the glass is the more
easily will it be broken. A common
beer glass, however, is the one which
is generally used.
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before a given number of. seconds
have passed. Usually one minute is
the allotted time. Then, if he is not
ready, any one in the company may
call 1t out and change places.
In this way number of clever
rhymes may be forthcoming, and the
game may be kept up till the ingenu-
ity of the players is exhausted.
Answer to Plot Problem.
This is the way in which the plot
of land should have been divided in
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-10-17

Some weeks ago an illustration
was published in the Globe of Colds
worthy Gurney's automobile Of 1927.
The machine which two years after
ward reached a speed of nearly TWEEN
y miles an hour is shown herewith.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-10-17
Shout Breaks a Glass.

Shout Breaks a Glass.
Every one knows that windows will
rattle when loud noise is made in
a room, but very few persons know
that glass can be broken by shout
ing into it.
Any ordinary glass which has a
clear tone will do for this trick, and
the exact nature Of it's tone can read
lily be ascertained by passing moist
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-10-17

by Greek jugglers. Prepare before
hand by getting two ribbons exactly
alike and the same length; double
each so the ends come together; tie
the ribbons at the folds with thread
exactly the same color. Slip on the
rings and give two of the spectators
the ends to hold. They will believe
that each is holding the ends of the
two different ribbons. Have them
hold the ribbons slack1y, and then
ask each of them for the ends they
hold and exchange with them the
ends they before held. Take hold of
one of the rings at the centre, dex-
trous1y break the thread that holds
the ribbons and slip off the rings
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-10-17
Bats in the Sun.

1t used to be thought that the bat
was active only by night and sleeps
pretty well all winter No doubt the
animal loves darkness and is more
at home in it, but if the weather be
warm enough it will venture into day
light even in the cold months of the
year. Toward evening, when the light
is beginning to fall, it is common
enough to see them flying about in
summer. They can hardly be mis-
taken for birds, for their flight is
neither so graceful nor so rapid.
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To Decorate Candles.


Candles can be decorated by rolling
pictures tightly round them and warm
ing the backs of the pictures by pass
ing the fame Of match or another
candle over them. To get the best
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1903-10-17
The Japanese FLYER,

A very simple flying machine can
be made from a piece of cigar box
wood. Cut ruler-like strip of wood,
and bore exactly in it's center a small