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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-08-18
Franklin School Invaded BY
Youthful Nandals.
Nine Of Them Arrested and Their
Cases Left 0pen-ln
Police Court.
roDAYs POLICE COURT DOCKET

Joseph aud Eddie Meadows, Eddie
skillisn, Lige Schreeves, Bernard
EndeIs. Willie Peter, Harry Conn.
Bert McGes and Ray Smith are the
names OF boys alleged to have com.
mitted van ialism OF the worst type
and who were arrsiened before Police
Judge ID L. Sanders this morning and
their cases left open for further in
vestigation.
Yesterday when Inspector OF School
Buildings Fred Hoyer opened the
Franklin building to prepare IT for the
coming opening OF schools, the sight
which met his gaze was astounding.
strewn all about the building, both
upstairs and down, we're portions Of
broken desks, works Of clocks and the
debris Of demolished furniture.
An investigation showed that the
building had been visited by some
one, evidently boys. and eight clocks
taken from the wall, torn open and
the works ruined. Desks were split
in two and wrecked and the total
damage to the equipment will amount
to something like $500. 1t is possible
the school cannot be gotten in shape
for the opening In September.
Mr.. Hoyer reported the discovery to
the police and an investigation was
set on foot. IL Is not known how
long ago the act was committed, but
one boy is responsible for the arrest
OF the other eight. he having" peached"
on them last night when arrested.
The police went to the residences Of
other boys said to be implicated, and
arrested them at $3.50 O'Clock.
Rufe Meadows, oolored, was fined
OIL and costs for drunkenness.
Fred Dovey, white, was fined 81
and costs on motion of the prescott
ing attorney for breach OF the
peace.
Roy Walker and Fred Butler, two
| Carterville excursionists, were fined
tl and costs for being drunk
The case against Jim Magner,
white, for being drunk and disorderly,
was continued until tomorrow.
John Derrin, white, was fined 81
and costs for being drunk.
Charles Rhodes, white, charged
with the theft Of watch from Mar
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-08-18
PoPULIsT CONGRESSIONAL CON
vENTON.

A mass convention OF the People
Party, aud all other voters who are
opposed TO absolute surrender TO the
GOLD standard. monopoly forces Of the
east. In the First Congressional Dis.
trict OF Kentucky, IL hereby called 20
meet at the court house In Psducah
on Saturday, September 18th, at 10
O'Clock =. m. for the purpose Of plsc-
ing in nomination . candidate for
congress Every one interested in
this movement 10 urged TO be present.
A feature Of this occasion will be
addresses by the Hon. Thomas r.
Watson, OF Georgis, nominee Of the
Peoples Party for president, aud one
OF the nations greatest orators, and
Hon. Milford W. Howard, the elo-
quent Alsbama Popultt. who IL 50
well Known to our people in this dis.
trict. This will be your only oppor
tunity during this camTaign TO near
our gifted leader. and 10 meet presi-
Dental candidate selected from the
south, ~ both oil parties ignore the
south and always 10 north for teeir
candidates. Cheap rates will prevail
on sll railroads
The grand spirit Of Populism Is re
viving, and the nomination OF Wall
streets candidate by the Democratic
party, and the outrage Of those Demo
cratic principles for which Bryan
fought, leaves the People Party alone
in the field oontending for practicable
reforms and Jeffersonian principles.
All who wish 10 take part with us
in this movement are requested "a
come regardless of past party stiiila-
ton. A special invitation IL extended
to the members Of organized labor to
affiliate with us.
BY order OF the committee.
J. WILL GRAHAM, Chairman,
Paduoah, August rs, 1904.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-08-18
MORE BARBARISM.

1t would probably do no good to dis
course on the atrocity OF the lynching
in Georgia day before yesterday. II
people in a community desire that kind
of administration of the law-or lack of
administration of the law-whicheyer
they choose to call it. they are welcome
to it, and will doubtless get it. no matter
what may be said against it,
The worst feature of the horrible trad
edy is the fact that soldiers were sent
to guard the prisoners with unloaded
guns. In the attack on these representa-
tives of the majesty of the law, they
found themselves without adequate
means even of protecting themselves. In
sending soldiers with unloaded weapons
to see that the law was not trampled
under foot, the legally constituted au-
thorities showed that they were not sin
oere in their apparent desire to prevent
such a brutal display Of barbaric cruelty,
and that in subiecting these soldiers to
the attack OF an enaged and fiendish
mob with no weapons they could rely
on for defense, the authorities showed
more consideration for the lawless
blood-thirsty lynchers than for then
own soldiers.
Worse than that. il seems the deputy
sheriTs were actually part of the mob
\ dispatch to the Atlanta Constitution
the largest paper in Georgia, says:
1T developed here upon the return
of the troops from Statesboro that tn,
Deputy SheriTs were in league with
the lynchers. They aided them in over
powering the soldiers.
Capt. Robert II. Hitch, commanding
the troops, was seized by stalwart de
putty and hustled down the stairs and
out on the lawn where crowd massed
about him. His revolver and sword were
taken away from him. When he had
fought his way back up stairs the pris
oners were gone.
Deputies had been accustomed t.
pass freely among the military, and
therefore the soldiers were not suspic
ious. Therefore, when the deputies seiz
ed them they were at the mercy of the
mob. Deputies, it is said, unlocked the
door in which the guard finally stood
with the prisoners. The deputies point
ed out Reed and Cato"
There is absolutely no justification
for the fiendish work of the mob The
law prescribes death for certain crimes
but it does not prescribe torture. In
stead. it has tried TO make death to
those who deserve it, or have it melted
out TO them by law, as painless as pos
sible. Torture, such as that imposed in
Georgia was the result of simple saw
agry. The plea that it was done as an
example to others is insufficient, as
these examples" have never produced
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-08-18
NEW CASHIER
MISSISSIPPI MAN ARRIVES To
SUCCEED MR.. VARIED.

Mr.. J. II. Ball, OF Jackson, Miss.
has arrived In the city TO accept the
position Of cashier in the local I'LL
nois Central freight house to succeed
Mr.. George wsrneld, who will be
made general ticket agent here.
Mr.. Ball has been working for the
company in Mississippi and is said to
be q man of more than ordinary
ability. Auditor 8. J. Lawshee is here
today checking Mr.. Warfield out and
will complete the work within day
OF two, after which Mr.. warfield will
assume control OF the ticket Office.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-08-18

The Louisville Herald saws that con.
gresham ollie james, supports Parker,
not because Of the gold standard tele-
gram from Esopus. but because the
platform previously adopted by the st.
Louis convention distinctally refuses TO
indorse the gold standard OF condemn
the free silver declaration of the party
in 1896 and 1900" We differ with the
Herald. Congressman James supports
Parker because Parker is the nominee.
Congressman James i a politician who
hopes to feather his nest by sticking To
the Democratic nominee. no matter
whether he is man, mouse or mule, and
no matter what he advocates. stands for
or where he comes from. That is Demo
cracy and is what a man must do to be
a acknowledgement James il a
Democrat
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-08-18

GOV. Hogg. Of Texas, says the Par
ker men attempted to bride him to sup
port Parker, by offering him a cabinet
position. GOV. IIogg may deserve cred
it for refusing to do something others
are doing for great deal less. but the
Parker managers certainly displayed
very little taste in picking GOV Hogg
for a cabinet portfolio.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-08-18

England's declaration that warships,
if necessary. would be sent to protect
English ships, is not calculated 10 in
spire Russia with satisfaction. Il has
long been claimed by diplomats that the
ships 10 the far east is that she feared
England would take advantage Of the
opportunity to seize anything Russian
she wanted. ON some preteXt or other,
and is surmised that she would have done
it anyhow after the beginning of the
present war. but for Germany. The fear
Is growing that before the far eastern
war is over other European nations will
become involved.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-08-18

The local board Of health should take
the trouble to find out what a power for
good it can weld, and then get TO work
to do something for the city, independ-
emit Of the civil authorities II is not
intended that a community OF $4,000 or
more people should suffer i'll health OF
have their lives constantly menaced be-
cause the men they have elected to Of
fee don't care.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-08-18

any apparent effect on the criminal tend
cnces of the negro or any other race. II
was an act of vindictiycncss and blood
thirstiness. The men guilty Of II would
probably stop at nothing. The only
wonder is that they did not first cut of
their victims ears and nose, but out
their eyes, and stick burning splinter'
into their quiycring flesh, before life be
came extinct.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-08-18
THURSDAY. AUGUST IS, 1904.
CIRCULATION STATEMENT.

hVtIHBt IUI uUH ..-...-.... -.''''''''''''<oI 70
Personally appeared before me this
day E. J. Paxton, general manager OF
The Sun, who afirms that the above
statement of the circulation of The
Sun for the month of July, 1904, is tue
% the best of his knowledge and belief.
PRTRR PURYEAR
Notary Public.
My commission expires Jan. "a, 1905.
Aug. 4. 1904.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-08-18
NOTICE.

The meeting Of the Magnolia
Grove woodman circle will be on the
first and third Friday afternoons in.
stead of night. All members invited
to attend.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-08-18
CASE OF SUICIDE
SAY THE POLICE
Suspects in Logan Case Were
Released This Morning.
An Attempt to Make Murder OF
the Suicide was Unsue-
oesSful.
INQUEST WAS HELD BY JUSTICE

John willinghsm. W II Diggs and
Henry Deboe, the three negroes ar
rested yesterday tending an investi-
CATION of the death OF Oscar Logan,
who committed suicide near Tenth
aud Jones street by shooting himself
in the breast after shooting at Lizzie
Young, were released today, Chief of
Police Collins being convinced that 1t
was = case Of suicide, although there
we're some suspicious circumstances
connected with the tragedy.
Yesterday afternoon Justice Jesse ;.
Young. acting coroner, held the inquest,
which lasted until $3.50 and resulted in
he following verdict;
I'VE. the jury empaneled and sworn
to inquire into the cause Of the death
If Oscar Logan, oolored, now before us
lead. came to his death from a gun shot
wound at the hands Of some unknown
person and recommend further inyestiga-
lion.
lSigned.l
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-08-18
DAILY THOUGHT.

Know your opportunity" was the ad-
vice of Pitticus. one OF the seven Gre
clan sages.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-08-18
Theatrical Notes.

Miss Adine Louise Bonvier, who
WAS seen here last season as prims
donna in JEFF DeAngeles' Emerald
Isle, ;" has won a rich husband in st.
Louis in the person OF Mr.. Anthony
Robert Faust, vice president of the
st. Louis Catering Company. They
we're married yesterday.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-08-18
THE WEATHER.

For kentucky, showers tonight and
Fridayand cooler.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-08-18

earet Wood, ohambermsii on the
Dick Fowler. waived examination snd
was held over under . $500 bond.
Iron County register., 1904-12-29
CHRISTMAS AT WHITE HOUSE
The President to Take a Complete
Rest During the Coming
Holiday Festivities.

Washington. Dec. 24.-President
Roosevelt, so far as the exigencies of
public business will permit, will rest
thoroughly during the Christmas holi-
days. No engagements will be made
for next week, except on matters of
particular Importance. The president
will devote large part of his time
to out of doors recreation, and with
members of his family and personal
friends will walk, drive and ride on
horseback several hours each day.
Since congress convened, on the 5th
instant, the president has been under
heavy strain, mental and physical.
Many hours of every day and night
have been spent in receiving callers,
with whom he has discussed scores
of important questions. In the expert
ence of the Oldest White House at
taches, no president ever received so
time as Mr. Roosevelt has received
during the past month.
If the present plans are followed,
the regular cabinet meetings will be
held as usual next week, but it is
likely they will be principally of a
routine character. Only business of
pressing Importance will be taken up
by the president, who will save him
self for the many weeks of hard and
continuous labor of the winter and
spring.
Iron County register., 1904-12-29
The Monstrous Platt Bill.

On Senator Platts recent bill to
reduce representation on denial of suf-
frage the Memphis Commercial Appeal,
after two columns of editorial concludes
thus:
If the republican party should pass
the Platt bill, it would commit gross
violation of the constitution. There is
nothing to show that 1t would have any
conscientious scruples against such po-
litical vandalism and the Commercial
Appeal has no hopes of restraining it.
But we have shown beyond peradven-
ture, that there is not single law in the
south that disfranchises negro because
of his color, and consequently none of
these laws comes in conflict with the
constitution of the United States and not
coming in conflict with the constitution,
congress cannot legally and constitu-
tionally cut down our representation. II
the contemplated wrong is perpetrated
1t will recoil upon the head of the re-
publican party.
Iron County register., 1904-12-29
FOG ENVELOPS ENGLAND
Places of Amusement Deserted and
Railroad Traffic lis Complete
ly ParaIyEci.

London, Dec. 23-There is as yet no
sign of the lifting of the fog which
envelops the kingdom. The absence
Of wind throughout Great Britain is
almost unprecedented, and meterolo-
gists do not expect any change in con-
ditions for another "a hours. Consid-
ering the almost insuperable Difficult
ties attending locomotion of any form,
the number of fatal accidents has been
remarkably small. The congestion and
suspension of business are very gen.
eral. Sa far as London is concerned,
the tube railways are the only con-
Germs running, and the daily traffic is
reaching record figures.
Places of amusement are almost de-
serted, and shopkeepers are loudly Ia.
nenting the absence of the usual
Christmas customers, instead of which
the big stores are inundated with Or
ders by post, which can not be exc
cuted, owing to the complete disloca-
tion of all carrying business railway
traffic, both for long and short dis
tances, is almost paralyzed. A condi-
tion resembling chaos prevails in the
postal service. With the continued ac-
emulation of Christmas parcels and
letter traffic, it is quite impossible to
preserve even sem5lance of punctual-
ity.
Iron County register., 1904-12-29
SHAW AND THE TARIFF.
Head Of the Treasury Has Constituted
Himself Champion of Bour-
bon Protectionists.

From every statement we have seen
coming from the reputed leaders of the
republican party it is plain that the re-
publicans find themselves hopelessly en-
tangled in the tariff net, and it will be a
matter of surprise to those observers of
the present situation if the leaders are
able to get together and pull the party
out of its difficulties on the subject dur
ing the next four years, says the Indian
apolis Sentinel
Secretary Shaw, who is said to have
presidential ambitions, has constituted
himself the champion of the bourbon
protectionists. In an interview the Sec
retary declared that there is no possibil-
ity that congress will consent to re-
duction of protective duties and urged
that instead of devoting itself to a re-
vision of the tariff the republican ma
jority should content itself with provid-
ing for rebates of duties on raw materials
that are used in manufactures for ex-
port. Where articles are imported to
be used in manufactures and the manu-
factured goods are exported, the Sec
retary would have the government re-
fund the duties paid on raw material.
The Dingley act provides for rebates
Of duties on certain raw materials used
in manufactures for the foreign trade,
but it offers no relief to the American
consumer. 1t is not altogether plain
why congress should legislate to give
the foreigner cheap goods and compel
the American consumer to pay monop-
oily prices.
There is little to be hoped for in the
way of reduction of the tariff from the
republican party Of to-day. The "revi-
sionists" on one side and the "standpat-
ters" on the other, are at the beck and
call" of the trusts and combines.
Iron County register., 1904-12-29
EDUCATIONAL ITEMS.

The Italian government has decided
to open, in all parts of Italy, $3.50
evening schools, exclusively for adults
who cannot read or write.
After the founding of the Berlin
trade school in 1921 there followed in
quick succession number Of technical
or polytechnic schools all over Ger
many.
Lady Frances Balfour is an advocate
of judicious education for women, and
believes that the colonies are calling
to Englishwomen to come over and
help in their advancement.
There are 1000 American teachers
in the Philippines centered in 1888
larger towns, out of 934 towns in the
entire archipelago. Two thousand
primary schools are in operation, and
they employ the services of 5000 ma
tive teachers.
Francis Galdon has endowed, in Lon
don university, fellowship for the
promotion of the study of National
Eugenics," which is defined as "the
study of the agencies under social con-
troll that may improve or impair the
racial qualities of future generations
either physically or mentally"
Prof. Charles Gayley, of the Univer-
sity of California, says: There are
many employers in San Francisco who
for the last Is years have complained
to me of the horrible English used by
our graduates employed by them.
They say there are very few indeed
who can talk and write correctly. The
main trouble lies in this, that the stu
dents are 'railroaded' through colleges
in their study of the professions and
very little, if any, of their time has
been spent on the study of English ex-
preston and literature"
Iron County register., 1904-12-29
HONORS WITH HARDSHIPS
Trappist EccIesiastic Commissioned
by Rome to Organize Monastery
in South Africa.

Louisville, Ky, Dec. PA singular
Ionor, bearing with it at the same
time considerable hardship, has been
conferred on Rt. Rev. Edmond Obrecht,
D. G. R., abbot of the famous monas-
terry of Trappist monks in Gethsem-
ane.
He has just returned from Rome,
whittier he went some months ago to
attend the conclave for the election
of a new superior-general of the
Trappist order, and has announced
that the same conclave commissioned
him to superintend the formation of
a new monastery in South Africa.
Many Of the monks who were ban
ished from France will become men,
bers Of the new monastery,
Iron County register., 1904-12-29
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

Brazil's foreign funded debt exceeds
$3.50, 100000.
The cholera is now almost extinct in
Turkish territory.
OF the 1,4OO earthquakes that occur
every year in Japan, only so are no.
ticeable.
For various misdemeanors, Ga school
boys in Berlin were condemned last
year to Imprisonment for from two to
ten months.
Statistics show that the birth rate
in the largest German towns is steadi-
ly decreasing, notably in Berlin, Char
lottenburg, Hamburg and Crefeld.
A British regiment recently landed
in Southampton after 20 years service
in India. Only six men of the regi-
ment that sailed from England re-
turned with it.
Seventy men had fishing competi-
ton at Dover, England, recently, under
the auspices Of the Sea Anglers associ-
alton. They fished five hours and the
prize for the heaviest fish was taken
with whiting, turning the scale at
six ounces.
Pickpockets and swindlers are multi.
plying in Madrid at startling rate,
and they carry on operations in the
principal streets and squares, under the
eyes of the poorly paid policemen,
many of whom are suspected of being
their accomplices.
Six duels were fought as the result
of the assault on Gen. Andre by M.
Syveton, in the French chamber Of
deputies. No harm was done, as the
affairs were practically bloodless. The
duelist who was the worst hurt was
able to ride away from the field of
honor on his bicycle.
Iron County register., 1904-12-29
CORPORATION SENATORS.
Representative Of Commercial Inter.
ests Enlisting the Attention
of the President.

Whether the president or the older
party leaders are to have the larger say
in disposing of the great victory at the
polls is a question already coming to the
test at Washington. Over this matter
two sets of antagonistic ambitions and
interests are taking distinct form
within the party and dividing its coun-
sells, say the Springfield (Mass.) Re-
publican.
Tariff revision has no sooner begun to
show divisive consequences than an
other question arises of quite as serious
import in the same direction. This is
the subject Of giving power to the inter
state commerce commission to fix rail-
road rates. The president has taken the
side of the commercial interests in
favor of national regulation of trans
portation charges, and has thus antag-
onized an immense vested interest very
powerful in the senate and of great in
fluence in the party to which privilege is
compelled to look for protection. The
prediction is. freely made in senatorial
circles that If the president attempts
to force through such measure as his
message recommends, "he will become
involved in contest as important and
far-reaching as that in the second ad-
ministration of President Cleveland"
Here are two questions, already pretty
distinctly outlined, which are to de-
termine whether the republican party
is in the leadership of the president OF
the corporation senator's; whether Mr.
Roosevelt Is to act the part of one who
merely proposes reforms for other and
actual leaders to dispose of, or whether
we have in him another Cleveland who
will press his views of what ought to be
done to the point of dividing his party.
He displayed possibilities of the latter
kind in dealing with Cuban reciprocity;
but he yielded to the corporation sena-
tors in the case of trust regulation and
shows symptoms of giving up to them in
the matter of tariff revision. What he
will do about the even more volcanic
railroad question remains to be SEEN
Developments Of far-reaching effect in
the political alignments of the future
promise to come thick and fast from this
time on.