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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-07
JOCKEY TO WED.
His Marriage WIN ise elimination OF
Monte Carlo Romance.

San Franc SEQ Dec. THE mar
riage of Johnni, Ref the jockey, Is
o take place in Monte Carlo, the lat
err pat OF January. The bride is
no fau ghter OF Chas. Demman, train
or for Edmund Blanche, owner OF
Monte Carlo. The morriag Is cul-
.niration o; romance begun at the
race track in me early part OF the
jockeys cares. at Monte Carlo.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-07
IMPORTANT CHANGE
IN CRIMINAL LAW
Senator j. Wheeler Campbell to
Introduce Bill.
Doing Away With the False Prctensc
statute. Which He Thinks IL
Unjust.
SENDS MEN TO PEN FOR A DIME

II the efforts of Senator J. Wheel
CT Campbell are successful the stat
utory law pertaining to the crime Of
obtaining mongy by false protenses
VIC be rendered TO a petty larceny
CRIME where the amognt involved is
under 500. the amount specified as
thi minimum In determining grand
larceny offenees.
For years defendants have been
sent 20 the pona;cntiary from this
county as well as from other counties
for cbtairins money by false pre-
tcnses when the amount involved
has been as lite,e as five or ten c.nts
II Is fact that In one instance a
negro man stole his neighbors cedar
water bucket, worth but ten cents
and sold IT. or tradsd 1t for ten cents
worth OF beer. He was arrested. tried
and found guilty OF obtaining mon
ey By false pretenses because the
bucket was not his and h. had rep
resented falsely that II was, IN order
10 obtain the beer.
Other cases similar to this have
come uri,er the obs rvation of Sena-,
tor Campbell ami he intends TO draft
law which he hopes VIII do away
with tho present law.
II have studied the matter thor
oughly," M explained to reporter
this afternoon" ana honestly do
not believe TINT defendant should
be made 10 answer for felony
charge where the amount involved is
less than $40. in cases where they
are charged with obtain ng money BY
false preenss. do not believe that
: defendant should be made to an
swer Tor felony for stealing an oves
coat and selling It for $3.50 when
another person may go out and steal
'i.50 and have to answer only for
Deity aneny The man who sers
! stolen overcoat usually goes about
I openly, where the owner can have
a chance TO protect himself, or the
buyer either as far as that Is con
oenaed. and of the two crimes | think
'hsi man who steals the coat and sells
!; hats done less than TIE other fel-
iow.
II intend to draft measure and
present II to the legislature this win
er making the crlm1 that of petty
larceny when the amount involved
r less than $50. II 1t Is more, then
make II grand larceny or obtaining
money by false pret nees either, one
Being as serious as ehe other aai
differing N name only as far as the
penalty is concerned. | shall push
this bid aId hope TO so my efforts
work out successfully | have seen
many Of these cases In courts here
and base my opinton on personal OBJ
seryation."
Senator Canpb N will undoubted-
y receive the aid and cooperation
Of many lawyers in II.
As the law now stands man can
commit a petty tlaft say OF an, art I
10 worth a niclule, sell 1t. and be
, mt 70 tho state prison for from one
. three years 30 DC fed and Clothed
and housed at the experos of the tax
payers. While sonl other man mag
steal 1899 in money or property
Or S9s times more than the first man,
md get only few months in jail
ever more than one var in jail.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-07

I.oaden. Dec THE correspond
emit OF the Times at st. Pesersourg
says;
II am informed on excellent au-
thority that a revolt of the st, Peters
burg garrison Is certain to occur.
Newspapers prnt narrowing de
tails of whipping by order OF Gener-
al Sakaharoff OF peasants whom he
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-07
Retail Merchants Invite Chautauqua
Men Back and Promise Assist ance

The Retail Merchants Association
at its meeting last night invited
Messrs. Speed and Shaw. of Bloom
ngton, ILL.,, back to Paducah to make
arrangements for the Chautauqua
next summer.
These gentlemen were here a few
days, ago, ard laid their proposition
before the Commercial club. Chautau-
quas have been very successful in
other Kentucky cities, and the mer-
chants in Paducah have taken kindly
TO the idea. and have invited the I'LL
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-07

nois men to return and make ar
rangements for holding the Chau-
tauoua next summer.
The time, place and other details
are 10 be decided on later
The action of the merchants last
night settles the question of'whether
or not the Chautauqua Will be held
here, as the association promises the
promoters the assistance and coop
Grafton they desired and asked. The
month will be June, but the week Is
not decided on.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-07

New York. Dee Ten tams
survive in the six day bicycle race
and interest In the annual or n
scems TO inc ease. judging from tho
attendance. d dell Bros. are still
In the lead ana are likely 10 hold It
barring accidents. until the fina
struggle Saturday.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-07

Washington, ID. G. Dec. 7.--Sena-
tor Chauncey Depew, OF New York,
has rendered his resignation as di-
rector of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance society. 1t will be presented to
the board of directors at its next
meeting
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-07

ST. Paul, Mimi, Dec. IA pair OF
oysters and case of whiskey. found
In the express car, kept the passen-
gers on railroad train i'm North Da-
kota alive while the train was stalled
four days by snowdrifts. There were
sixteen passengers. in addition to the
crew, and the oysters were fried In
the most Informal way on coal show
al
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-07


Z A telegram received today by rel
atives here of Attorney Charles w.
Watts, until recently Of Smithland,
Livingston county, contained the
startling information that he was
lead at Denver, Col. At first it was
believed that the report was a mis-
AXE. but this afternoon it is an
bounced that the body has been posi-
lively identified as that of the young
Smithland attorney. and had been or
Tered shipped to Smithland for bur-
lal.
The first telegram came from Mr..
T. Moss Terry, of Louisville. who
married Miss Maggie McClelland, for
nerly OF Paducah. 1t seems that Mr..
Watts, before going west on Novem-
Der 4. secured from Mr.. Terry a let
er of introduction to someone in the
west, and this is all that was found
IN the dead man by which he could
)e identified. A telegram was sent
rom Denver to Mr.. Terry. at Louis
Vile. and he promptly notified the
young mans relatives in Smithland
md here that the letter found was
one he gave Mr.. Watts. Among the
young mans relatives here are Mrs.
William Hughes, wifs of the we'll
lnown banker. Judge William Mar
lie. and Mrs. ]. C. Flournoy.
Friends here this afternoon state
hat a message from Glen Mum. for
nerly of Marion, KY. but now of
Denver, states that the body is that
If Mr.. Watts, whom he knew ana
Identified. The remains were then or
Tered shipped home.
The deceased was well known at
.orney, and was about "A years old.
lie was son of the late Courtney
Watts, one of Livingston's most IL
ustrious men. who made a fortune
1t Liverpool. Eng, in the old Watts
Given company, which had worlds
wide reputation. While a child the
deceased had the misfortune to be
iropped by HIS nurse, and became a
ripple. His father lavished money
IN him from his infancy, and when
he became of age, sent him to Cam
bridge, England, to be educated, and
he subsequently finished his educa-
ton in Paris. France. He studied for
he priesthood, but did not enter the
ministry. instead. later studying law.
He was one of the best educated men
n the state of Kentucky. and was in
addition, quite wealthy.
When the late 4. Everett Butler
went west for his health. he was the
Democratic nominee for county at
orney in Livingston. which he re-
signed. In the primary which follow
ID Mr.. Watts was an unsuccessful
1andidate for the nomination.
He announced over month ago
that he was going to California. and
was supposed to have gone there. II
was not known that he was in Denver
md it is said his friends had not
heard from his since he left Kentue-
~. Il is now believed that he stopped
over there to see the late Mr.. Butler
who was a great friend. and whose
home at Smithland Mr.. Watts bought
when Mi. Butler went west.
The deceased was single and has a
sister in Livingston county. He died
N the Brown Palace hotel. and no
particulars of his death had been re-
ceived up to this afternoon.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-07
MANAGER BLEECKER WILL
STOP SPLITTING IN CARS.

Manager Bleecker, OF the
Street Railway company, stated
today that he intended to en-
force the anti-spitting law on
the cars. Cards are being print
ed row and will be posted In all
the street cars, calling attention
10 tine public of the law.
Some men do not think II un-
sanitary to sit in car and ex-
pectoratc all over the floor. In
many instances there are ladies
aboard and the company will
stop H.. IL Is also against the
law to spit on the platforms of
cars and Manager Bleecker is
going TO see that the law Is rig
idly enforced. This law is I'm
effect In all large cities.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-07

Tomorrow Is ID, Faas OF the Inn
maoulate Coa.S9.,cn SAD W.T. be CD
50 we'd at the st. F.1rc:s Do snrc
Catholic church by s,'-vl'les p. 7:>'
and no a. m. The Right Reverend
George McCiosky. OF Louisville. bish-
op of th,i diocese Of Kentucky. will
be here aud wiz confirm a class at
the early service,
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-07
Killed wife and Himself.

St. Louis. Mo-, Dec. 7--As the out
come of quarrel over a $4,000 in
heritance which he had transfe. ed
to his wife some time ago. Charlss
e. Bosse today shot and MORALLY
wounded his wife and killed himself.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-07
blown to ATONE BY Dynamite.

Cumberland. Md. Dec. IA blast
Of dynamite exploded prematurely
among gang of workmen on tbs
Wabash extension this morning. All
escaped except one who was blown
TO pieces.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-07

Bucyrus, o., rec, Little Paul
McKeshan OF Chatfie,d, came home
lata from school, and while sitting
at the dinner table dropped dead.
He had ruptured blood vessel while
at play. it is supposed.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-07

Omaha. Neb., Dec. District
Judge Kennedy ruled in case that
the anti-clgacette law does not pro
hibit man from rolling cigarette
for his own use. The case was in
stituted By the tobacco companies.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-07

Berlin. Dec. IA local branch of
the Russian revolutionists has re-
celved information that a reign of
terror exists at Kieff. Reports say
that drunken mobs OF roughs are kill
Ing Jewish students and middle class
reformers, According to reports, l.
500 have been killed.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-07
ovERnowERED OFFICERS.
Mob at Cleveland, Miss, Then Hang.
ed a Negro.

Cleveland. Miss. Dec. lewis
Scott. a negro. was lynched near here
last night. W1h,n warrant was
served on him for obta ming goods
by false pretenses he fired on officers.
wounding deputy. He was captur-
I'D while on his way to Cleveland A
mob ovrpowered the officers and
hanged him.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-07

st. Petersburg, Dec. MANY cit
les and banks are in precarious po-
sitlon and great financial crash
seeml imminent.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-07

Today's Cairo Bulletin says:
Wednesday afternoon Judge A.
Comings united In marriage Bert
King of Paducah, are 2s, and Miss
Flora Froelky of vineennes. H., age
rs years. W. =. {. y. ~. y. N. 81,
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-07
Attorney G. w. Watts Dies
There Very Unexpectedly.
Was Well Known and Popular Man
Identified Fully, IL Is
Said.
CAME OF PROMINENT FAMILY
DEATH FROM HEMORRHAGE.

DEATH FROM HENiORRHAGE.
The Sun this afternoon received
the following telegram:
Denver, Colo, Dec. z, 1908.
Evening sun, Paducah, Ky.
&. w. Watts, lawyer Of Smithland,
KY, found dead in hotel yesterday.
Caus:, hemorThage.
II. Il. Rollins, Coronent
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-07
Indiana Woman Waits 40 Years
for Her Husband.
Train Snowbound Four Days and Pas
scngers Lived On Oysters and
Whiskcy.
cHAuNcEy pErEw RESIGNS.

Waited 40 Years For Husband.
Terre Haut.. Ind, Dec. 7.-Ms.
Elizabeth Copeland. aged 80, is dead
at New Lebanon. For forty years
she had put a plate on the table for
the husband who desertsd her that
long ago.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-07
MUTINY IS RAMPANT
in MANY PROVINCES
Father Gopon Condemned to Die--.Rus-
sian Officer Assassinated.
Revolutionists Reported to Have Captured 10000
Rifles...C Conditions Seem to Be Worse.


was sent to pacify."
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-12-07

In Paducah and McCracken
County, more people read The
sun than any other paper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-22

millions of dollars have been eonfded to you annually-scores of millions of the nation have been turned into your coffers. With this money you have been rigging syndicates. debauching legislatures, manipulating stock markets and doing other things which will be proven later. Instead of employing the vast power and the immense wealth in- trusted to you to conserve the interests of your policy holders. you have made yourself a part of the cruel robbing ma chine which the System has created to deprive the American people of their say ings.
 Yet today you describe the investiga- ton being conducted into your operations as an impertinence you are un- repentant. unashamed and defiant. .
 One year ago, in Everybodys Mag azine, l said:
 The officers, trustees and officials of the Big Three life-insurance companies have been and are now squandering their policy holders money. They are grafters mean, contemptible grafters."
 gave specific instances of their thiev- cries.
 You replied, not by hauling me to court, but by:
 Circulating throughout the world docu- ments by the millions, disparaging my reputation by advertisements and news" and "editoral' statements from your subsidized insurance press, denying my
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-22
To John A. Mccall, President New York Life Insurance Co.

SIR: It is time your attention was called to the moral sense of the Ameri- can people. It is time you were shown yourself as you are today seen by the millions of your couuntrymen, who A month ago, believed you to be great and honorable man.
 In spite of the terrible exposures of the past few weeks, in spite of the unveiling of the jugglery, grating and corruption of your administration of the most sacred trust that can be confded to man, you remain uncon- vnced of your fall and unpenetrated by your shame, - forgetting that the ene- my against whom your maneuvers were directed was the American people. and that your character and reputa- tlon were as absolutely before the bar as though you had been indicted for se- duestration of the funds of some dead friends wife .
 You have made yourself the custodian of these funds under sacred pledge of square dealing and honest adminstra- tion. You have made yourself the na- tional executor . of the widow and the orphan. Hundreds of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-22
- -- - - -'~ -- - @- ''@f A SPORTING PARSON.
Wants to Back" His Wrestler Against
 Any Man His Weight.

From the New York Sun.
 Rev John L. Scudder, pastor of the First Congregational church of Jersey City and manager of the Peoples Pal ace announced last night that he has in Jack Harvey, the physical instructor of the Palace, 125-pound wrestler whom he is prepared to back against any man of his weight.
 When I say I will back him. said tho minister ''I don't mean to imply that any money will be put up. No bets are made here but I have the feeling and confi- dence that Harvey cen lick any 125-pound wrestler In the business. He tells me he hasn't been beaten and believe him. I am willing to give him a chance to meet any ambitious young man who wants to challenge him. A match if one is arrang- ed, will take place in the Palace. There will be no jiu-jitsu about it, only catch as-catch-can or Graeco- Roman.
 T am both boxer and wrestler my self. Wrestling is good sport the best in the world. I think l like it better than boxing because it isn't quite so rough"
 pr. Scudder has employed woman as a teacher for the Peoples Palace danc- ing classes. "She is pretty. fascinating and 20," said the minister. "She is thor oughly up-to-date and there Is none of the old-fashioned about her. The young men are joining her class rapidly. and she is going to be a great success. hired her within two minutes after she called on me for the first time"
 Last years dancing master at the Peo- ple's Palace was a man 50 years old.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-22

November issue of The Smart Set, with the title, "The Three Little Africanders."
 Little, Brown & Co. are bringing out this fall a series of books called Holiday Art Sets, which include masterpieces of literature and choicely illustrated works in sets of two volumes, handy in size and modern in price, beautifully bound in cloth, gilt, and neatly boxed. These two volumes sets are specially desirable for Christmas, wedding, and birthday gifts. The series comprises the following attractive titles: "rhe Poems of Dante Gabriel Roseti," with sixteen full-page pictures reproduced in half-tone from famous paintings by the author; Famous Actors and Actresses and Their Homes" by Gustav Kobbe, with over seventy half tone illustrations; Little Masterpieces, by Alphonse Daudet, comprising Letters From My Milr' and Monthly Tales with eight photogravure plates; 'Old Colonial Scenes and Homes," comprising Romance and Reality of the Puritan Coast" and The Pilgrim Shore," with a colored frontispiece and nearly 200 full page illustrations and vgnettes. by Ed mund H. Garrett; Pomona" by Helen Hunt Jackson, with portrait and sixteen full-page half tone pictures and numerous chapter headings and tailpieces by Henry
 
 Sienkiewicz, with photogravure frontis- pieces and twelve full-page picture in half-tone; Elizabeth and Victorian Songs, illustrated, with photogravure frontispieces. twelve full-page pictures. and numerous vignettes and head and tail-pieces, by Edmund H. Garrett: and French Painters and Painting" by Philip Gilbert Iiamerton, comprising "Contem- porary Trench Painters." and Painting in rBance After the Decline of Classic ism,' with thirty full-page photogravure plates.
 The dramtio version of The Prince Chap, by Edward Peple, has proved an extra ordinary success. The play opened on September at the Madison Square the atre, and was performed to crowded houses throughout the month. Then, on October 2 when 1t was necessary to close at this theatre to make way for the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-22

charges, attacking my character, all at the expense of your policy holders and without their approval.
 You employed James NJ. Beck, ex-As- sistant Attorney General of the United States, then and now chief attorney for Henry H. Rogers, the Standard oil Com pany, the System and the Mutual Life Insurance Company. to ridicule my ut terances and asperse my honor in ad- dresses in the cities of Philadelphia and Boston.
 You employed James H. Eckle, ex- Comptroller of the Currency of the Unit ed States now president of the Com mereial Bank and representative of the System" in the west to attack my ar guments and distort my motives in Chi cago.
 You ordered Vice President Perkins, of the New York Life Insurance Com pany to perform similar service In Phil adelphia: and
 The burden of all these documents, ad- vertisements and disguised advertise ments and addresses was: Lawson Is an unmitigated liar and scoundrel, whose sole reason for attacking the insurance companies is that we refused him in- surance."
 Today you and your fellow-punderers stand convicted in the eyes of the world, not only of juggling the moneys of the widow and the orphan in the stock mar ket, but of manipulating these trust
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-22

funds for the benefit of your own pockets. Notwithstanding the turpitude already exposed to the people, you still imagine you can so conduct yourself as to prevent the investigators from fasten- ing on you and your associates the more desperate crimes that have been commit- ted in the past-the 150 to 200 millions stolen and diverted or used In corrup- tion. '
 But you have mistaken the tempers Of your countrymen.
 have been authorized in writing by over 16,oo0 policy holders, carrying over fifty-four millions of insurance, to act for them.
 I had intended to await the finish of the the New York investigation before pro- ceeding, but as I have had placed in my hands during the past few days evil dences of the determination of yourself and your accompliees and fellow-con- spirators to face 1t out regardless of con- sequences. and as I believe men capable of committing the acts that have been proved during the past few days fully capable of taking the transportable part of the billion and quarter funds to for eign countries and using them to keep themselves from their justly deserved punishment. I have decided to act
 Thomas w. Lawson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-22

mendous falling off of new business, tre- mendous cost of new business, and the nature of the new business-so- called graveyard business" for l am credibly informed that they are now seeking to insure those who formerly have been re- fused insurance because of physical in- frmities
 IT SHOULD BE PLAINLY EVIDENT that if the policy holders move, and move quickly, they can be absolutely as- sured that:
 1st. The funds as they are today will remain intact.
 2d. They will be added to by the res titution of from S75. .000,O0O to s150,000,000. 3d. score of the thieves who have plundered policy holders in the past will be sent to prison.
 4th. The future payments of policy holders will be largely cut down. ..
 9th. The present swollen surpluses will be returned In large part to policy holders.
 9th. In the future policy holders will actually run the company.
 7th. All policy holders can be assured that in the future they will receive the actual worth of their policy at surren- der
 All this being so. it Is most eminently desirable for policy holders to act. and
 Thomas w. Lawson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-22

The first direct result is the lnvestI- gatIon now being held. Ths lnvesti- gatlon has proceeded far enough to put before the public absolute proof of all the crimes have charged, and three to thirty times as many more.
 1t Is now evident to all that:
 1st. The policy holders in the great companies have yearly paid into their company scores of millions more than necessary.
 2d. The policy holders have been rob bed of hundreds of millions.
 3d The vast funds now on hand have been habitually used by the grafters now in control of them in the rankest kind of stock gambling.
 4th. These funds have been habitually used to corrupt the ballot-box and the lawmakers of the country.
 I repeat. absolute proof of all this has been made public.
 1t should now be evident to all that: 1st The funds now on hand are in actual jeopardy, because they are in the absolute control of unprincipled scoun- drels.
 2d. Unless something is done at once by the policy holders every one of the largest companies may be- come insolvent; that is. they may not be able to meet the engagements of their policies, because of waste of funds, tre-