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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24
In a Fire Which Destroyed Pre-
paratOry College.
Kenyon Military Academy Almost "a
Total Loss, and Fully Seventy
Are Hurt.
REsCUERs ARE NOW AT WORK

Gambler, o., Feb. 24.-The Kon-
yon Military academy, a college pre-
paratory school, burned this morn
ing. Four buildings were burned.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
and when discovered the building
was on fire in several places. Many
boys and teachers lost all they had.
barely escaping in their night cloth
ing.
Gambler is without fire protection
and nothing could be done to check
the flames.
1t is certain that three students
are dead beneath the ruins. They
are James J. Fuller, of Warren, o.. !;
Winfield Scott Kunlan. of Ashbuta,
o., and ]. Edward Henderson, of In
diana. officials refuse official con-
confirmation of this, but have noti-
fled parents that the boys are miss
ing.
Two students and teacher are
probably dying and three students
seriously injured and four injured to
lesser degree.
Almost every one of the seventy
five students was burned or scorched.
Rescuing parties are attempting to
penetrate the smoking ruins and
bring out the bodies of the dead, but
the piles of brick are so hot that
little progress is being made.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24
Forty Steers Burn 10 Death.

Claiming, Tex, Feb. 24.-Forty
head of beef steers were burned to
death at Matidor ranch. A bunch
of steers was being dipped in oil to
prevent Texas fever when 1t was dis
covered one was unbranded. A hot
iron was applied and the steer was
turned loose. The iron ignited the
oil and the animal was soon a mass
of flames and ran madly among the
other steers and forty persisted.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24
Many Substantial improvements
Started.

The street ear company has a big
force at work on its overhead con
struction work, renewing the span
and trolley wires all along the lines
where needed
The company's plans for the year
are general reconstruction of the
entire lines in every department, and
the work will be taken up now as
soon as advisable. The heads of the
departments have been inspecting
the system thoroughly and are maxi
ing their recommendation and the
work will be pushed to completion as
rapidly as advisable.
The company proposes TO make a
good many changes in its tracks,
cutting out some streets and adding
new ones, but has not definitely de-
cided upon this feature of their i'm
provements yet. New rails will be
laid. some of them with concrete
foundations, and the entire roadbed
put in good condition. The new cars
should arrive in a few weeks, but
the company does not intend to put
on many new cars until the roadbed
is gotten in good shape.
The gas mains are being extended
where found necessary, and the
plant being put in first-class condi-
ton.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24
There is Again Talk Of Operating the
Old Iron Furnace on South Third St.

The owners of the old iron furnace
on South Third street have what is
probably another nibble for the prop
erty.
This old plant has been Jonah"
to every one who has had anything
to do with It, and has had a remarka-
BILE career. Efforts to operate it
have always proven bad ones, and
the dreams of some Paducah people
of seeing the city. at some time. big
iron center, have had rude awaken
ings.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24
After Another Storage Contract.

Mr.. u. c Graham, of the firm of
Graham & Co., went to Murray, Cal
loway county. this morning on bust
ness. Mr.. Grahams company has
the contract to store most of the to-
bacco in this county and all Of Bal
lard and Is trying to secure a con-
tract for the storage of the leaf in
Galloway county. He estimates that
the annual output of Galloway coun-
ty will amount to 5000 hogsheads
and II he succeeds in landing the
contract, it will mean that Paducah
will have the storage of most of the
leaf in Western Kentucky, a. great
deal of the Graves county leaf be-
ing contracted for storage here.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24
To Prevent the Carrying Ont of
a Lis hting Contract.
Municipal Ownership Advocates Talk
Of Making n Dcmonstra-
ton.
MUCH INTEREST MANIFESTED

The friends of municipal owner
ship are lining up for a big fight on
the street car company's proposition
to light the city streets, and there
are evidences of some very siren
uous times ahead for the members of
tho council.
I'VE are going TO march on the
city hall, one thousand strong, at the
council meeting when this matter
comes up before IT," said Former
Mayor James NJ. Lang, who is much
opposed TO lighting contract of any
sort being made with the street car
company. "lf the council accepts
the proposition we shall take the city
hall, and all the council on our
shoulders aud march straight for the
river and dump the whole lot into
the stream"
DR.. Lang, of course, was joking,
but he Is sincere in his opposition to
the contract, Notwithstanding 1t
means a saving to the city. He
thinks he sees something Interior in
the proposition. 1--WE shall enjon
the council before we will permit the
contract TO be made,' he said today.
"and fight Il as hard as we know
how. | am surprised at the alder
man,-so surprised that could
hardly believe what | read today.
IL means we shall elect six new men
to the aldermanic board this fall. and
probably a new council"
The aldermen. however, say they
have felt the public's pulse on this
question and the people are with
them. That II is good thing for
men,-so surprised that | could
ing raised is trumped up by the may
or and his friends who are anxious to
keep the city plant In operation, as II
gives them an opportunity to build
up their political rings. and squander
the peoples money That the may
or's position on the police bill which
will cost the city over $1,000 a year
shows how very much he considers
the taxpayers interests. and that the
reckless extravagancies in the opera
ton of the electric plant. and all the
departments of the city. are evil
dences in plenty of how the gang"
would run things II ii is given fur
Their opportunities.
They are filling their organ with
examples of what other cities are
doing with their public utilities"
said an alderman today, land II
these things are done elsewhere why
are they not done here? We merely
are safeguarding the public's inter-
ests. II the city would run its de-
partments right we are heartily in
favor of her doing IL, but we can
only judge what the crowd now In
would do in the future by what 1t
has done in the past"
There is much food for reflection
in that comment. -
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24
The Flegle Roller Mills at Arl-
ingtOn Also Burn.
The Loss at the Latter Was Also
$4,000, With Partial Insur-
ance ON Plant.
FORTY STEERS BURN TO DEATH

Upton, Ky, Feb. 24.-Fire last
night caused a $4,000 loss here.
The heaviest loser is G. NJ. Dixon,
whose large new store was damaged
$4,000, with but $1,000 insurance.
The Pritchard hotel was badly
damaged.
The DR.. G. II. Turner drug store
loss is $4,000, insurance $1,000.
Mrs. T. ]. Upton's millinery store
was partly destroyed.
Drs. Turner and Riggs lost all
their instruments and library. and
there were numerous other small
losses.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24

An attorney representing some
iron interests has asked for the de-
tails about the furnace, yesterday.
and there may be something done
with it this year. The iron trade is
in a very remarkable state of pros
perity with every indication of con-
tinuance for years to come. and this
old plant may yet be converted into
hive of industry.
Paducah people hope so. but never
give expressions to those hopes any
more
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24
No Called Meeting Of the Council Will
Be Held to Consider Light Contract

The mayor will not call a special
meeting of the lower board of the
council to take up the light PROPOSE
ton.
you can say, for me, that shall
not call a special meeting of the
council to take up the street lighting
proposition of the street car compa-
NY" he said to a Sun representative
today. IL believe it is better to let
the matter rest for week,-it is
only week from Monday until a
regular meeting night of the board.
and meanwhile the people can think
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24
HAND CAUGHT IN SAW.
Albert Per1uc Loses Three Fingers
mt Little's Factory.

Albert Perdue, white, an employee
of the Little spoke factory in Little
vile, met with serious accident this
morning at 1880 o'clock. He was
working at a saw when his hand was
drawn into the teeth. Three fingers
of the right hand were taken off, He
was brought to the Office of Dr. j. ID.
Robertson who with the assistance of
DIR. w. c. Eubanks, dressed the
wounds
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24
Major Berry Dead.

News has been received here of the
death of Major Ben Berry. aged rs
vars. in the west. Major Berry for
merly lived in Kentucky and was
well known in Paducah. He was at
one time prominent tobacconist' of
New York City. He is an uncle by
marriage of Mrs. George C. Thomp-
son and Mrs. Alexander Kirkland. of
this city.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24

Business with the Wholesale houses
is very active, and collections are
good. Manufacturers report orders
coming in very well, and all the local
plants are busy.
Retail business on early spring
goods has opened up briskly and
dealers look for big spring trade.
The Retail Merchants association
will start an advertising campaign
in the neighborlng cities and towns
next week on their transportation
proposition, and expect big results
from It.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24
Woman,s Horrible Death

Fort Worth, Tex, Feb. 24.-Mrs.
John Palmer met a horrible death at
Daffan. Her charred body, in which
life was not extinct, was found in a
pile of burning hay. Her clothing
was entirely burned off and her flesh
was charred from head to foot. She
lived in agony two hours after being
discovered.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24
Weekly Exports.

Wheat, including -four exports
from the United States and Canada
for the week were $4,000 bushels,
against $4,000 this week last year;
July to date, 92.27S,O00 against
i2.509, 900 last year.
Corn receipts for the week 4,403,-
900 bushels against 3,S27 600 a year
ago. July to date S0,656.000
against AZ, 200 in 1905.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24
To Enter NlayfieItl.

The Independent Telephone Co. is
preparing to install telephone plant
at Mayfeld and j. L. Bergen, local
manager of the company. was in
Mayfield yesterday investigating the
situation.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24
SURPRISE IN BREATHITT.
Hargis and Callahan Indicted for
Murder.

Jackson, Ky, Feb. 24.zThe
Breathitt county grand jury today
indicted ex-Judge James Hargls and
Sheriff Callahan on a charge of will
fully numbering Attorney James b.
Marcum.,
b. f. French, John Smith and
John Abner were indicted as Access
series before the fact.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24
Cattle Perish On Burning Ship.

Holyhead. Eng, Feb. 2i.-The
steamer Duke, from Dublin to Man
chester, with large cargo of live
stock, put in here today afire. Heroic
efforts'were made to rescue the stock
but many animals burned to death.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24

over the proposition and the coun-
cllmen get in touch with their con-
stituents and find out what they
think of the proposition. believe
this is but fair to every one concern
ed.
Speaking for myself, am vio-
lently opposed to the proposition or
any proposition giving any private
corporation contract to light the
city streets. The city should have
her own electric plant at al 1paxards
matter"
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24

|. Ferigo, of New York. Charles
Danziger, of New York, John Hodges
of Henderson, E. II. Tandy, of Clarks
vile, and w. G. Huntington, of
Farmersville, Va, representing the
italian government tobacco interests
were at the Palmer today. They have
been through West Kentucky and
Tennessee on tour of inspection.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24
&. & q. Freight Wreck.

Maysville, KY, Feb. PA Ches-
a peake and Ohio freight train wa
ditched near here today and fifteen
cars of coal and merchandise were
wrecked. TRAFFIC was blocked twelve
hours.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24
Veteran Pilot Dead.

Louisville, Ky, Feb. 2f.-Hugh
Watson aged sixty-eight years,
Confederate soldier and veteran rives
pilot. died Of liver trouble at 6
o'clock last evening at his home here.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24
Mclxindrce school Closed.

The McKindree school, in the
county. closed yesterday and today
Prof. w. t. Harrison Is giving his
pupils big dinner and outing near
the McKindree church.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24
Weekly Bank Clcarings.

New York, Feb. 24.-Total bank
clearings compiled by Bradstreets for
the past week were s2.S41,s25, S55;
an increase OF 24.S per cent com.
pared with corresponding week last
year
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24
ASSISTANT POsTMAsTERs
viii Get Increase in Salary IL This
Bib Goes Through.

Washington, d. c.. Feb. "a
Representative Edwards today in
troduced bill to increase the sala-
rles OF assistant postmasters in first
class Offices, from fifty to G5 per cent
OF the postmaster's salary. Paducah
is one OF the flrst-class Offices which
will be affected.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24
Fire at Arlington.

Bardwell, KY, Feb. 24.--Flegle
Bros. Big Roller mills at Arlington
were destroyed by fire this morning,
loss $4,000, partly covered by in
surance.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24

Some of the customs which are
good today will darken into evil as
they are compared with the better
customs of brighter and better to-
morrow.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24
Weeks Failures.

Failures this week were 21S in
the United States against 252 last
year.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24

The average advance notice of
heaven keeps lots of people away
from IL.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24
WEEKS NEWS IN
THE COMMERCIAL WORLD.

Bank clearings this week. $5G5, 26S
Same week last year. 80. 524,329
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24

Increase ....... ........s 4O.ss9
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-24

Showers this afternoon and
tonight with cooler In west por-
ton. Sunday fair and cooler.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-29
THE wH1sTL1NG WORKMAN.

"Tis sad to puncture an old max
im," said the employer of large
number of men, "but my experience
with other men enables me to let a
little of the air of fallacy out of an
old saw which grinds out platitude
that the 'whistling workman is the
best, or that the singing cook makes
the best sauce.
"From early childhood we are
taught to place the workman who
whistles and sings at the bench or
over his work as the ideal Of his kind.
In theory perhaps this idea holds
good, hut from an experience of
thirty years in the handling of men
I will pass the whistling fellow by
for the one who does not whistle or
sing while at work. And I have
found this true in clerical pursuits as
we'll as those involving manual
labor.
"When a man is not working
whistling or singing produces GER
tain amount of mental relaxation it
denotes a certain vacancy of mind.
1t is impossible for a man to whistle
or sing if the mental faculties are at
all absorbed in work. 1t requires
mental concentration, though the
concentration may, by reason of a
perfect knowledge of the work being
turned out, have become mechanical
on the part of the workman. The
singing or the humming of a tune
produces still greater mental vacan-
cy. 1t is in these moments that
workmen make mistakes, often cost
ly ones to themselves or to their en-
ployers." !"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-29
THE CHILD AT BEDTIME.

Whatever the child's daytime
naughtiness may have been, at night
fall he should be forgiven and go to
rest with the mothers kiss on his
lips and her voice in his ear. Hard
Iy anything can be worse for young
child than to be scolded or punished
at bedtime, and to carry into its
dreams harshness or gloom. The
mother does we'll to be little blind
to some things and remember that
much childish culpability is superb
cial and washes off almost as easily as
the soil from hands and face in the
evening bath. Children should never
be allowed to carry with them in
their thought the mental suffering
which too many parents seem to
think an absolute necessity in the
careful bringing up of children. All
too soon will they have to face the
world and its sorrows. Before the
nursery brood is undressed and in
bed, the lights turned low, and the
room quieted for the night, the
mother or older sister can sweeten
their last waking moments with sto-
ries before they embark for dream
land. While the most exact and
rigid truthfulness should be practiced
in Our dealings with children, and
they should be taught to shun all
equivocation and lying, still we need
not fear to satisfy their vivid baby
imaginations with the literature oi
fairyland, says Woman Life. They
early learn to find the truth wrapped
up in the husk of the story.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-29
NEED OF POSTAL CURRENCY.

It is to be hoped that Congress
will act favorably upon the bill pre-
pared by a commission to investigate
the need for small postal currency
and provide a remedy. 1t is very
simple. 1t is proposed that the gov
ernment issue at all post Offices notes
from one to ten cents at no cost to
the purchaser, and for multiples of
ten cents up to $3.50, the change to
be very small. These will be re-
deemed on demand, and though not
a legal lender, will have all the value
of such.
The demand for some such substi-
tute is because of the loss through
sending coin in the mails and the
undesirability of mailing postage
stamps. The use of stamps has
given rise to many abuses which the
government has vainly endeavored
to correct, and, in addition, is not
satisfactory to the ordinary person.
The government will not redeem
these stamps in cash and some busi-
ness houses receive more than they
can conveniently use.
The new plan is, in many respects,
a reversion to the fractional currency
issued during the war, and known as
postal currency. These were
convenient, and the only trouble
arose from the fact that in time they
became soiled. Under the new plan
the postofice will issue these orders,
which will be convertible into coin
at any time, and ought to prove
great convenience.
It may seem a small matter to
some persons, but in the aggregate
the lack of currency to send through
the mails is one of importance.
Even at the present high cost an
astonishingly large number of postal
notes for sums less than 81 are issu-
ed.-PAila. Inquirer.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-29
TELLING AGE AND SEX By PULSE.

"The female pulse always beats
faster than the male" said a ply
sician, land from birth to death the
pulse speed steadily decreases. I
have no doubt that by the pulse alone
I could tell readily a healthy persons
age and sex. Babes at birth have a
pulse that beats 100 times minute
in the case of girls and $50 times in
the case of boys. At the age OF four
or five the pulse beats will have fall
en- respectively to no and 100.
Maidens' and youths pulses average
ninety-fve and ninety; mature wo-
mems and mems average eighty and
seventy five; elderly women's and
mems average sixty and fifty. An
old woman's pulse rarely if ever
sinks below fifty, but among old men
a pulse under fifty is fairly COM
mon."
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-29

Forth from Flora's voluminous
baggage came gowns fearfully and
wonderfully constructed from mate
rails which might just have arrived
from an Italian bazar. The hat with
the green feather was not a circum-
stance in the creations which crown
ed Flora's yellow pompadour when
she impersonated the heroine in some
glowing melodrama-and she wore
them all at Fort Smith.
On Sundays Mrs. Benton syste-
matically manufactured excuses to
remain away from service, and John,
who liked to see women garbed as
soberly as Quakers, was compelled
to sink down the aisle in the wake
of a purple gown and green and
purple velvet Gainsborough hat.
Four weeks went by and still Flora
showed no signs of an early fitting.
Mrs. Benton absolutely refused to
offer suggestions, so in moment of
desperation Benton bethought him
self of an old-time feud between his
mother and Flora, which dated back
to his and Flora's school days. He
wired his mother at once. "Need
you here Immediately; do not fail
me. And we'll did he know that the
first available train would bring the
faithful soul. At dinner that day he
casually announced that he expected
his mother that night, or the next
morning, at least.
In the afternoon Flora received
mysterious message-pre SUM bly,
Marco-which demanded her imme-
diate presence elsewhere, and by S. 80
the Benton household knew her no
more.
The next morning found John in
bed with a racking, nervous head
ache. AS Mrs. Benton waited upon
him in her quiet, restful way, he
wondered how he could have been
fool enough to fancy himself tired or
such woman. Catching her hand
and pressing his cheek against it
boyishly, he said reproachfully:
Margaret, how could you-what
made you act so, and try to keep
her 7"
With a spice of mischief in her
calm gray eyes she smoothed his
head and answered
well, you see, John, dear, had
noticed in you growing tendency
of talking in your sleep-you seemed
to have restless dreams about mys-
terious Flora, who was connected
in an odd way with cherry trees and
equally youthful things. So when I
met Flora it occurred to me that at
last / saw a way to restore your
dreamless sleep and my own peace
of mind, which, don't mind telling
you now-was fast slipping away.
L m homeopathist, you know-and
well, some poisons are their own
antidotes when given in proper guam
titles. Was 1 right, Johnl"
He kissed her hand and said:
"As you always are, darling; but
don't you think you gave me an. un-
necessarily large dose?"
She shook her head laughingly.
"You see, l didn't want to risk a
repetition"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-29
ANSWER TO A WEDDING INVITATION.

Mr.. Black regrets that he
Must impart the information
That he can't accept with glee
Mrs. Whites kind invitation.
Candidly he must avow.
Risking being thought unpleasant,
That his means do not allow
OF the purchase of present.
Mr.. Black, too, would remind
Mrs. White, without evasion.
That they've met, through Fate unkind,
Only upon one occasion.
As for the prospective bride,
Her no doubt delightful daughter,
If her form he'd ever eyed
Something he perhaps had bought her.
Mr.. Black must, therefore, state,
Taking all things in conjunction,
That he can't participate
In this fashionable function.
He IL neither millionaire
Nor a dog inclined to managers;
He's Just one who cannot spare
Charities for perfect strangers.
London Tribune.