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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-04

Brother Walton, of the State Jour
nal, has composed the following
campaign poem in honor of the Re-
publican ticket:
Sherman and Taft,
We're out for graft.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-04

Physicians at the bedside.of Bishop
Potter hold out little hope for his
recovery. The end for the venerable
prelate is near. He grows weaker
every daY.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-04

Planters Bank and Trust Co.,
trustee, sold on June Goth to F. B.
Lacy 300 acres of the Kelly home.
stead for $500 per acre.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-04

Planters Bank and Trust Co.,
trustee. on July End sold to DR.. r.
V. Ferguson, Pembroke, 247 acres
of Kelly homestead tract at $500
per acre.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-04
Death Of An Infant.

The infant son of Mr.. Ed Davis,
who resides four miles Northeast of
the city died Thursday night.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-04

Murat Halstead, foremost as a
leader of American journalism, died
in Cincinnati | Thursday, aged 70
years.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-04

WANTED-Second hand; bag and
burlap; any kind, any quantity, any
where; we pay freight. RICH
MOND BAG CO., Incorporated,
Richmond, Va,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-04

Planters Bank and Trust Co.,
trustee, on July End sold to Edgar
Bradshaw 20 acres of Kelly home
stead tract at $45. 90 per acre.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-04
JULY A 1908.
The Weather.

FOR KENTUCKY Probably
showers Saturday. Not much
change in temperature.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-04

q "A. - IN q Ia 4 a.
Bsa,, The >7The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature e U7Hzzzz0
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-04

Prof. c. H. Dietrich is spending a
a week with his family.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-04

Grape bags for sale at this office.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-28

The court recommended that the death
sentence upon Lieutenant General
Stoessel be committed to ter years i'm
~prisOnment in a fortress and that he be
excluded from the service.
For his services in the campaign
against the Boxers in 1900 Stoessel was
made a lieutenant general and sta
toned at Port Arthur, where he began
strengthening the works, little dream
ing at the time that he would be called
upon to defend the place against the as
saults of the japanese. In February,
1904, when the war broke out. Port
Arthur became the center of the con-
f1ict. Cut off by land and sea, Stoessel
and his men held out for nearly two
years before he was compelled to sur
render. At first he was given great
praise by the Russians. Emperor Mich
olasS conferred upon him the title of
aid-de-camp to the Gar and the Ger
man Emperor gave him an order. Then
his critics became busy and a commits.
| sion appointed to investigate the sur.
render recommended that Stoessel be
dismissed from the army and shot. His
trial followed. General Stoessel's sen,
tence, which is without the loss OF
rights or honor" is generally regarded
as intended to satisfy public opinion
1t is expected he will be pardoned after
a brief imprisonment.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-28
Ohio VALLEY FLOOD
CAUSES DIG DAMAGE
Rise of Several Rivers Is Reported
to Be the Highest in Many
Years.
SUFFERERS FLEE TO THE HILLS.
Boat Invades Flooded Cornfeld to
Save farmers and Stock-Sick-
ness Follows P%rivation.

The food throughout the Ohio val
ley, caused by heavy rains and melting
SHOWS, is reported to be the highest
since 1876. Lives have been lost,
homes. bridges and fences swept away.
and crops and roads ruined. Hun
dreds of families have been flood
bound in the oyerfiowed areas.
The Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio,
Wabash n smaller streams have all
contributed to the destruction which
has moved down the Mississippi to-
ward the Gulf of Mexico.
Pittsburg, perhaps, has been the
greatest sufferer from the food which
has been sweeping down the Ohio val
ley. Any one acquainted with the 10
cation of the Smoky City knows why
Pittsburg is annually, and sometimes
several times a year, a victim of high
water. The Monongahela and Ale
ShenN rivers, uniting to form the Ohio,
each flows through a narrow ravine
and when the waters of the noun
tains and highlands come down in un-
usual quantities. owing to prolonged
thaWs or persistent rains, the flood of
necessity must overflow the narrow
point between the r~avines, thus mum
dating more or less of the city.
In the vicinity of the junction of the
Ohio and Wabash rivers flood suffer
ers abandoned their homes to the rag
ing waters and fled to the hills. Here
they have been quartered in huts,
sheds and deserted buildings and as a
result of the exposure and %privation
pneumonia has become prevalent.
People along the lower Ohio River
have prepared for the siege in store
for them. Nearly a hundred families
on the Indiana side, opposite Union.
town, Ohio. were removed. The big
Ohio River steamer City of Spottsville
cut across a cornfield and brought out
several families, with 200 hogs, eighty
mules and fifty cattle. The rescued
flood victims had spent two nights in
terror and fought necessarily to keep
their stock from drowning. Residents
at Shawneetown, ILL.,, are apprehensive,
as the levee has been weakened by the
excessive rain and the three floods of
last year. A constant watch is being
kept of weak places.
The Evansville and Terre Haute
Railway Company has been anxious
about the safety of its e%mbanlSment
which parallels White River. and thou
sands of bags filed with sand have been
placed to strengthen it. This place is
now known as the BLACK Hole be-
cause of the disappearance of a train
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-28
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14oO-Richard II, King of England,
murdered.
15l9-Cortez sailed from Cuba to invade
Mexico.
16S9-William and Mary enthroned in
England.
17GO-The British warship Families,
with crew of 100, sailed from Ply
mouth on a voyage that ended in a
wreck and the loss of all on board
except two.
1763-French and Indian war ended by
treaty of Paris.
1775-Chatham presented his motion to
Parliament for Cancellation with
America.
1779-Col. Pickens, with a force of Caro-
lima militia, defeated the Tories west
of Broad river.
17S0-The British, under Sir Henry Gin
ton, began their attack on Charles
ton, S. c.
17S1-Gen. Greene abandoned North Car
olina to the British.
1S01-John Marshall appointed chief jus
tice of the United States.
1SO4-New Jersey Legislature passed an
.EE.".- dCl u lie 81 dtuul DOiitiO VI SliN
cry.
1SOS-Russia declared war against
Sweden.
1S15-Fort Boyer, Mobile, surrendered to
the British.
1s1s-Congress Of Aix-la-Chapelle open
ed.
1S44EWilliam Williams of Pennsylvania
became Secretary of War.
1S5s-President ordered dispersion Of
armed invaders of Kansas.
ls63-Federal prisoners first confined al
Andersonville, Ga.
1S67--A civil service reform measure in
PRODUCED in the House of Represent
atives.
disqualification of King Amadeus o.
Spain and proclamation Of a repub
lie.
1S76-First telephone patent granted t.
Alexander Graham Bell.
1ST9-Chair of the Senate occupied fol
the first time by a negro Senator
Blanche *. Bruce of Mississippi.
House appointed a committee to in
vestigate alleged purchase of presi
Dental electors III Behalf of Samue
j. Tilden.
1SS9-Great fire at Brandon, Man.,
Constitution Of Japan proclaimed.
1s9O-University buildings at Toront,
burned.
1S95-Chinese fleet surrendered to tn
Japanese.
1S9S-United States battleship Main
blown up in Havana harbor, witt
loss of 28O lives.
1S99-President Mckinley signed TIL
peace treaty with Spain.
19OO-Relief of Kimberley by Gen
French.
Observation-Disclosures alliance announced
19O3-Great demonstration Of London
unemployed in Trafalgar square.
19O5-Northwestern States swept by q
we're blizzard.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-28
Hot and sultry.
WESTINGHOUSE HEIRS.
Discovery of Ohio Property Brings
5000 of Them to Light.

~ $500
5000 of Them to Light.
Over 5000 heirs-at-iaw of George
Washington, father OF his country, yet
Il childless man, have recently been
found in different parts of the United
States through the recent discovery
thai there is Il large tract of lane in
Ohio which belongs to the first Presi-
dent of the United States, having been
decided to him many years ago.
These heirs, through Lawrence
Washington, who has a position in the
Congressional Library at Washington.
are preparing to make a fight for the
property. Should they succeed through
the courts, they will very probably
deed the land back TO the State OF
Ohio for a big national park to be
known as Washington Park.
OF all these 5000 heirs of the collat-
eral branch of the family, the descend
ants of the four brothers and two Sis
ters, there is one who has the double
distinction of being a descendant Of the
immortal George on both his fathers
and his mothers side. This is George
Steptoe Washington, a merchant OF
Philadelphia. On his mothers side he
is descended from Colonial Samuel
Washington, the oldest of Georges
brothers, and on his fathers side, he
is a descendant of John Augustine, the
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-28
A RAGING BLIZZARD
SWEEPS THE COUNTRY
HowIer Starts Down in the South
west and psrs!yzes Railroad
Traffic in Its Path.
ENTIRE WEST IS STORM BOUND.
Chicago Has Greatest One-Day Snow
fall in City's History-Several
Lives Are Lost.

The worst blizzard in the weather
history of Chicago, according to the
records of the weather bureau, swept
over the city Tuesday. The storm was
general all over the West, extending
over Missouri, Arkansas, Nebraska,
Iowa, Wisconsin and the northern por-
ton of Illinois. Traffic on the railroads
was severely impeded and or some
lines made impossible by the huge
drifts of snow. A number Of lives were
lost while the storm was raging Ito
worst, and other fatalities were report
ed as due to the severity Of the bliz-
card. Railroad traffic for a time was
practically abandoned in parts Of tich-
igan, Wisconsin. Minnesota, the Dako-
tas, Iowa. Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri,
Illinois and Arkansas. The floods in
southern Indiana and Ohio and Ken
lucky have been greatly augmented.
The blizzard was felt throughout the
entire middle West, the storm delaying
trains, interfering with telegraph ser
vice, and, in some places, cutting of all
traffic. The storm centers seemed to
be In Nebraska and central Illinois,
where the downfall of snow reached u
depth Of fourteen inches on the level
and was piled in deep drifts by the
high winds which accompanied the
snow.
All train traffic in Nebraska was -
riously affected. The Chicage-Denve1
express, west bound, on the Rock Isl.
and road, was stalled in a drift near
Prairie Home, ten miles from Lincoln.
The east bound Rock Island passenger
was tied up in the Lincoln yards.
The central Illinois towns were plac-
ed in the grip of the blizzard, and the
network Of i%nterurban ines which trav-
erse that section were practically put
out of business for a time. The drifts
were extremely deep on all Of the coun-
try roads and the rural mail service
was badly crippled for a few days, al
the drivers found 1t practically impos-
sible to get over their routes.
When the blizzard abated In the
States west of the Mississippi, further
discomfort was in store for the inhab.
itants, as the temperature, which wag
near the freezing point during tht
sterm, dropped rapidly, while the high
winds continued in force.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-28
Mlncement.

Boil two pounds of lean beef and
ret aside to cool. Chop very fine.
Mlnce a pound of suet, rejecting all
Rhreds and strings. Peel and chop five
pounds of apples. Seed and halve two
pounds of raisins. Wash carefully two
pounds Of cleaned currants and sub
init a pound of Sultana ralsins to the
same process. Cut into tiny dice three
quarters of a pound Of citron. Put
all these ingredients together, adding,
as you do SO, a tablespoonful each Of
spice and cloves, two tablespoonfuls
each of mace and cinnamon, a tea
spoonful of ground nutmeg, a table
spoonful of salt and two and one-half
pounds of brown sugar. Pack down in
a stone crock for several weeks before
making into pies.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-28
Rain and Warmer.
JACKIEs AS TARGETS.
Remarkable Test to Be Made by
Navy Department.

. 70 r." w.. a.
The Navy Department has under con-
sideration the most startling tests of
the penetrating power of shells, dan
ger to life, and the resisting power of
armor that ever has been tried in any
navy. The proposition is to have the
monitor Arkansas fire a Pinch shell
weighing $50 pounds from a Cotton gun
a distance of two miles and have it
| strike the turret of a sister ship, the
Florida, which is being placed in read
mess for the trial.
The astounding part of the test is the
proposition to have in the turret of
the Florida at the time of the impact
the full turret complement of twelve
men. All paper figures, all statistics
so far as weight of metal thrown, heat
generated by impact, resisting power of
armOr. and other details would indi-
cate that the men in the turret would
come out unscathed except for the
shock. OF course, there is no record
in existence of a monitor, the turret
protected by an 11-inch armor belt, be-
ing struck plump by 13-inch shells of
$50 pounds weight. All figures are
purely theoretical.
The possibility Of missing is indef-
nitely small. All shots are now fred
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-28

from a geometrical deduction and with
machine precision. The shell will
doubtless land just where aimed for,
and then if the theory of the naval
experts holds good, it will be detected
and the turret left uninjured.
Naval attaches from all parts Of the
world are a~nXiously scrambling for an
opportunity to witness it, but the de-
partment has declined all applications I;
in fact, it is said the test will be made
far out al sea, so that observations and
deduction by foreign powers cannot be
made. The chiefs in charge of the
work to be performed by these two
monitors have been instructed by the
Board of Officers in charge of the ex-
pertinent to say nothing to the press,
and the result is to be kept solely for
the information of the United States
navy.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-28

youngest of the Washington brothers.
He was born on the ancestral estate of
Hardwood. in Jefferson County, West
Virginia, the birthplace of his mother,
which was built Jointly by George and
Samuel Washington.
1t was by act Of Congress that the
gift of the Ohio property was made to
the first President of the United States.
Whether or not he accepted it, or, if
he did. to what use he put it, is not
known by the Philadelphia descend
ant but he does know that the estate
is very valuable now and would make
Il magnificent site for a mammoth
marx.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-28

Representative Hobsen introduced Z
bill "to provide a navy adequate for ma.
tional defense"
The Mississippi Legislature electsS
John Sharp Williams, minority leader n
the House, to the United States Senate.
Secretary Taft made it plain, in hia
speech before the Young Republicans AZ
Kansas City, Mo-, that he approved most
heartily of the recent special message Of
the President.
Attorney General Jackson Of New York
State, commenting on his experienced
when investigating embarrassed banks,
says: II never met SO many men who
ought to be in Jail"
William j. Bryan, speaking at Dan.
vile, H., declared it his belief that Jo'
seph G.. Cannon would be the Republican
candidate for President and that he him.
self would oppose Mr.. Cannon.
Three miles of signatures, representing
the desire of some 10000 voters to pass
upon the merits of the Sunday saloon
question, have insured the appearance Of
a little ballot bearing this question at the
spring election in Chicago.
Frank S. Black, former Ex-Governor Of
New York, in a speech before the Home
Market Protection Club at Boston, with.
out the direct mention Of names, denounc
ed in the most emphatic manner the poll.
cies Of the present administration n the
influences in control of the Republican
party.
Congressman Robert G. Cousins Of the
Fifth low district, chairman of the
House committee on foreign affairs, has
.---n.o1 <Jot 1o will not he a on ndis
date for denomination. He has been IN
Congress sixteen years. Cousins says that
he has opportunities to do something fol
himself and he has accepted them.
The committee in charge of the plans
for the Republican national convention
at Chicago next June have practically
completed arrangements for the big meet
ing. The convention will assemble in the
| Coliseum, the scene of many historic gath
erings, which was designed and erected
with special reference to the needs OF
political convention.
The aggressive New York advocates ol
the candidacy of Gov. Hughes for Presi
dent have now formed the Hughes League
Of the United States, much on the plar
of the Independence League, witt
branches in every State.
Every county in Ohio went for Taft II
the Republican primaries called for thu
express purpose, Of determining the party
choice for President, the election beard'
certifying the Taft delegates elected with
out opposition in counties where pri
maries were not held. In only two coun
ties did Foraker men put up candidates
and these were defeated.
e. Benjamin Andrews, chancellor o
Nebraska university, who has favored tn
nomination of Gov. Hughes for President
has transferred his preference to Secre
tary Taft. DR.. Andrews says he be
lieves that Taft and Bryan will be nom
mated by their respective parties.
In his maiden speech in the House
Mr.. Kimball of Kentucky, with Henr.
Watterson seated by his side, predicted
Democratic success all along the line =
the next election. Bryan, he said, woul,
be President, Champ Clark Of Missouri
Speaker Of the House, Henry Watte1soz
Secretary of the Treasury, and MI. "
Almond of Missouri the floor leader.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-28
NUBBINs OF FARM NEWS.

4- y - VIC
The Oregon potato yield is twice a.
is good.
The broomcorn crop of Texas county,
Okla, alone will bring the farmers 0
00e this year.
T~uberculous hogs nave been marketed
In La Crosse and consumed there, accord
ing to DR.. Fl. Roome, United States meat
inspector.
Exhibits from many States were pres
emit at the Minnesota Fanciers' poultry
show in St. Paul. The class of birds
was finer than ever before shown in Min
nesota.
Timothy hay has sold in Chicago this
season at $21 per ton, the highest price
ever paid there. The scarcity is due more
to q shortage in cars than q shortage Of
the crop.
The Minnesota grain inspection depart
ment reports that more than 20 per cent
Of all wheat inspected by the State grain
inspection department for the crop year
ending Aug. 81, 1907, graded No. 2 or
better.
A band of $4,000 sheep were driven
from Roswell, N. NJ, to feeding grounds
in Southern Arizona. They cleared of
the vegetation of a strip a mile wide clean
as a whistle in their progress through tho
country.
J. C. Dellman of Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
has bought 1900 acres Of land near Fall
furris, Texas, upon which he will estab-
lish a colony operated as a cooperative
The land will be owned in
common and the labor will be equally di-
vided.
G. C. Walker, a stock shipper of How
ard county, No., who has been in Jail in
the City of Mexico nearly two years,
charged with disfiguring forty mich cows
by striking them with a knife, has been
sentenced to serve four years in a Next
can prison.
The Minnesota State drainage board
has instructed Engineer Ralph to make
SURVEYS for two bitches in Aitkin county
which will drain 25,000 acres of State
swamp land and at the same time allow
the construction of a railroad from Hill
City, on the Willow river, to Missis sippi
Landing, on the Mississippi river.
The longest continuous shipment Of
horses made in America ended at Pull.
man, Wash, where a consignment of ami.
mails from England had been on board
ship and express car fifteen days.
J.. J.. Howard of Bellevue. Kau., ha,
brought suit for $1,000 against the Amer.
lean Express Company for the death OF 8
hog while being shipped from the lows
State fair grounds to Lincoln, Neb.
The National Association of Agricul
tural Implement Manufacturers, having {
short time ago announced a rise in prices
now says the terms of credit will be short
ened, the limit being from sixty to ninet.
days.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-28
NEWS NOTES.

muda, benefited in health.
A block of business houses at Tarpor
Springs, Fla. was destroyed by fire
causing a loss of $4,000.
Death or life imprisonment for confirm.
ed criminals is favored by ex-Judge Chas
S. Whitman of New York.
At the annual convention of the Ma.
tional Gamers Association at Cincinnati
it was decided to hold next years conven.
ton in Chicago in connection with a hugo
exhibition of canned goods at the Coli.
scum.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-28
some ears ago. All efforts to fill this
hole have been futile,

some years ago. All efforts to fill this
hole have been futile.
AS a result of the heavy snowstorm
traffic has been greatly impeded and
telegraph and telephone service Grip
pied. Dispatches tell of several trains
being snow-bound for many hours. The
area of the storm is large, extending
from Texas to the northern boundary
of the country, and east from Denver
to New York. In several sections the
snow is more than a foot deep on the
level. Stock is reported suffering in
the Western States and the loss is ex-
pected to be heavy. Drifts have made
travel over country roads in wagons
impossible in many places.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-28
S7OESSEL FOUND GUILTY
Sentenced to Die for Surrender of
Port Arthur, but Imprisonment
Is Recommended.
HELD COWARD AND TRAITOR.
General Fock Reprimanded and
Smirnof and Reiss Acquitted
After Trial.

At st. Petersburg Lieutenant General
Stoessel was condemned to death by a
military court for the surrender of
Port Arthur to the japanese. General
Siberian division of Port Arthur, was
ordered reprimanded for a disciplinary
offense which was not connected with
the surrender, and General Smirnoff,
acting commander of the fortress, and
Major General Reiss, chief of staff to
General Stoessel, were acquitted of the
charges against them for lack of proof.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-28
No Demand a. Locomotfyes.

The Cooke and Rogers branches of the
American Locomotive Works at Paterson,
n. j., have recently laid off several Jun
dred more men, so hat of the 5000 Or
dinarily employed at these plants, only
half are now working, and these are
mainly engaged in making repairs to old
locomotives. The reason given at both
shops is that no orders for new locomo-
tives are coming in, either from domestic
or foreign railroads.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-28
Tho proceedings of the government
looking to the dissolution of the Standard

The proceedings of the government
looking TO the dissolution of the Standard
Oil Company were continued before Judge
Ferriss at st. Louis. E. Dana Durand
testified that in the case of the Chicago
and Eastern Illinois Railroad shipments
of oil were way billed at II cents per hun
bred pounds, while part of such shipments
were carried at SA cents per hundred,
and part at 6 cents per hundred. All of
the testimony brought out by Mr.. kellogg,
counsel for the government, was designed
to show that the Standard was enabled
to obtain a monopoly of the petroleum
business through a system of secret re-
bates paid by the railroads,