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The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-14
MADE
IN THE HOUSE
Half of Navy Appropriations
Are Disposed OF.
No Increased salary VIII Re Allowed
Officers of Navy-Aldrich Bill De-
bated Before House Committee.
BUREAU OF MINES APPROVED

Washington, April 14.-Unlooked
for progress was made by the house
In consideration OF the naval appro-
priation bill. When 1t was laid aside
for the day it had been one half dis
posed OF. and the advocates of tn,
four battleships proposition were
themselves in preparation for
a fight on that subject.
Hope of the officers of the navy
and marine corps for an increase III
pay were dashed to the ground when
on the point of order by Madden, OF
Illinois, the provision for such an in
crease was stricken out. On a SINH
lar point by Mudd. of Maryland, the
amendment by Bartholdt. OF Missouri.
prohibiting naval or marine bands ac-
cepting private employment in compe-
tition with civilian musicians was
lost.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-14
JOHN A. WILLIAMS
DIED LAST NIGHT
Well Known Mail Carrier Sue
cumbs to Tuberculosis
After Long Illness at Her
Home.
d. G. ADAMS OF OHIO STREET

Mr.. John Allard Williams. the pop
Iular mail carrier. died last night at
$3.50 o'clock at the residence OF his
sister, Mrs. Emma Allison, 500
Broadway, after a lingering illness of
consumption. II has been four month";
since Mr.. Williams was able TO attend
to his duties, and for four weeks he
has been confined TO his bed.
Mr.. Williams was born In Paducah
sS years ago. and lived here all his
life. After graduating from the
schools he was associated with Mr.
Joseph Biederman in business and
later with John Van Culln and Lloyd
w. Robertson. In 1893 he became n
mail carrier and made the department
a faithful and efficient employe.
Mrs. Lydia Williams. his mother.
survives. and he leaves one brother.
Mr.. Pearly Williams. OF Cairo. He
was a member OF the Masons and of
the United States Letter Carriers as
ISOLATION. Mr.. Williams carried sew
eral policies OF insurance on his life.
lie was quiet and unassuming man.
but nevertheless popular with a wide
range OF friends.
The funeral service will be held to-
morrow afternoon at the residence.
the Rev. David c. Wright officiating.
The burial viii be held in Oak Grove.
the Masons having charge of the cere-
monies.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-14
AN END TO NIGHT RIDING.

"The tide has turned and the nigh
riders are on the run in Kentucky,
says the greensboro Messenger.
with such fearless and brave cir
cuit judges as w. VI. Reed, who a
Benton a well as Paducah, powerfully
impressed his grand juries with th'
Isupreme necessity of ferreting out
these outlaws. the dastardly work OF
these marauders will soon end. In
dictments were quickly returned IN
Judge Reeds court and the indicted
mon promptly arrested and put in
jail
The good effect of his aggressive
course has already been felt in the
adjoining county of Galloway, where
eight or ten night riders have been
arrested and jailed. pending the as
sembling Of the grand jury. If Judge
Cook will be as fearness and deter
mined as Judge Reed, the disgrace
that has been brought upon Galloway
can be speedily wiped out.
at is of interest to note that of
the men arrested for night riding in
Galloway county only one seems %
be a representative citizen. One is
an ex-convict. who served a term for
ccuntedfeiting: another is also an
alleged counterfeiter: others are men
who have been arrested before for
criminal conduct: still others are
wild and irresponsible young boys.
They were not accused of visiting
upon farmers because of
on The tobacco question.
They were terrorizing their neighbors
by night because of private spites
and grievances. They were guilty Of
deviltry for deviltry's sake only
chiefly because they reveled in law
lessness.
"This IS what night riding would
lead to in any section. 1t would be-
come a cloak for evildoers to vent
their spite and spleen upon their
better neighbors. But we believe the
time has now come in Kentucky
when law-abiding men are fully
aroused to the great danger of toler-
ating this form of disorder and they
will firmly join in the determination
to put a stop to Il. Public sentiment
has been awakened TO the perils of
the night riding practices and public
sentiment will put stop TO it,
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-14
A REAL TRIBTTE.

Let no man go away from this
place and state that ! have ut
tered an unkind word of Mr..
Taft. He Is an able and dis
tinguished American citizen, who
has shown himself to be endowed
with patriotism and statesman
ship, and If he should be nomi-
mated, and my strength admits
of IT,, / shall be found fighting
his battles on the fr.Gs line
while many of those who have
traduCed me are reposing in the
shades of their luxurious homes.
Thus speaks United States Senator
elect W. 0. Bradley, and his state
nent may be accepted with the degree
of crealbllity accorded - court OF
law to a declaration against interest
Secretary of War Taft certainly is
a statesman. and just as certainly as
Senator-elect Bradley made that
he viii be called upon 10
fulfill his pledge to Taft, if he is alive
no one can question the senator's
fighting qualities, and he is making a
splandid showing for Fairbanks, con-
sidering that Mr.. Bradley is the only
man in Kentucky, who favors Mr.
Fairbanks.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-14

Mrs. Sarah Phme Iverlett Snow.
IS years old, died this morning at 4
O'Clock at her residence. G27 South
Sixth street. after long Illness. Mrs
Snow was born in Paris. France, but
she had resided In Padueah since she
was 10 years old. Mrs. Snow was
married to Fred Iverlett and after his
death. several years ago. she was mar
ried 10 Harvey Snow. She leaves two
daughters, Miss May lvorlett and Mrs
j. L. Morgan. and two sons, Fred and
Charles lverlett, employees of Louis
Clark's grocery. Mrs. Clara Waddy.
OF Smlthland. Is sister aud Leo
Lashera, OF wayerly. Tenn. IS her
brother. Mrs.. Snow was well liked
woman and had many friends. who
,griove over her death The funeral,
Will be held tomorrow afternoon al
1880 O'Clock with burial In Oak
Grove cemetery. The. Rev. NJ. T..
Dodd Will preach the funeral
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LUlTRELL DENIES
SAYS REPORT FROM MURRAY Is
ABSOLUTELY FALSE.
Well Known McCrackrn County Man
Has Not Received Any Third
Night Rider Notice.

In telephone message to The Sun
this afternoon Mr.. Theodore Lnttreil
branded as absolutely false. the story
sent out from Murray yesterday that
h. had received third warning from
the night riders, who left a, knot of
rope at his gate and the warming
This is your last message. II you do
not obey orders you win get this We
mean business" signed "Night Rid
leis."
The article In the Times continued
as follows:
AFTER receiving the third threat
Luttrell sent his wife and child to a
relatives house and since then he has
been boarding In Paducah. Prominent
farmers have advised him to move,
stating they have heard a great deal
of talk and believed the notes came
from determined men.
"Luttrell has fine farm OF forty
acres, and a coy little home com
pleted but a short time, ago. He says
as soon as he can sell he will leave the
state. Mr.. Luttrell will move to Ten
Inessee."
Mr.. Luttrell says that the only
notices he has received have been
printed in The Sun, and that the third
one was never received.
81 have stayed at home almost ev-
cry night for the last week and will
stay here unless decide to move to
Mississippi, where have on a deal
for tract of timber land for over q
year. went there to look at the
property early last fall"
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-14

Mr.. ID. c. Adams. az Ohio street.
aged 60 years. died this morning at
4:45 o'clock OF complications after a
long illness. Mr.. Adams leaves the
following children: Il. r. Adams. @
H. Adams and w. s. Adams. all OF
this city. Mr.. r. F. Adams Is clerk
at the postoiiice. He also leaves five
daughters: Mrs. Al wyatt. Mrs. Err.
nest Griffith, Mrs. Lizzie Hobbs, Mrs
Minnie Runds. The funeral process.
sion will leave the home tomorrow
morning at S O'Clock and the burial
will take place at ~ o'clock at Mt.
Pisgah cemetery, in Graves county.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-14
Car Shot on Track.

Butler, Pa, April 14.-Sixteen
workmen were injured, three proba-
bly, fatally, at Evans City in a wreck
on the Pittsburg, Harmont & New
Castle railway. Twepty-one men were
riding in coal car when the coupling
broke and the car shot down a grade
and jumped the track over an en-
bankment.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-14
THE END OF DEBOE.

Hon. A. S. Bennett, secretary,
has at the direction of the chair
mag of the state central commit
tee, called a meeting of the MEM
bers in Louisville next Wednes-
day for the purpose of consider
ing the appeal from the decision
of Chairman W. j. Deboe in
favor of. Fairbanks delegates in
the FIRST district. The ex-sena-
tor seems to be up against It.
What Chairman Ernst will do to
him will be a plenty and ii must
be as pleasant as drawing ga per
diem per day" for sleeping in
senatorial halls.
The Kentucky State Journal is
Democratic through and through, and
while it may be depended upon TO
view the Republican fractional situa-
ton with equanimity, ii cannot be
expected to do either side to the con
troversy exact justice Yet, the
truth Is that Deboe deserves every
thing the state Journal predicts for
him. No more revolutionary meth
DDS to control a convention against
the will of nearly two-thirds of the
delegations and delegates, were ever
adopted. If the plain meaning of the
rules Of the state central committed
ore to govern presiding officers Of
conventions. Deboe deliberately IL
nored the authority under which h.
was acting, and proceeded to worl
his own sweet will, anticipating thu
seating of a quorum before the oppo
eition should desert him, thus givini
him the advantage of presiding owe
a convention in fact, and casting Of
the opposition the odium of beint
boilers.
Deboe met his match. The con
yention was taken away from him
and he never for an instant preside
over a body having a quorum.
took him and his sycophants tw
hours TO find out just where they wer
dn their own estimation. Il remain
for the state central committee satul
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RIVER NEWS


With a good freight list, the DICK
Fowler pulled out for Cairo this morn
ing on the stroke OF = O'Clock. The
packet had a good trade yesterday and
on the down trip today the boat was
well loaded with cabbage for the
lower landings.
The John S. Hopkins was In ana
out for Evansville today on time.
The Joe Fowler will be the packet in
the trade tomorrow.
The Blue Spot Is In from the Tea-
nessee river with a tow OF ties.
The Bette owen was over the
river today with good trips and
brought over loads al corn and hay.
The George cowiing made her two
regular trips today from Metropolis,
and her passenger list was larger Dian
usual.
The clyde returned from Joppa last
night and will leave tomorrow even
I ing for the Tennessee river
Another drop OF O.7 was taken yes
terday by the river and this morning
at O'Clock the gauge was bare to
ass. Weather cloudy with the wind
IN the east Business was good with
the packets and produce was moving
at lively clip,
Splck and spank the t. II. Davis
pulled out for Joppa this morning
after a rebuilding on the ways. Some
painting has not been fplshed. but the
Davis looked as good as when she hit
the water for the first time.
The City OF Saltillo VIII leave st.
Louis this afternoon and will arrive
at the .wharfboat tomorrow night en-
route up the Tennessee river.
The Georgia Lee. en- route TO Mem
phis from Cincinnati, did not arrive
last night. but steamed In today.
The Little Clyde left yesterday
Afternoon for the Cumberland river
after tow OF ties.
: The Inverness. OF the Aver e. Lord
Tie company fleet. will remain at the
bank for some time. Repairs will 'be
made before the boat IS put into SER
vice again.
The Golden Rod had up steam this
morning and lett for the Tennessee
lrlver on her regular trip to the light
houses in the Fourteenth district.
The John Summers is towing logs
in the Ohio liver from about Pitts
, burg TO Cairo.
The Chattanooga will arrive late
this afternoon from the Tennessee
river on her regular trip.
! The II. w. Buttorff left yesterday
for Clarksvllle and will return tonighs
land tomorrow leave on her regular
"trip up Cumberland river.
Onicial Forecasts.
The Ohio at Evansville and Mt.
Vernon will continue falling during
the next SO hours. At Paducah, win
continue falling for several days. At
Cairo will rise about OF OF foot
more and begin to fall by tonight.
The Tennessee from Florence to
the mouth, will continue falling for
several days.
The Mississippi from below st.
Louis to above Cairo, will continue to
rise slowly during the next SO hours.
| The Wabash at Mt. Carmel. will
continue to rise slowly for "a hours.
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Livery Barn Burns at Barlow

The Moore livery barn burned al
Barlow Friday night, causing a los;
of several thousand dollars on the
vehicles and feed, but ALL the live
stock were saved The loss was par
TALLY covered by insurance.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-14
Policeman Is Shot

Chicago, April IA Policeman
James Shea was found dying with a
bullet hole through his lungs. 1t is
not known whether he was murdered
or committed suicide.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-14

For house numbers, door plates,
brass stencils, brass and aluminium
checks of all kinds, rubber type sigma.
markers. See The Diamond Stamp
Works. l15 South Third. Phone ass.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-14
Daily Thought.

To-day. whatever may annoy,
The word for me is joy, just simply
joy"
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-14

The brief session of the senate was
devoted to the transaction of routine
business and the delivery OF a speech
by Scott, of West Virginia. chairman
of the committee on buildings and
grounds. Scott appealed for adequate
appropriations for public buildings il
this city, so that official business
might be transacted with the creates,
efficiency and economy.
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YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT

Every dose makes you ieeibetter. Lax-Fo
keeps your whole insides right. soid on the
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Z POLITICAL HOODOO ON THE STUMP

weeks without missing an appointment
or railroad connection. Mr.. Bryan on
campaign made in one day sixteen
speeches between s am. and IL pm.
while travelling from Quincy to Joliet.
Ill The most exciting speech which MI
Bryan ever made was at St. Augustine
Fla, in the spring of 1897. While he was
speaking the porch on which he was
standing gave way. injuring 200 people.
including himself He will make an in
novatton in this campaign by making
each speech Mt the particular issue that
is strongest in the particular section visit
ed. instead Of declaiming issues general to
the country.
Taking lesson from the Parker Roose-
Welt quarrel over Cortelyou, on the eve Of
the last election. both campaign manag-
erS will this year be on the sharp look
out TO prevent vituperation. Few candi-
dates. however. have escaped this sort OF
weapon in past campaigns. George Wash
tngton. during one of his campaigns, was
charged with being a thief and a MUIR
derer and a New York newspaper ac-
cused him Of overdrawing his presluen-
tial salary At dinner in Alexandria,
John Randolph Of Roanoke proposed the
toast: George Washington-may he be
DID," Jackson claimed that the ISLANDERS
uttered against him during his first
campaign killed his sick wife. who
died just before his inauguration. Lin
coin was. when he ran for reelection in
AoO1, Represented ny llic OppOoiliol dS d
buffoon. libertine In speech. while Nc
Clelan was called carpet soldier" a
coward and traitor Grant was
branded as a nepotist and a confirmed
drunkard, who had turned the White
House into a dive, while Tilden was
called railroad wrecker' and black
mailer of canal thieves. while Hayes
was accused Of buying his seat with
pledges of immunity to the Ku-klux-
Khan. Garfield was flayed as a crooked
lobbyist Hancock as the tool Of Tam
many and Cleveland as a hater of Irish
men and Catholics, and one who had en-
gagged in crooked land speculations Bryan
in his earlier campaigns was called an
anarchist" and Mckinley an emperor
and SO it has gone from the first.
One of the strangest campaign ISLANDERS
of the earlier days was that circulated in
1898 against Jackson by Seba Smith a
cused Old Hickory Of being SO illterate
that he employed 20. K" as an abbre-
Walton for ION Korrect." Jackson's par
tisans not taking the trouble to deny the
charge. adopted the letters as a rallying
cry. One of the calumnies that helped
defeat Van Buren, in his campaign against
Harrison was that his son John. VINO
had been presented at the English court,
was going to marry the young queen
ing together and young Van Buren, was
contemptuously alluded to as Prince
John" which chung to him as long as he
lived. Happily. we have become more
polite in our politics than we were in
those good old days" when men ac-
tually killed each other in disputes as to
whether Andrew Jackson's martyred
wife smoked a pipe or not.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS
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angry with the candidate that a week
before election he threatened to close UP
the campaign headquarters in New York,
and was only prevented by William G.
Whitney. Blaine was arlenable TO dlscl-
pline and unwillingiy obeyed his cam
paign manager. 3. r. jones, the PittsburS
iron master. who instructed the candidate
to come east and attend the ill-adVised
-'Belsha zzars feast" of linanciers. Quay,
Harrisons manager, had a hall hired in
indianapolis where Harrison could ad-
dress visiting delegations. Only the can
Gidate was allowed upon the platform,
and he would emerge from the wings,
make q few remarks and retire So sud
denly that no amateur politician had d
chance TO utter tactleSS or blurGerin e
remark. Today printed copies OF each
candidates formal speeches are sent to
the editors throughout the country in
advance and already in type in the
newspaper composing rooms when deliv-
cred from the hustings.
Both candidates are tried tourists.
Judge Taft thinks nothing of stepping
around the world and Mr.. Bryan has trot-
ted pretty much over our little globe. In
his first campaign Mr.. Bryan covered
1900 miles and made 500 speeches. This
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the city are truly up in the air. over
the proposed idea and have taken the bit
in their teeth and are snOrting al the
majors proposal for the identification of
cr!nnals-the extension to the pawn
shops of the tingertip impression system.
The head of the police department an
nounccd the other day that he thought it
would be just the proper thing for the
police and a protection to lava bding
citizens to require keepers of pawn shops.
junk houses and secondhand dealers to
get the fingertip impressions of every
person to whom they lend money on
pledges or from whom they buy articles.
The sheets on which the impressions are
TO be made must then be sent to police
headquarters. where they Will be col
lected and filed for identification pur-
poses and used when a person charged
with theft or other crime is brought in
for the third degree"
The sign of the three balls was shak
ing nightly and creaking gloOmily in
shops were visited. where the unhappy
state of suppressed excitement disclosed
the fact that the firms doing business
were pooh-poohing. lambasting and SCOT
fling the majors new scheme
Maj. Sylvester Is Sincere.
To start out with. the major has this TO
say on the subject: THE system would
prove a successful adjunct to the service,
1 believe. in helping TO establish identi-
fication in cases where stolen property Is
disposed of in any OF the places men,
toned.
IF this system were put into practice
I believe it would act as a deterrent to
the disposal of stolen property and, IN
this way, prevent crime. or at least make
it far less profitable. 1t would be much
easier 30 trace thief who dispOses of his
booty in a pawn shop, junk house or sec
ond-hand store.
Finger print identification is used to-
day in many cases where there is no SuS-
picion OF crimirality. as in the army and
navy. and. In the same way, il could be
used as / have indicated. 1t would be as
much protection to the honest man as
means. if necessity arises, Of Identical
tion of the criminal 1t would also be a
means of protecting the pawn broker, as
the dishonest person who would like to
deal with the broker would fear speedy
arrest might follow his attempt to dis
pose of stolen property.
One of the pawnbrOkers who was APP
preached on the subject said:
MY friend this is the way of it My
client comes into my establishment and
asks me for loan, leaving a pledge as
security for the same He Is up against
il. He hands me over his diamond stud
and | examine it. Now, under the cir
Cumstances would you consider it reason
able or right for me TO produce an ink
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record however. was broken in 1900.
when Theodore Roosevelt. candidate for
Vice. President. Travelled 21,9p9 miles,
made $40 speeches. visited 561 towns and
cities and talked to 100000 people. The
record audience for a single campaign
speech was made, however. by William
Henry Harrison, who. during his cam
paisn OF 1910, addressed a crowd Of
100000 people at Dayton. Ohio. The same
year 1900 gathered around Bunker Hill
to hear Webster.
The main effort of each national chair
man viii be to awaken the voter Sweep
ing was Rooscvelt's victory four years
ago nearly two million voters failed to
cast their ballots tor any one. Each party
has opened dual headquarters in New
York and Chicago. the republicans, east
ern office being fourteen rooms on the
tenth floor of the tower of that monster
new structure. the Metropolitan Life
building. \ suite in the Hoffman House
is the eastern hanging out place of the
democrats. whose main headquarters is
at the great Auditorium Annex Hotel,
on the Chicago lake front. Here Chair
man Mack has nartitioned of for his
use the green room and palm garden.
besides leasing suite OF individual