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The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-28
Funds, Intended for Compromise
Of Birmingham Night Rider Suits,
Attached by Plaintiffs in Bank
MYLES TO SPEAK.

& Tom Myles, formerly a grader
i'm the Dark Tobacco association,
has announced that he win
speak in Paducah next Satur-
Z day afternoon at the court house
at I O'Clock. His speech will
( deal with the alleged bad deals
in the association, and he says
4 he will explain how the farmers
4 of this section OF Kentucky were
( made losers OF a million dollars.
: Myles spoke at MayfleId Satur-
Z day and had n large audience.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-28
Former Editor of Mineworkers'
Journal Declares That He Wrote
the Article Attributed to Mitchell
BENEVOLENT TRUST.

New York. Dec. 2S.--John ID.
Rockefeller In his latest maya
zine article suggests the cstab-
lishment OF benevolent trust.
He says IL is the only way 10 ac-
complish real charity. He pre-
diets millionaires would give
freely TO such an institution.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-28
Evacuation OF Cuba

Havana. Dec. 2S.-New Years
Day will witness the beginning of the
evacuation of Cuba by the army of
pacification, which has been in pos
session of the island since the begin
ming of the provisional government
in October, 1906.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-28

ing when the business man will
offer his experience against the
workman's skill and work with
complete cooperation.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-28
NO BAIL GRANTED
MEN WHO KILLED
SENATOR CARMACK

Nashville, Dec. 2S.-Judge Hart
refused bail for Colonel Cooper ano
his son, Robin, and John Sharp, who
are charged with Carmack's murder.
He decided it is not bailable case.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-28
Caulkers Elect

At a regular meeting of the SHIP
Caulkers' local. No. 80. the follow.
ing we're elected for the coming
year: President. Charles McCarty;
v!ce-presldent, Wesley Swatts: treas
urer. Joe Fsrris; financial secretar,
Ralph Halfhill; recording secretary
l. Ward; guide, Sam Hooks; ser
geant-at-arms, Pete Yates.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-28

A hole has been bored in Silesia
to a depth of 1000 feet.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-14
Thousands Of the Chinese Were
Overwhelmed by Great Tidal
Wave and Drowned.
SLEEPING IN SMALL BOATS
Caught Like Rats in a Trap Escape
Was Utterly Impossibls.-Dis-
aster Worst in History Of
Celestial Empire,

Seattle, Wash. May 14.-News of
one of the greatest disasters China
has ever known, a sudden tidal wave
in the Yangtse Kiang. which inyolv-
ed a loss of nearly 10, 900 lives at
Hankow, was brought by the steam
er Hitan, which arrived Tuesday
night.
The wave was twenty-siX feet in
height and flooded without warn
ing down the river, overturned
thousands of junks, sampans and
small boats and wrecking some large
river steamers,
Some 8 900 Chinese were sleeping
in sampans and upon small craft and
in mat sheds and huts by the river
side at Hankow and they were en-
veloped by the great wave, which
swept the broken junks, splintered
sampans and heterogeneous mass
of debris, mixed with swarms OF
drowned Chinese, before it.
The scenes for many days after
the disaster were horrible, the riTer
banks being strewn with dead and
the debris of wrecked craft for many
miles.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-14
Mistress of the Indiana Murder
Farm Had Aids in Secur-
ing Her Victims.
LAMPHERE IS STILL MUM
Man Charged With Murder Of Bella
Guinness and Children Has Not
Made Confession.-Rain
Hampers Work.

Laporte, Ind, May 14.-Dsnials
by Laporte officials that Rev. DR.. e.
A. Schell had revealed to them the
substance of his conversations with
Lamphere and the discovery of evi-
dence that Mrs. Bella Guinness was
aided by an accomplice in Turing her
victims to the farm, were the chief
developments in the case yesterday,
The denials came from DR.. G. S.
Mack, coroner; A. f. Smulzer, sher-
if, and R. n. Smith, prosecuting at
zorney. In addition, H. W. Worden,
attorney for the prisoner, issued a
formal statement that he had given
his client strict injunctions to not
discuss the charges against him, and
concluding:
''The fact is that Lamphere has
neversmade a confession to anyone
and never will He has nothing tc
confess.
The evidence regarding the aids o1
Mrs. Guinness came in letter from
a resident of Cleveland, addressed
to the local chief of police, Clinton
Cochrane. 1t told of the writer hav
ing met stranger in that city last
August who gave him photograph
of a rich widow who resided in La
porte" and tried to persuade him tt
come here to see the woman. Th'
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-14

photograph is a fairly good likeness
of Mrs. Guinness and was evidently
taken some time ago.
Other developments in the case
yesterday were:
Thomas Blackburn of Amboy, Ind.
was discovered to be the man whom
Ray Lamphere said he saw on the
Guenther road on the morning of
the fire. Blackburn was accompanied
by his wife and son. The time of his
departure from the home of a rela-
tive showed that the meeting must
have occurred about 80 o'clock.
Louis Schultze, the miner who is
sluicing the ashes and cinders from
the cellar of the Guinness house,
turned over to Sheriff Smulzer a
number of pieces of fused metal
which he had found in the sluice
box. Several of these relics are glob-
ular and are believed to be bits OF
gold. .--'~--'-'
A new witness regarding Mrs
Guinness fear for Lamphere was
found yesterday. Bertha Shuttle,
clerk in a local dry goods store, said
that the woman was in the store
several days before the fire and told
her she was afraid that Lamphere
would set fire to the farm house
Mrs. Schultze, it is said, will repeat
this conversation before the grane
jury.
Sheriff <Smulzer's Investigations
were again hampered by rain yester-
| day
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-14
AMERICANS BREAK ALL RECORDS
Evans Says Report on Marksmar-
ship VIII Cause Sensation.

Chicago, H., May 14.-That the
world will be given the greatest SEN
sation concerning naval matters that
it has had for many years, if the
secret report submitted to Secretary
Metcalf of the target practice in
Magdalena Bay is made public, is
the statement made by Rear Admiral
Robley D. Evans.
Rear Admiral Evans declared
that the record in straight shooting
made by the men of his command
has shattered ali records existent,
whether of the American, British,
French, Japanese, German or any
other nation.
'If that report is given out, said
the Admiral, "and | believe it should
be, it will cause the most profound
sensation in naval and, consequently
in political circles, that the world
! has had for long time.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-14
MURDER CASE AGAIN POSTPONED
Judge Nelms Of Dallas Sets Mc-Cue S
Hearing for July 27.

Dallas, Texas, May 1.-THE case
of Frank McCue, charged with the
murder of Earl Mabry, was called
for trial at O'Clock yesterday af-
ternoon and postponed by Judge
Nelms until July 27. The postpone
ment was made under the agreement
of both parties to the case. Judge
Nelms announced that he would not
go into trial otsthe case while the
, decisions affecting the new jury
law were pending in the court OF
criminal appeals.
Frank McCues department in the
county Jail and his appearance il
| the court room are such as to create
| much sympathy for the prisoner
! McCue is always tastefully dressed
lend Jailer Reedy reports that he has
Ybeen model prisoner
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-14
ROOSTER LEARNS TO SWIM.
Hatched With Ducks, He Takes His
Daily kath

Athol, Mass, May 1.-THE IA
vorite brown Leghorn rooster of Dr..
David G. Coolidge possesses the re-
markahle accomplishments of being
able to swim and to balance himself
on his tail.
The rooster, which is exceedingly
proud Of his amphibious attain
ments, daily struts to the water s
edge, accompanied by an awe-strick-
en- retinue of hens who watch him
take his bath. The explanation OF
the ROSTERS ability to swim is said
to be that he was brooded with
ducklings.
Dr. Coolidge will take pleasure il
showing the Rooster to any doubtins
/ nature faker.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-14
TRAIN RUNS INTO 4 WAsHOU7
Express Messenger Caught Under Car
and Is Likely to Die.

Greenville, Texas, May 1.-THE
Greenville and Shreveport passenger
train leaving here at II O'Clock
Tuesday night was wrecked on ac-
count of q washout a short distance
this side of Karnac Switch, east of
jefferson. The baggage car turned
over and Frank Blalock, the express
messenger was caught in the wreck
and remained there from a. m. to
l p. M, it is reported. His foot was
cut off and leg fractured. Fireman
Bill Dix sustained fracture of the
leg and one foot was crushed. En-
gineer John Redmon was injured
but the extent of his injuries Is not
known. Several miles of track were
washed away and it is reported q
physician had TO be carried seven
miles in a boat to get to the injured
men, all of whom live in Greenville
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-14
CURRENT WIRE KILLS SNAKES
Farmers Are Indignant as 1t Also
Damages Their Crops.

Waterbury, Conn. May IA
Farmers along the line of the big
current wire which runs from Bull
Ridge to Waterbury assert that the
electric current is damaging mead
oWs and crops. The farmers sold
only the right to cross the land with
the poles, and they threaten to hold
the company liable for damages.
They say that last year thousands
OF moles, frogs, mice and snakes
were killed by the current.
During the thunderstorms at night
the current throws out rainbows of
ever changing colors so intensely
brilliant the naked eye is taxed Sc
verely to gaze for more than a sec
ond on them. Trees are dead near
these displays and the earth is
scorched as If by volcanic lava.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-14
GENERAL STORM
OVER THE STATE
The Destroying Elements Join
Forces in the Wreaking Of
Great Destruction.
| THREE CHILDREN DROWNED
Mother in Leading Little Ones to a
Place OF Safety Narrowly Es-
capes.-Trains DELAYED
by Washouts.

The destroying elements joined
forces over a large section of Texas
yesterday, leaving death, desolation
and destruction behind them. Tor
rental downpours of rain are re-
ported from hundreds of places,
Railroad and wagon bridges have
been put out of commission by the
score. Streams have swollen beyand
their natural bounds and the racing
and raging waters have wrought
destruction to thousands upon thous-
ands Of dollars worth of growing
crops The wind and the lightning
have added to the destruction. Cy-
clonic conditions have resulted in
large numbers of people being MAIN
| ed.
| Portions OF Texas. Oklahoma and
| Louisiana swept by wind and rain,
and reporting property damage by
flood, as well as loss OF lite in
storms and by lightning, show the
! following brief facts:
Three children of d. L. Bullock,
swept down a ravine with their mo-
ther, drown while trying to escape
storm which struck house. mother
narrowly escaping, near Reynolds, in
the vicinity of Jacksonville.
Baptists from Texas points en-
route to Southern convention at Hot
Springs delayed by two washouts.
Mrs. Tate of Duncan, Ok, return
ed to her home from the storm Gel
lar to save pet dog and was prob
ably fatally hurt by the fury of the
wind
Paris reports the streams of La
mar county swollen, train service
interrupted, damage to property
from wind, but none killed, so fal
as known sup to a late hour.
Red river overflows three miles
north of Shreveport, La, washed
bodies down stream from a negro
cemetery.
Tyler reports that truck growers
in Smith county are facing loss into
and Great Northern railroad aban
dons train service for the day be
cause of washouts; trains expected
to run today.
At Hardin, near Shawnee Ok.
WI .. w. II. DIoN may ule DIS IeSul
of lightning striking her during
storm; property damage in that Vi
cinity about $4,000.
Marshall reports many we'll known
artificial lakes ruined because flood
caused destruction of embankments
city water plant crippled; farmer
suffer untold damage.
Waco reports Brazos river ha
risen fifteen feet, after the two-incl
rain.
Bolton reports twelve Mexican
said to have been killed by lightnin
near Brookhaven.
}. e. Wallis seriously hurt at Cal
lis, near Leonard property los
there heavy, amount not estimated
store and schoolhouse wrecked a
Valley Creek, near Leonard.
Property loss at Grand Prairi
$500
/ Hail devastated the cotton Gro
about Clinton, Hunt county.
| Negro killed by lightning at Ney
land, Hunt county.
Texas Pacific, Santa Fe and Inter
national and Great Northern trail
service out of commission by flood
causing washouts near Longview.
Mrs. lrby Kenchen and Mrs. Rub
Holland injured in windstorm nea
Terrell; pupils falling into waite
barely escape with their lives
Gillian, Mooringsport and OF
City, La, damaged by storm; man,
lives reported lost; communication
interrupted; reports vague, meager
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-14
CUT Of 3 CENTS IN CRUDE OIL
The Texas Company Posts a New
Schedule Of Oil Prices

Houston, Tex, May 1.-THE Tex
as Company has posted new sched-
ule of crude oil prices at the general
Offices in Houston, and they are now
effective. The prices prevail at the
wells in the various Texas and
Louisiana fields. The last quotation
was made on April 20.
The new prices constitute a
straight cut of Sc a barrel in the
various fields, and are as follows:
Sour Lake Csc, Saratoga Gle, Hum
BILE 62c, Jennings SIC, Shreveport
.55c
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-14
STUART TO SPEAK.
Evangelist VIII Address Citizens Of
Waxahachie Saturday.

A mass meeting in the interest of
state prohibition will be held at the
courthouse Saturday afternoon at 3
clock The meeting is for men
only and an address will be deliver
ed by Rev. George Stuart, the we'll
known evangelist. Mr.. Stuart is
making number of speeches in the
state in the interest of the prohibit
ton movement. The citizens of Ellis
county are invited to hear him at
! this place Saturday afternoon.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-14
TWO ARE INJURED IN RUNAWAY
Horse, Frightened by Auto, Throws
Occupants from Buggy.

Joshua, Tex, May 14.--J. w. Dog
gett and wife, living about seven
miles northwest of this place, while
returning home from here in bug
gy, met an automobile. The horse be-
came frightened and ran away,
throwing both out of the buggy and
seriously hurting them, Mrs. Dog
gett's right arm being crushed and
she was also hurt internally. She was
taken to Cleburne to a sanitarium
for treatment.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-14
ELLIS COUNTY REPORTS.
Lightning Strikes the School Build
ing at Little Town Of Royce.

A very heavy rain fell at Boyce
Tuesday afternoon and the worst
electrical storm in some time accom-
panied it.
Lightning struck the school build
ing about 3 O'Clock, doing consider
able damage.
The teacher had dismissed the
children on account of the threaten
ing cloud, for them to find safer
quarters. They had been away from
the building about thirty minutes
when it was struck. This is the
THIRD time the building has been
|struck by lightning in the last four
years.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-14
TMenty-tMO for Johnson.

St Paul. Mimi, May 14.-All of
Minnesota's delegates to the demo-
cratic convention at Denver, twenty
two in number, will be selected at
today's state convention, which was
called to order at the auditorium at
10 O'Clock this morning Great en-
thusiasm for Governor Johnson
marked the assemblage of the dele
gates and it is certain that the en-
tire delegation will be instructed in
his favor
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-14
BECOsii., MISSIONARY.
Miss Richmond of Ennis Is To BE
Seat to Brazil

who will gRl1aate this spring IN The the
Searritt Missionary Training school
in Kansas City, has written her par
ents that the board of foreign mis-
sions has appointed her to a mission
field in Brazil. She expects to go to
that far away country next fall to
enter upon her life work Miss
Richmond is a splendid young chris
tian woman and the people of Ennis,
her native home, will always feel a
deep interest in her welfare
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-14
Taft in Washington.

Spokane, Wash. May Wash
lngton republicans will affiX their 0.
*. to the Taft candidacy at the con-
yention here today of the state and
the three congressional districts
There is practically no opposition
to the instruction of the delegates
for Taft.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-14
City Clerks Organize.

Schenectady, n. Y, May 14.-The
Association of City Clerks of the
state of New York will be organized
as the result of a meeting commen-
ced here today, at which large
proportion of the cities and towns of
the state are represented. Today was
occupied with the reception and en-
tertainment of the visitors, and the
first business meeting will be held
tomorrow,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-14

The heaviest rain of the year fell
at Italy Tuesday night and We'd
nesday the city was visited by a ter
rible rain and electric storm The
public school building was struck
by lightning but no damage was
done, Some rain was needed, but
too much has fallen.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-14
Oreuan RenuhiiCan..

Ft1ttaud, Ore. May 14-Replbli-
can conventions of the first and sec
ond districts and the state conven-
tton to choose delegates at large to
Chicago met here today, Delegations
pledged to Taft will be chosen.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-14

washington, May l4.-Rear Ad-
miral Charles Whiteside Rae, engin-
eer in chief of the navy of the bur
eau of steam navigation department
died at his home here last night
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-14

last one in the rear Very little dam.
age resulted from either stroke
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-11-09
POLO SKATING
LEAGUE IN VIEW
Winchester and Other Central Ken
lucky Kinks to Be In the
Circuit.

Mr.. r. S. Scobee, manager of the
Auditorium Skating Rink, received n
letter Saturday afternoon from Mr..
Bush Van Arsdale, manager of the
Mammoth Skating Rink at Lexington
asking him TO come to Lexington Fri
day to meet with the managers Of the
leading skating Kinks of Central Ken
lucky for the purpose of formulating
plans and making the final arrange
ments fer conducting a polo league
and a racing circuit among The skat
ing Kinks Of Central kentucky this
winter.
The polo league will be conducted
on the same principles that the Blue
Grass baseball league is and, at the
close of the season, pennant will be
awarded to the team winnino the most
games. After the league and the rae
ing circuit have been formed and
made a permanent thing, there will he
a lace held in every rink in the cir
cult one night i'll each week between
one racer from elch of the Kinks re~-
resented in the circuit and league.
Those who will represent the Audi
forum in the polo league and circuit
have not beer picked out yet but
from now on the management will
keep a close watch on all skaters be
fore they choose the ones who will
represent Winchester. The ones who
show the most speed will Of course be
chosen.
Another special attraction that the
management is now negotiat ting for
will be a race between Dan O'Learv.
the worlds champion pedestrian and
Gle of the fast skaters of this city.
TIE contest will be the same as the
one that was held in Lexington last
ar that created so much attention
WI en- OLeary walked against one of
-hr fastest skaters in the Blue Grass
The skater is to make two miles while
.OLeary walks one mile. The exact
date of the contest has not been ar
.anged yet but it will be held some
time in the near future.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-11-09
GOVERNORS WILL
AGAIN ASSEMBLE
Conservation Commission to Hold
Meeting-invent0ry is
Prepared.

Washington, Nov. Limitations to
a second meeting in Washington of
the governors, or their representa-
tives, have been sent out by the ma
tional conservation of resources COM
mission. The date announced is
Tuesday, Dec. 1, the first general
meeting of the conservation commits
sion itself for organization. Both
these meetings are the outgrowth of
the White House conference of gov
errors last May, at which the con-
servation movement was launched.
At the forthcoming meeting the
governors will discuss the work
which the national conservation COM
mission has been carrying on during
the summer and fall. The outcome of
this work is the first thorough inven-
tory of the nations natural resources
the federal government has ever
made. The inventory is now practi-
cally complete, and most Oh the sum-
III lu6 WdlSIS, lOlCSlo, ldAQO
and minerals of the United States
have been handed in by the experts,
who have been steadily at work on
them for nearly five months. On this
inventory, which the conservation
commission expects to lay before the
governors, the report which Presi-
dent Roosevelt has requested the
commission to make to him not later
than Jan. will be based. From pres
ent indications the December confer
only to the conference Of governors
at the White House last May. Gov
errors who can not attend in person
will send representatives, and the ex-
ecutives are invited to bring advisers
along, as they diu last spring.
The governors of more than half Of
the states have fappointeG commits
sions, and these commissions are
now at work along the same lines in
their states that the national commits,
sion is following for the whole coun-
try. The governors of most of the
other states have announced their in
tention to appoint commissions.
The week beginning Dec. 6 will be
O conservation week in Washington,
bringing together many representa-
tive men from all parts of the coun-
try. There will be at least four i'm
portant bodies in session here whose
purposes are connected with the con-
servation movement. Besides the
meeting Of the governors with the
national conservation comm ssion,
the country life commission will hold
a meeting after having completed the
first part of its swing around the
country. The southern commercial
congress, whose chief purpose is the
awakening of the people of the Ia
southern states to the value of their
natural resources, will be in session
on Dec. Z and and will then merge
with the national rivers and harbors
congress, which will hold its annual
meeting Dec. to IL.