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The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-15

busy, who wore "a light tan-striped
shirt and tan tie. Several ladies were
sitting at tables, being served with
ice cream sodas. One OF the ladies'
said, 81 believe that is Raffies," but
did not have the courage to approach
me. Do you remember, ladies'?
noticed in particular a complete line
OF books. But as my time was limit
led, | did not have time to examine
or tarry any length OF TIME, found
this store to be neatly arranged and
think that the public can be suited
in any book or magazine that they
may want to read.
After leaving wilson's / went down
the street, crossed over and made my
call on Guthrie's' dry goods store.
As I entered that store several gem
tlemen we're standing In the doorway
purchased pair of socks from a
gentleman who wore dark gray
suit, with striped blue shirt. white
four-in-hand tie and wore nose glasses
The check was No. "a. clerk No. T..
This is indeed nice store and reason
able prices. They have a swell line
of the new up-to-date ginghams for
suits. While I was waiting for him
to wrap my purchase up lady came
in with a baby and called for some
goods with red dot in It. The lady
clerk was trying very hard to please
her. She was dressed in black and
was rather stout.
/ came out of Guthrie's dry goods
store and thought would drop In
and take in the show a few minutes
at the Crystal. No one paid any at
tention to. me there. A couple OF
ladies sat in front of me and one lady
said to her friend, "Sit over a seat so
the gentleman behind you can see"
THANK YOU" Presently gentle
man came in and speaking to the
ladies, came over and sit down beside
them. One lady said to him. "Hello,
where have you been keeping your
self?" !. by that time, felt rested,
so had to hurry, as I felt sure ! would
be captured. But nevertheless | said.
Here goes" | crossed the street
and stopped to look in the Famous
Windows. / stepped In the entrance
to look in the case. noticed a
bunch of clerks, who We're amusing
each other by measuring each others
heads, with tape line, from the chin
to the back of the neck. They were
also talking about catching Rafies.
SO near, yet so far. | went on down
a little farther until came to Gil
bert's drug store, although | was not
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-15
$40 AND COST
Melted TO CAIRO BUNS FOR
USING VACANT HOUSE.
Had brandy and Whisky With Which
to Quench Thirst During Their
Stay.

Tom Moore and Sidney Lewis. both
oolored, who were found in house No.
on Huntingdon Row yesterday
morning by Patrolman Smith. of the
Illinois Central force, were fined $40
and costs this morning for breach of
peace. When Patrolman Smith ar
rested them they had bottle of
brandy and a bottle of whisky to
queneh their thirst. and II is suspect
ed that the pair are guilty of break
ing into some saloon. They gave no
excuse for occupying railroad prop
|erty as home without paying rent
While they are serving out their fine
the case will be investigated. Lewis
and Moore say that Cairo is their
home.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-15
HO)|NlIORED
by THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBus
WERE TWO PADUCAH MEN.
John T. Donovan Deputy Suprem'
Knight and George Weikel is
Warden.

Col. John T. Donovan. George
Weikel and Fred n. Flanagan have
returned from Louisville. where they
attended the meeting of the state
council for the Knights of Columbus.
of Kentucky. Col. Donovan was hon
ored by being elected state deputy
supreme knight. Mr.. Weikel was re-
elected to the position OF, state war
den. The state council was attended
by large and representative delega-
tions from over the state. and pleas
ant and profitable session was held.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-15
DO YOU OWN A HOME?

How long have YOU been paying
rent. and do not own picket. or
shngle on the roof? Own your
home. 5000 or zoe a day will start
you. and, after the loan is granted II
will cost you only $3.50 per month
on each 81 900 borrowed with 1919
Years to pay back. We have bought
and built 500 homes at $1,000 each
for people in the state in the last two
years. Call on Standard Trust Co..
State Manager W. Il. Mathews, for a
few days at ZIG South Third street,
Henneberger House, from a. m to
9 u. m.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-15
HARRY KELLERE FLOWER
o. BEDS ARE BEAUTIFUL

The lawn at the postoifice is one of
the prettiest in. be city since the
flower beds have been arranged and
the flowers planted. This year there
are five large flower beds, which is
an increase of one over liant year. All
OF the flowers are well arranged, and
the lawn is an eye rest for down in
the business district. Mr.. Harry KEEL
Ter, engineer at the postoffice, de-
signed the arrangement of the lawn
this year
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-15

cigarettes fro0l a gentleman wearing
a blue suit, one button of the coat
buttoned. He was stylish and wore
black derby hat | noticed a case
near the cigar counter filed with a
fine display of pipes. will say this
drug store, appealed to me to be a
well arranged, up-to-date store and
seemed to be well patronized. | left
this store and returned to my place OF
residence.
| attempted to enter Gray's pool
room during the evening and could
not make an entrance on account OF
noticing that every one who went in
was tapped and / did not care to
walk into a trap set by the many
amateur sleuths l do not claim to
do the impossible, for | am not in
visible. All ask for is a chance and
a very slim one at that.
The man behind the pillow also
,naLas otita stir in the world
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-15
Notice 10 Contractors.

The Board OF Public Works anf
City Engineer will receive bids OF
Tuesday, May 18th 1908. at O'CLOCK
p. m, at their office in the city hall
for grading and crawling West Clarl
street and Gould avenue from Tenth
street to Brunson avenue, as PEI
plans and specifications on file in tn,
City Engineers Office. under the or
dinance authorizing same.
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
BY l.. r. Kolb. SECRETARY.
l.. 4. Washington. City Engineer.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-15
Water swells wood"

water swells wood?"
at must. I've often noticed that
a novelist will wreck skiff and then
float enough timber on to the desert
isle to build town. Louisville
rier-Journal
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-15

"Do You believe in ghosts?" asked
man who resents all superstition.
|. mo, subj" answered Mr.. Erastus
Pinkley. AN all rs hopin' is dat
dem chooses will femme stay dat way
Std o. comm aroun' tryin' to con-
vince me. Washington Star.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-15

How a girl hates to have all her
girl friends admire the man she adj
mires!
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-15

"Well, what's on the bill-of-fare
today?" inquired the genial drum
mer.
Beg pardon, sab All guess dey's
fy-specks. Ah'il git yo' anudder.
sab. Judge.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-15

The first governor OF Pennsylvania
under the constitution of 1890 was
Thomas Mifflin.
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AGAIN RAFFLES

CONTINUED from page one.)
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-15

The man behind the plow also
makes quite a stir in the world.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-15

Try the Sun for s"h work.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-05-21
vreeland Bill Is Passed.

Washington-The Vreeland cur
rency bill, agreed upon by the Re-
publican caucus, was Thursday put
through the house under a special
rule by a vote Of 1874 to 145. Fifteen
so-called insurgents of the majority
party voted with the Democrats, who
went on record solidly against tho
measure.
The closing moments of the debate
were replete with excitement and
Republican enthusiasm caused by the
refusal Of the great majority of the
Democrats to go on record for the
Williams bill, which had been offered
by Mr.. Kahn Of California, as a sub.
stitute for the Vreeland bill, in ac-
cordance with a well-laid plan of the
majority leaders to ascertain where
the Democrats stood on the proposi-
ton, which, it was claimed by several,
was supported by Mr.. Bryan. Ninety
three Democrats voted present
which aroused the Republicans to a
high state of hilarity at the expense
of the minority. Only a handful of
Democrats had the temerity to vote
AYE" or mo" The action of Mr..
Kahn was due to the refusal Of MI.
Williams to present his bill as a sub
s%titute, which under the rule, he was
specifically authorized to do. 4
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-05-21
John Flake on The rariff.

The Philadelphia Record quotes
from the late John Fiske, who knew
and wrote so much about America and
the American people in so many phases
of their development, social, religious,
economic and historical, the following
prophetic utterances on the tariff,
albeit like most prophets he was far
ia advance and without honor in his
owl country of the time.
by and by, when our shameful tar
if-falsely called protection-shall
lave been done away with, and our
manufacturers shall produce superior
articles at less cost of raw material,
we shall begin to compete with Euro
pean countries in all the markets of
the world, and the competition in
manufactures will become as keen as
it is now beginning to be in agricul-
ture. This time will not be long in
coming, for our tariff system has al
ready begun to be discussed, and in
the light of our present knowledge
discussion ean it's doom. Born Of
Grass ignorance and self-defeating
greed, it cannot bear the light. When
this curse to American labor shall
have been once removed, the economic
pressure exerted upon Europe by the
United States will soon become very
great indeed"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-05-21
LETTER SCORES PRESIDENT.
Missive Causes Lively Debate at the
Socialist Convention.

Chicago, Ill.-An open letter adj
dressed to President Roosevelt Sc
verely scoring the president for his al
legged disparaging remarks about So
cialists in his last message to con-
gress caused a lively debate Wednes-
day at the Socialist national owen
ton. The letter was submitted by G.
A. Hoehn of st. Louis, Mo-, who asked
that 1t be adopted by the convention
and that a copy of 1t be mailed to
President Roosevelt.
The trouble was preclpitated by
Chairman John Spargo of the commit
tee n esolutions, who, in making his
report On the resolutions presented to
the committee, tried to omit the read
ing of the letter assailing the presi-
dent, with the explanation that the
committee had instructed him not to
go to the trouble of reading the docu-
ment owing to the ''preposterous
statements" contained in it. Several
delegates Immediately objected to this
procedure, protesting against the right
of the chairman of the resolutions
committee to decide for them the char
acter of any document they had never
heard read. After a spirited discus
sion a motion that the letter be read
wat carried amid great enthusiasm. A
long debate followed the reading of
the letter.
The Socialist national convention
will nominate Eugene V, Debs of
Girard, Kas., for president. Debs'
friends placed the issue squarely up
to the leading delegates and informed
them that if any attempt was made to
sidetrack Debs because of his absence
from the convention they would take
the floor and explain why the Eastern
delegates wanted the nomination sent
to Massachusetts, New York or Ohio.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-05-21
Even Knox Has Seen Light.

Even Senator Knox rises in that
stronghold Of protectionism, Penrsyl-
sania, to say that the tariff must be
evised, but he has distinct ideas as
% the method Of revision, and they
ire, IN the main, sound. He would
rave the revision done by the friends
If protection, not by enemies of a
ariff system. He says: This work.
however, should be done by men
wise enough to distinguish between
'evision and ruin; by men who realize
nd fully appreciate that commerciar
prosperity depends upon the profit
Bile employment Of capital and the
LIBERAL remuneration of labor; that the
irther diversification Of our indus
ries depends upon encouragement to
he people to enter new fields of en-
%ieavor; that r~emunerative prices for
agricultural and other home products
iepend upon the permanency of all
,hese conditions. and that In recon
,tructing schedules to remoye all in
squities and excesses the work can
ind should be done without impairing
he living and beneficent purposes Of
he policy Of protection through yield
ng to the insistence Of any mere dog
iatic demand
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-05-21
Republican Chaos

The Republican party is split on me
and my policies" and party lines are
breaking down as never before. In the
house Of representatives we have seen
the extraordinary spectacle Of the
Democrats supporting many of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's recommendations
and the whole Republican machine re-
fusing to consider the same. Then the
president set his heart upon, at least,
four new b~attleships, and the Repub-
lican leaders refused to agree with
him and appropriated but for two bat.
tleships. Every southern state and
some northern districts are sending
contesting delegations to the Repub-
lican national convention, and Texas
will send three delegations, all claim
ing to be the only true representatives
If the G. o. P.
All is chaos politically, and I'M
ioubtedly the voters are becoming
lisgusted with the Republican leaders,
ind the number Of independent voters
will be greatly increased in conse-
luence. Will the Democrats 50 unite
IS to take advantage OF this state Of
lffairs?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-05-21
REYES liz FEAR OF DEATH.
President of Colombia Hears of a Plot
to Kill Him.

City of Panama-President Reyes
sudden abandonment of his tour Of
Colombian coast cities and hurried de.
parture for Bogota is considered sug-
gestive here of alarming political con-
ditions at the capital.
AS a protection against an attempt
at assassination, he is travelling heav-
lily guarded and orders have been is
sued to the authorities at all the Co
lombian ports to examine strictly all
Colombians returning from abroad in
the hope of arresting the mar the po-
litical refugees in Costa RIGA are re-
ported to have sent to kill the presi-
dent.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-05-21
APPEAL IS SELFISH
INCONSISTENT ATTITUDE OF RE-
PUBLICAN PUBLISHERS.
Newspaper Proprletors Demand Free
Wood Pulp and Free Print Paper
But stand Pat on Other
Trust Extortions.

The American Newspaper Publish
ers' association, mostly Republicans,
at their meeting in New York again
urged congress to pass a bill for free
wood pulp and free print paper. I'M
Gle Joe and the Republican managers
IN congress were loath to take notice
of the matter. The Republican pub
fishers a hardly blame the Republi-
can politicians. Their demand for
free pulp and paper is a very selhsn-
demand, for they do not ask congress
for relief from the Ubiquitous tariff on
anything but paper and pulp, but ap-
pear to be willing to see everyone else
plundered but themselves.
Now, with the publishers of Demo
cratic newspapers the demand for tar
i'll reform is more consistent. They
not only ask for the tariff on paper
to be reno red. but also, unlike the
Republican puAishers, want the tariff,
tax on nearly everything else reduced
or abolished. That is, they are anx-
ious to see everyone get a fair share
of the tariff reduction, and although
very naturally they ask that their
own business be freed from the plum
dering of a rapacious trust, they dol
not stop at that, but ask for tariff re-
form on all articles Of necessity, es-
pecially those products sold by the
trusts cheaper to foreigners than to-
our own people. /!
OF course, the action of Speaker
Cannon In having a special committee
appointed to Investigate the ! paper
trust and the price of wood pulp and
paper is but to try and evade action,
with the implied promise of REFORM
ing the paper and wood schedule after
election. But can this implied prom
Use be relied on, and how will the
people fare in the tariff reductions
they desire? II the tariff protection.
the paper trust enjoys is taken from
it, why should other trusts still be
protected? The whole brood of trusts
would then take alarm and the Repub-
lican campaign managers would be
more seriously alarmed than the
managers of trusts, for when Mr..
Bliss and Mr.. Cortelyou, or whoever is
selected by the Republican campaign
managers to bleed the trusts, cali for
their share of the swag to reflect
those who firmly believe in the prin-
ciple of protection" they would hardly
be greeted with outstretched hands as
heretofore. 1t would, therefore, seem
that the Republican publishers must
suffer for their love of protection for
the sake of principle, and the Demo-
cratic publishers must suffer because
they can't help it.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-05-21
MISSOURI NEWS
Jobes Is Federal Receiver.

Kansas City-Judge John c. Pollock
in the United States district court
appointed c. S. Jobes. a banker o.
Kansas City. receiver for the Great
Western Life Insurance agency. The
appointment was made upon applica-
ton of stockholders of the company,
who charged fraud in the manage
ment of the concern. Judge Pollock
directed William Barton Of Kansas
City, receiver appointed for the com.
pany by the Missouri circuit court,
nd A. A. Swain, receiver appointed by
the Colorado state court, to turn over
to the federal receiver all the assets
of the company now in their posses
sion. The court further ordered that
Mr.. Jobes secure the resignation of
every director Of the agency company
at once and proceed to elect a new
directory.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-05-21
PLEA ONLY A RUSE
GUARDIAN OF WHITES SLAYER
TESTlFIES IN PROCEEDINGS.
rHAws EARLY HISTORY DETAILED
Prisoner Told Or. Baker at MatteaWan
He Was Rational When He
Fired the Shot.

Poughkeepsie, N. Y.-Dr. Amos
T. Baker, Harry X. Thaw's guar
dian at Matteawan, armed with a
diary detailing the daily actions of the
prisoner, was called at the opening OF
the morning session Of Thaw's habeas
corpus hearing Friday. If there is
anything that will prevent Thaw from
leaving the mad house it is the testi-
mony of DR.. Baker.
~ made several examinations of Mr..
Thaw, and kept notes of what OBJ
served" began DR.. Baker. He de-
tailed to me the hereditary traces OF
insanity in his family and said that he
had suffered from what was called st.
Vitus dance"
The physician repeated Thaw's car
ly history, which included his school
days.
What did he say about an attack
of dementia in Monte Carlo2" the ply
stefan was asked.
"He said all his physicians had tes-
lAhSo LIZ "a9 SieHy, put hC ASohy "oo
not" was the reply.
About the D~evonsAire Nursing
Home in London?" HE said his ex-
perts at the trial had called his illness
maniac Oppressive insanity, but it was
only typhoid fever"
what about 20 tons of ice being
placed in the room?" "He said that,
while it was not the custom in Eng
land at the time to cool rooms with
ice, the method had since been adopt
ed. In answer to my queries about
his use of tobacco, he told me he
smoked about ten cigarettes and three
cigars each day from the age of 18.
He declared that he used alcohol in
moderation"
About this trial and the verdict of
the jury, he said he knew he never
was insane and his lawyers were of
the same opinion, but the plea of in
sanity was the only way to save him
from conviction of murder in the first
degree. e
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-05-21
s12o.ooo.ooo Appropriated.

Washington-The great sundry civil
appropriation bill, carrying a total
of about 100000, 900, was passed BY
the senate Thursday. This is the
last of the large supply bills and its
passage places the senate squarely
alongside the house in the considera-
ton of the appropriation bills and Of
the entire IA leaves only the general
deficiency and the military academy
bills to be considered by either house.
A portion of the session was devot-
ed to the consideration of the bill
su~spending the penalty feature of the
commodity clause of the railroad rate
hill.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-05-21
Act of Congress Anticipated,

Washington, D. C.-The passage
by congress of an act, restoring to
United States coins the words I'm
God We Trust" has been anticipated
to some extent by the treasury de-
partment, and although the act does
not go into effect for 80 days, the mint
at Philadelphia already has made the
necessary changes in its dies so that,
if required, it could at once begin to
turn out the new coins. 1t is stated
that within the so days limitation the
minis at San Francisco, Denver and
New Orleans will be similarly
equipped.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-05-21
FAMILY MURDERED
MAN. WIFE, BABY AND SERVANT
ARE RlDDLED WITH BULLETS
MOTIVE FOR CRIME IS UNKNOWN
Authorities Think Robbery Probably
Led to New Jersey Tragedy.
Farm Hand Suspected.

Wikatunk, N. wv. B. Shep-
ard, his wife, Jennie Bendy. a
servant, and ten-months-old child Of
the Shepards were found dead in the
farm house near here Saturday. All
had been riddled with bullets.
The position of the bodies, and the
general circumstances point to brutal
murder. A farm hand who was en-
ployed on the place is missing, and
the entire countryside is being hunted
by hundreds of farmers.
The motive is not yet apparent, as
it is not known whether robbers had
been invited to the place by reports
of large sums of money hidden on the
premises.
Baby Dies, Toe.
The baby was not wounded as badly
as the others, but died just as help
arrived.
The police suspect a farm hand who
was discharged a week ago. Neigh
bors declare a fortune teller, ten days
ago, warned Shepard that within a
fortnight his entire family would be
wiped out by an insane murderer.
Shepard was a breeder of poultry
and also conducted a kitchen farm.
He always had a large amount of
money around the house.
The tragedy was discovered by the
Cnr nf n nnSnhh4r r,ho hnl kAo. z.-A
to the Shepard place to milk a COW.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-05-21
Appeals for More Troops.

Columbus, Ohio-Early Friday
morning a patrol of Troop B of Col
umbus was fired upon a farm near
Higginsport, but nom was hurt. The
owner of the house, James McAfee,
was taken into custody. He claimed
he thought the soldiers were burglars.
Capt. Knauss of Troop B left Friday
night for Columbus to appeal for
more troops to be sent here. 1t is
said that evidence has been collected
w%arranting the arrest of about fifty
night riders i nthis section.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-05-21

After all, John Hay did write THE
Breadwinners," a novel that had con-
siderable vogue rs years ago. 1t was
published anonymously before the au-
thor had made a reputation as one of
the greatest secretaries of state the
country ever had, and the secret was
kept, although suspected, until at last,
states the Youths Companion, Mrs.
Hay has consented that the credit
which belonged to her dead husband
shall be given to him in an account
of the book in "A Manual of American
Literature" recently published.