The Paducah evening sun., 1910-02-21

Maull Bros, l221 St. Louis Ave,
st. Louis. Mo.
mob demonstration. What reason he
had for such threat. IL II was made,
Is not definitely known, but it is
stated that he has no confidence in
the present grand jury to slft the
matter thoroughly and find true bills
against any of the participants. The
present grand jury is composed of j.
w. Wenger. S. A. Hardeson. John w.
Akin, Walter Denzel, Guy Morse, An
thony p. Ehs, William Rubeck. VIII
liam Aird, William Turner, Charles
Anderson. Sr.. Wallace Gore. Fuller
Hodgkins. w. NJ. King. william Man
gum, Herbert n. Henckell, William II.
Simpson Edward Powers, c. Stewart.
NJ ]. Mahaffee, Geo w. Moore, John
Millhan, Henry Christmas, Selden
Fisher.
The Jury adjourned Friday to this
morning, to take up the alleged ice
trust, deferring the inquiry into the
mob till the last.
False Rumor.
A rumor was heard last night that
several members of Co. X. were
placed In the guard house on serious
charges. This proved TO be untrue
on inquiry from the Officer of the
day. The troops are using the coun-
ty jail as the guard house and some
are placed behind the bars for all
manner OF offense against the rules
OF discipline. Several of the boys
were in "hoe" yesterday, tut Co. X.
was not represented among them.
Fureral Of Halliday.
The funeral OF the late Alexander
Halliday was held yesterday after
noon at 1880 O'Clock at the residence
Of deceased's. brother, Parker B. Hal
liday. s23 Twenty-seventh street.
Services were conducted by Rev.
George NJ Babcock, rector Of the
Church OF the Redeemer.
The funeral was one OF the most
largely attended OF any that has TAX
en- place in Cairo for some tige. The
cortege. reaching the length of sew
eral blocks, moved from the residence
TO Fourteenth street along Washing
ton avenue. Not expecting such a
large concourse OF people, the funeral
train was not composed Of more than
half the number of cars necessary to
convey those who desired to go to
the cemetery. Interment was made
at Beech Grove cemetery. The floral
tokens were many and beautiful. The
following were the pallbearers: w.
E. Huette. Jr., AL F. Staehle, John
c. Gholson, Harry Dllts, ]. f. Luby.
J. Held. Charles Thompson and Leigh
Wyman.
Mayor Makes statement.
Mayor Parsons says that he had
ordered the saloons closed Friday
on the request OF the sheriff
some time before Governor Deneen
made the request OF him. He says
the sheriff had asked him to close up
the saloons in the immediate neigh
borhood of the court house and this
request he did not consider in justice
10 those. saying IL one Is closed all
must be closed. The first notice the
mayor received of any trouble was at
about ~ O'Clock when Sheriff Nellis
asked for police help which he said
he ordered at headquarters to be sup
Piled. Judge Dewey telephoned him
shortly after O'clock asking that the
be closed in the neighbor-
hood and the mayor stated that he
had given orders TO close all the sa-
oons. In the meantime he was try
ing to reach the governor by long
distance, but could not do so. The |
mayor said: The governor reached |
me about 2 O'clock. some time after
my order to close the salons had
been given requesting this TO be done
Il was after O'Clock before | got
word that four members of the mob
had been wounded and one man
lead"
A Political Phase.
"There is evidently some politics
N the situation here" said one of the
OF city papers yes
terday He said he had discovered
an undercurrent of discomfort and an
alignment of factions. which led him
70 believe that trouble would break |
put afresh IL the troops were with
4 rou.n % opca and in mora violent |