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i lkSSg IIJJ 1 Vla lfo 0 I il due NV1LlIUtU1th OGAYr iI9Q8 1 AGLw HO 1 1 The Kentuckian Published Every Other Day SUESDAY THURSDAY and SATURDAY MORNINGS BY CHAS MEACHAM CHABMMEACHAMieatered i JAwed at the Hopklnsville Poatofhce as Second Claw Mall Matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES Onerearn LLUpV tJ gonths1 00 4 7 ManUa 00s Months Jtree i OS iogleCoples rttslng Rates on Application 212 SOUTH MAIN STREET ocr 8 1908 DEMOCRATIC TICKET FOB PnESIDENT Ii WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN lOf Nebraska i FOB VICE PnESIDENTI 1JOHN WORTH KERN I Of Indiana I FOR CONGRESS A STANLEY it Of Henderson FOR COUNT JUDGE 4CHAS MORRISON FOR SHERIFF lDAVID SMITH a 4The Weather FOR KENTUCKY Partly cloudy and cooler Thursday Detroit defeated Chicago Tuesday yand won the American League Baseball Pennant and the tie in the Nation ra League between New York and Chicago will be played off today I Bryan in Iowa and Taft in Mis sofrri continued to sweep round the a i circle Tuesday and lat night met at the chamber of commerce banquet in Chicago and both made speeches on nonpolitical subjects Registration in the cities of Ken tucky showed that the people are going to vote if they are saying but little about politicsDem 1 ocratic gains were made in Owens boro Mt Sterling and Richmond The registration was very heavy ana full vote may be expected The stayathome vote preparing to get outthis year Congressman A 0 Stanley and John Worsham his Republican nd opponent for Congress in the Second district met in joint debate at Hen derson Tuesday night before 5000 i 4 eople The night rider situation was the subject and national issues Were not touched upon ip Mr Stanley indignantly denied KV i the charge of his opponent that his Ispeeches had incited lawlessness and also paid his respects to Gov Will son and Franks The crowd was largely for Stanley and cheered xw him with much enthusiasm No crime since the days of savage warfare has so outraged the law in Kentucky as the massacre of a whole I family of negroes at Hickman Saturday night as they ran from their burning home begging for mercy that was not shown even to the mother and infant children Simon Girty in his palmiest days was sever guilty of a more brutal and atrocious deed And yet the press dispatches says no excitement has followed the crime in the vicinity The eyes of the whole country are ara a upon Hickman county 1 Longworth denies that he predicted two more terms for Roosevelt after eight years for Taft His statement follows I said Ohio would not be selfish and would yield to some other state perhaps New Yorkto nominate the next president I had no particular candidate in a mind New York coming first into any mind because of the presence of Mr Sherman on the platform At 1point many people shouted Roesevolt and the audience cheer ed his name loudly It As Sherman is not presidential time Nicks explanation hardly explains Two reporters have made affidavit that he was correctly quoted Hows This Wa offer OnaHtmdrfld Dollars Iewar lJ0rnn case of Catarrh thai cannotjbocoredj by Halls Catarrh Cure CureP CHENEY COV Toledo OWe the Undersigned have known FI Cheney for the last 15 years and believe him perfectly Honorable In all business transactions and finan cially able to carry out any obligations made by Ata firm WIUMNO KINNAN MARVIN Wholesale Druggists Toledo 0 Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally acting1 I Afrtctly upon the Wood and raucous surfaces of I 0 tie system Testimonials sent tree Price 75 tWtt SoUl liv all Orntrirlata 0 FIENDS WIPE OUT FAMILY i Shoot Woman and Five Chil Iddr One by One as They Leave the Flames i UNHEARDOF ATROCITY Massacre of Negroes By the Night Riders Near I Hickman Hickman Ky Oct 5The bodies of Dave Walker and his familydead and dying were allowed to lie out in I I the open all night Saturday and the injured received no medical attention until Sunday afternoon There is no clue to the night riders who are guiltyFifty men wreaked a terrible revenge upon Dave Walker colored said to have cursed a white woman and charged also with having drawn revolver upon a white man by set ting fire to his house Saturday night and shooting him and members of his family as they emerged from the burning cabin Walker his fiveyear old daughter and a small baby were killed outright while the mother who was carrying the baby in her arms at the time it met its death wound was shot through the stomach and will die Three other children were shot down and may die as result of their wounds while the oldest son of Walker is missing It is believed that he was burned alive in the cabin NIGHT RIDERS SURROUND HOUSE The night riders numbering about fifty surrounded the home of Walk er shortly before midnight and com manded him to come out and take a whipping Walker declined whereup on the saturated timbers of the house with coal oil and set fire to them In an incredible space of time the house was a mass of flames and the shrieks of those on the inside were horrible to hear Finally Walker pleading for mercy threw open the door of his cabin and ran out into the open He was riddled with bullets and fell screaming to the ground 0SHOOT BABY IN MOTHERS ARMS Following close upon the the heels of her husband Walkers wife appeared in the doorway She held in her arms their infant child and begged the night riders for mercy Dis regarding her pleadings the infuri ated mob opened fire and a bullet pierced the body of the infant in its mothers arms A second shot struck the mother in the abdomen and she fell holding the dead body of her infantNIGHT NIGHT HIDEOUS WITH SCREAMS Terrorstricken by the flames which were licking all sides of the cabin yet fearing to venture into the open the remaining children of Wal ker made the night hideous with their screams The fiveyearold daughter was the first to venture through the doorway following the 3fate of their mother father and the followed lowed close at their heels The girl was killed outright and the other children received wounds which it is believed will prove fatal There is hardly a doubt but that the oldest son of Walker preferred death by burning rather than to place himself i5h probable that his charred body will be found among the debris COMPEL MAN TO WATCH HORSES IBefore arriving at the home of Walker the night riders stopped at fthe home of Joe Williams a white man and compelled him to accompany them to the scene of the slaugh ter When the night riders dismounted they left Williams to look after the horses a short distance I awayWalker Walker and his family lay all day Sunday on the spot where they were shot A negro doctor went out to see them but for fear of night rid ers refused to go hack again There were seven in the family three being killed outright three wounded who will die imd one missing who is supposed to have perished in the burning building Tom Bone a white man and neigh bar who heard the shots rushed ever toward the house The night rjderd fitppjpcd himnd turned him I a tY 1 1i i got home In a hurryi No excitement prevails here No arrests have been made The supposition is that there will be none Late yesterday afternoon coffins were sent out and the dead were buried by white people Saved Sisters Life Little Rock Ark Oct 5Jjold that unless the operation of skin grafting was resorted to his ten yearold sister Helen would die from burns received August lO Samuel Tenenbaum aged 17 years volunteered to furnish the skin 4Jand at the St Vincent Infantry the operation was performed The boy and his sister were placed on adjoining operating tables anesthetics were given and more than eighty square inches of skin was ire moved from young Tenenbaufns thighs and applied to the unhealed sores his sisters breast 1 BEFORE GRAND JURY Gov Willson Was Summon moned but Declined to Di vulge for Present Gov Willson was summoned before the grand jury Tuesday at the instance of County Attorney John Duffy but it is understood the Governor declined to divulge the evidence that has been gathered against nightriders In discussing the affair afterward he said that the information he possessed was from reports received from his men and was therefore incompetent before a grand jury as he did not havejper sonal knowledge of the fact He said that he had the evidence though in proper form and that when the time came it would be laid before the grand jury that wanted jtiE He left at 1130 oclock for Princeton where he made a speech that afternoon OLD OFFICERS OLDOFFICERSARE ARE REELECTED Planters Pxotectivo Associa i I tidn 4 Organizes New Comp 4mittee 1 i EWING AND FORT Are Both Retained And No Opposition Developed Mr Radford Loss 1 Guthrie Ky Oct 7The board of directors of the Planters Protective association elected officers for the ensuing year as follows Felix Ewing general manager Charles Fort president Usher of Graved county vicepresi dent Jno Scales auditor GuyS Dunning general inspector WI Warfield of Adams Tenh Ed I Miller of Paducah and 0 Bell of Cobb graders The elections of secretary and treasurer have not yet been made The elections all passed off most harmoniously The opposition to Mr Ewing and Mr Fort which was currently reported some time ago failed to materialize Radford of Christiancoun ty was endorsed for general inspector by his county committee but Guy Dunning was reelected I Come and see the great cooking wonder at our store all next week See advertisement in this paper Forbes Mfg Co Incorporated Presidential Election Dope on Kentucky Parkers Plurality In 1904 Was 11893 While Figures Show Democrats Elected Willson Governor The vote in presidential elections in Kentucky since 1896 areas follows lows lowsElectron of 1896gr anT217890 McKinley 218171 Palmer 5114 Republican plurality 281f Election of 1900 Bryah 235103J McKinley 277108 Democratic plurality 7975 Election of 1904 Parker 217170Roosevelt 205277 Democratic plurality 11893 The election for Governor last year resulted as follows Hager 196428 Willson 214481 Republican plurality 18053 That Governor Willson was elected by Democratic votes is shown by the fact that although he won by over 18000 he polled but 214 481 votes as against 227108 votes cast for John Yerkes in 1900 and Yerkes was defeated by a Democratic majority of 3515 COMES BACK NQ Dr Means Wild Remain With Local Methodist Church iv THe Louisville conference of the Methodist church was brought to a close at Owensborb Monday by the reading of the appointments of the ministers The list for the Hopkins ville district is as follows Jno Lewis presiding elder Allensville Duval Cadiz RB Grider Cadiz Circuit Yates I Canton Mission Jones Cerulean 1 Lewis Crofton I Hoagland Dawson Alexander Roy ster Eddyville Circuit Hick erson Elkton and Bells Geo Fos kett Elkton Circuit Galloway 1 Elkton Mission Booker Eddy 1 ville Kilgore Grand Rivers I Moorman Hopkinsville Means Hopkinsville Circuit WT I Miller Kuttawa Cowherd I Lafayette Archey Pisgah Holloway Princeton Stubblefield PembrpkeG Lyon Princeton Mission to be supplied Salem Fugate SmithlandW I Smith Smithland Circuit EI Goodrum Trenton and Guthrie Petty Sears Roebuck Cos Bad Year Sears Roebuck Co the big 40000000 matl order concern according to the annual report has been hit a body blow in the last year the report showing that its sales decreased than 10000000 iii that time or a trifle more than 20 per cent Not only this but its financial condition has been weakened to such an extent that the surplus for the yearjte JSOpjOOO less than II MACK SEES VICTORY Perfectly Confident of Election of Bryan and Kern Chicago Oct 7 Returning to Chicago to take up the Democrat campaign direction in the west Norman Mack Chairman of the Democratic National committee declared that the tide was strong for Bryan in the East and that if the Democrats could hold their advantage there the Democratic ticket would be surely elected To the Associated Press Chairman Mack gave the following statement flI have been three weeks in the East where I have studied the political situation from every angle I have noted every drift and current and today I am prepared to say that if we hold the steady gains we have i made in the last two months the election is ours New York is going Democratic in fact there will be a landslide for Bryant in the EmpireS ate New Jersey Rhode Island Maryland Deleware and Ohio will also be found in the Democratic column The reports from state and county chairman in the Middle West are equally encouragicg Indiana isI safely Democratic even the Republicans dont seriously claim it1 Mr Mack said that President K6osevelt7B letters had helped the I Democrats Mother Shiptons Prophecy First published in 1488 and repub Ushed in 1641 I Carriages without horses shall go And accidents fill the world with woe shallfl I In the twinkling of an eye Water shall still more wonderldo Now strange shall yet be trUe The world upside down shall be And gold be found at root of tree Through hills men shall ride i And no horse or ass be at his side Under water men shall walk Shall ride shall sleep shall talk In the air men shall be seen In white in black In green 1 Iron iti the water shall float As easy as a wooden boat Gold shall be found and found In a land thats not now known Fire and water shall wonders do England shall at last admit a Jew The world to an end shall comer In eighteen hundred eightyone IIn We are giving free 750a worth of ware at our store next week See advertisemeiitm this paper for par ticulars Forbes Mfg Co Incorporated IN MSITS CLOTHES i Authorities at Ellis Island Decide to Permit Woman to Wear Male Attire New York Oct 5The Ellis Island immigration authorities who had detained Miss Mary Johnson the Canadian woman when fehe arrived here on the American liner New York under the assumed name of Frank Wood Hull and wearing mens clothes today decided to allow her to proceed to her destination New Orleans still garbed in masculine attire Miss Johnson fifty years old and of masculine appearance had declared to the authorities that having been born unprepossessing as a woman she had found herself practically shut off from earning a living and onlyas a man had she been able during the last fifteen years to earn a regular income as a book agent and maintain her respectability ON THE STUMP Smith and Morrison Will Address Voters David Smith and Morrison Democratic nominees for sheriff and county judge will address the voters of Christian coufity at the following times and places Grissams Store Friday Oct 9 1 pm pmEast East School House Friday Oct 9 1 7 I Bainbridge Woosleys StoreSat urday Oct 10 1 Gracey Saturday Oct 10 7 Lafayette Monday Oct 12 1 pm pmPee Pee Dee Monday Oct 12 7 Bennettstown Tuesday Oct 18 1 po mHowell Howell Tuesday Oct 13 7pm Era Wednesday Oct 14 1 pm Lantrips School House Wednesday Oct 14 7pm Macedonia Murphys store Thursday Oct 151 Cones School House Thnrsday Oct 15 7 Castleberry School House Friday Oct 16 1 Empire Friday Oct 16 7 I Crofton Saturday Oct 171 pm Kelly Station Saturday Oct 17 7 pm pmA A number of prominent speakers will accompany the candidates and address the voters at said times and placesDont Dont fail to hear them A convention of the Powers will be called jointly by England France and Russia to consider the situation growing out of Bulgarias declaration pf independence and Austria Hungarys annexation of the Provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs has cabled to the Associated Press a statement of the situation giving the reasons for Bulgarias action BANQUET TO THEBANDflQYSk Mrv A Wilgus the Host ji At a Six Oclock Dinner jffctftt if fiv at Hotel LatharfiS 4 I 11 sVTw INFORMAL PEE CHE i1 i Followed By a Concert Bythe 73 Band In Lobby te tt Hotel i cl if rw A Wilgus wasthehost at a dinner given Monday nit 9itJie musicians of Lebkeuchers Band in I the Ordinary at Hotel Latham 4Lebkuecher Lebkuecher sixteen members of the if ifband Clay Smith Underwood and Chas Meacham A delightful menu was served beginning with oyster cocktail rind ending with cigars following which several informal speeches were made Mr A Wilgus was down onG the program as Chin Music Direc lI ltor tor and touched off the speakersW fl Mr Underwood talked pa Ifl flthetically rto the band and some good things off lfJ his subject subjectProf Prof Clay Smiths subject UTO Be or not Tuba gave thataccomI I tp rwished hapA tJ piest speeches 11 Bandmaster Lebkuecher spoke on Musics Big Stick and reviewed the struggles of his band and thanked all who had helped to bring about pits I present success i I Mayor Meacham spoke The Lasti Sad Strain and made everybody 11 glad when the time too yII came tp go down Finto cert that closed the evenings pro i1gram gramMr Mr Wilgus was presented with aI sc beautiful goldheaded silk umbrella by the members of the band Mm HBMMM VIM JH He HeW Prominent Todd County Man Succumbs to Paralsi Elkton Ky Oct 5W Brew er one of the most prominent citi PIzens home in Fairview this morning at 10 11 oclock He had been in illhealthf for some time and his condition has been serious since an attack of paralysis two weeks ago He was 1 about 50 years of age and issurvivi 51 ed by his wife and two sons He was editor of the Fairview Review was several times Magistrate in his hisi district was the Democratic nomi nee for Representative at the last election and ran ahead of his ticket though defeated by the Republican landslide He was prominent in fraternal orders being a Knight Tem I plar Knight of Pythias Mason and Elk The funeral will be held in I Fairview Tuesday morning under I the auspices of the Masonic frater i nityThe The Majestic Mfg Co of StLouis Mo will have a man at our store all next week who will show you how to 4j bake biscuits brown top and bot fIrthis this chance of seeing the great cooking wonder Forbes Mfg Co Incorporated Mules For Sale I Have 20 mules four to six years old These mules were bought out IV of harness and ready for work A MASON Hopkinsville Ky Cumb Phone 2062 4 4rt i tr4r i tf iif if The Kentuckian has been designated as one of the de1 si pries I I of contributions to the National Democratic Campaign Fund and 1 subscriptions will be received and forwarded to Governor Haskell rltj JI the treasurer otthe National Democratic cinittss A list vf all fP 1 1 A tsUbscrib ers and subscriptions will be keppand publication made 1 iIn the event that contributors desire then names to be omitted they will kindly say and their wishes will be respected 411 con i 1trlbutlons containing subscriptions ShOUld be addressed to Tho National i Democratic Campaign Fund care of Kentuckian Hrokinsville Ky i Cash A 100 Darwin Bell Xt 100 1if4i 1if4i11ntt4 i HatGalther OJ 5L lOQf ii fr frfrfr MkMh h1 hihtMhtFN IF1ilik1Mkt I.