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LAWRENCEBURG, TENN., FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1904. The republicans in Kansas City, Mo., elected their entire ticket, with one exception. World Tennessee German shipbuilders have been awarded contracts for three modern warships for Russia. Smallpox Report. The Capital National bank at ffries and Monroe, heavyweight Guthrie and the Citizens bank at The official report of the Stat ists, will battle for the chamboard of health shows the interest McLoud, Ok., have suspended. ing fact that smallpox is no longe ship May 30. The fight will Folk, the St. Louis boodler prosto be dreaded as a fatal disease. Th place in San Francisco. ecutor, is in the lead for the demopercentage of deaths from this dis ording to the report of the cratic nomination for governor of ease is so small in comparison wit commission, just issued, the Missouri. the same percentage for forme number of free passes of all John D. Rockefeller has contribyears that the fact is noteworthy issued by the Texas lines the Out of a total of 3,567 cases in th uted $500,000 to John Hopkins infiscal year aggregated 436,213, entire State from September 1 stitute to replace several buildings hich 43,320 were annuals, 10,1903, to March 15, 1904, it is show recently destroyed by fire. time passes and 381,904 trip that only 70 deaths have resulte Hon. W.J. Bryan declares he will The disease is no respecter of local make no more statements for publiity, and the reports show that th e case of W. S. Taylor, excation regarding national politics, eastern section, the middle sectio rnor of Kentucky, charged with and the western division are alik except through the columns of his implicated in the murder of paper. visited by the germs, and the fui Goebel, is being continued ther interesting statement is mad one term of court to another. In the recent municipal elections that the white and negro popula in Nebraska the question of high nds of Goebel hope some day to tion is equally touched by it. T license for the sale of liquor cut Taylor on Kentucky soil, when total white cases during the perio case, would be tried. quite a figure. A majority of the were 1,775, and the negro cas towns voted for high license. 1,792. Sixty-four counties are en on. Elihu Hoot, former secretary braced in the report made by Seer f war, will likely be the next Gov. Beckham will be appealed tary Albright. to to either pardon Caleb Powers, blican nominee for governor of under sentence to be changed for the Col. Savage Dead. York. In the event this proame is carried out and he carmurder of the late Gov. Goebel, or Col. John H. Savage died in h secure for him a new trial. law office near the public square the state by a big majority, he McMinnville last week, in his 89 be a formidable candidate of An M. K. & T. fast mail train year, after an illness extendir party for the presidency in 1908. was wrecked four miles south of over many weeks. Col. Savage ha Fort Scott, Kas., by the rails Ibert Baldwin, the negro whom not been well for several years, b spreading. Sixty persons were inVardaman saved from being to the last he preserved that stoi jured but no one was killed. hed by promptly ordering out a ism characteristic of the ma pany of state militia, was conThough he had made many person The Cole Manufacturing plant ed by a jury at Sumner, Miss., enemies during his long and storn at Memphis, one of the largest mancareer, his death caused general ne murder of Engineer Bogarty ufacturers of sash, doors, blinds and gret all over the mountain distri the Yazoo and Mississippi Valbuilding material in the south, was and his funeral was attended by railroad, and sentenced to be destroyed by fire on the 7th inst. 1 ged. throng of people. Previous to The geological survey will soon last illness he perfected the pla y special act of the Illinois legwhich he had had in view for ma issue its report on mineral resourcure, the people in cities and years of erecting a monument to t es for 1902, showing that in that hs are permitted to vote for muSixteenth regiment, C. S. A., whi year, for the third time, the total pal ownership of street cars. he commanded and which fought value of the commercial mineral matter was submitted to the valiantly at Murfreesboro. It products of the United States exfirst intended to erect this mon tors of Chicago at the recent ceeded $1,000,000,000. The exact ment on the Stone river battlefie election and resulted as follows: figures for 1902 were $1,260,639,but a few months ago Col. Sava 415. public ownership, 154,434; determined to erect it at McMir inst, 30,104. ville. Twenty of the corporations in ol. William F. Cody declines to Fall River, Mass., engaged in the Young Lady Seriously Burned. uss the divorce suit which is now manufacture of print cloths, conMrs. Etta Ownby, daughter g tried in the west, and will say trolling sixty-five mills, have enMr. E. P. Ownby, of the Twen hing regarding his wife's allegatered into an agreement to curtail third district, of Carroll coun is concerning his acquaintance production by shutting down two was fatally burned last week at 1 women of the stage. "It is a days-a week. The action is due to home. Miss Ownby was standi rate matter," says Col. Cody, unsettled conditions in the cotton before an open fireplace with d will all be settled in court. It and cloth market. back to the fire. Her clothing cerns no one but myself." came ignited. Unaware of her pe The output of coal in the Unitthe girl started into the kitchen Sixteen more indictments have ed States last year exceeded that of assist her mother with the WO n returned against prominent Great Britain by nearly 100,000,The mother saw the blaze zens of Oregon, charging them 000 tons. This is an advanced screamed, and Miss Ownby das h defrauding the government into the yard, the wind fanning stage in the progress in coal proof stone and timber lands. It duction which has been made in this flames. She was terribly burn alleged the accused are men of from head to foot. Doctors fr country in recent years. Arkansas lth and employed homesteaders Huntingdon went out, but co produced 3,000,000 of the 62,662,enter the lands which was deeded only partially ease her terrible S 662 tons mined in the southern them after being proven up. ferings. states. When; a little less than three Fall From a Pole. Andrew Carnegie has sent word eks hence, the World's Fair gates Last week while putting up e to President Roosevelt that he need ng open, practically all of the tric light wires in Bells, 0. L. not worry over the rumors that the structive work will have been acscn of J. D. Hill, editor of moneyed interests of Wall street Crockett County Sentinel, and pr nplished and virtually all of the are not disposed to chip in to the ident and general manager of ibits will be in their places. Evrepublican campaign fund. The Bells Electric Light and Po one of the great exhibition palfounder of libraries says he stands Company, fell from a thirtys is completed except in the matpole, striking the ground ready to contribute any reasonable of painting, and this will be length on his back. Those who sum up to $1,000,000, if necessary, ished long before April 30. him fall thought he was killed, to offset any defections by the rich A correspondent of the Globehe revived in a few minutes, Wall street men. mocrat, speaking of the convicwhile no bones were broken Fire at Tampa, Fla., destroyed n in federal court of Senator later developments showed no rton of using his influence in property valued at $300,000. The rious injuries, he was considera cigar factories of the Santa Ella bruised up. for of a fraudulent concern, says: Company, Sam Caro & Co., both of Truck Growers' Association. he downfall of Senator Joseph B. a rton removes from official life Chicago J. M. Martinez, L. SanAnother Truck Growers' Asso chez of Tampa, were the heaviest aracter which, in many of its tion has been formed by the pla ers of the northern part of M losers. The Santa Ella Company ases, defies analysis. ThroughI his career in Kansas Burton gomery county, near the Kentu lost $125,000 worth of tobacco, beline, with John Gower as preside med with indiscretion and sides a large number of fine cigars. J. N. Power, vice-president, and Fifteen blocks of business houses eighbored" with folly. From the E. Shinnick, secretary. The and nearly two hundred tenements ginning friendship with Burton pose of the organization is to in were destroyed. S a thing no follower pointed to est the planters in a diversity Three firemen lost their lives, sevth pride or contemplated with excrops to the exclusion of entire eral others were injured and a loss ation. It was rather a thing to tention to the growing of tobac explained or defended. And the of about $250,000 was caused by Smith Found Dead. st kindly criticism that is passed fire which destroyed the large plant Dr. A. W. Smith, a promir on Burton in Kansas that he had of the York Carriage company at citizen of Lauderdale county, moral sense." York, Pa. found dead in his dental labora John M. Dalton was convicted in Sarah A. White, an inmate of at Ripley last week. He was sub e poor house at Columbia, Mo., federal court at Chicago of swindto attacks of heart failure. He 10 died recently, left a will beling newspapers throughout the to Ripley in 1869 from Harde county, and fined $1,500. He was eathing to the Locust Grove Bapcounty, where, however, he had accused of organizing an advertist church property valued at sevsided but a short time, being a al thousand dollars. ing agency in which he swindled tive of Chatham county, N. C. several thousand newspapers. Congress has passed a special act School Bonds Sold. Hearst announces that he will creasing from $72 to $100 per Last week Ripley sold the $10 onth the pension of those who launch daily papers at Kansas thirty-year coupon school b ve lost both eyes or have become City, St. Louis and Indianapolis. recently issued to the Lauder Of course these papers will protally blind from causes accruing County Bank at 2 per cent. mium. There were several bid the military or naval service of mote his boom for the presidential nomination. e United States. but the bank got the entire issu With the suicide of Lieut. Com. Intending to take a dose of cough Child Burned to Death. Townsend Wharburton on the batedicine, Mrs. Robert Lyons of Near Gadsden last week tleship Maine at Pensacola another awnee, Ok., by mistake got hold Young's little 4-year-old daug a bottle of carbolic acid and chapter was added to the series of was burned to death on the a
