14
i
I w
w
rVOLXXI
33
Bright
L
New
Goods
Rolling in
Daily
IN THE MEANTIME WE
ARE SELLING
BROKEN LOTS
IN SHOES
AND CLOTHING
Tremendous Cuts
J H Anderson Co
ammmmtmrnmiffiimmmmmmmi
1 Petree
1 Begins
MillTil
I 1st
I ft
Annual
Spring
Cleanin
Sale
Cos I
W I
Ens
March
M
I Best Class of Goods
MK
at Lowest Prices 1
OUT PRICES ALL
ALONG THE LINE
This is Your Chance e
f to Save Money 2
Ipetreeco
tf
mrnw
LOUISVILLE JUNE 21
Democratic State Convention
Called By the Executive
Committee
County Conventions Ordered For
Saturday June 17 at the
Court Houses
The Democratic State Committees
met in Lexington at noon Wednes
day and in a brief joint session of
the State and Central Committees
Ollie M James ot Crittenden a
Stone man was elected to succeed
Senator Goebel as member from the
State at large The election was
by acclamation
The joint session then adjourned
for dinner and 3230 p m the Ex
ecutive Committee met with all of
the members present in person or
by proxy except V A Young of
the Ninth district
There were no important differ
ences of opinion and after a short
interchange of news a call was
agreed upon as published below
So far as could be learned the ac
tion was generally satisfactory to
the candidates There was some
talk of precinct meetings but as
this plan has never been followed
in electing delegates to conventions
to nominate State tickets the usual
simpler method of county mass con
ventions was adopted withoutmuch
opposition The chair then ap
pointed Messrs Trimble Meacham
and Dishman to prepare the call
and a recess was taken for thirty
minutes The sub committee re
ported the followingcall which was
adopted by a unanimous vote
The Official Call
At a meeting held by the Demo
cratic State Executive Committee
in the city of Lexington on March
8 1899 it was ordered that a State
Convention be held in the city ot
Louisville on Wednesday June 21
1899 for the purpose of nominating
Democratic candidates for State
offices to be voted for on November
7 1899 Said convention shall be
called to order at 1 1 oclock a m
Delegate- to said State Conven
tion shall be chosen at county mass
conventions to be held at the vari
ous county courthouses in counties
having but one legislative district
of which due notice shall be given
by the various county chairmen In
counties having more than one leg
islative district there shall be a
convention for each legislative dis
trict to be held at some convenient
point to be indicated by the chair
man of the Legislative District
Committee who shall advertise in
the local papers the location for
said convention at least ten days
prior to the date fixed by this com
mittee Said county and legisla
tive district conventions shall be
held at 3 oclock p m standard
time on June 17 1899 Said con
ventions shall be called to order by
the chairmen af the respective
county or legislative district com
mittees
The basis of representation of
eacli county to the said State Con
vention shall be one delegate for
each 210 votes and fraction con
sisting of 100 or more votes cast for
the head of the Democratic electoral
ticket at the Presidential election
in 1S90 provided that each county
sdiall have at least one delegate
vote
All known Democrats and others
who supported V J Dry an for
President and those who pledge
themselves to support the nominees
of said convention shall be entitled
to participate in the county and
legislative district conventions
P P JoJinsok Chairman
Owen Cochran Secretary
Resolution As To Convention
The following resolution was
adopted by the Executive Commit
tee in reference to arrangements
for the convention
That Mr John W Vreeland the
resident member of the Executive
ooi iwUiisville be des-
PfrJ vllfsJVv w
CBf jj
HOPKINSVILLE KENTUCKY FRIDAY MARCH 10 1899
all the details and make prepara
tions for the holding of the State
convention It being understood
that a guarantee fund has been
subscribed and will be collected
by him todefray the expenses of the
convention without cost to this com
mittee
The Committee then adjourned
BERRY AIASON
A Washington Young Man Eloped
With a South Christian Belle
Mr Claude Nathaniel Berry of
Washington D C a young rail
road man connected with the South
ern road and Miss Sarah Mason
daughter of Mr M A Mason of
The Square eloped from this city
toClarksville Wednesday evening
and were married that night upon
their arrival there They returned
here yesterday morning
Mr Berry is a young son of a
prominent railroad man He ar
rived here Monday and the out
come of his visit was the elopement
as above stated
WHEAT DAMAGED
In Counties Where There Was
Light Snowfall
Commissioner of Agriculture Moore
has received reports from several
sections on the result of the freeze
on the wheat crop He saj s that in
the eastern section of the state the
wheat was protected by six inches
of snow and was not materially
injured In other sections the snow
fall was lightand with the water in
the ground the crop has been con
siderably damaged
Colored Country Couple
Jake Wallace and Mariah Nar
singer a colored couple from the
country were married by Judge
Cansler in the County Clerks office
w
entaktat
DEMOCRATIC HOSTS
Are in Town To day to Attend
the Railroad Convention
Will Be Called to Order at 2 p m
In the Circuit Court
Room
The Democratic District Conven
tion to nominate a Railroad Com
missioner in this the First District
will meet at 2 p m to day at the
Court House The convention -will
be called to order by Hon J D
Mocquot of Paducah chairman of
the district committee
The district embraces 13 counties
of the First district 8 of the Second
10 of the Third 7 of the Fourth and
Metcalfe county in the Eleventh
district The 39 counties have 420
votes distributed as follows using
The bride is the accomplish the Bryan vote as a basis of
and vivacious daughter of one of
Christian countys largest land
owners and most prominent citi
zens She is still in her teens but
during the few seasons she has
been in society has been a reigning
belle not only in this county but in
other cities vv here she has visited
The young couple were met at
the train yesterday morning by a
large delegation of their friends
and the fair bride as she alighted
was pelted with a shower of rice
Mr and Mrs Berry will prob
ably remain in the city a day or
two until parental forgiv eness can
be obtained It is not thought it
will be difficult to convince the
parents of the bride that the young
people knew their own hearts best
HARRIS CHILDS
Kentucky and Tennessee Young
People Joined in Wedlock
Mr Thomas Harris son of Dr
J k Harris of this city and Miss
Ora Childs ol St Bethlehem Tenn
were married Wednesday afternoon
at the home of the bride Rev L
W Smith of Franklin performed
the cereinon v
The groom has for some time been
connected with a Guthrie dry goods
house in the capacity of salesman
and is a very popular voting busi
ness man while his bride is a
pretty and accomplished lady with
a host of friends The couble ar
rived in this city last night on a
visit to the grooms parents
M and Mrs Harris will make
their future home near St Bethle
hem where Mr Harris will engage
in 1 arming
LIGHTNINGSCAPER
Tobacco Barn Struck But the
Flames Quenched By Rain
During the rain storm of last Fi i
day night lightning struck the to
bacco barn of Messrs Long iV
Brasher near Casky Several
planks were knocked from the root
of the building and the comb was
set on fire but the llames were soon
extinguished by the heavy down
pour of rain The barn was filled
vv i Hi tobacco and the owners had a
narrow escape from heavy loss
sentation
VOTE I5Y COUNTIES
Allen 7
Ballard
Barren 15
Breckenridge 11
Butler
Caldwell 8
Calloway 13
Carlisle
Christian
Crittenden
Daviess
Edmonson
Fulton
Graves
Grayson
Hancock
Hardin
Hart
Henderson
Hickman -Hopkins
Larue
Livingston
Logan
Lyon
Marshall
McCracken
McLean
Meade
Metcalfe
Mon roe
Muhlenberg
Ohio
Simpson
Todd
Trir
Union
Warren
Webster
8
16
8
25
4
7
23
10
5
14
10
20
10
17
7
Id
10
15
i
S
5
4
8
to
8
9
8
1
19
12
Total 420
The nomination of Judge 1 F
Dempsey of Hopkins county is a
foregone conclusion He has an in
structed majority of the delegate
votes and will probably be nomina
ted without the formality of a roll
call Mr Harry Tandy of Mc
Cracken and Mr Webb C Bell of
Christian may be given some com
plimentary votes if there is a call
of counties but neither is a candi
date in the sense of making an ef
fort to secure the nomination
With the nomination of the can
didate settled in advance the con
vention will partake more of the
nature of a Democratic love feast
with a general round up of the can
didates for the state oflices nearlv
all of whom will be on hand
In order to give these gentlemen
an opportunity to meet and mingle
with the dear people and thePen
nyrile people are the best on earth
there will be no effort to rail
road matters through the conven
tion The convention will organ
ize after the arrival of the 150 p
m train and probably appoint
committees to report af a night ses
sion and give the afternoon up to
the candidates to address the con
vention
It is not expected that anything
will be proposed in the platform to
create discord in the party An
endorsement of the Chicago plat
form and the good work done by the
last legislature is aboui all that
will likely be touched upon Reso
lutions of this conservative charac
ter would of course be satisfactory
NO 20
with no opposition from the friends
of any candidate
The candidates for State offices
will be on hand Among those now
here or due to arrive on the morn
ing trains are the following
I or Governor P Wat Hardin
William Goebel and W J Stone
For Lieutenant Governor W P
Tliorne J E Kelly and M D
Brown
For Auditor Gus Coulter and
Jno P Chenault
Attorney General W B Flem
ing Jas Andrew Scott and John
Shropshire Smith
Secretary of State Green R
Keller J Breck Hill
Treasurer R C Ford Gu
Richardson Jess T Gosnell S W
Hager
Supt ol Public Instruction- H
V McChesney M A Cassidy
Commissioner of Agriculture Dr
Frazee
The delegates began to arrive on
the afternoon trains yesterday
afternoon in large numbers The
I C train brought in about 30 and
the L N tram from Henderson
brought a big crowd from the river
counties
At night the First and Third dis
trict delegates and prominent visit
ors from Louisville and other points
came in and the rest of the dele
gates will arrive on to day strains
Capt Stone has head quarters
on the first floor of Hotel Latham
and Senator Goebel is in room 210
on the parlor floor Mr Coulter is
at the Phoenix and his opponent
Mr Chenault at the Latham Most
of the other candidates are at the
latter hotel
The organization of the conven
tion had not been given much con
sideration last night as the great
body of the delegates did not ar
rive until late in the night
It is probable that by general
consent a Stone man will be agreed
upon for temporary chairman and
that the committees will consist ot
one member from each of four dis
tricts and two or three members
from the district at large on each
committee with a fair representa
tion to each ol the gubernatorial
candidates
CAN BE RAISED
Thinks Capt Ryman Owner of
the Boat Buttorff
Capt Thos Rinan owner ol the
Buttorff sunk at Clarksv ille has
made a minute examination ot the
vessel and thinks that she can be
raised and that it will probably not
cost more than SI 500 to accomplish
the work No attempt will be -made
to float the vessel until the watei
recedes however There is talk ot
lawsuits growing out ot the disas
ter Several thousand dollars
worth of goods were lost and the
ow ners may try to hold the ow ner
of the steamboat responsible on the
plea that the accident could have
been avoided
cFrcuit court
Commonwealth Cases to be Called
To day The Wadlington Case
Civil matters have occupied the
attention ofthe court this week and
no cases of great importance havi
been disposed 1
The case of Joseph McRov
charged with seduction was con
tinued to the June term
The cases of Roy Bowles indict
ed for robbery Charles Thomas
murder and Griffin Ross aiding
prisoner to escape are set lor trial
to day
The Wadlington murder case is
set for next Monday
FIERSON SMYTHE
Young Lady Well Known Here
Weds in Nashville
Miss Adelia Smythe sister of
Mrs J B Galbreath of this city
and Mr Walter B Fierson of
Fierrson Tenn were married
Wednesday evening at 8 oclock at
the residence of the bride s parents
Mr and Mrs J C Smythe in Nash
ville The ceremony was perform
ed by Rev Shumoclc of Mississippi
Mrs Galbreath attended the wed-
W
I
a