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DAILY KENTUCI CIAN ; WEATHER. w a Satardsy, local raia Baal -CREATF.R HOrKINS. X Z VILLE WANTS YOU." ( tkaasW skewers, g i Established 1879 VoL XL-3)aily Vol. 1. No. 96 HOPKINSVILLE, KENTUCKY, SATURDAY. JUNE 29, VJS. Price 3 Cents I' EDITORIAL COMMENT Call 44t H yaa faU la Ika Kaalackiaa promptly. Aad il Jon have aawa iteaa, aaaaa il la Ika Ftaaa apara of three blocks an South Main Street In Hopkinaville aii Captaina have been eommiaeio- ed in tha army. Von Kauhlmann hai gotten him self In bail by telling the truth, a thlna; no German official ia expected to do. Senator Williams, of Misaiaaippl haa introduced an amendment to the Susan B. Anthony Suffrage amend ntent limiting sufferage-to white wo men. Tha emaaure was take up by tha Senata for action. Lieut. Ale MrClintock. U. 8. A., of Lexington, shot and killed himaelf at Camp Dlx, N. J., yeaterday. He distinguished himaelf in tha Cana dian Army and wrote hia story call ad "Oyer There." Contenting themaelvea for the thni being with having run the A us traina out of tha territory they at tempted to invade, tha Italiana are not following them up. Only local lighting ia now going on along tha Italian front Congressmen Wanton and Wil son, Of Texas, fngaged in an undig nified fist fight Thursday but were pulled apart before they fad done anything further than to disgrace themaelvea. They fought over a pair arrangement and proved that both of them would not make one Con gressman that Texaa could fee' proud of. Count Gilbert da la Layette, who .was serving as servant in the French artillery, was killed in tha fighting In Champagne June IS, says thejf""' increased strength of the Paria edition of the New York Her- market but the three outstanding aid. Ho is the third descendant of .Lai'ayatU who baa met death ia taalweaeea on the Italian and rrencn waf. Svveral squadrons of enemy air planetl penetrated tha defrnsea of the Pari d!'''rt Thursday night. Anti aircraft iMttenra violently shelled thenya Several bomha were dropped and 4riil damage waa done There went few victim. Tha alarm waa sounded at 10:39 a. m., and the "all clear" aignal at 12:05 p. m. PURELY PERSONAL H. M. Gardner haa gone to Paw- son to spend a few days. Ben l. Hill, Jr., who ia at the! Medium lugs. King's daughter Hospital at Colum-jGood lugs ... bis. Tenn., ia slowly approaching, Fine lugs ... convalescence. Low leaf.... Mrs. Uwson FUck left yesterday Common leaf. turn to this city to reside. Mrs. A. M. Wallis and Mrs. J. H. Brown are at Dawson for a wek. j Judge C. II. Buh left yesterdsy 'for a visit to his daughter in Califor nia. Miss Sarah Belle McTherson is vieitmg Mr. J. D. McPherson's fam ily in Madisonville. Mrs. R. J. Johnson and son, Rob , ert, of Middlesborough, are visiting Miss Fsnnie Phelps. Master Fentress Bailey, of Lex ington, is visiting Mrs. W. A. Wade, hia aunt Mrs. M. G. Runt has returned from visit to Todd county. John G. Elli. i. at home after a Ciait to relatives in Jones bo ro, Ark. Messrs. John Rudd and 1 8. It. HelUley, of Clifty. To,ld county were here yesterday on business. Mrs. J. P. Strobe, of Oak Grove, returned home Thursday after a vis It to her brother, W. A. Kenner, of Louisville. HIDDEN BEAUTY. She may be pretty, 1 don't know. She wears a floppy hat i cannot get a peep below Its brim, so wide and flat That she ia pretty folks agree, Tha young men have It pat But 1 cant say. I cannot see Beneath her floppy hat Courier-Journal. ' ' Are Yes) SareT The floppy hat, so broad and thin, Only allows a show of chin. If 70 could see beneath that hat . Xn'i Ca4 that. UL EBI czar's AUSTRIA HUNGARY IN THROES OF All EMPIRE-WIDE REBELLION AND FOOD WEED COBBLED UP GREEDILY HIGH PRICES RULED THROUGH OUT WEEK WHILE DELIVER IES ARE BELOW NORMAL High pricea were the rule the paat week on everything offered on tha loos floors, but the deliveries were light aa compared with other mora seasonable weeks. The aver age for tha paat week waa f 14.68, wl.ich ia 60c above the season's aver age, and indicatea the trend of tha aarket and the eagerness of tha buyers for everything in sight. Several reasons may be assigned one are prooaoiy me recent Ainexi Iron Is, greater output 01 tno snip yards and increased transportation facilities, and tha proaiective short crop for 1918. The salea for the aeanon today are now about 8.000.000 pounrie ahead 1 L. . - ...... ftkia ,11 m The week report follows: LOOSE FLOORS. Salea for the week 2K.7fiO Iba. Sales for season. . . .2I.200.S15 Ib.s Sales this date 16.285.9J0 lbs Average for the week $14 68 Average for the season.... S14.1R QUOTATIONS. Trash. $11.50 to $12.50 .. $12.60 to $13 Common lugs. $13 to 13.5(1 ..$13 50 to $14 CO $14 to $1.1 medium icai . I Good leaf... 'Fine leaf.... , $19 to $25' U B. CORNETTE, President Tobacco Board of Trade. IS NICHOLAS DEADT Rumors arc persistent that the former Cxar of Russia haa been mur dered and that hia young son has died. The report that he had been, u Wood has been appointee removed to Moscow has not been -aovrrni),rn, A1,K.tt Aircnt to iUC. rifled, but Moscow papers ssy his; , f,).8liy iSovur ho whreabouts is not definitely known. I jn lh mnnllril ,t u the A dispatch from Copenhsgen Tns nu of ,(J A , Awi.nt l0 w day quoted a Russian paper as ylnllrnt the v 8. (;ovorment in al Russian Rd tiu.r.U had murdered i g rl(t,, ,, ,he ,rufl rt.RU. rticnoiaa in nis raiiicnce at iiuwr ,nburg. who gava out the report that,,.. Th- dutj( of th, of. he had been taken to Moscow. A dispatch Thursday from Kiev dsted June ZD says me report oi nis mur der hss been confirmed. A Geneva dispatch on Juno 27 says tha Uk raine bureau at Lausanne announc ed it haa received confirmation of the report that tha bolshevik! au thorities at Yekaterinburg condemn ed Nicholas Romanoff, the former Russian emperor to death after a short trial and then shot him. De tails of tha report are lacking. The pre as boys are still knocking on that K. P. A. meeting at Crab Orchard about ten years ago. One thing that we remember la that the cald victuals left over from luncheon waa served that night at tha ban- qust, and our recollection ia that the speeches, one of which this veracious chronicler made himself, were not much better than tho banquet moat of tha orators being like the hungry tramp who refused to say grace be - 'causa "ha talked beet after ha had jet" ' LOOM IN RIOTS PREVAIL (By lateraatioaal Now Service.) Amsterdam, June 28. Hangsmen and firing squads are working over time in Austria-Hungary. Two thousand troops have been condemn ed to be shot as traitors aa a result of mutinies in Hungarian towns not far from Budapest. Bolshevism ia rampant ni the ranks of the army aa well aa in big citiea of the dual Mon archy. Budapest ia a scene of con stant street fiichting, food and peace riots. An rmpirc-widv rebellion is indicated. RUSSIAN QUESTION. Washington, June 2K rl'reaident Wilaon had a long conference with French Ambassador Juuerand at the White House today, which ia un derstood to have related almost ex clusively to pluns for aiding Russia. No official statement was authorized. ABOUT TO TELL TRUTH. (By lateraatioaal New, Service.) Washington, June 2H. Hungarian newspapers indtcalo lluil ut tha open ing of thia week 00,(100 workmen were on strike in Budapest. MEXICO IN TR (By InterasliuMsl Nwa Service.) VV..liii i::i I., .'uie "R. liiff.-reii res between the I'md'd State nnd MiMio, 1 1 r i: nit; 'ni r l'un! it jlional claims of the former for certain rights in the oil fields, lire in a fair, way to be adjunU'd, according to a nrominent attorney for the United A ATO " ,0 l4 r,! Suites o.l inUrehU who left here to $14.60 to ll5-60'njKht to r,..,uim. conversations with ..$15.50 to W Mexican olliciuU in Mexico City. $17 to $1'J KANSAS CITY GETS FIRST. (By laUrsalional New Srr.) Chicago, June 2H.- K.ai.-uta City received ten cars of new wheat out of a total of 17 cars inspected in that market All of good quality. WOOD SUCCEEDS SOYARS. .. i..i I.....-.I i. ik ... -- k.u l.iit ..urru nn ramlin. eration DRAFT ACES I II (By InUrnalioasI News Service.) Washington, June 2X. The Sen ate deferred to the War Depart ment's request this afternoon and killed the Fall amendment to th Army bill, intrtssiiig the draft to 10 to 40. The vote was 49 to 25 against tho amendment. Senators accepted the recent statement of the Secretary of Wsr. Chief Staff, and Provost Marshal that a large army program be submitted in September. 1 - .. In the air raid on Pari Thursday sight, 11 wr kllUlaod 14 Wjursd. REMA N AS NOV murd: OURTI 01 BILL PASSED 1 IT YET (By International News Sorvl.) Washington, June 28. Tha $8, 000,000,000 Bond bill authorising tha fourth Liberty Loan waa passed by the House today after a debate of less than hour. A viva voce vote was taken and lack of opposi tion made a roll call unnecessary. BELIEVED TO BE FATALLY HURT Bffi JESSE SMITH BADLY CRUSHED!b,e M to reu,u- AND ALMOST DISEM BOWELED. Jesne Smith was probably fatally hurt while threshing wheat at P. M. Barker's near Edgoten, yeaterday. While backing the engine up to eon- n"" ? 7"" l "P" k. I.... . ...,.L ," . .i.i. .... k. i i . . ,i , .L t... L ... ix, going almost tnrouga nia ooay. Um k-i. a i- I w.n- ed. He ia about 40 years old and a man of family, whose home ia in Tennessee. CASUALTY LIST. I Wa.himrtnn. J una 17 Th srmvimsde ssitil today. The labor of go- casualty liat today contained names, divided aa follows: Killed in action, 29. v g0 Died of wounds, 6. Died of accident and other causes Died of disease, 2. Died of airplane accident 1. Wounded severely, II. Wounded, degree undetermined, 4 Missing in action, 2. The previously reported missing are now reported returned and one Three previously .T ported missing known to have been killed in action. Total army casualties: Killed in action 1.451 Died of wounds 45, Died of disease 1,280 Arrid.nt an.l other umi' . mi) Wounded sll dera. i 059. prisoners) 369, Total 8.963 Harrison (inltsaiore, of Jellico Creek. Ky., and Aloysius Poleham of Irvington, Ky. wera among the killed. Yesterdsy'a casualty list show $1 dead, 24 wounded and one prisoner. The Kentuckian killed In action were: Private Gilbert Wilson, of Wof ford. Severely wounded: Corporal Mu riel 8. Morrison, of Cloverport, and Private Zed H. Adams, of Newport The marine casualty list shows 24 dead and 26 wounded. Kentuckians died of wounds and in action: Private George P. Linnemsnn, of. Covington. Wounded in action severely t Pri vate Martin L. Pariaon, of Falmouth. LOST THEIR BABY. A little son of Mr. and Mrs. C U. Ledford, of ' Thompkinsville, died Thursday night of stomach trouble agsd tea months. Th body was taken to Roaring Springs for burial. Th British steamship AUaatlan, ladan with munitions, was sunk by a U-bost In loothara wster. No. data II waf jriven. BRITISH MAKE A AND PENETRATE FOR A MILE ON MADjjRIDAY VIGOROUS WORK WAS DONE BY THE COMMITTEES BUT RESULTS UNKNOWN. The War Savings Stamps drive was made in Christian county yes terday, but figures were not avail- In the city committees of ladies canvasned the city and at both the southeast and northweat corners at Ninth and Main Streets gateways were place! across tne smewsiKs leaving a narrow opening guarded by one or more young ladies who solic ited every one who paaacd. They v. I .11 H T,ud.v and ling subscriptions. A lug sign on leach side read "Look, Lick and I.oos- en." The canvassers met with . . , re'ly resHnses. the minimum sub- scnpcion awavu iwi in iin wmhw" liatrict being $20. Other commit tees canvassed tha reaii.i rv lions. The work in the country il stricta lias been going ahead all of the week. , but a compilation will not bo i , .t .i i- i mg over Wie tnousaruia oi cartis mi jso greot, that the figures will not be .available for several days. -. : i Last night "booster campaign' WM Panned " the War Savings. Stamps drive, with a band wagon and a bunch of epeakera who intended to visit the following points in the city: West Side school yard. at 7:30 p.m. Imperial Tobacco factory, 8 p. m. Va. Street school yard, 8:16 p m. Mi Cord's Grocery. High St, 8:43 High school yard, 9:16 p. m. Ninth and Main streets. :30 p.m. A rainstorm that came up about 9 o'clock put an end to all out-door ex wises Minora a grocery. Speeches were msde by C. R. c'lrk Jiut- Breathitt. Jr., Mr. Martin, visitor: R A. Cook, Rev. Everett 8. Smith and R. C. Ware. During the rain, Mr. Ware spoke at the Rex. neater lor a iew m.nu.w. REFRESWS RAIN III CITY MANY PARTS OF COUNTY STILL EXCEEDINGLY DRY AND UNTOUCHED. The long looked for lain tell yes- tarday In Hopkinsvill and Gracey and their vicinities and people are rejoicing at tha abundance of it However, there was but little rain fall in the neighborhood of LaFay etu, Pembroke, and Crofton and none of any consequence at Fair- view. It was staled upon good authority STAMPS DRIVE that there was a rainfall of three Deputies. Minister of the Interior inches in th city of Hopkinsville Pama readily agroed to th propoai and th report would indicate aa tioa. United States Ambassador much or mors at Gracey. Thar wasj every appearanc her that tha rain waa a general one- but m porta are otherwise. I la th parti wherVlittl or a rain Very choke Una f Cut Flow II th ground la very dry and ereps'at Mtalf'a s wall aa Toms to and fall at suffering- vary vrly. AUSTRIA ' ER DENIED LOCAL DASH GERMAN LINES 31 NILE FRONT (By lateraatioaal News Service.) London, June 28. On a front of three and one-half miles tha British troops in Flanders today advanced their lines in local operations to a depth of nearly mile, taking 300 prisoners and 22 machine guns. The hamlets of Lepinette, Varyerue and Laborque wera captured. British casualties were light. Field Marshal Haig announced in his night report. VIENNA HEARD FROM. (Bv lateraatioaal Now, Sarvica.) Vienna, Juie 28. Freah Italian attempts to cros the Piave were frustrated, says today's War Office announcement. BRITISH IN ITALY. (By loloraatioaal Newa Sarvke.) Home,' June 28. Moderate artil lery activity along tha whole front was reported by tha war office late today. On A.iago Plateau the Brit- trencnes, tne statement saia. :3 UNDER CALL The Kentuckian publiahed in ita columns yeaterday tha call for men of soma special training or fitness to volunteer for service. The call h 'for men in class one of the draft. fMomn. "The government is calling for men of grammar school education. Mil Hritk sama av-1. n i- I vnariani! (or an aptitude for such work J ik.i..i.k. i electricians, and radio operate. The" quota has not been fixed for ttto time. If a sufficient number have not volunteered by July S, the local board will proceed to draft the num ber needed. These men may volun teer up to and including July 2 and will have to report to the Command ing Officer, University of Kentucky , v t Ah.dy young m,n hav. ,unuered under thia calL They 'are Ernest Rhea. Whit Raiford and Eugene Burnetts. The quota for Chru-tian county will likely be much larger than tha number already vol unteered, but several others are ex pected to volunteer before tha date closes. Thia ia an opportunity that should appeal to every young man of the draft since he receive hia training at the expense of the Gov ernment FRANCE VILL OBSERVE JULY 4 (Be lateraatioaal New Ssrvlse.) Pans. June 28 Demand that the Fourth of July become a French holiday waa made in th Chamber of Sharps, who was present in tha dip- lomatir. gallery, waa wildly acclaimed by th Chamber. F Fianta. , ' 9t3t. OUMER FORMER IS STILL ALIVE SAYS BERUil (By lateraatioaal News Servlas.) London. June 28. Tha Russian mltassadnr at Berlin tonight denied) all rt'purta that ex-Cxar Nicholas haa hern murdered. Tha former Emperor ia safe in Russia, tha Ata- baassdor declared, according to an Exchange Telegram from Amstec dam. From many aourees cam re ports of his death by execution and hia resurrection tonight earn as a distinct scrprise and added to tha puxxle offered to political student by the sudden swarm of reports and rumors regarding tha Russian situa tion. Not a few generally well in formed people here, ventured 'uhs suggestion that the whole thing ia a playedup scheme to distract atten tion from the Western front R a mora Frosa Russia. Alt kinda of rumors continua to come out of Russia. The assassination of tha former Cxar is one of them, but while tha rumor comes from several sources. It lacks confirmation. A Copenhagen dispatch yesterday raid the BaLsheviki govrrnment in Moscow bad been overthrown by Gen. Komilolf, supported by German troops. Ahto that Grand Duke Nich olas haa been proclaimed as empor or ami that Lenine and Trotsky hsva fled. Pi rsx & k Pi to FOLLOWING THE FLAG Fred Higgina, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. I). Higgins, haa arrived safe over-' Frank Ritter, of Madisonville, well known here, has gono to tha Great Lake Training camp for tha "vy' ML"-MJ'ri' l,bo,"' t"'"Ph' at the H. B. M. A. office, haa received ,,UtJj" th,t hr ld''K bth" ;" .'"""J' "5 North tl.a k.il imvM Ufa nw.M. Dr. Robt. L, Woodard, one of tha leading surgaona of Hopkinsville, haa been commissioned as n captain in th M. R. C, and ordered to report for (uty July 5. He volunteered his ser vices several months ago. Dr. Ben F. Eager graduated from the Northwestern Medical College ia Chicago thia week and will soon re port for duty in th Medical Reserve Corps, having ben In reserve while finishing hia education. Hia moth er, Mrs. B. F. Eager, who was there. has returned horn. Lieut Edith Smith, the first wo man vr given a bona no eommsv aion in th Unitsd 8tatea Army, la on duty at Ft McPherson, Atlanta, hard at- work giving anesthetics la th operating room of General Hos pital No. 6. She In acting aa a con tract surgeon. Lieut Smith is a gra duate of th Ohio University School of Medicine. First Lieut T. T. Little pssssd through Hopkinsville Thursday on routs from Ft OgletKrope to hia home la Calvert City to se hi wif and children before reporting at Camp Devens, Mass.. to go oversea. Lieut Little ia a member of tha Med ical Raeerv Corps, and haa Juat completed his training. He waa a gradual classmate of H. A. Robinson In th 8outhrn Normal School in 1904 in Bowling Green and yester day was their first moating In 14 years but each recognised th other instantly.