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HASENOUGH

Colombia Withdraws Snit Over

ruiminu Cnnal

Tho Investigation of tho Rcod Smbol

Case Begins Miners Strlko

May Bo Avoided

FLOOD AT TOLEDO OHIO

Now Orleans La March 2ThuA-aita of the Columbian governmentbrought In Paris to restrain the Pana ¬

ma Canal Company from deliveringtho canal property to the UnitedStates ncconlltfg to on authentic dos ¬

patch hero has been tottlod out ofcourt and tho suit bo withdrawn

SMOOT TRIAL BEGAN

Washington DO March IThoinvestigation into the right of trodSmoot Senator from Utah to retainhis seat in the U S Senate begantoday beforo tho SonMo committeeMany prominent Mormons aro presentand tho case is attracting unusual At ¬

tentlon President Joseph F Smithof tho Mormon church was tho tintwitness His testimony related to thohlitory Mud beliefs In tho Mormonchurch

FLOOD AT TOLEDO

Toledo March 2Thlt olty andsurrounding country is threatenedwith tho worst noel in history Tbocltyis already illlod with artificialRill water having backed into tbo pashouse It is feared tha low will boheavy

COMPROMISE PROBABLE

Indianapolis hid March 2ThuMinors and operators have snbiaittteda scale to tbo joint committee andhoiw a compromiso will be effectedand n strike avoided Great pressureis being brought on both operators nndminers to prevent tho closing of tho

i mines upon tho committee reportThursday

TilE URAIN SITUATIONI Chicago March 2Thu grain mar ¬

tats opened this morning with a showof renewed strength and Armour reported tho bull factor situation duo tohigher cables short covering and sev ¬

orAl crop rumor-

sLEGATION CLOSES

rVENEZUELANrMINISTERS SALARY HASh

BEEN STOPPED

I Washington DO Starch 2ThoVenezuelan legation in Washlutgon isto bo closed because President Castrohas stopped tho salary of MinisterHeinaudoz who however has notlien recalled

GUY DEAN FOUND

Owcnsboro Ky March 2A tele ¬

gram received from R S TrlplettWnco Tux snys Guy Dean is withmo ho Is all right

This clears tho mystery of tho youngcoal operator who has loon missingsince February 18 No explanationof his prolonged absence accompaniesthe ttelegram

COUNTY COURT

Will Olnik has qualified as n notarypablio

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REMAINSHERE

Funeral of the Late Engineer

Georgei

Ills Brother Cowing From Michigan

Ills Wife Arrives From

Louisville

ELKS TO BURY REMAINS

Tbo remains of tho Into EngineerQoorgo Tugg who was killed in thowreck yesterday morning near Prince ¬

ton Ky wero brought to the oily lastevening nnd taken to tho homo of hismothr ia law Mrs MnlvlnJ on WestJefferson street Tho funeral willtsko place tomorrow afternoon at 2

oclock from the first Presbyterianchurch under the auspices of tho Elksand tho burial will be In Oak Grovog

A brother of tho doscssed frontMichigan Is expected and his arrivaliis awaited by relatives

No 202 tho dead engineers engine

will be picked up today and broughtto tho local shops for repairs

Tao wreck occurred after a slowturn had been rounded and the engine

truck in such e position as to be

forced off tho tracks and thrown farofT the right of way

Tho big mixohlne was loft in such aposition that It will bo n bard matterfor the wrecklilB crow to right It butsuch dinicultlcH aro overcome on short

notice in railroad service Tho damngo to tho culgno can not bo estimateduntil brought to tho local shops forrepairs

This morning several big hniidsomofloral designs arrived from Louisvillefor Engineer Tugs grave Manyregrets nUll expressions of sorrow arehoard Mr Tagg being ono of themost popular men both as a railroadand a lodge circles in Faducnb

Yesterdays Louisville Times saysGeorge Tngg was ono of the best

known engineers on tho Illinois Cen ¬

tral railroad Ho was thirtynineyears old nnd lived at 1312 WetBroadway Ho leaves a widow MrsMolllo Tagg

Tagg was nn Englishman by birthbut canto to America with his parentswho live tit Battle Creek Mich whenn boy 110 had been employed by theIllinois Central Railroad company formany years and won the respect oftbo officials pt the company as beingone of tho most reliable men in thoservice

Ho moved to this city from Paducahtwo yenta ago and was engineer on

tho Illinois Central fast train No201 running between Lonisvillo andPaducah He was a Knight Templarand nn Elk

CIRCUIT COURT

Ono judgment wns filed in circuitcourt this morning It was in thecase of Lilllo Boyd Burnett againstClifton Burnett suit for divorce inwhich the decree is granted

CALLEDSESSION

Rules to be Considered by

School Board Tomorrow

Few Changes are Contemplated E-

xkept In Minor Matters Snpt

Lolb a Baseball Fan

ORGANIZING HIGH SCHOOL

It is expected that much Interestwill bo aroused in the school boardby the work of the committee on rulesand regulations appointed severalweeks ago by tbo board to reviseroles Dud regulations under which theschools have been running for several

yearsThorules and regulations now in

thinclasswith charters of tho second class nochango having boon made since thetransfer of Paducah from the thirdto tho iccond olnsis

Thorn era certain legislative powersgiven to tho board under third classchatters that are not in force undersecond class charters and n completerevision of the rules was necessaryIt is not known what roles will bochanged but it is said that no changesof material importance the manage ¬

ment of the school will bo made

Tho committee will report at thocalled meeting tomorrow night andthe board will vote on the changes re¬

commended

Superintendent C M Lolb of tboschools lU n baseball enthusiast anddelights in discussing the nationalgame

II When in college I was n memberof the university baseball team andenjoyed the sport immensely hestated this warning I have alwaysliked baseball from tho fact that I havebeen clo oly associated with piofoslion III baseball players who haveclimbed tho ladder to tho top Whenin my younger days I played ball inamateur teams with men who now orestare in tho National and Americanassociation teams and am proud thatI can claim an intimate acquaintancewith them

Prof Loib strongly favors a Highschool team but states that he doesntthink tho schools bore have muchgood material from what ho couldhoar Ho intends to encourage a highschool team if possible however

When dlsucBslng baseball Prof Lolbdrops into baseball slang and can nameoff players of national fame with therapidity of a Gatling gun Ho knowstho stars in all major and minorleagues and rays ho probably had n

good chance to play fast ball had ho

not thrown his whip awayWhilo a man of high intellectual

power he rosognlzes tho merits ofsuch harmless sport and does some

little baseball playing himself occa ¬

sionally in amateur teams

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SEIZED

OUR TUG

Insurgents at San Domingo Get ¬

tiug Holder Now

Three Moonshiners Killed In KenI

tucky Cleveland Rushes InPrint Again

2000 JAPS WOULDBE IIOBSONS

San Domingo March 2MlnIHtorPowell has been notified that tho insurgcnts at Sun Porao do Maroonshave seized tho American tug boatPorro of the Clyde lino Now Yorkand armed her Stops have beets takenfor the protection of all interests

RATTLE WITH MOONSHINERS-

OwingBville Ky March 2It Is

understood that moonshiners and rove

enuo men had a desperate battle inKnott county anti William and JohnHaildii moonshiners were killedand Jack Combs moonshiner was fa ¬

tally injured The men wore surprisedworking in a cavo it is understoodand ono revenue ocfllor was killed

CLEVELANDS REPLY

Princeton N J March 2Form-or

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President Grover Cleveland has is-

sued a statement denying that hoover said that hi taw no prospect ofnominating ft decent democrat thisyear Ho states that tho statementcredited to him is gratuitous misin ¬

formation to use no stronger phrase

WANTED TO BE IIOBSONS

Tokio March 2Admlral Toga re-

ports¬

that when the bottling up oftbo harbor was talked of 2000 Japanuso tailors wanted to man tho shipsSdmo of those on tho torpedo boatshaving no writing matcrialcut them ¬

selves and wrote in their own blood

CONFEDERATE REUNIONNashville Tonn March 2Tbon-

ew dnto for tho Confederate reunionJuno 14t 15 and lOhas boon approvedby Adjutant General William EMIokel of tho confederate veterans

SCHOOL BOOK COMMISSION

Frankfort March 2 GovernorBeckham has called a meeting of thestate school board commission forFriday for organization and puttingtho now law into effect

SUPPOSED LUNATIC RELEASED

Gcorgo Kingston a white man supposed to bo crazy was locked up lasttight It developed today that lio issuffering from excessive UEO of whlskey and opiates and lac will be released

this evening Ho hue been workingon Owens island and was caught runring about the hollow near tho cityhospital by Officers Beadles and Friant

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DEEDS

Clarence Rollins and others to JnoE Rollins for 1 and other considerations property near Fifth and Montoo streets

MEAGRETIDINGS

Have Come From the Far EastToday Battle May Be On

Possibly Officers are all tiusyJpaMight Bo Willing to

Negotiate4

ATTACK ON PORT ARTHUR

London March 2Thoro Is todayagain a dearth of war news from PortArthur on the Ynln river

This Is thought to bo significant asindicating a possible fight in progressat Port Arthur with tho officials toobusily engaged to send dispatches

JAPAN IS WILLING

London March 2Your correspondent this evening learns on the higheat diplomatic authority that no over-

tures¬

have yet been made to Japan orRussia relative to mediation If overtares should be made it is understoodJapan would give them careful atten ¬

tion and possibly agree if assured hervital Interests be sufficiently protect-

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MANY SPIES OAUGHT

Nagaski March 2Many allegedspies have been identified and impris ¬

oned in Japanese seaports recentlyOno spy who wag masking as a cooliewas found on n transport nnd jumpedoverboard and was shot when hearose in the water

NO ATTACK YET

Washington March 2Informationhas been received hero °fromJapanesesources that tho J ipancio attack onthe Port Arthur peninsular will notoccur for about a fortnight

NOT ENOUGH SHIPS

St Petersburg March 2A tole ¬

grant from Vlndivostock states thntthe Japanese fleet was recently seenoff that port is believed to have beenreserve vessels and not powerfulenough to blockade port

MORGAN RESIGNS

FORMER PADUOAHAN QUITSTHE GULF AND SHIP IS-

LAND RAILROAD

A dispatch from Gulfport Missstates that Mr Rio hard Morgan su ¬

perintendent of the Gulf and Ship Is-

land¬

railroad has tendered his resig-

nation¬

and will bo snccoded bo MrP M Seay chief dispatcher It isnot known what Mr Morgan will do

Mr Morgan was eight or ten yearsngo superintendent of tho Louisvilledivision of what lis now tho IllinoisCentral Ho had since been with thoGulf lull Ship Island Ho was in Pa-

ducah only a fow days ngo on bustI

floss

I Miss Grace Rnckcr has returnedfrom St Louis where sho had beenliving with hor aunt Mrs Fears

VIEW OF PORT ARTHUR SHOWING THE POSITION OF THE RUSSIAN VESSELS SUBSEQUENT TO THE NIGHT ATTACK

OF THE JAPANESE TORPEDO FLOTILLA AND DURING THE DAY BATTLE WITH THE JAPANESE FLEETTho Japanese demonstrated la their double attack on the Russian vessels at Port Arthur the Duality of their strategy First vticir torpedo boats were

permuted to bo seen In the hope of getting tile Russians to conic out after them when the entire Japanese acct would have joined In tho attack hailingIn this the Jnps trade their tupelo attack by night Then Instead of running In to put the crippled Russians out of commission and taking chances ofbeing Injured by the furls they remained at u distance of three miles as they realized that their superior inarUsmunshlp was n greater element In their favorat that range than at u shorter one

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IN FIRST a

DEGREE

William Lightfoot Convicted ofii

Murder at Memphisi

Tho Verdict Against Man Arrested In

Paducah Returned Last

Night

MANY EXPECTED ACQUITTALFyS

William Lightfootthe colored brakeman whowns arrested at Paducah afew weeks ago as be stappod aboardthe Illinois Contral pay car chargedwith tho murder of Roy Sloan avrhitoflagman who had como up from Mis ¬

sissippi was convicted nt Memphisand will got a sentence of death

Atornoys Eugene Graves who as ¬

listed the prosecution and DavoCross who assisted in the defense roolturned from Memphis last night and

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when thby left no verdict had been re ¬

turned Last night a telegram wasreceived that Sloan had been convict ¬

ed of murder in tho first degreeTbo outcome of tho trial was quitey

a surprise in legal circles bore WhenLightfoot bad a trial beforo Judge San-

ders hero on the charge of being a fu ¬

gitive from justice to determine who ¬

ther or not to send him back to Ten ¬

nessee the ovidenoo was regarded asweak Tho main thing incriminatingyywas that several white menwho might easily have been mistakenybecause of tbo resemblance of most col ¬

ored people testified that they sawSloan and Lightfoot together on thenight Sloan was knocked in tho headwitbtrlanternandkiiled hearWodistock Tonn-

Lightfoot swore he was In Paducahat tho time and proved it by severalreputable colored witnesses Evident ¬

ly the jury in Memphis did not believethese witnesses

The evidence was purely ciroum ¬

stautial and there aro a good manypeople hero who do not believe Lightfoot is guilty of the murder Sloan 3

was on his way to the pay car heroHo has a brother who is I O agentat Loltchfiold Ky Ono peculiarthing about the case howovor wasthat Lightfoot never could show howho had got from Fulton to PaducahHad he been able to do this bo might a

have proven an alibiAttorney Cross states that a number

of attorneys at Memphis who heardthe evidence expected an acquittal andAttorney Cross felt certain his ollcntjwould bo acquitted J

Todays Memphis Commercial Ap ¬

poalsaysWilliam

rightfoot was found guil-ty of murder in tbo first degree by ajury in the criminal court yesterdaymorning In rondoringits verdict thejury recommended tbo defendantwhom they had condemned to thomercy of tho court but as tbo lawsof this state prescribe In languagethat can not bo mistaken that a menIconvicted of murder in the first degreemust hang Judge Moss may have topass the death sentence upon Lightfoot

If tho verdict of the jury hadround that thero were mitigating airjutnstanoes in tbo caso and so statedin their verdict this law would nothave been effective As the verdictstands Jndgo Moss if be decides thata now trial should not bo accordedthe condom negro must pronounceontoncadiffcatb Thorn is no alter ¬

native himWhen tho verdict of the jury was

read Lightfoot showed no emotionwhatever A motion for a now tri alwas immediately mado by tho negrosCounsel nnd it will be argued Saturdap

TO MARRY IN COUNTY

Joseph S Carter of Jackson Tonna railroad conductor and Miss MattloE Uansdoll of Woodville this coun-

ty wero licensed to wed today

Mrs Ed McCutoheon and daughterare visiting the formers parents Mr

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and Mrs William Mc Catcheon ofMarshall 111 s