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r t n uen btniugI nnIVOL XXIII NO 8G PADUCAH KY TUESDAY EVENING APRIL 21 1908 TEN CENTS PER WEEK

MRS MEADOWS

FALLS VICTIM TO

FULTON SCANDAL

Womans Husband ChargedPreacher With Alienating

Her Affections

Believed That Young Man of

Clinton Was Murdered

omov OOUXTV MAX WAKXKI

Fulton KyI April 21 After anillness extending over n period olmore than a year tits Llnnlo Meadown wife of w W Meadows of UiUcity breathed hbr lout In St lmikeshospital at St Louis where she hadbeen a pntluilt ulnttj leaving FultonTaxi summer HIT father A TMUchull was at hor bedsldo at dnatliThe attending phyiilctaiw or that Instituttnn say that the disease cuftcnIng of ttiu brain which reunited Indeath this mornliiK had been preyingupon heri for a number of years TheHKMdRtt bearing the sad tidings waxmclved by air Meadows this morningwho lent for Bt Louis on the firsttide iircnmpunled by ids daughterMiss Mary

The remains will be sent to NorthMlddlitown Ky for Interment I1JI thed < coaxed had a number of tins oxpiPMed a desire to bo burled there

Mm Meadows whit be rememberediu the woman In the MendowBHnwIoyt ase In which the husband accusedtheI Iluv IPrank hawley of alienatinglLtsI Meadows affections Countersuits for 100000 damages were enIt rod and compromised The scandalIif considered responsible for MrsMeadows death

Tom White Not foundClinton IKy April 21Tgai-

Ntdte the young tuna who myster ¬

iously dtakMared In Hlckmnn countyten daya ago leaving his your wifeand child In timer pretty countr >

homo between Orutchflold and Clin ¬

ton has nut boon loantud yett nnd nilbOIlIInfar that ho has bean murdered andhta holy hidden It Is wolf knownIthat he had quite a mini ofhis person tho morning ho dlropMnrt d Time day before he sold n tine-

patrl of inukw to Woodford Illngo andTom Drewry at Clinton for whichhit received J400 It Su understoodthat he was to deposit the moneywlih another large sum at Moscow thenext day and It was between hishomo and Moscow that in Is believedho met with foul play Mr Whitefntlier of the young man who isawealthy farmer residing near Cayce

In Fulton county will not give up thosearch and ho will bo assisted byDave Thrown the father of time youngmans wife as well as others who areInterestedJ Tow White Is one of themust popular young men of Hlckmancounty and his mysterious disappear ¬

ance has created quite an excitement

llunllrk QiiltM HuslmfKUnion City April 2IJ C Bur

dick of Union City one of the oldestand matt prominent merchants ofOblon county received a pepper signed

iilsiit riders warning him to close-

out his business nnd leave the comipiinlty at once Mr Uunllck throughan agreement with J C Hurrls own ¬

er of Heelfoot lake has had a monop ¬

oly on the nth autvut since tho lastniHng of the leglelaturo and the fish-

ermen

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becoming Incensed at being

forced to accept Hurdlcks prices furtheir fish adopted the methods ot tho

night riders and after destroyingseveral fish docks on pie lake areeeeklng vindication In the destructionof the property of Mr Uurdlck We

learn trout a reliable source that Burdick will sell out and quit the busi-

ness

IliifKlnry lit llnnhvrllFitftonKjp April 21A tele

phono mesBago was received fromIJardwell last night Iby CJlef Kakerrequesting him to look out for burg ¬

lars who broke Into the UardwellHardware companys taro and stoleabout 22 razors nail 27 fine pocket-

knivesI

the only trace loft was n

black derby hat slro 7e and a whltofelt hot was taken front the store Thepocket knives nro stamped on theblades llardwcll Hardware Co andrazors bearing the Keen Kutterbrand made by the Simmons Hard ¬

ware Co

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BRYAN AND HARMON

Cincinnati April 21Dryan haschosen Judson Harmon illl his run-

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mate on the presidential ticketaccording to Harmons friends More-

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ho promised Harmon If theDemocratic ticket Is elected he will

ask congress to make the vicepresi ¬

dent ex offlclo a cabinet member

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Murray Harris is Caught at Home

by Constable Clint Drinkard Who

Has Been Chasing Calloway RidersI

Judge Wells Appears at Louis

vile But Ho Declines to be

Interviewed on Subject by

Newspaper Men

Ixmlsvlllo Kjr April SIflpeel-milCouimly Judge Well of CalImvuy iiiiinly Is hen He refills Co

talk of tin sit uatlun except to sal liuhellevoN the Imrklmiie of the nightrliliTM N broken He IN not going tolhriinkfort ntul tins nut wen Dm govrrnor

The Cincinnati Enquirerh this mornlute said Judge Wells win HiMIng fromnight riders and this Incensed hint

Murray Ky April 21SpecialMurray Harris Is In the custody of

the county olllclals again and willtestify before the grand Jury against

I the night rider bands on the west-

sideI of time county Harris In theyoung nuts who confessed and Impli¬

cated other members of the bandwhich has been operating aroundKIrkeey Afterwards the night ridersmade such bold threats that his ownfamily drove him Into exile to pro ¬

tect Ids life and theirs Ills capturewas effected by Constable ClintDrinkard the bravo oltlcor whose

whosetl1otseing with a rile Drinkard has dovoted his time since tho burning ofhg store to running down the nightriders In his neighborhood Hebrought Harris Into town this mornIng Harris testimony was abso¬

lutely necessary In the chain of evi-

dence¬

against the Klrksey nightriders He will not be allowed out ofthe surveillance of the filters and howill be protected by a guard

KrMc Kirk CapturedMurray IKy April 1SpeclalT-he arrest last night of KeUlo

Kirk on the bank of the Tennesseerlvor on three charges of night rid ¬

ing was one of the most gratifyingsince the Calloway county grandJury first reported Kelslo who Is awild young fellow was ono of thefirst Indicted but he had fled to Trigscounty and was hard to find Illsarrest by Kolmrt Innltor a specialdeputy also shows how well organ ¬

ized the forces of the county areunder Judge ells Sheriff Edwardsand Major Albrocht 1aMter Is onoof the men natrolllng the river andho was to report when KeUle Kirkharm crossed Lasltcr made the arrest himself at a Cnlloway town Justas Kolsle was preparing to cross hackInto Trlgg county Ho had been visit-ing

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homo folks Ho was locked updefault ot bond

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Tells Why He Should ho

for Party in-

stead

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of Against ProbableNominee

Tho following circular letter wassent out by Senatorelect W O Brad ¬

icyMy Dear Sir In my Judgment

oMIng to the opposition of thelabor union and negroes the electionof Taft If ho should bo nominated

be greatly endangeredThe federal officeholders appear to

be almost for Tuft be ¬

cause theyt generally seem to fear thatthey will be removed from olllco Ifthey should oppose him They mayrest assured that no such removalwill lie made on this account as everycitizen has a right to his oplntoiCombinations of federal officeholdersmay SEe trouble but those exercisingtheir Individual opinions will not bemolettted

1lhollO that you will go to yourward convention on April 25 and seethat your friends also attend and thatyou will Instruct your delegates tovote for the nomination of Mr Fair ¬

who can command tho supportof all elements of our party andwho has ben kind to the people of

Please see yoiir friends In yourward and urge tOiat they immediatelypro to work for Fairbanks

blear In mind that this struggledoes not In anywise Involve the ad ¬

ministrations of the city of ILouis ¬

ville and Jefferson county No cityor county ofllcers are to be electedthis year Vote for delegates pledgedfor Fairbanks and do not sufferyourselves to bo turned front this purlioso by campaign cries uttered tottime purpose of deceiving Republicans

Emma Williams appeared In Mur¬

ray and gave bondKelslo Kirk Is considered one of

the most active members of tho eastside band it Is charged that he hasparticipated In forcing a number totake the oath of allegiance to thenight riders and seldom to bopresent when something was doingon the pike at night Ho was at onotime a street car motorman In Padu ¬

cah and Is well known In Callowaycounty and thoso adjoining

It Is salt that Kelslo Kirk Is theono who saved the life of DeputySheriff John Rolland a short timeago when ono of the men now InJail was hiding under a buildingalong tho highway to shoot Rollandas ho passed Kelsle Kirk who Iskind of heart notified Holland of hisdanger and Holland returned to hishome by another route

The 52 Indictments returned areagainst 33 men all members of theeast side band It Is understood thattime leaders of that aggregation areall Indicted and the grand Jury Isnow engaged In the cases on the west-side This accounts for the activityof the soldiers Saturday night Intheir effort to find Murray Harris

Quarterly Coiifcmire lit liromlvaypresldlag ¬

hold the second quarterly conferenceor the Broadway Methodist rliurch tonight at 745 oclock at the churchAll the officials of the church are ex ¬

pected to be present

WINS

Washington April 21 SpecialThe draft of the omnibus building billcompleted Includes the 1 20000 Im-

provement¬

and repairs for the federalbuilding at Ikaduca-

hMAYSVILLE STRIKE

MaysvHIo IKy April 21 < SpclalIThe High school strike 1

not changtul Clintonwas hissed by pupils when he tried toaddress them The new teacher intho place of Professor Coryell was dillrharged ns he was unable to handlethe classes

CAIRO

IAn election to determine whetherthe city of Cairo will be wet or dryfor the next three years Is beingIn that city today Several l1eldI

ans went to Cairo last night and willremaln over until the votes arocounted

HENRY L STONE MAKES REPLY

TO LETTER OF SENATORELECT BRADLEY

Fight-ing Jleitublican

bitter

would

unanimously

banks

KentuckI

failed

PADUCAII

Superintendent

ELECTION

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II will thank you to answer me atC04 Kentucky Title Building Yoursetc W O BRADLEY

CWT Stones KesponseOno copy was recelwd by Col lien

ry L Stone who made time followngresponse

The lion W O Bradley r04 Kentuck Title Building pityDear SirYour printed circular letter of tho10 1nlStt requesting me to 6iip ort del-

egates Instructed for time nominationof Mr lFairbanks tar president nt thoconvention In my ward on the 2Sthhist has been duly received and yourreasons for uch action lave been telIly noted

FIrstYou advocate opposition toSecretary Taft for president becauseir your Judgment owing to the bitteropposition of Oho labor unions and nogroes his election if he should bo

nominated would bo greatly ondnngored

I have no knowledge or Informationthat such opposltfon to Secretary Taftexists to such an extent as to weakenhim as a canddate before all the vot-

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of tho United States Certainlynothing he has said or done In publicor private life Justifies any such opposltlon as you must kpow full welland Instead of Inculcating or fosteringby speeches and letters the convictionthat either or both of these elementswill oppose his election thus givingaid end eomfprt to the followers ofMr Bryan in my Opinion your timenbor and Influence would be better

employed in the Interest of the RepubJean party locally and nationally as

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Kicked Hy MuleAlex Davis n farmer whose homo

Is two anti a halt miles from Motherwas kicked In time stomach by a muleJust before noon today His Injuriesare not considered serious but ho ylllprobably be laid up for several days

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SHOOTS HIMSELF

AFTER FASTENING

ROPE ABOUT NECK

George Bcardon of BallardCounty Makes Certain of

Death

Fall Breaks Rope But Bullet

I Ends Ills Ufo

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PltKIMKKU FOIt illS FUNKRAft

After bathing and carefully dressIng himself for burial and writing anote to his wife explaining the prepa ¬

rations George L licardon of tingeBallard county took a rope andclimbed onto a rafter In his tobacco

houseIliefashioned double barrel pistol Hofastened one end of the rope securelyto another rafter and made a noosewhich he fitted about his own neckThen he poised himself on the elge ofthe beam and fired a hullet Into hisbrain lie fell oft the ratter on hisface breaking the rope with the ii

weight of his body and was foundI

stone cold In death by his familyhour or more later Time deed anII

done about 430 oclock Mondaynoon as the shot was heard by aneighborII

between 50 and CO years oil andleaves a wife and four grown sonsone of whom Urey licardon formerly lived at Paducah but Is nowIn Princeton The note left by MrDeardon was brief lie said he wasprepared for burial and he left In ¬

structions concerning the funeral buthe hinted at no cause for his rash act

The funeral will be held tomorrow

afternoonCONTRACTOR

HAS

SELF INDICTED ON

OWN EVIDENCE

Perhaps tho most accommodatingman who has ever been presented be¬

fore a federal grand jury In PaducahIs D B Wilson of the firm of Wilson

I Bondurant contractors who In theabsence of the prosecuting witnessyesterday appeared before the grandJury and gave evidence on which In ¬

dictments were returned against hisfirm and V Carpenter and J D

Walker all contractors working onthe Hlckman levee and charged withviolating tho eight hour law rwanted to get the case over withsaid Mr Wilson They were shy aJuryman Just at the moment and Ieven offered to fill his place lungenough to Indict us

JIM HOWARDS CASE

Former District Attorney W MSmith of Louisville Is lit the city at-

tending¬

federal court lie Is attor-ney for Jim Howard and while notIntending to anticipate the gov ¬

ernors action ho expressed confi ¬

dence that the proof of his clientsInnocence was placed so clearly bitfore the governor that a pardon willbo granted

Grain MarketSt Louis April 21Whlat 07

corn GS oats 5n 4

WEATHER

I PLEASANTI Generally fair tonight mud Wednes ¬

day Itlsluc temperature UgliestI

temperature yesterday 78 lowest today liD

Brig Gen Roger Williams Comes

to Paducah to Assume Commandof

Troops on Duty in the Black PatchI

This City Will bo Headquartersof Military Operations Here ¬

after Aggressive CampaignX

Now on-

Frankfort Kj April 21 SpecalBrigadier General Roger D VII

lUiniK of Lexington com hander ofthe Kentucky national guard has beenordered to Paducah to take commandof the troops In the Black Patch Heheld ar conference with the governorat Frankfort and It Is understood hehas authority to use the entire forceof time state In his discretion to stampout night riding Ills headquarterswill be In Paducah

It is evident from this that the stairauthorities Intend to take advantageof the bronchi made In Calloway coun-ty

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to break up time night rider bands

beIClJrrll1Itin Brat battalion of the Third reglirent and Major a W AlbVucjit olthe Second regiment who has beencommanding the dctatliment on duty

1111 the Black Patch left Hopktiusvllle

lilt 1120 oclock this morning presumably to report to General Williams at

PaducahGeneralWilliams was commander

for many years of the Second reglmeat nil Is one of the most efficientofficers of time mllltla In the Unitedstates When the state militia wasorganized into a brigade Colonel Wil ¬

liams was made brigadier general andplaced In command

<client Williams HereBrigadier General Williams has ar¬

rived In Paducah and assumed com ¬

mand of the troops He declined tobe Interviewed

CANT GET NAMES

Memphis Tenn April 21FourItalians wero killed and forty Injuredthis morning by the premature ex ¬

plosion of blasting powder at a con ¬

struction pap near Heber Ark TheInterpreter was killed and names arenot obtainable

Cyclone SuitThe suit of tile Smith sisters against

J M White for 4000 damages as aresult of millinery being destroyed bythe collapse of a wall of tho buildingformerly occupied by the Scott Hard ¬

ware company has been on trial infederal court today a large numberof witnesses being Introduced TheSmith sisters are represented by At-torneys

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Crlce Rose while CampbellF Campbell H S Corbett ot Padu ¬

can and City Attorney James Richaids of Louisville represent CaptainWhite

The contention of the plaintiff Is

that Capt White was responsible forthe damage by allowing the wallswhich had been rendered unsafe anddangerous by a fire to stand The de-

fense¬

claims that the collapse wascaused by a tornado or In legal terms

an not of God Practically everycontractor and bulder In the city arewitnesses and other witnesses areWeather Observer Uorncman and AIK Lagerwahl and the others InjuredIn the collapse of the building

Will Meadows 17 years old andBirdie Mason 1C years old both of

Barlow Ky are n pair of practical

Jokers Not because they really en ¬

tertained any serious notion of get ¬

ting married or because they wantedto frighten their relatives but ratherbecause they wanted to play a good

Joke upon their relatives they ranaway fro mhomo and came to Padu ¬

cah Sunday afternoon leaving wordthat when they returned It would bo-

as man and wifeWhether they actually applied for

a license to marry at the court houseIn this city Is not known but afterremaining at the homo of a relativeIn Paducah Sunday night they tookthe steamer Dick Fowler yesterdaymorning for Metropolis In the mean ¬

time the frightened relatives at Barlow who could not see the point of

Ito

good reason that neither of them Is

of a marriageable agoAt Metropolis they were met by

an officer who called the young wo-

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by name and asked theni bothIf they were looking for the courthouse They were too foxy for theMetropolis policeman however andtho girl denied her name and bothdeclared that they simply came to

tfl i tijt

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LET ALL ENTER ON

NORTHERN TRACK

SAYS M N BURNS

A1 special and Informal melting oftho board of aldermen was held Intime council chambers at the city halltills afternoon to give the members ofthe board und such citizens who de ¬

sired to Attend an opi ortunlty to hearthe address of iM N Burns of StLouts upon the proposition for thegranting of a railway franchise to thoPaducah Northern railroad Aldermen Shorrlll linker Hannan MillerOehlschlaegcr and Stewart and about25 well known citizensn wero present

MrI Burns who Is the president ofhe Toledo St Louis New Orleansnllway objected to the proposed Palucah Northern franchise on thegrounds that it would shut out tinhan <cor any railroads to get Into

Paducah He offered a typewrittenimendment to the proposed franchisevhlch If adopted as1 a part of the In¬

strument will permit any road seekng admission to this city to comento the city on the tracks of the Pabeau Northern r

7DE SAGAN TALKS

Paris April 21Prlnce de Saganloft for Italy today Madame CouldIs due In Naples Thursday and willmeoB him there He spokq with un ¬

expected Eood humor of what heterms his persecution by Americantapers nnd public Questioned as to

he approaching marriage ho saidThe future Is In Gods hand and you

know whom besides

ituumvayon IlrondwnyA runaway that might have proved

serious took place on Broadway nearTwelfth street about C30 oclockthis mornlii when a mule owned byjlE P Gllson ran away throwing thedriver a negro out of his seat anddumping tho wagon In the gutterThe driver kept hold of the lines andbrought the animal to a stop withoutserious damage to the mule or thevehicle A passing bicyclist how ¬

ever had a narrow escape frombeing run ove-

rDECORATE CHURCH

The Ramsey society of tho Broad-

way Methodist church last nightclosed the contract with BogardSon church decorators of Chlcago todecorate the auditorium of the churchand the work will begin on MondayIt will be completed In a monthGreen will be the prevailing tint ofthe walls The firm stands high as

artists in their line of work and hasJust completed the frescoing of theMethodist and Christian churches InMayfield

Miss Sophia Baker ot SouthTwelfth street who was stricken withparalysis last week Is resting bettertoday

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IIIIIt Was A Joke They Played= C CJ

alldIto

see the sights of the town but werenot particularly Interested In seeingthe court house

Tho officer was not convinced andseating himself upon the outside stepsof the court house he kept a faithfulwatch until the steamer started backfor Paducah During this period theyoung couple several times ap-proached the court house steps buteach tlmo when they saw the waitingofficer they turned about and walkedIn a different direction

When the boat left for Paducah intho afternoon they embarked againwithout a license and without beingmarried Upon their arrival at thowharfboat In this city they wero ac-costed by Detective Moore who hadalso received a telephone messagefrom the little girls father at Bar ¬

low and she was accompanied toMrs Pryors boarding house on

BroadwayBoththey were simply

playing a Joke and the boy asked theofficer If he might go along Later

the evening Detective Moore tookof them to the G15 oclockIinand conveyed them back to

where they were turned overI to their proper guardians On theway home they told the detective allabout their Joke and Judging fromthe slzo of the crowd that me themat Barlow station everybody must

JIhave seen tho pointfJ Mt

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OBJECTIONS TO

PAD NORTHTRN

RAILROAD PLANS

Bridge at Brookport Not Fens ¬

ible and Proposed RouteOnly One Possible

Promoter Owns Land at Brookport

IJUSIXKSS MIV OIVB ItEA SONS

The principal objections to thoPaducah Northern propositions asadmitted by the organ of oppositionInspired by a promoter of anotherrailroad seeking entrance Into thocity said a business man today Isthat Paducah can not obtain a directroute to the north without a bridgeat this point and that the construc-tion

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of a bridge at Metropolis willmake tho extension from that townto Paducah a mere jerkwater routethat roads seeking a southern outletwould go on from Metropolis there-by

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leaving Paducah on q mere

branchThestatements are ridiculous

The roads seeking entrance Into Pa ¬

ducah are the Big Four and time

Frisco Both of these roads havelines Into Cairo and a map with anydegree of Intelligence knows theywould find It more profitable to buildfrom that point south If that wastheir object-

It Is the Intention of these roadsIf they get the Paducah entrance tomake tralllc arrangements with thoNashville Chattanooga St Louisfor their southern outletsa propo ¬

sition which will be appreciated byany one who studies It fora momentand which Is verified by the fact thatus soon as the Paducah Northernproposition was broached the Lousvllle Nanhvllle which Is the con ¬

trolling factor In the Nashville Chat-tanooga

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St Louis abandoned Itscontemplated line from a point nearMurray to Cairo where It would con ¬

nect with these two roadsTo consider the bridge proposi-

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Every one agrees It would bea nice thing to have a bridge acrosstho Ohio here but It Is not as pract-icable and It Is the practical thingsthat appeal to the monied Interest boofore the merely nice Railroad en ¬

gineers have Investigated the brldgo

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FOUNTAIN AVE CHURCH

Stewards of the Trimble StreetMethodist church met last night aridFounI ¬

will be erected nt Fountain avenueand Monroe street and the work ofconstruction will commence aboutJuno 1-

FORTY BODIES RECOVERED

Melbourne Australia April 21Forty two bodies were taken fromthe ruins of the Baybrook Junctionwreck It Is believed that severalothers are under the burned carsThe Injured number 88 Bendlgothe train engineer says tho brakesfailed to work-

GRAND

In

JURYS WORK

The McCrackcn county grand Jurywhich Is still in session will notmake Its next report until court sitsagain and this may not be until JudgeReed opens the civil term next Mon-day

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It may be however that sonsday toward the latter part of thopresent week will be appointed assentence day In which event thogrand Jury will be given an oppor-tunity to report upon Indictmentsrendered It Is understood that someof the night rider letter writers willbe Indicted

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KING THANKS RESCUERS

Madrid April lKlng Alfonsogave a street car motorman ten dol-lars

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for saving the kings life yester-day

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The auto In which the king wasriding collided with a street car Themotormans action prevented a seri ¬

ous accident Tho king gave histhanks In addition to tho money

Mutcli for JIll lui>e

London April 21 HackcnschmUlts manager announced LordLonsdale and A G Vanderbilt offereda purs of 10000 for a match bettween Hackensthnildt anti notch bef-ore August either In England or ana neutral soil

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