The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1903-01-02

Killed by the accidental discharge
ofa gun in the hands OF his cousin,
Walter Downs.
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DECEMBER 30.
Interstate Commerce Com
missioner Prouty ond Mr.. Walker
ID. Hines, Of the l.. and n. road,
read papers before he Economic
Association at Philadelphia yestor-
day. The papers were vigorous
and ropreson ted II wide
divergence OF opinion on the regu-
lalion OF railroads and railroad
rates. Mr.. prouty charged the
railroads with imposing cxtor-
tlnate rates aud OF building ap a
dangerous monopoly BY merging,
while the commission is powerless
to better matters. Mr.. Hines
charged the commission with at.
tempting to usurp the entire rate
making power.
Seven persons have frozen to
death In Pennsylvania during
twenty.four hours. The cold
weather is general throughout the
country, extending to Florida,
where 1t is thought tho orange
groves have been injured. tits ex-
pected that coal will not be oh.
taiuable at any price In Now YORK
in a short time. Public buildings
at Cleveland have been abandoned
on account OF q lack OF fuel.
several days are likely to pass
before the preliminary protocol is
prepared In the Venezuelan mat
ter. II is hoped by the interest
cd Governments that the docu,
ment will provide for the raising
OF the blockade. President Castro
is said to have determined to con-
ascatc the property OF the foreign
ers when the revenue is cut oil by
the blocked.
safc-hIowcrs aud highwaymen
continue their work. The Bank Of
Union, at Union, Mo-, was de-
mollshcd By cracssmen willie
blowing the safe with nilroglyc.
Grin. The thieves took $4,000
and escaped, Al Newport the
eiuzens are tcrroriz9d by highway
men. Hold-ups occur nightly,
On Friday night three citizens
were held up and robbed.
| An Indiana man has sued a
nelghbor for S23 300, in which sum
he claims to have been damaged in
an unusual way. Tho plaintiff
charges that neighbor knowingly
and willtully visited him at n time
when he was infected with scarlet
fever. Tho plaintiffs children
caught the disease
Tweniy-elght persons were kill
ea aud thirty others injured by q
collision between the Pacific OK
press aud II freight train on tn,
Grand Trunk railway at Wanstead
Ont, Friday night, The collision
was due to the mistake OF tele
graph operator in transmitting
orders.
Queen Alexandria gave a Christ
mas dinner to the widows and or
phans OF the English soldiers killo,
during the Doer War, Sir Thom
as Upton represented the Queer
and read an address from her {,
those present at the dinner.
Oliver Wldeman and wife, ne
groes, were hanged by a mob nea
Troy, s. G., for the murder of W
X. Jay,u a prominent white farmer
The negroes confessed the killing
but each accused the other OF ilrini
the fatal shot.
Leslie Combs visited tho Stat
, Department In Washington Satur
: day and received flnal instruction
relative TO his new position q
Minister OF Guatemala. He vii
! start on his mission about Januar
: 10.
The attorney OF the man arrest
ed at Miami, Fla, for impersonat
ing Gov. Beckham states that hi
client isIthe son OF leading Geo
: gia attorney. The name OF til
y prisoner, however, is stlll kept
0 secret.
The American steamer Mime
: tonka, from Newport, England,
y Boston, Mass, has anchored o
Bermuda In distress after roug
experience with gales and heav
I seas.