The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1904-08-12
INTERESTING EVENTS.
Important Happenings In Different
Parts Of the World.

The 2sd convention of the supreme
lodge. Knights OF Pythias. and the
biennial encampmeAt of the uniform
rank will begin in Louisville, Ky,
next Sunday.
In tho house of commons L. P.
Brodeur. minister OF inland revenue.
introduced his tobacco resolution. 1t
aims serious blow at the American
Tobacco Co. 1t was discussed all day.
R. P. Schwerin, vice president and
general manager Of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Co., advocates the estab-
lishment OF training school depart
ment under the direction of the feder-
al government
Lieut.. Vogelgesang has been com
mended by the navy department He
commanded the turret on the battleship
Wisconsin. which attained the high
est merit of any u or lSinch cleo
trlcal turret.
Fire in the fve-story building at
Nos. 25I.257 Main street, Buffalo, N Y,
caused loss estimated at 100000.
and for time threatened the Academy
OF Music next door, where play was
being produced.
. Near Chicago James Jensen, is,
brave farmer boy. met death under
the wheels of train he saved from
being wrecked. although. a witness
says, there was plenty OF time in
which to stop the train.
An attempt was made upon the life
of President Battle Y. Ordonez. o
j Uruguay While driving with hi
I family along one of the principa
% streets of the city torpedo was ex
ploded at the side of the carriage.
. The president has granted a pardon
to Lieut.. Patrick W. Hourigan. Unit
ed States navy, who was convicted b
> court.martial in 1900 of offense
against the articles of war and sci
d fenced to be dismissed from the nav!
o The members of the lnter-parlii
mentary group for the promotion
arbitration, who will arrive in Ne
e York from Europe the first week
September. will be taken on n tot
through the large industrial center
Ie Of the Uhited States
Al The body of Mrs. Nelson A. Mile
N wife of the former commanding ge
Il. eral of the army, was conveyed to Il
N, National cemetery at Arlingto
where commitment services, conduC
" cd by Chaplain C, C. Pierce, of /
p Meyer, we're held.
The European squadron. comman
ed by RI Adm. Jewell, was ORDER
OF from Villa Franche to Smyrna in A
nd attic Turkey to back up the Anne
can demands with naval demonstl
ton. His cruisers are the olymp
IL Baltimore and Cleveland,
as The funeral Of f. Kent Loom
IL which was held at Parkersburg,
Ms Va, at the First Presbyterian churc
was probably the largest ever held
Parkersburg. The church was CROW
ed from wall to wall while hundre
\. stood outside unable to gain adm
to sion.
ed The strike in the Chicago packi
an houses was practically lost sight
in the excitement attending run
", the Drovers Trust and Savings bal
ne one of the stoekyards Institutions
DIS rush of the depositors to the ba
N. started because of an unfounded run
that one of the packers represen
tives had withdrawn his money fr,
m the institution.
ser The president approved report
'ry the civil service commission recc
on mending that Postmaster McMlchf
hi Philadelphia. be reprimanded as
:" result of the investigation of
er- charges filed by Robert B. jerks. sec
tary of the Civil Service Reform as
citation of Philadelphia Political {
w elimination In Postmaster McMicha
NE selection of employees Is alleged.