Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1904-01-01
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4 as not closed the saloons.
The dsstil OF FL Bail, n Bat,
ounty is astribu,vd t, the excs~-
i've uss OF cigalet,eS.
Mrs pagan aged Is wears. is
dead in Menifse conu'y She wss
believed to be the oldest Woman in
Eastern Kentucky.
George " sitmper. aged S.,
and the faith Of Is ealdren Of
whom II are living died lew
dAys agosin Lewis county
Al cighlyy ear cd Ohio woIaal,,
living near Columbus. eloped with
negro She had mortgagcd her
property ant turned ewes al Of ths
money 10 him
l<educed wages are threatened
ior 100 ooo n; GERS in the bitumin-
Gus fields CT maryland, Pennsylva
MIA and parts of West Virginia, I'M
less conditions generally improve
A Western newspaper says that
"E. R. Brace and Miss Edna Bit
were married near Joplin, Mo. ;"
The paper failed 10 state whether
minister or a carpenter performed
the ceremony.
An Ohio weather prophet, who
has gept a record ofthe weather for
fry years. saysthat November was
the coolest ron day 10 dsy that
this .sci;oa has ever known duTing
the month.
The Kentucky Live Stock Breed
ers' association and Citizen Nation-
al Band Of Louisville have filed
suits at Oweusboro against the
guarantors for the deficit Of about
SIS, 900 III the cost of the Stale
air held ct Owensboro
Twenty-Five persons are dead as
the result OF the collision between
two passenger traiFls-oti the z eT ~
Marquette railroad, near Fast Paris,
Mich. .satn+slsssa4.erhoon Tweh
ty-niae people are suffering from
i:.jaries sustained in tbe wreck a.sd
5 vera ofthem, It IS Fe.:sv-G ua
DR.. Alexander Grsbam BE-
wh-is ii GeRea. vii. b.ing lhe re-
mains ct James Srnithson, foaste
Of the Smithsonian Iustitg,e te
Washington for re;Rterment. The
removal Of Tie remains is said to &c
due TO the encrouchnlent Of a stons
quarry on the English cemetery a
G4noa.
y German lieutenant has heen
dismissed from the army and sen
fenced six months, because he
wrote and published novel with
out consent OF the Minister of War
IF he had Killed a private soldier
for failing 10 be polite, he would
have had much Higher sentence.
Such is iniiitaryism.
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson
reports tina. the United States is
spending 100000 a year in ef-
f,;ts to instruct farmers how to iiu-
prove their business. -Four thou
sand persons are directly crnpioysd
IN this woss Ia addition, aao5
of the States are making consider
able expenditures for the SANG
purpose.
The Cuban Congress has unani
mously voted TO Gen. Gomez $50,
600. yet there are hundreds Of Gu
ban soldiers VITO were as patriotic.
made as much sacrifice, and endur
e as much hard ships for Cuban
independence as did Gomez. and
they are yet unpaid. After all,
there IS nothing which makes such
vide and wicsed inequalities
among NET as uii'itarism.
This Country has an alarming
number of strikes this fall and the
discomfort among worklngmen
seems to be wide spread and deep.
That it is not wholly unreasonable
is indicated by the fact that accord
ing to reportof the Government
Bureau of Labor. the cost of living
has increased I6 per cent. in the
last seven years. That being so, il
seems unjust to reduce wages, as
MANY corporations are doing.
WHAT'S IN A NAME?