The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1904-10-28
CONDENSED NEWS.
Brief Notice Of Happening. Herr.
There and Everywhere.

For the first time since his entrance
into office Paul Morton. secretary of
the navy. visited the naval academy.
A telegram from Hon j. w. Britt,
mayor OF Gordon, Ala, stated that the
entire town has been destroyed by fire,
and asks for assistance.
The unusual spectacle of woman
arraigned in police court, charged
with registration frauds, was wit
messed in New York
After lying in the morgue unidenti-
fed for two days a man who was
struck in the head by George Morten,
Negro, was identified as Fred Doyle.
of Bellefontaine, o.
/ Allan Parker, the defaulting cashier
Of the First national bank. of Tullaho-
ma, Tenn, gave himself up. He says
he lost about $4,000 of the banks
money in Chicago bucket shops.
Fifteen earthquakes have been re-
corded on the seismograph. or earth
quake machine at the Johns Hopkins
university since April last. This is
shown by the films used from April to
October, which have just been devel-
oped.
In Edward Rice, better known as
big Ed" and George Shine, alias
George Schlossen, alias George Schau-
en-, the police of St. Louis believe they
have captured the two most danger
GUS bank robbers, confidence men and
crooks in the country.
John Livingston Dlnwlddle Berth
wick, chief engineer In the United
States navy (retired). with the rank
: of lieutenant commander. died at Flor
ence, Italy. from nervous prostration
Engineer Borthwick was GA years oil
age. He will be buried at Sorrento
With the forehead crushed and the
throat cut, the body Of fouryear-olc
Michael Mayerski, who was kidnapped
near his home In Phoenixyille, Pa.
: by a band of men supposed to BIZ
gypsies. was found in an abandoned
. farm house few miles from Valley
a Forge.
Accurate figures are not obtainabl'
Of the loss by fire In the lumber dis
trict of Mobile, Ala. The whole OF thu
plant of the Mobile Lumber Co. wa
5 destroyed. Nearly a million feet o
D oak and cypress lumber was consumes
along with the wharyes in front of tn
: company's property.
Reuben A. Hitchcock, director an
treasurer Of ]. s. Ford, Johnson & Co
chair manufacturers, Chicago, and on
of the prominent makers OF furnitur
in the United States. is dead. He wa
g stricken with apoplexy while playin
}. golf at the Calumet Country club link
: and died before his friends could reac
k his side.
Called from the room where she wa
n making merry with boon companions
q Mary Chesser became the victim of
mysterious murder at ottumwa. Il
Her friends within heard a sing
II scream and an instant later the won
y an staggered among them with bloc
n streaming from q CHASTITY wound
her throat.
= The armored cruiser Colorado. bui
for the United States navy, on her of
J. cial trial covered 8S nautical miles
> three hours 81 minutes and Z second
: maintaining an hourly average spec
Of 22.26 knots throughout the run, e
ceeding the speed of 20 knots Gale
for in the builders contract by mol
/ than a quarter Of a knot
Two city detectives are dead al
If another is not expected to live, viii
one train robber suspect is at Il
l. morgue and two others are In the ci
J. hospital, one probably fatally wound'
and the other badly beaten up. as Il
;. result of a desperate battle at S
= Louis between FIVE officers and thr
= men whom they tried to arrest