Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1905-09-15
IN THE STATE

thu full text of the Auglo japanese
treaty will be mad puhl!c this weel,
The production of oil in Ken
tuc&y has not been up 20 cxptcta
lions far The past few weeks Owing
t. tne cessa'jnn OF drilling in some
Of the smaller field,
Lawrence Willis was acquitted
on the thi'd trad 81 MS case in
Cadiz for the GileGe! murder Of his
Il Gle, w h Jolin>toue.
l. NJ K'cr, of Loui-v,,e. is
planning a ew national bank. with
auce Hogan klcc and Csc Young
Rice, the Leu sviile authors, as as
socIote organizers.
Mrs K. Buckner Allen. sis er III
Inv Of John 4 Ail-u. Comm on
wealth. Attorney, of Fayette coun-
+ ty, committed sui,ide by shooting
herself through the heart.
L. B. Weisenhurs, who several
years ago Lett Frankfort, owing
banks approximately $50. has
settled With his creditors, and will
return to Frank OFT to live.
Harry Somerv lie. OF Louisville,
has resigned as superintendent of
Eairview cemetery, Bowling Green,
alleging he was unmarried and had
been unable 20 get an ole 10 keep
house for him.
Louisville last month was the
second city in the United States in
the amount Of expenditures for
bindings. The actual aggregate
was SI,IOe, oCo. The increase over
August of last year was 1919 per
cent. The outlook for September
is equally as good.
Tie Anderson county grand iurv
withdrew the indictment against
William II. York for the murder
of his brother, James K YORK. and
rturned a joint Indictment against
William II. York and James Bass,
alleging conspiracy. A special
term Of court will be called in Oct.
to try the case.
B. Il. French WAS fined $1,000
in CLARK county for contempt Of
court in the alleged enticing Of
witnesses out Of the State in the
damage suit Of Mrs. James B. Maj
cum for the murder of her husband.
~ similar charge against Alex IL.
Hargis was filed away. Jas. Har-
gis and Ed Galatians cases are set
for September Is.
Final arrangements were made
Saturday to rcopOn the Western
National Banl; Of Louisville on
October I, probably under a new
name. TwO-thirds Of the stool,
holders voluntarily assessed them
selves 8213 per cent. of the capital
stock. giving the bank $3.50, 600 OF
new cash. All the written off pa
per collected will so to the surplus
account.
]. H. Wilson, a prominent farm
er, near Bowling Green. went into
a deep well Saturday to clean it out.
Seventy-fve feet from the surface
he encountered foul air and at
tempted to escape. His daughter,
the only one present, made heroic
efforts to draw him up. Wilson
was overcome by gases, fell back
in the we'll and expired before aid
could be summoned.
While attempting, it is claimed,
10 rescue his nephew, who had
been placed i'll Jail for disorderly
conduct, Demps Martin was shot
and killed at Corbin, Burrel Smith,
Chief OF Police, dangerously wound
ed and several others more or less
injured. Brack Martin, a young
man. rad been arrested by Deputy
Policeman Partin, according to a
telephone message, when his father
uncle and cousin engaged in a fight
with the policemen III an e1deavor
it IS said, TO effect a rescue. A
number of shots were fired by, both
= sides, one bullet entering the head
of Charley Martin, father of Brack
seriously injuring him, and another
bullet passing entirely through The
BODY of Demps Martin, uncle o.
Brack, causing his Celth. Ro'
Martin, cousin of Brock. was sho
in the hand. On the SIDE of thu
: officers Chief Of Police Smith re
t ceived an ugly knife thrust in tn,
side ard also severe blow acros
, the nose. Mrs Smith, ii IS said
, came to the aid OF her husband ant
was also hurt.
: The grand jury for Jessamir
: county has one OF the most deliCat
: and ab>truse problems that hav
t ever been presented fol solution b
e moralists, lawmakers and enforcer
of the law. In order that the
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