The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1906-06-01

hcl SiA SNuio. AlC ihiu btCu dNtlNt
in politics since early youth, always
taking a hand in local, district and
Stale contests. He had been del
egate to nearly all the Democratic
State conventions for the past TWEEN
ty years, and his influence in county
and district races was always much
sought after by aspiring politicians.
A report has been persistently cir
culated for esveral days to the eff
feet that the President is about TO
declare war upon reckless passage Of
pension bills and in fact has gone
so far as to notify the chairmen of
the committees that IL would be well
to give more attention to the merits
of cases coming before the House
and Senate Committees. Chairman
Sulloway, of the House Pension Com
mittee, denies that he has received
any such intimation from the Presi-
dent, but a number of members who
would be ordinarily in a position to
know what is going on say that the
President has decided on such a
course Already there have been over
$500 pension bills passed at this
session alone and there IS every
prospect that 500 more will be added
TO the list by the time adjournment
is reached next month. During the
entire last Congress about 3,4oO pen
SIGN bills We're passed as against
$3.50 in the Fifty-seventh Congress
Unless a halt is made the present
Congress will end on March 4 With
perhaps 5000 pension bills enacted
into law
Versailles, May 26.-Capt. William
Henry. one of the most prominent
citizens Of Versailles, died last night
of organic heart disease. He was
sixty-six years of age and an ex-
Confederate soldier. Up to few
years ago he conducted one of the
most celebrated schools in the South
He leaves an estate Of more than
100000. The funeral was held Sun
day. He was the husband of Mrs
josephine X Henry, the celebrated
agnostic, and was himself member
of that school.
holland Cox, an Estill county school
teacher, charged with selling a list
of questions from the State Superln-
tendeht of Schools, admitted his guilt
and was fined $50.
In a damage suit brought by a
negro lawyer of Lexington, for being
elected from car for white people
the court upheld the action Of the
railroads. agent.
Campton, KY, May 23.-The race
for the Democratic nomination for
Congress in this, the Tenth congress
ional district TO succeed Frank A.
Hopkins, is getting warm. The last
candidate to announce for the nomi-
nation is John Muncey, an ex-Confed-
crate soldier Of Jackson. He makes
the sixth candidate TO announce. Mr.
Hopkins has not yet decided whether
he will make the race to succeed
himself.
Another negro minister of the Cos
pei has been appointed chaplain
in the army with the rank of Cap
tain. He is Rev. Washington L. Glad
den, Of Colorado He will be assign
ed to duty with the Twenty-fourth
Infantry, negro regiment stationed
in the Philippines.
Nineteen Witnesses were examined
at Cleveland by the Interstate Com
merce Commission in the STANDARD OIL
inquiry. One of the most important
witnesses was George L. Lane, Of
Mansfield, O., former employee of
the Standard OIL Company, who tes-
titled that he was employed for four
teen months in driving independent
oil peddlers out of business in the
cities of Northern Ohio.
Danville, KY. May 25.--Iane Hooker
a colored woman, one of the oldets
persons In this section, died at noon
today. She was 1OS years old, hav-
ing been born in Culpepper county,
Virginia, in 1898.
Lexington, KY, May 27.-Col. J.
X. Worrall, a prominent dealer in
Oil lands, whose home is in Richmond,
KY, Is in Lexington undergoing treat
ment by specialists on nccount of
a peculiar accident which occurred
last January. While attempting 10
use the telephone In his residence
col. wofraif Was Fn0nSed unconscious
by an electric current. He was found