Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1906-03-09
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The funeral of former Gov
Hogg, of Texas, took place Mon
; day at Austin.
Thomas f.. Price, for years ont
of the leading captains oil industry
in Tennessee. died at Knoxville. I
| Representative w. BourSe Cock
ran was Monday night installed a:
Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall.
The Chicago City Council, by z
vote of 4oto 20. raised the saloon
license f.om $500 year to 81, 900.
The United Mine Workers In.
ternational Executive Board has
been called to meet in Indiana polls
March a.
The L. g. N. officials have COM
pleted plans for the constructions
of forty iehtreugines in the South
Louisville shops.
The House at Washington yes.
terday passed without opposition a
bill for the relief of tobacco growers
by permitting them to sell leaf tc.
| 5scco without paying the tax of
six cents pound heretofore Chare.
ed.
Russian delegates at the Alege-
Ciras Conference submitted an ar
gument in favor of France and
Spain controlling the police ques.
lion IN Morocco.
The death list as a result of the
cyclone at Madrid, Miss, remains
at twenty, but may be increased |
to twenty-five. Hundreds of per- |
SONS. Convicts, and others are clear.
ing away the wreckage.
A movement to secure a perma-
nent location of the State Fair in
Louisville has begun and it is be |
lieved that an effort will be made to
raise $Ioo, 900 for the purpose.
President Compers of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, has Gale d |
meeting of the Executive Coun-
Gil in New Yew York March 10.
The Louisville School Board ad-
opted the suggestion of the Louis
vile Commercial Club making FIJI
day. March 80, " Planting day" in
the Louisville public schools. 1t
is made holiday.
The Jefferson county house
will be fireproofed at once, at a cost
OF $3.50 900. The Circuit Clerks
Office will be remodeled by raising
the ceiling six feet and installing
new filing cases.
Steamboat inspectors have re-
ceived special instructionslin regard
to rigldly inforcing the inspection
laws of all steam vessels. All con
DENIED life perservers and hose
must be burned in the presence of
the inspector.
Bertha Claiche, the young French |
woman who has been on trial in
the New York Supreme Court for
several days on charge of murder,
Yesterday withdrew her plea of not |
guilty and entered a plea of guilty |
of mauslaughter in the first degree.
The complete text of the Cars
manifesto in regard to the Russian
National A ssembly shows that am-
pie precautions have been taken
whereb the Imperial Government
will be In easy control of the Leg
islative situation at Ill times.
The Chicago Clearing house Com
mitce,, liquidating the affairs of
the Chicago National Bank, Of
which John R. Walsh was president
has offered TO sell to an Eastern
syndicate the Walsh railroads, the
Southern Indiana and the Chicago
Southern, for $27, 500, 900 Should
the offer be accepted it would end
the payment of all obligations as
sumed by the Chicago Clearing
house and leave MIR. Walsh S., 500
900.
In view of the recent riots in
France, much interest attaches to
the copsistory which will be held
at the Vatican on March 10 for the
purpose of consider the Frepc h
Governments attitude in the mat
ter of separation of the church and
State. The Pope, it is expected,
will formulate protest against
separation and probably secret in
structions will be sent to the Bish-
ops in France as to their attitude
toward the new law.
A LIVELY TUSSLE