The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1906-11-09

letter advocating the removal Of
machine made appointees to ex-
ecutive positions in the charitable
institutions of Kentucky, and eue-
costing that women be placed on
these boards. Mrs, Daingerfield
is the wife of Major F. A. danger
field, of Castleton Stock Farm. and
sister Of Jas. B. Keene, Wall-street
magnate and famous turfman Mrs.
Daingerfield is well known as writ
er of short stories.
She declares that her letter is
called forth by the murder of Fred
Ketterer, a patient OF the Eastern
Kentucky Lunatic Asylum here, by
attendants last June, and asks that
after the approaching election Is
over. tina, this asylum be more thor
attacks the methods prevailing by
which Ketierer is alleged to have
been murdered, ana says
Perhaps not having a vote, wom-
an should not have voice II we
should hold our leace. ne very
stones would cry out Must only
those gaping, putrefying. Wounds,
those cruel bruises. speak, like the
blood Of Abel, from the ground"
He- letter has clused a sensation.
w men formerly served On boards
of charitable institutions in Ken
lucky but the lays passed at the
las session of the TegislIture stop
ped his
The official report Of the Super
vising Architect for the fiscal year
ended June 80 last shows that the
total expenditures on Federal build
ings in Kentucky up 10 that date
were s2427,S3O.zS This included
the original cost Of construction.
amounting to s2,1O2, 7l451. the cost
of extensions, alterations. etc. in
all $4,000. and the item OF annual
repairs and maintenance, which was
s23S,s15.77 To obtain the land 10
put these structures on cost Uncle
Sam s264,6lOSS.
Cincinnati, o., Nov. 9. Judge
Charles E. Kincaid,for many years
connected with the Cincinnati En-
quirer and one of the best known
newspaper men in the country
died this morning at the City Hos
pital. Judge Kincaid was Ken
tuckian by birth. and his brother
and aged mother still live in Dan
vile, Ky.
He was born in 1855 In 1878 he
was graduated from Centre College
and year later he was admitted
10 the bar After serving a rem
as Judge in Anderson county. he
entered Journalism, being connect
ed for a while with the Courier
Journal.
In 1884 he went to Washington,
serving first as private secretary
TO Senator Williams, and later as
special correspondent OF the Louis
Vile Times. 1t was there that the
tragedy occurred which cast shad-
ow over his life. In resenting a
personal insult he killed Congress-
man w. p Taulbee on the steps of
the Clpital Although exonerat-
ed by a jury he was never the same
man afterwards.
Maysyille, KY, Nov. q John
Wise aged ten, WAS struck by the
C. and o. flyer this morning and in
stantly killed. He was standing on
the end OF a tie watching a freight
train going east. when the vest
bound fist passenger train bore
on him unnoticed and struck him
before the engineer had time 10
stop Young Wise was knocked
thirty feet and every bone in his
body was broken.
Nj Sterling, KY, Nov. 3.--Sher-
man Wilson, the little son OF Chalk
Wilson, of Wolfe county. was plly-
ing behind mule when he was kick
ed in the head. and his skull was
broken He will die. Prints OF
the mules shoe were left on the
childs flrehead
Morehead, KY, Nov 8. Judge
James G. White, aged seventy
years, passed away at $3.50, Thurs
day night Mr.. White has been
a practicing attorney at this end
other bars of Eastern Keniueky.for
nearly thirty-five years. He has
been president of the Bank OF More
head Tor more than ten years, up
10 his death last night. His re-
mains will be taken 10 Martinsburg
Tor burial to-mlrrow The Circuit
r,,,rt hafora nliournmant resierdav