The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1907-12-04
NO. 40.
THE NEWS At A GLANCE.

Despondent, it is said, when she
heard that she had been made a part
of a mock marriage, Miss Oslo Pierce
committed suicide at Powhatan, o.
The jamestown Exposition closed
Saturday night. Faturees of the clos
ing day were military spectacle, a
. childrens carnival, baby show and
a ball.
A fire which started from the over
turning of a lamp in barber shop
destroyed three-fourths of the town of
Granite, a small mining station in
Colorado
Electrocution as a means of inflict-
ing the death penalty will be first
used in New Jersey on December 2,
when two convicted prisoners will be
put 10 death.
The Hon. John Sharp Williams was
nominated for Speaker at the caucus
of Democratic members of the House
of Representatives in Washington Sat
urday afternoon.
DIR. Ben l.. Bruner, the newly-elect-
ed Secretary Of State, is the youngest
man elected at the late election. When
he is sworn in he will be but thirty
five years of age.
&. Fult French. charged with COM
plicity in the murder of James B.
Marcum at Jackson several years ago,
was acquitted after trial at Beatty
Vile lasting several days.
T The Supreme Court of Appeals of
Virginia has decided that a man can
not be held by the police as sus-
picious character and that there must
be a specific charge against him.
While Hugo Scherer,a wealthy bank
er of Mexico City, was giving a dinner
to a number of friends, $4,000 worth
of jewelry and several hundred dollars
in cash were taken from the house.
Murrel Winfrey, nine years old, was
saved from death by burning by the
bravery of his companion, GarlandMc-
Garvey, eleven years old, at Paducah.
McGarvey was badly burned in ex-
tingulshing the flames which enyelop-
ed the other boy.
Dispatches to the mercantile agen-
cies indicate a normal movement OF
seasonable merchandise, as the temper
allure has fallen in some sections and
holiday goods are beginning to move,
but there is still much idleness at
manufacturing plants.
Gov. Beckham pardoned Hillary
Rice, convicted in greensboro on
charge of higamy, before Rice had
started for the penitentiary. The
Court OF Appeals recently affirmed his
conviction. He married under the be-
life that he had been divorced from
his first wife.
The statement of the New York
clearinghouse banks for last week
shows that the banks held $52,9S9,425
less than the requirements of the %
per cent reserve rule. This is an in
crease Of 81, HALO in the proportion
ate cash reserve as compared with the
previous week.
Charles c. McChord, recently defeat
ed for Railroad Commissioner, has
been employed by Gov. Beckham at
salary of $4,000 to conduct the rate
cases against all railroads operating
in Kentucky which were instituted by
the Railroad Commission during Mr..
McChord's membership of that body.
Both houses of Congress convened
at - o'clock last Monday and the ses-
sion of Congress which began at that
time. will continue indefinitely. Lit
tie business will be transacted during
the first week of the session, and both
houses adjourned almost Immediately
on account of the death, during the re-
cess, of members of each organization.
The report of A. L. Lawshe, Third
Assistant Postmaster General, shows
the deficit for the current year to be
! sc. 692, 1901. AZ, considerably less than the
deficit for 1906. The report discusses
at length the troubles of publishers
over the second-class mail rulings.
Extension of the money-order sys-
TEN to every post-office is recommend
ed.
The special grand jury at London,
KY, returned an indictment against
Robert Royd, Jr., charging him with
the willful murder of James Sparks.
Circuit Judge Falkner declined to sit
in the case, and on a writ of habeas
corpus, tried before Circuit Judge M.
]. Moss, Boyd was admitted to bail in
the sum of $4,000, which he promptly
gave, and was released, No date was
set for the trial.
In his report to Congress the Sec
rotary Of the Navy recommends that
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