The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-07-26
INTERESTING ITEMS
tathered From All Parts of the
State.


He was thirty-six inches high weigh
- z25 pounds and was thirteen
years old.
While cutting wheat last week
Ehas NJ Wise found large kerr
shaw occupied by a swarm OF bees
and a good bunch OF honey they
Aad made, says the Carlisle Advo-
tAte. He did not disturb them
Kentucky jailers are preparing TO
ask the next General Assembly to
enact a law providing for the cleo
trocution OF condemned men in the
Penitentiary. There is an almost
unanimous objection to the method
II hanging doomed men in the var
tOvs counties.
The Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, has undertaken to build in
Washington national church which
shall be In effect a cathedral of the
denomination similar in its scheme 10
ahe Presbyterian cathedral suggested
some time ago by Justice Harlan.
A threshing machine belonging TO
gohn Fields, at work on the farm OF
Dr.. Word. in Christian county, was
blown up with dynamite which had
Seen concealed in a bundle of wheat
yhe tobacco war is held responsible
sOr the affair, as both the owner OF
the machine and the man on whose
place it was working are nonasso-
nation farmers
In the local option election in Har-
Iison county the drys won by
majority OF 1000 and the Prohibition
forces also carried the city of Gym
shiana by a majority of forty-seven.
This was the second election held in
eynthiana within sixty days and
lad aroused much bitterness. The
somen played an important part in
me election, being at the polls all
iay serving lunch.
Lexington. Ky, July 1S.-A special
Rom Sergent. Letcher county, this
morning reports double tragedy in
saloon at Pound Gap. on the Ken
saclky-Virginia line. Two men were
EPtally shot and will die, while
lhird was seriously wounded. Will
hm Robinson and John Centers. be-
tween whom an old grudge existed,
net and Centers opened fire. Sew
sral shots were exchanged and Cen
hers fell mortally wounded. Half an
hour later Babe" Stewart and Isaac
Bently met and began shooting. Two
Shots had been fired by each when
BentIy fell He will not survive the
1ay Stewart was wounded.
The per capita for the school year
fsD7-OS OF the common schools of
Kentucky win be $40, an increase Of
zen cents over last year. and a record /
basis for paying the teachers of the
State
This per capita was declared by the
Siate Superintendent. J. II. Fuqua. on
an estimate furnished him by State
Auditor Hager that the school reven-
aes for the coming year will approx /
matt $2.5s4.6OO. The per capita has
grown steadily during the last
years of administration Of the public
affairs OF the State. In lS96-l9O0 the |
average was s2S5- For the first four
FEARS of the Democratic Administra-
ton it averaged two dollars and for
y-six and three-fourths cents, and for
che last four years ii averaged three
dollars and twenty-five and one-half
cents.
Frankfort, KY. July 17.-secretary
Of State McChes iey L. :ru-,..w. in
-scterdance with the law, will; i'd
1ertise officially the fact tnat at
he Noyembe-. 1907. election there
y to be submitted to the voters Of
me State OF Kentucky the question
II so amending Section las OF the
Constitution of the State as to pro-
hide that qualification for a legal
voter in all elections shall be that
n least sixty days before the cleo
fDn at which he offers to vote he
has paid in full all State, county
municipal. district and school taxes
dae BY him for the year previous
The submission of this question 10
~ voters OF Kentucky was proposed
and adopted at the last regular sos
non Of the General Assembly. An
oppression has gotten out that d
NV had been passed adding this
qualification to the other qualifiea-
tions of Kentucky voter. but ,he
Legislature could only adopt a prop
aston to submit such matter 20
re whole people of the State
n making up the official adver-
ssement today Secretary McChesney
xoticed that. in enrolling the meas
are. after passage, for the signature