The log cabin Democrat., 1908-03-26

| GlSHI IIucIS III DIdCheH COuuIy, NY =, instituted damage proceedings in the United States court against Ebert Rice, Benjamin McCracken, Hillma- Hamilton and John Flannery, all of Bracken county. Plaintiff is seek ing $50, 900 damages, and ayers that on March 10, while residing in Brooksville, Ky, where for the past twenty-five years he has engaged in the leaf tobacco business, Rice, Me- Cracken, Hamilton and Flannery conspired with some 150 other per sons to commit and perpetrate out rages. He charges they visited his home at midnight, escorted him through the streets while only part ly clad, fogged him unmercifully, and then in his presence, while he was kept in restraint with drawn re- i volver-, fired his warehouse and burned his stock of tobacco.
 As a result of one bullet discharg- ed accidentally from a pistol, Dr. and Mrs. Lee Noel of Grayport, Miss, are patients at St. Joseph's hospital at Memphis, having been hurried from their home to receive expert medical attention. Mrs. Noel was in the act of turning down the bed coverings Tuesday night to re- tire. when the weapon which was hidden in the blanket, was tossed to the floor. The hammer struck with force, discharging one chamber, the ball tearing through Mrs. NoePs leg, continuing across the room and lodg- ing in Dr. Noel's stomach.
 Jacob Ariis and other kind-heart- ed citizens of New York are plan ming to send Wigge Petersen, Dan- ish carpenter, who broke his back in a fall last year, across the ocean to his home, providing a ships sur geon can be induced to accept him as passenger and to care for him on the way. Petersen is willing to risk the voyage. He has a mother and sister in Copenhagen.
 The Southern bank failed to open it's doors Monday. President B. V. White and Cashier J. c. Rushing posted a notice on the door stating that the directors had closed the bank for the benefit of the deposi- tors, pending arrangements to liqul- date the institution. The bank was capitalized at $1O0,0OO, and, accord ing to Cashier Rushing, the liabili- ties are about $60,000.
 The Oklahoma legislature is in deadlock over the prohibition en- forcement bill. The Senate sent the bill to the house without the emergency clause, and Tuesday ask ed the house to consider the matter iE joint conference The house re- fused and asked the Senate either to provide for the emergency fetaure or send the bill over to the house for further action.
 The Senate Committee on Finance Tuesday voted unanimously to amend the Aldrich financial bill by eliminating railroad bonds as secur- itv for national bank note circula- ton. It was also decided to amend the bill so as to retain the provi- sion of the present law prohibiting the retirement by national banks of more than $9,000,000 of circulation in any one month.
 Dreaming that a mob of blood thirsty madmen was after him and preferring death at his swn hands, Horace l.. Harmon, aged 32 years, a prosperous miller of Townsend, Del, slashed his throat with a case knife and probably would have died had not his wife found his uncon- scious body several hours later and summoned physicians, who restored him.
 Miss WiIhelmina Crawford, % year, old, of Lowell, Mass, adopted in Supreme Court, as her son, James Butler, who is 4G. Miss Crawford, who is wcll-to-do, says that Buffers parents died when he was a boy. He was brought up in her father family and she g0t to entertain such a mntherly feeling for him that she determined to have him as her son.