The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-02-14

with report OK failure.
Concurring in the recommendation
Of acting Public Printer RossiteT. the |
president Cancelled the contract Of the !
government with the Audit System
and ordered its election from the gov
eminent printing Office at the end OF
six DAYS. The Audit System IS the
corporate name OF the cost-asceFtain-
ing method which was installed more
than a year ago By Public Printer
Stillings.
Caid Sir Harry MacLean. command
er OF the sultan's bodyguard and next
to the sultan the most influential man
in Morocco. arrived in Tangier under
an escort from the Bandit Raisuli. who
has held him under bondage for the
past seven months
At the request Of United States Dis
trict Attorney Stimson Albert B.
Boardman. counsel for Charles W.
Morse. the New York financier. cabled
his client at Liverpool to return at
once.
Robert Mitchell. colored. an alleged
murderer. was taken from a deputy
sheriff by a mob at Oakgrove, La.
and lynched-
Owing to recent heavy Withdrawals
the Copenhagen Freeholders' bank
temporarily suspended payments The
banks capital Is about 5000. 900
Highwaymen in the vicinity OF Wo-
burn, Mass, shot two policemen and
several other persons Who tried to ar
rest them
Two men were killed and several
other persons were slightly injured
when part Of a passenger train on
the Western Maryland railroad jumped
the track and toppled over an en-
bankment at German, W. Va
Fire in an apartment house result
ed in the death Of three persons
Sir Birrell Barnes. president Of the
divorce court in London. granted the
countess Of Yarmouth. who was Miss
Alice Thaw of Pittsburg. a decree null
I lifying her marriage 10 the earl OF
Yarmouth
Samuel Floyd Angus. former owner
Of the Detroit American league base
I bah club and prominent as a capital
Ist. died at his home in Detroit
Jack Long. white. was lynched near
Newberry, a small mining town in
Florida He was ace Of the muir
der Of Elias Sapp. prominent farmer
The Democratic state committee de-
cided to hold the state eonYention in
indianapolis March % and &c.
Republican factions in Florida held
two state conventions in the same
hall. one indorsing Taft and the other
eondemning the use Of federal patron
age to secure delegates.
An exposition designed to show'the
best methods Of safeguarding work.
men and protecting the general public
win be held in New York beginning
early in April under the auspices OF
the American Museum Of Safety De
vices and Industrial Hygiene
Ernest Douglas. the mysterious for
eigner who was found murdered in
Baltimore on January 16. was in re
/ atty Count Henrieo Douglas Scott
member Of an Italian noble family
Alvah H. Martin OF Portsmouth. Va
was appointed q member OF the Re
publican national committee to sue
coed the late George E Bowden-
Five firemen were injured and
$4,000 damage done by a FIRE in tbs
Alshuler block in Racine. Wis.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens Of Haver
hill. Mass. killed her little daughtel
and son by cutting their Threats viii
a razor.
Viscount Aoki. ex-ambassador q
Washington. was made a privy eoun
cillOr by the emperor OF Japan.
Gustav Walstedt. carpenter Of Chi
eagO, erazed by an attack Of grippe
killed his nine-year-old daughter AM
himself
Senior Franco. the former premie
Of Portugal. arrived in Madrid from
Lisbon He was accompanied by hi
wife and SON In the evening b.
boarded the south express" pre-
sumably for Paris
The senate passed the bill placinl
Maj. Gen o. o. Howard on the retire
list of the army as a lieutenant ger
eral.
The United Fruit company's steam
er Auselm was wrecked on a reef o.
the coast Of Spanish Honduras
Charles W. Morse. organizer Of IN
. ice combine and Of the Consolidate
; Steamship company. and a few month
ago regarded as one OF the creates
= fnanciers in America. has disaI
peared- His creditors attached all hi
D property in New York. including hi
residence at T2S Fifth avenue. in
suit for s2i3.32l begun by Charles 4
Hanna. national bank examiner. as n
ceIver OF the National Bank Of Mort
e America. which Morse controlled
5 Three prominent ice dealers Of II
ledo. o.. were sent 70 prison for ST
e months for conspiracy in restraint {
1 trade.
k Mrs. Mary Sherry died in Brocl
ton. y. Y. aged 100 years.
o George u. Wise, for many years
member Of congress from the ThiT
\ Virginia district. died in RichmOni
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