The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1909-10-29
NEWS NOTES.

iientiary from Oven county, suicided
in Frankfort.
Tommy Delvin knocked out Eddie
Walsh in the fifth round before the
Phoenix Club in New York City.
Mrs. Virginia Lafon Crittenden. wife
of the late John Allen Crittenden, died
at her home in Frankfort of heart fail
ure.
O'Brien Bros, wholesale liquor deal
ers Of Louisville. bought the entire
product Of the Nelson distilery, IL, 900
barrels Of whisky, for $275. 900.
The dry farming congress opened
Monday at Billings, Mont. with $500
men interested in raising grain and
vegetables with little rainfall, present.
One man was killed and four others
were injured by the explosion of three
boilers at the Pabst brewey in Milwau-
kee. The explosion caused a loss of
$3.50, 900.
G. II. Bowlds. said to be a member
of the prominent Kentucky family. was
arrested on the charge of looting Col
orado bank, of which he was recently
made president.
The corner stone of the new Chris
tian church at jacksonville, which will
cost $50, 600 and be one of the hand
soonest in Western Kentucky. was laid
there with impressive ceremonies.
State troops in citizens clothes are
guarding the tobacco crop of G. A.
Simpson. in Mason county. Mr.. Simp-
son is shipping his crop to Cincinnati.
He refused to join the Burley pool.
The Green River Coal Company has
authorized President William Glen
daniel. of Pittsburg. to close a deal
with the Pittsburg Coal Company for
so. 900 acres of Kentucky coal lands.
Five children, all inmates of the nur-
sery. were inclnerated in a fire which
destroyed Shelton College, the home of
the girls, at the Virginia Synod Pres
byterian Orphans Home at Lynchburg,
Va.
Thousands of dollars of damage was
done in Frankfort and Franklin county
Sunday by windstorm which reached
the proportions of a hurricane. One
church was wrecked and over 100 homes
damaged.
Four buildings in different parts of
Indianapolis were wrecked late Sunday
night by explosions of dynamite caused.
according to the police, by malicious
members of labor unions not employed
by Albert Won Spreckelsen. a contract
or.
Harry X Thaw's contention that he
was illegally committed to the Matte
wan State Hospital for Criminal Insane.
following his acquittal on the charge of
numbering Stanford White in New
York City. was overruied by the court
of appeals.
Enraged because his chorus girl-wife
preferred life on the stage to his COM
partnership. William II. Short. of New
York City. shot and perhaps fatally
wounded her at the Union Station in
Washington City and then sent bullet
crashing through his temple.
James Mcmahon confessed at Kansas
City that he murdered his sisters, Miss
Rose Mcmahon, and Mrs. Alonzo Van
Royen, and his brother-in.law, Alonzo
VanRoyen. A long-standing family
quarrel caused the tragedy. Mcmahon
killed Van Royen in wood and later
went to the Van Royen home and shot
his sisters.
Joseph Leach. a chauffeur. at the ex-
animation of DIR. George A. Fritch on
the charge of manslaughter in connec-
ton with the mysterious death of May
belle Millman. testified at Detroit that
he took the physician to Ecorse Creek
in his automobile and that DIR. Fritch
threw into the creek three sacks. which
they had brought from his office. Fritch
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