The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1909-03-23
NEWS NOTES.

The seventh street station In Louis
Vile burned, causing a $4,000 loss.
Ripley Below, Of Morganfeld, fell
from his horse and was instantly killed.
Robbers dynamited the safe in the
bank at Coldwater. OKLA. and escaped
with $1,000.
Four children Of NJ. c. Palmer, near
Newly, Okla. were burned to.death in
a prairie fire.
John b. Ely. charged with killing
his wife in Louisville, was. acquitted at
his third trial.
The "wets" will petition for a local
option election in Trigg county, which
went dry at the last election.
Secret service operatives located a
counterfeiting outfit in an isolated
patch Of woods near Gary, Ind
All preparations are completed for
Russia military Intervention in Persia
should such a step be found necessary.
Rear Admiral Edward Trask Strong,
u. s. NJ, retired. died suddenly Of
heart disease at his home at Andover.
Mass.
Thieves broke into the residence.of ID.
II. Dunn. president Of the Smithland
bank. and stole 81, 500 in notes and SIS
in cash.
Wolf Face, one of the most fnoted
war chiefs of the Cheyennes, died at
his home near Colony. Okla. He was
nearly 100 years of age.
Mrs. Agnes Franklin, of Hampton,
Va, tried to spank her 2O-year-old son,
whom she found in a pool room, and
dropped dead from heart disease.
Councilman Jonn F. Klein was COM
mtted to Jail without bail at ..Pittsburg
for refusing to appear before the grand
jury to testify in the graft investiga-
ton.
Benjamin Gilbert. aged 10. was cleo
trocuted in the penitentiary at Rich
mond. Va. for the murder in Norfolk
last July Of his sweetheart, Miss Aman-
da Morse.
Frank Bell, a wellknown Newspaper
man, died at Hopkinsville after a lin
gering illness. He had been connected
with several of the leading newspapers
in the South.
William Whitla, son OF James p.
Whitla, a weli-known attorney Of Sha-
ron. Pa. was kidnapped by two men
and later his parents received letter
demanding a ransom of $4,000.
Daniel Bauer. a member of the Gin
cinnati General Council, a saloon keep
er and follower of Boss Cox. was in
dicted on the charge Of conducting a
place that constitutes a nuisance.
The bursting of the water tanks,
which supplied the city of Parkersburg,
W. Va resulted in three deaths and
the serious injury of other residents OF
the city whose homes were in the patti
of the flood.
Although a total of 233 cases of small
pox were treated at the Franklin coun
ty pesthouse during the last year, ther'
have been no deaths, and 226 of thu
patients were discharged from the hos
pital cured Of the disease.
For her heroism in saving the hive
of nine children during the burning o
the steamer, Gen. Slocum, near New
York, in 1904, Miss Mary Mccain, wa
presented by Speaker Cannon, on be
half of Congress. with a silver life-sav
ing medal.
Luman C. Mann was declared no
guilty Of the murder of Mrs. France
Gilmore Thompson at Chicago. Sew
eral members of the jury shed tear
when Mann, between choking sobs
: thanked them and promised to lead
better life.
John ID. Sharp was acquitted of tn
I charge of numbering former Unite
. States Senator Z. w. Carmack, q
Nashville. but the two principal actor
e in the tragedy. Robin Cooper and Co
y Duncan B. Cooper, were given 20 yeal
$ in prison each.
II A Lynchburg dispatch says: Judl
Christian decided the contest OF Il
! election held here in December in fav'
of the anti-Saloon League. and the s
looms which closed March 5. will rema
closed at least two years. Not drum
!. en- man has been arrested here in