The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-11-04

JEFFRIES AND JOHNSON SIGN:
Jack johnson the negro heavyweight
champion of the world and James J.
Jeffries the indicated champion
signed articles in New York on Oct.
30th binding them to fight a finish
fight forty-fiye rounds or more, not
later than July 8. 1910 before the club
offering the best Inducements, the
winner to take a side bet of $4,000
and 40 per cent of the purse the los
err to take 25 per cent.
FOOTBALL KILLS CADET:-Cadet
Eugene A. Byrne. OF Buffalo. N. Y.
fourth year man at the United States
Military Academy died in the Cadet
Hospital at West Point, Oct 81 from
an injury received In the Harvard
Army Game played the day before. An
Xray photograph taken after his
death revealed dislocation between
the first and second cervical verte-
brae.
FOOD SUPPLY SHORT:-Secretar
James Wilson says In a recent inter-
view regarding the statement of Jas.
J. Hill that this nation is facing a
shortage in its food supply. that It IS
a question that Is commanding the
attention of the Department over
which he presides and that he has
set q number OF Government scientists
to work to investigate the conditions.
lie assigns two causes for the lean
years. One is the tendency OF the
immigrant class to settle In the cities,
but worst OF all he thinks Is the fall
ure of the American farmer TO get
out OF his acreage by conservation OF
soil and rotation OF crops the am
cunt OF yield he should.
CANNON FOR WATERWAYS: -
Speaker Cannon aroused enthusiasm a
Carlo. III. recently when he said, I'm
going 20 make a big speech in a sin
gle sentence. You want TO know what
l think OF the waterways? Read Pres
Taft's speech at St Louis yesterday
and you win know what l believe"
SUFFRAGETTEs GET GAY:-Mrs.
Chaplin. a suffragette furnished an ear
ly morning thrill ut the Bermondsey
by-eleciion day when she smashed a
bottle containing corrosive acid upon
a ballot box. Her intention evidently
was to destroy the ballots In the box
as a protest against the exclusion OF
women from the franchise. Some Of
the election officers were painfully
burned and the woman was arrested.
35 PERISH IN SEATTLE six
men who were rescued from the
rigging of the stranded steamer Hes
tia. Oct "a. are thought TO be the
only survivors OF the forty-one men
and boys who were aboard the Donald
son lines when she struck Proprietor
Ledge off the Maine coast. Several
bodies drifted 20 the shore later but
have not been Unidentified.
LABOR MEN GUILTY:-The dis
trict court OF appeals Monday affirm
ed the decree OF the Supreme Court
OF the District of Columbia, adjudg-
ing President Samuel Gompers, Sec'y.
Frank Morrison and Vice President
John Mitchell OF the American FEEDER
alton OF Labor guilty OF contempt Of
court In the Buck Stove and Range
CAGE. Pending appeal the three de-
PENDANTS were allowed to give bail
for their appearance. An attempt will
be made to appeal the case to the u.
S. Supreme court.
FAMILY MURDERED:-The family
OF c. W. Hood, including his daugh-
ter Emma, aged r. Carolina, 40 and
Roy 20, were murdered as they slept
Sunday night and their home burned
TO conceal the crime. Major c. w.
Hood was an aged Union veteran and
hac aiays been peaceful citizen. The
authorities say suspicion points to a
mar who has been paying attention to
Carolina Hood for some time and
who has disappeared from the COM
munlty. An effort is being made to
locate him.
KILLS WIFE:-Daniel Schoke, a
butcher OF Pine Grove, Pa, cut off
the heads of his wife and twelve year
old daughter and then committed sui
eide by shooting himself. The discov-
cry was made Tuesday morning when
neighbors found Schoke lying on the
first floor and the bodies of his wife
and child on bed on the second floor
The girls head was entirely severed
II is believed Schoke was insane.
MILLION FOR WORMS:--A gift Of
one million dollars by John ID. Rookie
feller to fight the"hook-worm disease"
was announced at the office of the
Standard OIL Company In New York
City. A number Of well known educa-
tors and scientists from institutions
OF learning In the South were called
in conference with Mr.. Rockefeller's
representative at the Standard Oil
Company offices recently and at that
meeting commission was organic