The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1909-03-02
NEWS NOTES.

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citizen and Confederate veteran of Yer
sailles, dropped dead Of apoplexy.
Two more Indiana counties, Carroll
and Gibson, voted dry in local option
elections Friday by large majorities.
The British army estimates for 1908
and 1910 provide for grand total of
s0i, 973 men, as compared to 1860
men in l908-09.
The Nashville American has been
8 old 10 Milton X. Ochs and Thomas X.
Preston, who will take charge of the
paper March 10.
Mrs. W. X. Vanderbilt, Sr., has Civ
en- over 81. 900. 600 for the erection Of
four model tenements for persons suf-
fering from tuberculosis.
Walter X. Day was sentenced to one
year in the pentitentiary at Jackson on
charge of forging the name of his
uncle, Floyd Day. to note.
The voter of Rush county, Ind, de-
cided against saloons by majority Of
1908 in the county option election held.
Sixteen saloons are put out of business.
Gov. Wilson issued proclamation
fixing Friday, April 2, as Arbor Day in
Kentucky. lie urges public meetings
in the schools and the planting of trees.
Gen Roger ID. Williams. of Lexing-
ton, was appointed an aide on Gen. j.
Franklin Bells staff in the Taft inau-
gural parade, representing Kentucky.
Ten persons we're killed and IL injur-
e d at Hamburg through the splitting
of gangway between the wharf and
the steamer Kaiserin Auguste Victoria.
Two hundred and fifty employees of
the Terre Haute. Ind. Brewing Com
pany went out on strike as result OF
failure to come to an agreement on the
terms of new contract.
The monthly statement Of the coliec-
tons Of internal revenue shows the to.
tai receipts for January were $685.
65l, which is loss as compared with
January, 1908. of 81, 3i2, 1853.
At Barkerton, Cumberland county,
well. dressed white man was found dead
in the river with hole in the back of
his head He was a stranger and the
body has not been identified
Suits have been filed in Little Rock,
Ark, against several big packing house
companies. asking penalties aggregat-
ing 50. 800. 900 from each for alleged
violation of the State antitrust laws.
At Salem. Ark. while waiting trial
on a charge of seduction J. W. Jones,
merchant of Mammoth Springs, was
stabbed and fatally wounded by Miss
Lizzie Kissee, the plaintiff in the case.
BY contribution of $500 from John
ID. Rockefeller, who is in Lexington,
Richmond. Husars, one of the South's
Oldest military companies, will be en-
abled to participate in the inaugural
parade in Washington.
". Vernon Booth, president of A.
Booth & CO., the so-called fish trust.
which went into the hands of a re-
ceiver last September. and F. K. Rob-
bins, former assistant treasurer of the
company, were indicted at Chicago.
The opening of the ninth annual
tournament of the American Bowling
Congress took place at the Duquesne
Gardens in Pittsburg Saturday night.
There are .. $50 entries. which is larger
than the entry list at Cincinnati las,
year.
A resolution was introduced in the
House by Representative Gaines, OF
Tennessee, directing the Committee or
Judiciary to report a bill creating q
Department of National Highways anc
Good Roads to be presided over by a
member Of the Cabinet.
The statement of the New York
clearing house banks for the past week
shows that the banks hold $l3,S79. 975
more the requirements of the 25 pei
cent reserve rule. This Is an increase
of 1884, 900 in the proportionate cash
reserve as compared with the previous
week.
Capt. Hamilton Hutchings, who was
relieved of command of the Kearsage
before the fleet sailed from Gibraltar,
is to be examined by a medical board.
No charges have been made against
him and Admiral Sperry acted on the
captains request. His mental and
physical condition is said TO be pitiable,
Reports from all parts of the State
indicate that the recent rain was the
heaviest downpour in the history OF
the State. Every river and creek was
overlooked and great damage has beer
done to logging interests in the noun
tains. Along the lowlands of all thu
streams the residents were forced to
move and the fall in the temperature
occasioned considerable suffering.