The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1909-09-07
NEWS NOTES.

Over $50 cases of typhoid fever are
being treated in the East Side Of New
York City.
While playing COW boy at st. Louis
Willie King shot and killed his 10-year-
old brother.
The steamer Gracey Childers, owned
at Nashville, Tenn, was destroyed by
fire at Paducah.
A Pennsylvania railroad train struck
m automobile at Douglasville, Pa, and
killed three persons.
An incendiary has been getting in his
work at Evansville, Ind. Seven livery
stables were burned Saturday might,
making "a fires in one week.
More than forty Thousand tons of
high-grade pig iron for steel making
was ordered in Germany last week for
export to the United States.
The Frankfort fair was successful
from an exhibition and financial stand
point. Miss Mary Eleanor Quarles won
the prize for the prettiest woman.
John F. Bay shot and killed James
NJ. Medley when ne said he found Neel-
ey talking to Mrs Bay In the back yard
Of the Bay home at Charlottesville. Mo.
Mayor Franklin P. Stoy. of Atlantic
City, was arrested on a warrant charg-
ing him with ignoring an order of the
Attorney General, which notified the
Mayor to enforce the law against Sum
day selling Of liquor.
John Cash, who was arrested at
Newport, Tenn, on the charge of MUIR
dering A. L. SlaRle. prominent lum-
herman, has made confession exoner-
ating all of the crime except himself
and John II. Spencer, who committed
suicide.
The persistence with which Russia is
striving for representation with the
other pations in the $50, 900. 900 loan for
the construction of the Hankow-Sze-
Chuen Chinese railroad may result in !
a further delay in the signing Of the
agreement.
The Bureau of the Census announced |
that approximately 5000 temporary
clerks will be appointed in connection
with the work of taking the thirteenth |
decennial census. The first examina-
ton will be held throughout the United
States on October %.
Nineteen persons were severely in
jured, two probably fatally, when the
hay wagon in which they we're being
taken to a corn-roast was struck by a |
freight engine at the st. Clair crossing
Of the Williamsburg, Pa, branch Of
the Pennsylvania railroad.
Lewis Gregory, farmer, and Isaac
Plark, deputy sheriff, both candidates
for the republican nomination for mag
istrate at convention at Griffin, in
Wayne county, engaged in difficulty
with pistols. Plark was killed and
Gregory mortally wounded.
jeff Cook. the old man who met his
death in the riot In Frankfort, in which
Sergt. Ingram Tate was also killed,
was slain by bullet from Springfield
rifle. The three wounded men will re-
cover. The county and military author
tiles are making an investigation Of the
riot.
SiNty-seven warrants, charging an
equal number of liquor dealers with
violating the Sunday-closing law, were
obtained at Atlantic City by agents of
| the Lord Day Alliance and Good Citi-
zenship League. The serving of the
warrants caused considerable excite
ment.
Labor day in Western Pennsylvania
found about $4,000 persons idle as a re-
suit Of strikes, lockouts and walkouts
Panic wage rates." in spite of the
fact that manufacturing concerns are
running on full time. is the cause given
by labor leaders for the numerous
strikes.
DIR. Frederick A. Cooks discovery of
the North Pole is the subject of world
wide comment. Scientists generally
pay tribute to the American explorer
for his great feat. Danish polar ex-
perts, who have an acquaintance with
DR.. Cook. are the stanchest believers
in the intrepid Americans achieve
ment.
: The act of the last Legislature OF
Tennessee prohibiting wholesale as well
as retail sales Of liquor in the State of
Tennessee was upheld in all its pro-
visions except as regards sales for ship
ment outside the State, in an opinion
handed down in Chancery Court by
Chancellor I. M. Mcconnell, of Chatta-
| nooga.