The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1909-02-19
NEWS NOTES.

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president of the Manufacturers Rec
ord. died at Talladega, Ala, of portion
tits.
In January Alabama produced 49,
404 tons of pig iron against LAG, S03 in
December and Sc. 036 in January year
ago.
The snow blockade still prevails in
the lake region, which is suffering from
demoralized communication and inter-
rupted traffic.
| The new Grand Vizier. Hilmia Pasha,
made his first appearance in the Cham
Der of Deputies at Constantinople. The
chamber voted confidence by acclama-
ton.
Gov. Wilson has issued a letter
thanking, on behalf of Kentucky, the
men who took prominent parts in the
Lincoln centenary celebration at Hodg-
euville.
At Campton, the Combs Hotel. the
oldest hostelry there. was destroyed by
fire. The loss was about $4,000 with
s., 900 insurance. The origin of the fire
is not known.
In two years in Louisville the work.
house has decreased from an average
of 100 to lO7 daily. though the city has
increased rapidly in population. The
Sunday lid is credited with the de-
crease.
Illinois Central train No. POS, south
bound from st. Louis to New Orleans,
was wrecked six miles east of Murphys-
boro. III. Three persons were killed
and SO were injured. All the injured,
it is believed, will recover.
With a bomb in one hand and a re-
volver in the other, thief entered the
home Of Lawrence NJ. Jones, a Kansas
City millionaire. and demanded $1,000.
Mr. Jones overpowered the man and
turned him over to the police.
Major Gen. j. Franklin Bell will have
command of the inaugural parade on
March 4, and his chief Of staff, Brig.
Gen. John A. Johnson, is assisting in
TOunuluk ouN the uctdho Vi ehS pok cohN.
Miss Emily Virginia Mason. native
of Kentucky, who won fame during the
Civil War as a nurse of Confederate
soldiers and who ministered to Union
soldiers at Libbey prison, is dead in
Washington.
Nearly 300 people were burned to
death Sunday when the Flores Theater,
OF Acapulco, Mex, was destroyed, sew
eral Americans being among the vic
tins. The telegraph Office was also
burned and all communication was for
time cut Oft.
The statement of the New York
clearing house banks for the past week
shows that the banks hold 50, 49T, 800
more than the requirements of the 25
per cent. reserve rule. This is a de-
crease of $3.50, 900 in the proportionate
cash reserve las compared with the pre-
vious week.
The blind tiger keepers who have
been evading arrest by technicalities of
the law on the Kentucky-Tennessee
border line in whitley county, were
captured. Sheriff Crowley with seven
deputies, County Attorney Steely and
private detectives made the raid, cap
turing Ia white men, three women and
three Negroes.
The first number of the Jackson Ea-
gle has just been issued from the press
Of the London Sentinel. The paper will
be devoted to the interests of Jackson
county. which has never had newspa-
per. The Eagle will be republican in
politics and under the management Of
Russell Dyche, editor of the London
Sentinel
The grand jury of the District of
Columbia reported indictments charg-
ing criminal libel against the owners of
the New York World and the Indian
apols News on account of the recent
publications in those papers rejecting
on President Roosevelt, Secretary Root,
Chas. p. Taft, Douglas Robinson and
| William Nelson Cromwell in connection
| with the purchase or the fanama lanai.
Mrs. f. w. Carmack. wife of the
former Tennessee Senator, was the first
witness in Nashville in the trial Of Col.
Cooper and son and John D.. Sharp, ac-
cused of staying her husband. The
widow was half carried to the witness
stand. She moaped "Oh. God - and
for several minutes was unable to tell
when she last saw her husband alive.
Former State Treasurer Craig and Mrs.
Charles H. Eastman also gave impor-
tant testimony. Mrs. Eastman gave a
dramatic recital of the tragedy and
made a strong witness for the prosecu'
ton.