The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1909-05-28
NEWS NOTES.

a small majority.
A woman was fined $3.50 for selling
whisky at Jackson.
Daniel Webster, an aged citizen OF
Owen county, is dead.
Commissioner Of Labor Neil is in At.
lanta making an effort to settle the
railway fremen's strike.
Four miners we're killed by falling
rock in the Coahulla mine. near Porto
Rico. a mining camp east of Joplin. Mo.
Dick" Johnson, race horse man and
well known in sporting circles, shot and
almost instantly killed himself at New
port.
The battleship Mississippi made a
record breaking run from Natchez TO
New Orleans. travelling the 297 miles in
Ii hours.
In closing its convention at Boston
the Order of Railway Conductors chose
Jacksonville, Fla, as the place for the
next biennial meeting.
Mrs. Anna Cleveland Hastings, wild
ow Of Rev. E. p. Hastings, and sister
Of for .ner President Grover Cleveland.
is dead at Hartford, Conn.
John Carter, an old soldier, and
three children Of his daughter, Mrs.
Leila Shaw. were burned to death in a
fire which destroyed the Shaw home at
Eldon, la.
The gasoline boat. Doris, with 10
passengers on board. capsized in the
middle Of the Yazoo Canal near Vicks-
burg, Miss, and seven person are be-
lieved to have been drowned.
Lovett Davis. a Negro, charged with
attempting to commit a criminal as
SAINT on l6-year-old white girl at Pine
Bluff. Ark. was taken from the Jail at
midnight by an unmasked mob of 300
men and hanged to a telegraph pole.
President Lewis, of the United Nine
Workers, has declined to approve the
strike called in the Kanawha coal field
by officials of the West Virginia miners
organization. About 5000 men are said
TO have obeyed the strike order.
Senator James b. McCreary. chair
man Of the Goo bel Monument Commits
sion. says the monument of Governor
Goebel in the State Cemetery will not
be unveiled in June. The postpone
ment is indefinite, and made because of
the illness of Arthur Goebel who is in
Arizona.
Five children taking part in a drill at
the commencement exercises at Cave
City were so badly burned that it is not
believed they can live. The accident
was caused by one of the little girls
dropping an electric candle in her hand
which ignited the light white dress she
was wearing and in turn set fire to the
clothing Of the other children near.
The Supreme Court Of the United
States decided the case Of the Adams
Express Company VS. the Common
wealth of Kentucky, involving the right
Of the company to ship liquor into To-
cal option county, contrary to the law
of the State, in favor of the company.
The case involved the shipment of whis-
ky from Indiana and Tennessee to Bon
melville. for which the company was
fined $50 for each offense by the circuit
court of Hart county.
Sheriff Ship. Deputy Sheriff Gibson
and four other residents of Hamilton
county. Tenn, were declared to be
guilty of contempt of the Supreme
Court of the United States, in combin-
ing a conspiracy in 1905 to lynch Ne
gro named Johnson. sentenced to death
for criminal assault. johnson was
lynched after he had been granted an
appeal by the Supreme Court. SEN
tence will be passed upon the six men
next Tuesday week. The opinion of
the court was handed down by Chief
Justice Fuller. Justice Peckham pre-
pared dissenting opinion. which was
concurred in by two other members of