The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1909-11-12
NEWS NOTES.

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for $500.
IL is estimated that 5000, 0O0, 900
pieces Of chewing gum are made in the
U. s. yearly.
Negro hunters. while smoking rab-
bit from hollow log. caused costly
forest fire in Christian county.
Lewis Strang covered a mile in 81
seconds on the Atlanta speedway,
lowerlag the worlds record by ga Sec
onds.
Clarence Mcdowell, Of Baltimore,
long prominently known as judge Of
horse racing on the metropolitan tracks,
is dead.
"Uncle Tip" Combs, aged 20 years,
one of the bestowed old men of Letch-
err county, fell from his barn loft and
broke his neck.
George II. Osborne, for 35 years
cashier Of the Huntington Bank at
Columbus, o, was arrested on charges
Of being short in his accounts.
Mai Thomas Hercules Hays, former
State Senator. Confederate veteran and
one Of Kentucky's best known citizens,
died in Louisville Of pneumonia.
Nine persons were killed and nearly
score Of employees injured in an ex-
plosion and fire in the comb factory Of
Robert Morrison & Son. in Brooklyn.
As result OF cutting ARRAY at Brass
field in Madison Tom Bates lies mortal
ly wounded. while Andy Todd, also
colored. is under arrest charged with
the deed
With more than 500 physicians from
all parts Of the South in attendance the
third annual meeting of the Southern
Medical Association convened at New
Orleans Tuesday.
Commander Robert Z. Peary. the
Arctic explorer. who has taken up his
residence with his family in Washing
ton for the winter, is not contemplating
an expedition 20 the South Pole.
Indictments were returned in the
Kenton county Circuit Court at Cow
ington against the Latonia Racing As
ISOLATION, for permitting bookmaking
and gambling at the Latonia racetrack.
Dies for a proposed cent piece
bearing the head Of George Washing
ton, to take the place of the coin now
in circulation have been prepared by
the engravers OF the United States
mint in Philadelphia.
Ignate Novikow, a Russian laborer,
shot and killed Mrs F. A. Schultz. wife
Of a wealthy rancher. and her daugh-
ter in the Ferry building at San Fran
cisco. and then killed himself. No cause
for the shooting has been learned.
Troops were sent TO the home of Ben
Longnecker in Mason county to trap
night riders. They remained on guard
three nights, but no riders appeared
and the soldiers. who had been sent
from Lexington. were ordered home.
The body Of woman. well dressed,
was found IN White River at Indanap-
oils by a fisherman. No woman has
been reported 20 the police recently as
missing from her home or the hotels
and the identity Of the dead woman is a
mystery.
Miss Annie Pelley, clerk in a dry
goods store at Cairo, Ill, was murder
ed. the crime being revealed when chill
dren found her stripped and mutilated
body in an alley. An examination
showed that she had been attacked.
gagged and then choked to death.
AT Versailles Judge Robert L. Stout
dissolved the temporary restraining or
, der against the sale of the Frankfort
and Cincinnati railroad to the Louis
willie and Nashville. inasmuch as the
sale had been conslmmated before the
suit was filed. The decision requires
court sanction for future action in re-
gard to the property.
That oral betting does not constitute
bookmaking within the meaning Of the
so called anti.raeetrack gambling laws
is in effect the decision Of the New
York Court of Appeals, affirming an
order of the lower courts for the dis
charge from custody of Orlando Jones
and Sol Lichtenstein, who were indict-
ed in Kings county on charge of
bookmaking.
In a head-on collision at Leinerts.
Tenn, between fast passenger train
on the l.. & N. running between Knox
willie and Cincinnati. and freight.
Marion o.. Pierce. freight engineer.
r. f. Bowman. freight fireman, and
L. o. Lemons, fireman on the passen-
ger, were killed. The wreck is said to
have been the result of failure of a
flagman TO protect the passenger train,
he having been sent out ahead Of dis
abled freight train.
A Scolded Boys Shrieks
Mortified his grandmother, Mrs. Maria