The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1909-01-01
NEWS NOTES.

Rome. Ga. suffered a 800, 900 fire.
The Nations forests this year sup
piled 4, 900, 900 Christmas trees.
Claus Spreckels, the sugar king of
the Pacific coast, is dead at San Fran
cisco.
Oscar Gardiner, aged Is, was acci-
dentally shot and killed while hunt ng
in Fayette.
Sheridon Barnes accidentally killed
his brother, Gaines Barnes, while hunt
ing in Hardin county.
Lawrence county. Ind, considered
doubtful, went dry by 1900. putting II
saloons out Of business.
Four persons were found dead in a
residence at Chicago. having been as
phyxlated by escaping gas
Gov. Patterson, of Tennessee, extend
ed Christmas clemency to 25 convicts.
Gov. Conner, Of Alabama, pardoned IL.
The dates for the national encamp-
ment, Grand Army of the Republic, at
Salt Lake City, will be from August
to l3.
Dependent because he had no money
with which TO buy his wife a Christmas
present, Thomas Hamline, a Denver
plumber, killed himself.
Judge Hart. at Nashville, refused
bail to Col. Cooper. Robin Cooper and
John d. Sharp, charged with the muir
der of Senator Carmack.
John Stormer, Johnstown, Pa,
man, shot his wife, her brother and
wife. William Kurtz and wife and then
blew out his own brains.
All of the prisoners serving sentences
in the city Jail for misdemeanors at
Alexandria, La were given Christmas
gifts in the shapes Of full pardons.
Three men were killed and one seri-
ously injured in headon collision be-
tween two freight trains on the Big
Four railroad near Kingstcwn, Ind.
After repeated notices served upon
him not TO sell cotton below 10 cents,
night riders destroyed the barn Of w.
A. Buck in Pottwatomie county, Okla.
By burning his feet with lighted
matches two masked robbers compelled
II. A. Schabow. of Curtis, o., to open
the safe in his farmhouse and turn over
$3.50.
Nine men were killed and several 9TH
ers were injured in a collision between
a freight train and work train on the |
Great Northern railway near Great
Falls, Mont.
Twelve men are known to be dead |
and probably % more were entombed
as the result of an explosion which oc-
Cured in the Lick Branch colliery near
Bluefield. W. Va.
Assistant State Mine Inspector Ed |
ward Flynn estimates that the Alabama !
coal production in 1908 will show fall |
ing off of 1000, 600 tons. as compared
with the production last year
A petition was sent by the represen-
tatives of 10000 union workmen in
Wilkes-Barre. Pa, and vicinity. to
President Roosevelt. asking him to par
don Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison.
Judge Adams discharged the jury in
the Beach Hargis case after they had
deliberated "a hours in an endeavor to
reach verdict. The jury stood nine
for acquittal and three for conviction.
Arthur S. Cheney. American consul
at Messina, and his ~ife. are supposed
to have been killed by the earthquake,
according to advices received BY the
State department from Vice Consul
Stuart Lupton.
James Leary. brakeman, shot and
killed his sister, Mrs. Ida Detton, at
a family reunion at his fathers home
in Grant county. After emptying his
revolver into the body of the woman he
committed suicide.
Broodng over the fancied disgrace to
his family because his father had been
whipped by night riders. Roy Rogers
the 20-year-old son of Presley Rogers,
a prominent Christian county planter,
suicide.
Willis L. Smith, the missing student,
who disappeared from State University
Of Kentucky, Lexington, September %.
last. turned up at the home of relatives
at Greensboro. Smith tells tale that
would put to bluh yellow-back novel
production of his adventures since his
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