The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1909-06-22
NEWS NOTES.

Henderson.
The First Kentucky Regiment will 20
into camp near Frankfort Aug. 81.
A fire caused the death Of five men
and 60 horses in Board Of Trade livery
barns at Duluth, MINI.
A torrential rain brought to an alb
rupt halt the ravages Of the forest fires
in Maine and New Brunswick.
} While attempting to ford Kaw Creek,
four miles north Of Boyton, Okla, Mrs.
Rentie. farmers wife. and her two
children were drowned.
John Barth. aged 80 years, receiving
teller for the Cleveland Trust Company.
Of Cleveland. o.. committed suicide in
the cellar Of the bank.
Forty Kentucky counties are in dan
ger Of beng without country schools
for one year unless the Fiscal Courts
make levies before July /.
Gov. Wilson has refused to remit
the States part Of the $4,000 fine
against the Indian Refining Company
for polluting the waters of Elkhorn
creek.
Blewett Lee, son Of the late Gen.
Stephen ID. Lee, has been named TO
succeed Jacob NJ. Dickinson as head of
the legal department Of the Illinois
Central.
The Supreme Court Of Alabama de-
MED the application Of Frank Cszalas.
| impeached Sheriff Of Mobile county, for
new trial, thus making his impeach-
ment final.
The local option election in Warrick
county. Ind resulted in victory for
the "drys." who carried six precincts
to the "wets' I" four, the latter includ-
ing Boonville.
The Pennsylvania State Board of
Pardons recommended a pardon for
James b. Gentry. the actor, serving a
life sentence for the murder of Madge
Yorke, the actress.
Nine men were killed and at least
dozen men and women injured in a
head on collision between two heavy
cars OF the South Shore electric rail |
way at Samuels Crossing, Ind.
In battle between officers and three
train robbers who held up st. Louis,
Iron Mountain and Southern freight |
train near Bragg, Okla, Deputy Con-
stable johnson Kirk was killed.
Bishop Warren A. Gambler. of the |
Methodist Episcopal Church Of Georgia,
was agreed upon rs the third arbitra-
tor in the dispute between the Georgia
Railroad Company and its firemen.
The State encampment of United
| Spanish American War Veterans will
be held at Newport July 2, 3, and 4.
Two hundred members OF the military
order of the Serpent. Lima. Ohio. will
participate in the parade.
The Kentucky Heating Company was
awarded $4,000 damages in its suit
against the Louisville Gas Company at
Elizabethtown. A judgment of $4,000
was given at the first trial, but was
reversed by the Court of Appeals.
Frederick y. Weed, former cashier
of the West Virginia Bank, was found
guilty in Criminal Court at Clarksburg,
w. Va. of making false entries in the
books of the bank. The punishment is
from two TO ten years in the penitenti-
airy.
A monument to the private Confed-
crate soldiers was unveiled at Centen-
NAL Park. Nashville. Tenn, Saturday,
in the presence of an immense crowd
of people. Judge S F. Wilson. of the
State Civil Court of Appeals, was the
orator of the day.
No indictments have been found
against John Smith and Elisha John
son, arrested in connection with the at
tempted assassination of Ed Callahan.
in Breathitt county. 1t was claimed the
evidence was insufficient. The special
grand jury stood to 6. The jury was
discharged.
Ex-State Senator Alex II. Hargis.
formerly of jackson. but now resident
of Lexington. has purchased the gener-
al merchandise store, residence and
other real estate Of his brother, the
late Judge James Hargis. at Jackson.
The price paid for the property is said
to be about S65. 900.
DR.. Lenox Newman. aged % years.
son of DIR. A. NJ. Newman. who was
killed in the street fight at Meadville,
Miss, Monday. is dead at Natchez. He
is the third victim Of Monday s tragedy.
Herbert Applewhite. who was wounded
in the fight, is at the Natchez sanitari-
UNI with little chance for his recovery.
J. II. Hargis, a Simpson county farm.
err. took binder into his wheat field
and after a short run the machine be-
came choked up. and upon investigation
} he found that a large chicken snake