The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1909-06-11
NEWS NOTES.


over 300.
Presque Isle, Me-, was literally wip-
ed out by fire.
George AIDE. the humorist, has been
elected trustee Of Purdue University,
Indiana.
Randolph, the largest county in West
Virginia, has been made dry by remon-
STRANGE.
Miss Ellen French. aged So, commit
ted suicide by drowning in pool near
Corydon.
During an electric storm in Bourbon.
Bush Ranso was struck by lightning
and killed.
Jasper Gambrel shot and probably
fatally wounded Wash Sergent in Har-
Ian county.
Prof. Ernest Fox Nichols, Of Column
bia University, has been elected presi-
dent of Dartmouth.
Z. ID. Jones, founder Of the industrial
concern that grew to be the present
Detroit Shipbuilding Co.. is dead. He
was nearly 80 years old.
An earthquake occurred at Copiapo.
a small seaport on Copiapo Bay, Chill.
The walls Of numerous buildings were
cracked and considerable other damage
was done. No lives were lost.
Fred Mohrie. who killed Constable
Sam Young several weeks ago, was as
sassinated in the corridor Of the Grim
inal Court building in st. Louis by Viii.
liam Kane, former deputy under
Young.
At the annual election for the board
Of trustees of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company Of New York, William II. Por-
ter, president Of the Chemical National
Bank, was elected to succeed Charles
d. Dickey. resigned.
Charged with having taken funds Of
the bank, Frederick II. Brigham, head
bookkeeper Of the Merchants National
Bank, New Haven. Conn, was arrest
ed and held in $4,000 bonds for the
United States Court.
Three arrests were made Tuesday of
men charged with being implicated in
the shooting from ambush of former
Sheriff Ed Callahan. Those under ar
rest are Govan Smith, his brother,
Elisha Smith. and Levi Johnson.
James Bludeworth and June Weekly,
linemen, were electrocuted at Enid,
Okla, while employed in repairing
wires at the courthouse. In some man.
ner they came in contact with nom
insulated wires. 1890 volts passing
through their bodies.
The strike of the Georgia railroad
firemen for seniority of whites over
Negroes passed formally into the arbi-
tration stage Tuesday when the firemen
announced Congressman Thomas w.
Hardwick. Of Georgia, as their arbitra-
tor under the Erdman act.
Louis W. Foster. John NJ. German.
Walter Campbell, A. c. Baldwin, Ed
win He'll and J. M. Scott were SEN
fenced to a term Of six months in Jail
and fine of 500 and costs each in the
United States District Court at Cincin-
natl for using the United States mails
to further schemes to defraud.
In several arrests made in Columbus,
Marion and Dennlson. Ohio. Federal in
spectors and detectives who worked in
conjunction with them in the case, be-
lieve that they have unearthed the big
gest and best organized branch of the
Black Hand in this country. Marion,
Ohio, being probably the head of the
organization. Chief Post-office Inspect
or Charles Holmes, of Cincinnati, who
is in charge of the work which has re-
suited in the arrests so far made, is au-
thority for the statement that evidence
has been secured showing that the gang
operating from Marion and with lines
reaching into number of big cities of
the country have fleeced different per-
sons in Ohio and other States out Of
thousands of dollars in the last few
months by the application of Black
Hand methods.