The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1909-10-26
NEWS NOTES.

Bardstown.
| Lexington was chosen as the next
meeting place of the Kentucky Medical
Association.
Six men were killed in head-on col
lision on the Pennsylvania railroad near
Collinsville, o.
DR.. James II. Carlisle. the venerable
president emeritus of Wofford College,
is dead at Spartanburg. S. C.
Robert s. Lovett was elected presi-
dent of the Union Pacific railroad to
succeed the late +. II. Hartman.
Earthquake shocks in the vicinity Of
Mt. Etna and the activity of Mt, Vesu-
vius have caused much alarm in Italy.
The .year-old daughter of William
Symonds. of Evansville. Ind. fell into
a tub of hot water and was fatally
scalded.
A man calling himself Francis NJ.
Schlatter. the "Divine Healer" was
found dead in hotel at Hastings. Neh.
Doctors say he died of old age. He was
widely known.
twenty-five persons were drowned
following the bursting of a dam at
Lake Derkos, 80 miles northwest of
Constantinople. The lake supplies wat
er for the capital
DR.. s. c. Bigham and w. b. Avant.
at Georgetown. S. c.. were convicted
Of manslaughter. They were charged
with the murder. several weeks ago, Of
DIR. Bigham's wife.
John c. Roberts. recently convicted
of counterfeiting and sentenced to serve
six years in prison. has been indicted
on the same charge by the Federal
grand jury at Covington.
Lyman McCarty. for the past 10 years
assistant general passenger agent of
the Baltimore and OHIO Railroad Com
pany in New York. died in that city
following an operation for malignant
cancer.
Battling Nelson and AL Wolgast were
matched TO fight IS rounds for the
worlds lightweight championship on
Thanksgiving day. The fight will take
place at Los Angeles before the Pacific
Athletic Club.
Dave Mcqueen, the Negro who killed
Leon Yandell near Lexington confessed
to his crime on his arrival at Lexington
from East st. Louis. where he was ar
rested. He maintains he shot Mr. YAM
dell in self-defence.
At Oklahoma City fl. II. Cooper shot
and fatally wounded brewery A Wal
lace, real estate dealer. and then for
several minutes held at bay large
crowd attracted by the shooting. Coop
err surrendered to an officer.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to Sam
uel G. Dixon. State Health Commits
sioner Of Pennsylvania, tract Of $50
acres of land on the crest of the Ale
gheny Mountains. near Cresson, Pa. as
a gift in recognition of the States
great fight against tuberculosis.
After struggling through large part
Of the night to dig his way to freedom
from the city prison at Baton Rouge.
La. John Dawson finally succeeded in
making an opening sufficient for the
passage Of his body. He crawled
through only to find that he had broken
into another cell.
Elijah Wright. the aged Virginia
murderer, who was scheduled as the
last man to be executed by hanging in
that State. has escaped such fate as
the result Of his third trial at Clint
wood in Dickinson county. He was
sentenced to Is years in the peniten-
tiary for the murder Of William Sifers.
The Portola festival parade Thursday
at San Francisco. headed by Don Cas-
par de Portola and Queen Vergilla. was
the greatest affair of its kind ever wit
messed in that city. Twenty thousand
persons. representing virtually every
fraternal. municipal and industrial body
Of the State. were in line. and as a
cosmopolitan feature it was the equal
of the military parade Of Tuesday in
which six nations were represented.