The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1909-12-31
NEWS NOTES.

Seven children were burned to death
at Sykesville, Pa.
Rufus Matthews. formerly editor Of
the Taylor County Enquirer, died sud-
denly at Campbellsville.
Fire at Clinton destroyed four store
houses and the postofhce. The proper
ty was partially covered by insurance.
Mrs. Henry E. Youtsey has filed suit
for divorce. Youtsey is in the peniten-
tisry for the assassination Of Gov. Goe-
bel
Joe Williams, chief Of police Of Mill
ersburg. shot and killed Willis HUFF. a
dangerous Negro. who attempted to
cut him.
Through accident. two brothers. John
W. and Charles Harrison. who have
not seen each other in 20 years, are reu-
nited in Denver.
Fire Chief Ben Dillon. of Louisville.
who was injured when an automobile
was overturned while going to a fire,
died of his injuries.
Barney Oldfeld drove his Benz auto
mobile five miles in 4:35 over the Los
Angeles track. breaking the worlds re-
cord for that distance.
Four shot firers. all foreigners, were
killed in dust explosion, caused by a
windy" shot in mine 5. two miles
South of Centrslia, Ill.
Four men were killed by an expl,s-
ion in the Rock Island railroad shops at
Shawnee. Okla. Nine we're injured and
the property loss is $3.50. 1000.
Edward Kelly, claiming Covington,
this State, his home, was killed by a
train just after his release from Jail
for drunkenness at Bristol. Tenn.
In fire at Hillsville, Pa, nine per-
sons were burned to death. The vic
tins, all foreigners, were a man, his
wife, five children and two boarders.
MISS Jean Clemens, invalid daughter
Of Samuel l.. Clemens MARK Twain
was found drowned in a bath tub in
Mr.. Clemens home at Redding. Conn.
Five trainmen were killed and two
badly injured in a collision between two
freight trains on the Baltimore and
Ohio Southeastern railroad at Stsrks-
vile. Ind
Jailer Henry Polly. af Letcher coun-
ty, was shot and perhaps fatally wound
ed while attempting to prevent a diff
Guilty between prominent young men at
Wbitesburg.
Putting on the guse of Santa Claus
at Charleston, ILL.,. Miss Clara McClory
drew too near the candles Of the Christ
mas tree. Her clothes caught and she
was fatally burned.
The Ohio river is frozen solid at Mad
ison. Ind. and at several other points
gorges have formed. Navigation is
practically suspended from one end of
the river to the other.
Several men were hurt in a riot fol-
lowing a disturbance in the General
Baptist church. near Washington. Ind.
Women threw their children out of the
windows to get them out Of the melee.
rive arrests were maze.
While his mother had gone out after
water. the three-year-old son of Will
liam Lancaster. of Mayfield. got too
close to an open crate and his eyes
were burned out and tongue charred
His condition is hopeless.
Answering a telephone call. police
men at Peru, Ind. found Mrs. Ora Gal
loway dead with bullet in her body
and her husband with revolver in his
hands. The room showed evidences Of
struggle. Galloway. who was arrested.
said he remembered nothing that took
place.
Mrs. William j. Ethan, whose five
feet Of heavy blond HAIR has been the
envy of and admiration of St. Louis wo-
men for years. was knocked unconscious
by an unidentified man as she was leav-
ing her home for church and her hair
was chopped off close to her head with
razor.
The bodies Of Rev. William E. Ritter
and Mrs. Ritter. both aged about 20.
and wealthy. were found at their home
in Elnora township. Indiana. under. cir
cumstances indicating murder. Mrs.
Ritter's body was discovered in the liv-
ing room. Her clothes had been torn
from her and there were marks on her
neck that indicated that she had been
strangled. Ritter's body was found IN
a milk house.