The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-12-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK WASHINGTON LETTER
Bryan Declares for Local Option
Cherry Mine SeaIed-Astor Party
Safe-Twenty-nine Killed byFoot-
baII-Cannon Attacks Insurgents


MARSHALL CHAMPION Frank |
]. Marshall Of New York is chess
champion of the United States. hav-
ing defeated J. w. Showalters OF
Georgetown in series of games play |
ed at Lexington, KY. Mr.. Marshall
won twelve out Of fifteen games.
COOK DROPS oUT:-Reported as
suffering from a nervous break down
DIR. Frederick A., Cook has dropped
completely from public view and not
even his closest friends know where
10 find him. The work of preparing
the records by which he expects 10
prove his claim to the discovery OF
the North Pole is said to be responsi-
Bile for his condition.
CANNON SHOOTS oFF:-In an
=. address at Kansas City. Speaker Jos.
70. Cannon said, when Senators
Cummins, LaFollette, Burton and their
so-called progressive following join
hands with Mr.. Bryan In making war
upon the Republican members of Con-
gress who passed the tariff bill, and
upon the President who signed It In
that contest, know OF but one way
TO beat them, and that Is to fight
them. just as we fight Mr.. Bryan and
his following"
PRESIDENTIAL Possibility
Sarah Hunt OF Lapees County. Michi-
gan has lived for twenty years seclud-
ed from every male creature living the
life OF a residue. There is not a male
creature on her little farm OF forty
acres altho she keeps a large flock of
all domestic fowls. No man has dared
enter her premises for many years. IL
is supposed she will be the first can
didate for president on the Woman's
Suffrage Ticket.
MINE Is SEALED:-The ST. Paul
mine at Cherry. ILL.,. was sealed Nov.
25th. and will probably remain sealed
for several weeks. the fire having
gained such Roadway that IL was
thought best to cut off all the air
In the shaft.
AsToR PARTY sAFE:--Mail from
Col John Jacob Asuor and his party
reached New York on Nov. 2S by the
steamer Harry Luckenback and the
Aston yacht puzzle is solved. The
steamer left the Aston yacht at San
Juan, p r., from which place she was
TO proceed 20 some Cuban port
FOTBALL KILLS TWENTY NINE:
According to list made public recent
ly twenty nine players in various parts
OF the country lost their lives during
the football season Just closed. Minor
injuries mounted into the hundreds.
In 1908 there were 10 deaths from
football and in 1907 there were IL.
BRYAN FOR oPrION:-In an edi-
torial in the current issue OF the Com
moner, VIM. Jennings Bryan takes a
strong position in opposition to the
salon and liquor dealer and declares
the term personal liberty" 20 be =
misnomer. Tho article Is taken to
forecasts Mr. Bryan's coming declar-
alton for county option In Nebraska.
WOMEN STOP PoSsE:-Firing
from the doorway OF their ZONE on a
sheriff posse to give their father
and brother tiao to escape. Mrs. Chas
Daniels and her Is year old daughter
were shot TO death near Devon. w.
Va, by the officers. The shooting
grew out OF family feud between tbs
Christians and Daniels on the Dor
\ der OF West Virginia and Kentucky.
SHIP QUAILS IN CoFFIN:-An at
tempt recently to ship 500 quail I'm a
coffin from upper Michigan to Mil
waukee in violation of the state game
law was frustrated by keen nosed
bird dog Game Warden Harrington
was at the railway station at Flat
wood, Mich, when a rough box con-
tanning a coffin was brought in for
shipment. While the intended shipper
armed with his death certificate duly
signed by a physician was talking
with the agent the Warden's do
scented the birds and came to q
point" on the coffin. The birds were
brought them to the station disappear
ed.
PROHIBITION SET-BACK:-The
most serious reverse (which state
prohibition has received recently came
in the election in Alabama, Monday.
constitutional amendment to provide
state wide prohibition was defeated
by majority Of about q, 900. The mos
surprising feature of the vote was
that there was an adverse sentiment
over the state generally, the country
districts joining with the cities in
voting against the amendment
AFTER NICARAGUA Reports
from Nicaragua indicate that the exc
cution OF the two Americans whose
deaths have caused the U. S. Govern
ment to intervene in the rebellion