The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1909-05-21
NEWS NOTES.

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at Lakeland, has resigned on account Of
III health.
The plant Of the Memphis Cottonseed
Oil Co, one OF the largest in the South,
was destroyed by fire. causing a $780,
600 loss.
The rumor that the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad is to take over the Chi
cago, Cincinnati and Louisville road has
been revived in Cincinnati.
Senator Beverage was invited to de-
liver an address at the unwilling of the
Lincoln monument at Hodgenville on
May 81. but reluctantly declined
The wife of Henry Quisenburry. one Of
Montgomery county's most prominent
citizens. committed suicide by cutting
her throat with razor. She was tenn
porarily insane from illness.
AT Tulsa. Okla Judge Marshall dis
missed the Federal grand jury that has
been demonstrating the auskogee
town lot fraud cases, saying it had been
subjected to improper influences.
Petitions containing SO. 900 signatures
were presented to the Mississippi Rail-
road Commission at Jackson urging the
commissioners not to adopt the fiat rate
of two cents a mile for passenger traf-
fic.
Colored passengers paying the same
fare as white passengers cannot be
legally Disseminated against in the way
Of accommodations, according to a rul-
ing Of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission.
The manufacturers of liquors and
beer and the wholesale dealers are to
test the laws recently passed by the
Tennessee Legislature to prohibit the
manufacture and sale of intoxicants in
that State.
BY resolution introduced by Mr..
LaFollette the Interstate Commerce
Commission is instructed to inform the
Senate what railroads have failed to
comply with the laws limiting the hours
Of service of their employees.
In the Federal Court at Kansas City
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Horn. Raymond =. Map and F. II. Sni-
der were found guilty of using the
mails to defraud. The men were pro-
moters of a gold mining scheme.
Lieut.. Gen. Stoessel and Rear Ad-
miral Nebogatoff have been released
from confinement in the fortress of ST.
Peter and st Paul by order of Emperor
of Russia. The health of both
men has been gravely affected by their
confinement.
President Taft on Wednesday deliv-
cred an address at Fort Malone, fol-
lowing the unveiiing of monument
and statue of General John f. Hart
ranft, erected in memory of Pennsyl-
vania soldiers who fell in the fighting
about Petersburg. Va, during the war
between the States.
Cablegrams from Adana, Asiatic Tur-
key say it is now believed the esti-
mates of the number of Christians slain
during the recent outbreaks have been
and that the aggregate
will not exceed 10, 900. Many of those
who were supposed to have been slain
are appearing at their homes or among
the refugees who have focked to the
larger towns for relief.
Henry II. Rogers. Standard Oil mag
nate, copper and railroad capitalist,
is dead at his home in New York City.
Mr.. Rogers was for many years one of
the most prominent financiers in the
country. He started in life as news
boy at Fair Haven. Mass. and since his
ascendency in the financial world he has
contributed over So. 600, 600 for the up
lift and Identification of his native
town. His last achievement was the
building of railroad system from the
West Virginia coal fields to tidewater
on the Atlantic coast.