The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1909-10-19
NEWS NOTES.

nlchman suffered SlO,VOU IRE.
Among the buildings destroyed was n
church said to have been 90 years old.
Mrs. Sarah McAllister, widow Of
Ward McAllister, famous in his day as
a leader Of New York society. is dead.
Daniel STICKY, aged 75, was stricken
with paralysis while kneeling in prayer
at Columbus. Ind, and died few hours
later.
Gov. Wilson has accepted the res
ignation of DIR. J. NJ. Mathews, of Lou
isville, as president Of the State Board
Of Health.
II. +. Chaffee. the millionaire land
owner Of Dakota, has informed the pc
lice that he bought gold brick" at a
cost Of $3.50
Eli Pardee, IL years old, Of Gets
burg. S. d.. has saved $1,000 out of
what he has earned by selling popcorn,
shining shoes and doing odd jobs.
BY the will OF Col Thomas II. Swope,
who died in Kansas City a few days
ago, Felix Swope, Of Woodford, will
receive $40. 200.
Judge Edmond waddill in the United
States court at Richmond, Va, placed
the Ware-Kramer Tobacco Co., Of Nor
folk, in involuntary bankruptcy.
Mrs. Joseph Snyder was burned to
death, her husband seriously burned
and thraa childran narraulu aacanad
cremation on their farm at, st. Francis
vile. Ill.
Chief Wilkie, of the United States
Secret Service. stated that absolutely
no plot is known to exist having for its
object harm to either President Taft or
President Diaz.
Resenting a reprimand which Miss
Margaret Lang. a neighbor, caused him
to receive. George Augustian, seven
years old. of Millvale, a suburb of Pitts
burg. shot Miss Lang to death.
Flourishing knife and announcing
that he wanted to kill President Taft,
Charles Thorp, an aged prospector, was
a vicious struggle with the police. /
Jacob Sherry. 36 years old, shot and
killed his wife and probably fatally
wounded his sister-in-law at Cleveland,
o. Sherry then shot himself MORALLY.
The shooting followed a domestic quar-.
rel. |
Burglars effected an entrance to the
Louisville d Nashville depot at Millers-
burg and robbed the safe of a large sum
Of money. This is the third time in
three months that the Office has been
robbed.
Federal Judge Marshall. at Ardmore,
Okla . overruled the defendants motion
to quash the indictments charging Gov.
Haskell and other Okahomans with
fraudulently scheduling town lots in
Muskogee, Okla.
The 500. 900 racing plant of the Flor
ida State Fair Association will be open
ed at Tampa on Thanksgiving for a
meeting of 100 days. There will be
several large stakes. Stall room for
1000 horses will be provided.
At a meeting of the Ohio Valley I'm
provement Association in Cincinnati
Congressman Ollie James pledged his
support for the nine-fo stage from
Pittsburg to Cairo Pittsburg was Sc
lected as the next place of meeting.
The two Italian children found wan
dering last week on the North Side of
Chicago have been identified as Thomas
Viviano and Grace Viviano, who were
kidnapped from their home in st. Louis.
The identification was made positive by
photographs.
Middle Tennessee and Northern Ala
bama were swept by a storm almost
amounting to a cyclone Thursday night.
two persons were killed and several in
jured. A rainstorm flooded Chattanoo-
ga and three inches of hail fell at Hix-
son. 10 miles away.
Avery Blount, the first man to be
legally hanged in Tangipahoa parish,
La. in 20 years, paid the death penalty
ON the gallows at Amite City. In spite
of the presence of State troops, his
brother, William Blount. started dis
turbance shortly before the hanging.
He was promptly arrested and lodged
in Jail.
Thirty-seven lives are known to have
been lost and unconfirmed reports in
dicate that others were killed in the
terrific storm that struck Middle and
West Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama
last week. Wires are down at many
points and the extent of the damage
cannot be fully ascertainsd. The prop
erty loss will run into the millions.
Its A Top Notch Doer.