The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1909-06-25
NEWS NOTES.

attempt to break Jail at Henderson.
Judge Jacob Andrew Cartwright, Of
Nashville, and one Of the best-known
lawyers in Tennessee, died.
Prof. James II. Fuqua, Sr., and Mrs.
Fuqua will celebrate their golden we'd
ding at Russellville on July 5.
Miss Florence Conway. Of Winches-
ter. fell from a log she was walking on
in Kentucky river and was drowned.
The international Council Of Women
in session at Toronto decided by a close
vote to hold their next convention in
Rome in 1914.
Two baby antelopes, sent by former
President Roosevelt to bis daughter.
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, were brought
TO New York.
At Oklahoma City, Okla, Battling
Nelson knocked out Jack Clifford in the
fifth round Of what was to have been a
20-round bout.
Judge Emmett Field, one Of Louis
ville's distinguished circuit judges. died
suddenly Of heart trouble in the Louis
vile courthouse.
Frank Pepper, an Evansville, Ind,
youth, in an effort to prove that he
could eat fire. was badly burned about
the face. He may lose the sight Of one
eye.
When Mrs. Marion Buchanan, Of
Paris, went to call her husband to
breakfast she found him dead. He was
50 years old. and Union veteran.
Death was due to heart disease.
Two bandits entered the night Office
Of the United States Express Company
at Green Bay, Wis, and at the point of
revolver compelled the man in charge
to open the safe. They secured $1,000
A branch Of the Wagner Bank and
Trust Co, in the heart of the business
section of Fort Worth, was he'd up by
lone highwayman. The robber escap-
ed in an automobile with s.. 100 IN cur
rency.
John Ahshire. aged ~ years, and
George Cole. aged 80 years. a farmer,
were drowned in the Ohio River at
Portsmouth. o. Abshire got beyond
his depth while swimming and Cole at
tempted TO rescue him.
One person was killed and several
were seriously injured last night at
Cincinnati when an elevator fell in the
Murdoch building. a distance of sew
eral stories to the basement. OF the
injured it is believed none was fatally |
hurt
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and three
of the Roosevelt children. Miss Ethel, |
Archie and Quentin, will leave New
York on June 26 on board the White
Star Line steamer Cretic for Gibraltar
and Naples to pass the summer on the
continent.
The Calhoun jury unanimously re,
ported at San Francisco that it could
not reach a verdict, and Judge Lawlor
discharged the jury with the consent
of the defense and prosecution. The
vote stood 10 for acquittal and two for
conviction.
Investigation of the conduct of the
American Sugar Refining Company in
its dealings with the Pennsylvania
Sugar Refining Company was begun
at New York by Federal grand jury
under the direction of Assistant Dis
triet Attorney Grim.
Judge Burdett, of the Circuit Court
at Charleston. W. Va. granted an in
junction TO the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad restraining Attorney General
Conley and the yarions county pros
ecutors from enforcing the 2 cent fare
act against that road.
Although Gov. Noel sent six compa-
MES of militia to Brandon. Miss, to
protect the Negro, Will Mack, charged
with assaulting Mamie Myers. from be-
ing ynched. Mack was convicted and
given the death penalty.
w. l.. Jackson, mail clerk Of New
Albany, was killed and Ezra Crane, a
mail clerk. of Louisville. was seriously
injured in head-on collision between
passenger trains on the Southern at
Belmont, ILL., Twenty-four other per.
sons were injured, two of whom will
die.