The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1909-02-12
NEWS NOTES.

Clinton county, Ind, went dry by
1000.
The Phoenix Hotel at Lexington will
be remodeled and enlarged.
Joseph Birsinger. of Dayton, o.,
hung himself at Newport.
Harvey Davis. aged "a, Is dead at
Marrow bone, Cumberland county.
George Ferguson, of Clinton county.
lost his store by fire. lncendiarism is
suspected.
News comes from Breathitt that
Beach Hargis has been sent to sani-
tarium in Louisville.
All the counties Of the First Congress
sional district have been organized into
school Improvement leagues.
Lamprecht Bros. e. Co., bankers and
brokers. filed deed Of assignment in
the insolvency court at Cleveland. o.
M. Catulle- Abrsham Mendes, the
noted French poet, was found dead in
the railway tunnel at Saint German.
Four miners we're fatally burned by
an explosion Of keg of powder in the
Gaylord mine. near Wheeling. W. Va.
One man was killed and many persons
were injured when the Chicago flyer Of
the Illinois Central ran into an open
switch at Coldwater, Miss.
At a meeting of stockholders Of the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, at Rich
mond, Va. the recent issue Of $50. 900, =
900 Of bonds was approved.
An eight-year-old girl of Bolivar, Pa,
suicided by shooting because her moth
er had died and she was left alone to
take care of her little sister.
Jack Binns. the wireless operator of
the Inflated Republic, was presented
with an address by the Mayor of Peter
borough. Eng, his native town.
The Federal grand jury completed its
probe into the alleged timber thefts
and frauds in the Choctaw Indiana ma
ton at Muskogee and returned q true
bills.
Ten-y caro- Mary Armstrong. of
Boyle. attempted to start the kitchen
fire with coal oil and was horribly burn
ed about the face in the explosion that
followed.
Three leading officers of postal en-
ployes organization have been given
ten days in which to defend themselves
against charges Of lobbying for bills
before Congress.
The grand jury at Lyons, N. H.. has
indicted Mrs. Georgia A. Sampson for
murder in the first degree, alleging that
she killed her husband, Harry. nephew
Of Admiral Sampson.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed the
plant of the Paris Manufacturing Co.
Loss sl0, 900 with s.. 900 insurance The
workmen lost all their tools, valued in
the aggregate at $500.
Gov. Wilson has appointed Gen.
Roger Williams. Of Lexington, chief
marshal of the Lincoln centenary cele-
bration and has ordered Lieut.. Col.
Gregory, of the First Kentucky. to
take command of the militia on duty
that day.
A Frankfort dispatch says: An officer
brought five prisoners for the peniten-
tiary from Clay county today, but they
were refused admission by Warden
Mudd, at the penitentiary on account
Of their condition. The prison officials
say that the officer and the prisoners.
one of whom was a woman, were all
under the influence of liquor. When
refused admission at the prison gates,
the sextet started toward the western
part of the city.
Roby Baskin. a young Negro. the
murderer of Rev. w. T. Hudson, was
lynched by mob at Houston. Miss A
crowd of determined citizens took the
Negro from the Jail and hanged him TO
a nearby tree. Sheriff Bean, of Okolo-
ma, arrived on the scene just as the Ne
gro breathed his last and made strong
protest that he had not been treated
right. Leaders Of the mob said they
had not been given a speedy trial of
the Negro as promised.
Foley's Honey and lTar clears the