The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1909-05-04
NEWS NOTES.

The wind OF Thursday night blew
down eight barns IN Barren county.
Kosciusko and Starke counties, Ind,
voted dry" in local option elections.
Saturday was the 18th anniversary
Of the memorable battle Of Manila bay.
A mob lynched three Negroes at Mar
shall, Tex. They killed deputy sher-
IN.
The C. e. o. has bought for 50, 900 a
lot at Mt. Sterling and will build fine
depot.
Beach Hargis' motion for new trial
was overruled in Circuit Court at lr-
vine an sentence vas passed.
Fred and Victor Jones. convicted of a
killing at bsptizing in Galloway coun-
ty, we're refused new trial at Murray.
William +. Dodd. wife and son were
struck by train and killed while cross
ing the Monon track near Indianapolis
Eight lives we're lost in a tenement
house fire in New York. Il Is believed
that the fire was started by the Black
Hand
Lewis Fisher and his seven daugh-
ters, all Of Sharpsburg, weigh l,602
pounds an average Of little over 200
pounds.
Four men were killed by an explo-
sion in the glycerin packing house Of
the Potts Powder Company at Rey-
nolds. Pa.
Reports Indicate that probably $780,
900 damage from storm and floods has
been caused in Central and Eastern
Kentucky.
Harrison Grey Fiske and David Be-
lasco, after years Of theatrical war.
fare, have made an agreement with
Klaw & Erlanger.
In a terrific tornado which struck
Medina, Tenn. four persons lost their
lives and several others were fatally
injured. The property loss is heavy.
A monument to the memory of Sam
Davis. the Confederate scout who was
hanged during the war by the Union
soldiers, was unveiled at Nashville.
DIR. G. X. Boyajian. an Armenian,
shot and fatally wounded his nephew,
II. Gastanian. while the latter was b.
ing arraigned in police court at Detroit.
Leonard Webb, assistant city weigher
of Cincinnati. was murdered in his Of
fee. Aneye witness says that drunk
en- man assaulted Webb without cause.
One fireman was killed and eight
others seriously injured in a fire which
destroyed one Of the Illinois Central's
big train elevators at Chicago. The
loss is estimated at 81, 900, 900.
Four local option elections were held
Friday in Indiana lin Marion, Jeffer'
son, Washington and Tippecanoe coun
ties. Tippecanoe voted wet" while
the other three counties voted dry.
Col. Bennett II. Young. of Louis
vile, delivered the chief address at thu
dedication of the new Woodford count!
lY. M. c. A. building at Versailles
The building was erected at a cost o
81, 900.
The old Kennedy homestead in Gov
ington. the oldest house in that city,
to be torn down Ii was in this hous
that Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrot
the opening chapter of "Uncle Tom
Cabin.
A new Federal grand jury has bee
called TO meet at Tulsa, Okla, to TAX
lup the land fraud cases which were re
Gently thrown out Of court on a teehni
cality. An effort will be made to indie
Gov. Haskell and others.
A. j. Dewesse and X. M. Andrews
soft drink men of New Decatur. Ala.
were fined 500 each and given sil
months on the chain gang for violating
the State prohibition law. These ar
the first convictions under this law.
The American Sugar Refining Com
pany, of New Jersey. and the Ne,
York corporation of the same nam
paid into the Treasury Of the Unite
States. 1896. 900. completing a paymen
aggregatipg over So. 1874, 900 in settle
ment of all civil claims arising out G
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