The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1910-02-15
NEWS NOTES.


Of the Il. q o. railroad
Frank ID. Lafferty. at one time the
greatest Of base ball pitchers, is dead.
Thomas Davis was struck by an l.. &
N. train near Winchester and fatally
injured
A gift Of $1,000 from Alfred G.
Vanderbilt to Yale University IL an
nounced
Aloise Wilkowski was killed by
blow on his head in prize fight in Chi
cago with Harry Gilmore.
Judge Andrew Barnett, one Of the
Oldest and most prominent members Of
the Louisville bar. is dead.
The French trans Atlantic steamer,
Gen. Chanzy, was wrecked near Ma
jorca Only one Of the crew of $50 was
saved.
Charles Jarman. of Bourbon county,
is in jail at Lexington. charged with
sending obscene matter through the
mails
Harry K Thaw's latest application
i lbI It1tdct lIOul Nnt udlNtdWdu
State Hospital for the Criminal Insane
was denied
William NJ. Bamberge, chief Of the
agricultural instruction department of
the Queen & Crescent railroad, died
suddenly at York. Ala.
Men inter ested in the production and
manufacture Of cotton formed an or
ganization at Atlanta, known as the
National Cotton and Cotton Products
Association.
An indictment was returned by the |
grand jury of Kenton county against
the Latonia Racing Association on the
charge of holding races without a IL
cense from the Kentucky State Racing
Commission.
Fire which originated IN the most
central section Of the business district
Of Vicksburg. Miss. destroyed two
buildings besides damaging others in
the immediate vicinity and caused a
loss approximsting 100000.
The naval tug. Nina. with broken
machinery. is lying at the mercy of the
waves. Eight vessels are speeding to
her assistance and hope to reach the
little vessel before she goes to the bot
tom with her crew of 90 men.
The will of the late Arthur Goebel,
filed in Covington. leaves the entire es-
tate TO Justus Goebel. No estimate is
made of the size of the estate. Gov.
William Goebel. on his death-bed in
1900, left his estate to his brother Ar
thur.
Howard Little. who murdered Mrs.
Betsy Justis, her son-in-law, George
Meadows, and the latter's wife and
three children in their home near Hur-
ley, Buchanan county. Va, was put to
death by electrocution in the peniten-
tiary at Richmond.
Mrs. Daphne Floyd. a native of Ver-
sailles. ended her life in Washington
City by taking poison. leaving address,
ed to her husband. Henry b. Floyd, the
laconic note: 81 am tired of life. That
is ALL" Domestic infelicity is reported
as the cause OF her act.
Roland Flower, a Negro convict, es-
capped from a furpentine camp in Flor.
ida. went to the home Of Mrs. Mary e.
lerbee. two miles away, and assaulted
her. The Negro was captured after
being shot and was taken to Tampa I'M
der heavy guard. where he was lodged
in Jail.
DIR. B. c. Hyde, whose wife is a niece
of Col. Thomas ii. Swope. the Kansas
City millionaire. was arrested on war
rant charging him with the murder of
Col. Swope. The prosecuting attorney
consented to bail being fixed and DIR.
Hyde was released after furnishing
bond in the sum Of $50. 900.
More than 100000 acres of public
lands, which wers included in the for
est domain, were thrown out and will
be available for homestead settlement,
by the action Of President Taft, when
he approved the plans for the classif-
cation of forest lands. which was for
INFLATED by Clifford Pinchot.
That strychnine was found by DIR.
Hektoen and DR.. Haines in the contents
Of the stomach of Miss Margaret
Swope. niece Of the late Thomas II.
Swope. and was revealed in a report
from the two Chicago chemists. was
brought out in Kansas City in the
course Of the deposition of John G.
Paxton. Mr.. Paxton said that strych-
nine had been found in large quanti-