The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1910-03-08
NEWS NOTES.

Rowan county jail. pried the doors open
and escaped.
John A. Eubank. for many years
democratic leader in Clark county, is
dead, aged 20.
Davis Bell, aged los, is dead at Tul-
sa, Okla. He was an intimate friend Of
David Crockett.
Three.cent street railway fare, with
municipal supervision Of the car lines,
is now a reality in Cleveland.
The general strike called in Philadel-
phia out Of sympathy for the striking
street car motormen and conductors
went into effect at midnight Friday.
One hundred and eighteen dead in the
trains overwhelmed by the Wellington
landslide, near Seattle, Wash, is the
estimate made by the Seattle newspa-
pers.
Tyrus Cobb received and signed his
contract with the Detroit American
League Tigers. Cobb's contract calls
for a salary Of IS, 900 annually for three
ears.
The Federal grand jury in New York
handed in a presentment against the
American Refining Co., charging il
with contempt of court in failing to
produce books and papers called for by
the grand jury.
The bail Of DR.. James r. Hull, of
Monroe City, Mo. indicted with Mrs.
Alma Proctor Vaughn on the charge of
numbering Prof. J. T. Vaughn, was
fixed at SIS, 900, and the prisoner gain
ed his freedom.
Following the killing OF three men at
Chronicle. SO miles north of Mobile.
Ala. by Lawrence 0dom. the sheriff Of
Mobile county was appealed to for as
sistance to prevent the threatened
lynching Of Odom.
In a hotly contested game of football
at Harlan, James Stanton and John
Pace became involved in an argument.
and in the fight that followed Stanton
stabbed Pace three times. inflicting
probably fatal injuries.
This is the man that bound me and
my wife and burned our feet until we
told where we had hidden our money!.
said John Wagner, so years old. as he
picked Frank Donahoe out of a line Of
eight men, at the Etna police station in
Pittsburg
The grand jury in Philadelphia re-
turned indictments against John j.
Murphy. president of the Central La
Dor Union, and C. o. Pratt. organizer
of the Garments union. Murphy is
charged with rioting and melting to ri.
OF; Pratt with rioting. melting to riot
and conspiracy.
Col. Thomas Swope's estate was val
aed at 81. 900, 900. He bequeathed sums
from $4,000 to his sister. in laws
two children to $500. The physicians
now say that Hyde is innocent and that
the typhoid was caused by impure wa
ter. DR.. Hyde's wife is left a large
amount by Col. Swope's will.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion was permanently enjoined from en-
forcing an order prohibiting railroads
and other carriers from allowing COM
pensation to owners and operators of
elevators for elevation and transfer of
grain in transit, in a decision in the
United States Court at Kansas City.
Allen Brooks, a Negro, charged with
assaulting two.year-old white girl.
was lynched at Dallas, Texas. by a mob
composed Of. it is estimated, 5000 men.
Brooks was in the courtroom awaiting
trial when the mob surged by the Off
GERS and threw the Negro from the Sec
ond-story window, fracturing his skull.
Negotiations between the Baltimore
and Ohio Southwestern management
and committees of conductors and rail-
way trainmen came to a conclusion at
Cincinnati when General Manager c. c.
F., Bent, for the company. declined to
concede the general demand made by
the conductors and tranmen for in
creases in wages.
Enrico Caruso, the New York tenor.
is quaking with something worse than
stage fright The Black Hand has de-
manded $500 or his life in two let
tiers. There is some disposition among
his friends to regard the letters as an
ill., judged practical joke. but Caruso is
convinced that his days are numbered
and will not venture out without body
guard.
Ii was stated at the office of the
Standard Oil Co. that John ID. Rookie
Teller, Jr.. intended to retire from ali
his business connections in order to
give his entire time to philanthropic
work. 1t is expected young Mr.. Rookie
Teller will assume the management Of
the Rockefeller Foundation. a bill for
the incorporation of which has been in.
troduced IN Congress.