The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-01-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Wreck Kills Over Thirty. John Walsh
in Prison-Girls Burned to Death
Big Rockefeller Gift-Move Against
Beef Trust by Government.

CART, famous for keeping the great
gambling house at French Lick, and
the last Democratic National Commit
tee Chairman, was accidentally shot
In the eye while hunting In Mississ-
ippi last week and II Is believed
that he will lose the sight of one
eye
BLAST KILLS FIFTEEN:- Fifteen
men working underground in the big
tunnel which is 10 carry pure drink
ing water from the Catskill Mountains
to the millions OF people In New Yorl
city, were killed like rats in a trap
last week when a big blast Of nirto-
glycerine went off unexpectedly. Five
others were rescued alive but teIribly
injured.
WALSH IN PRISON:-Iohn T..
Walsh the biggest of them all, is AZ
last In prison at Leavenworth, Kan.
TO serve five years. His coming makes
the number OF bankers in the institu-
ton more than thirty, which shows
that the banking laws are really en-
forced pretty well. The aged finan-
oier. who was once worth millions Is
now praying that death will shorten
his sentence.
"DICKIE" DAVIS IN TROUBLE
Those who have read with delight
any OF the stories of Richard Hard
ing Davis, will be sorry TO learn TINT
his domestic happiness has been de-
stroyed, and that a divorce is likely
soon. IL is reported that he is plan
ming 20 merry an actress.
COOK AGAIN:--Another lick has
been hit at DR. Cook, by the Danes
who have been examining his original
notes. They report again that there
Is no evidence that he ever got any
where In particular.
TWELVE GIRLS BURNED:-A
fire In factory building in Philadel-
phia last Wednesday caused panic
in which people we're so jammed in
the door ways that they could not get
out. and twelve young women were
burned 10 death.
FLIES As MlLES:-A Frenchman
has again broken the worlds record
for flying In an aeroplane. He went
forty-eight miles. over very rough
country. At the same meet one OF
the men reached height OF over a
mile. This seems TO show that the
machines are about perfected, and
that any future records will merely he
a matter OF skill on the part of the
maohinists.
GIVES 5000. O0O:-lt Is considered
worry bad thing to look a gift horse
In the mouth, and yet that Is what
a fellow cant help doing when he
reads that Rockefeller has given So
100000 TO establish papers TO be
used In fighting the saloons. The
question Is. will these papers be able
to tell the truth about John d?
AFTER BEEF TRUsT:-The big
excitement which is being caused
everywhere over the increased cost
of living has somehow conferred ON
the price of meats. and pressure has
been brought on the government TO
go after tho Beef Trust again. The
Department OF Justice has been inves-
tigating ever since II was defeated
by the immunity baths in the last
suit, and Is now ready to sue There
Is said to be a good chance that some
OF the men at the head OF the pack
ing industry viii join Mr.. Walsh
soon.
KILLED NEAR CINCINNATI
Five people were killed when the
fast train on the Big -Four from Chi
oago jumped the track the other
1T PAYS TO BE MARRIED.
French scientists are great at digging
out statistics which prove things no
ore had thought OF before. Now a
fellow named Bertillion, the same
that invented the famous system by
which convicts are tracked all over
The world, has discovered that mar
rcd people have a much better chance
Tor life than single ones. lie says, and
he has figures to prove 1t, that at
my given rye, a man has twice as |
good chance to live IL he is married .
md that married woman has not
lutte twice as good a chance as a
'pinster. He advises all people who
ose their partners under the age OF
dxty to marry again as soon as pos
ible.
ENGLISH ELECTIONS:-The cleo
ions which have been taking place
n England are spread over a space
II about a week, instead of coming
II on the same day, as ours do. The
esult has been almost a tie. The
liberals, as the government party
vas called have lost so heavily that
heir opponents the Unionists, have
bout thirty more members of Parlia-
nent than they do. But they have