The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-06-14

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boosters who were offe-@g to bet
$1,000 TO $1,000 that TIER chiel
would be nominated on the first bal
lot at Chicago. had sent S!.u10 10
Chicago to be offered pubh; Y, c'.t
found no takers even whns offered
at TO and finally at aNea money
Congressman Il. II. Hubbard. OF
Iowa, is dead. Returns indicate his
denomination for Congress from that
State.
Herbert Paul, 16. was arrested In
Nashville charged with the murder
of Alonzo Tolliver, his youthful com
panion.
The Rev. Wilson A. Farnsworth,
ID. D., the Oldest American mission
airy. died Tuesday ut Hanover, n,
H. in his ninetieth year.
One convict was killed and four
seriously wounded at San Quentin,
Cal, when penitentiary guards fired
on mob of rioting inmates.
Uncle Joe" Cannon thinks he
will not be needed at Chicago and
will miss Republican National
Convention for the first time in
years.
A sunday school has been organ
ICED in Snake Valley with forty-fiye
children enrolled. Praise the Lord
from whom all blessings flow
jackson Times.
A census bulletin to be issued
Twin shoG .Aat Kentucky had, April
no, 1s40. 603.45i male citizens OF
voting age. and Louisville had 67.-
676 entitled to vote.
The first joint conference of the
Mining Institute and mining operat-
ors and inspectors OF the State was
held at Lexington Monday. the
object being to study mine accidents
and their prevention.
Fire, supposed to have been start
ed out of revenge. destroyed 1000
residences in Stamboul the Moham-
medan section OF Conssantinople.
and left $4,000 persons without
shelter,
The presidential yacht Mayflower.
with President and Mrs, Taft and
party of guests ON board. narrowly
escaped collision with the steamer
Northland near Point Lookout, Chess
apeake Bay.
1t is expected that the work of
Congress this week will be over
Swallowed by politics. many Repub-
lieans members OF both houses go
ing to Chicago to attend the Ma
tional Convention of that party.
Gov Harmon won his fight In the
Ohio State Democratic Convention
for the application of the unit rule
by a vote OF 597 to 1855. and will
have the support OF the forty-eight
delegates to the Democratic Natiol-
al Convention at Baltimore.
In a message to the Senate. Post
master General Hitchcock advocates
the passage of a measure similar
to the Bourne bill for the estab-
lishment OF a parcels post service
both by city ieJler carriers and by
the carriers OF rural routes.
United States Senator John Sharp
Williams. of Mississippi in an in
teryiew, says that the Panama Canal
should be free for vessels engaged
In the coastwise traffic and that
he believes railroads have no reason
to fear Isthmian competition.
Martha Hale. an armless girl, "a
FEARS old. ranked the highest CT any
Of the grammar school graduates In
Glenn county, New York. this year.
Her general average is 80 9-l6 per
cent. She writes with her toes and
ranked high in penmanship.
About twenty of our colored clti-
zens went to Bourbon county We'd
nesday, where they have been en-
ployed to strip grass seed. They
will camp out. eating and sleeping
on the grounds, and expect to be
busy at the work two or three
weeks Sharpsburg World.
Washington, June John c, g.
Mayo, candidate for Democratic Ma
tional Committeeman for Kentucky,
reached Washington tonight Pure
ly on business" he said. AS to pol
itics, he's looking for information
rather than giving out any. He
will be here several days.
The Navy Department, acting I'M
der Instructions from the State De-
partment. ordered Admiral Oster-
haus to proceed forthwith from Key
West to Havana, following dis
patch from Minister Beaupre re-
porting imminence of race war in
Havana.
Beatty Vile. KY. June 9.-Follow-
ing quarrel between some women
several arrests we're made. While
this was in progress several shots
were fired, one of which struck
Mayor r. B. Jackson in the abdo-