The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1913-02-14
NEWS NOTES

BARLEY Cox, aged IS. dropped dead Of
apoplexy at his home near Danville.
By new alignment of commissioners
at Lexington. it is expected to reduce the
tax rate TO sl.57.
The Seattle Times building and an
adjoining structure at Seattle, WASH,
were damaged $3.50, 600 by fire yesterday. |
Charles Major, author of When
Knighthood Was in Flower" and other
well-known books, died at Shelbyville,
Ind.
Theodore Roosevelt again reiterated
his declaration that the Progressives
should not compromise with Repubh
cans.
U. S. Senator-elect John K. Shields, !
of Tennessee, resigned his position as
chief justice of the Tennessee Supreme
court.
Gov Brewer, of Mississippi, was noti- |
fed that part of the 1912 food fund is
available to relieve the Buelah flood suf-
ferers.
Representative Cantrill introduced in
Congress a bill regulating the speed Of
railroad trains and devising other safe
guards for travellers.
Primary elections for the selection Of
fourth class postmasters are provided |
for in an amendment 10 the postof6ce |
appropriation bill.
The bill to provide 100000 for gov
eminent participation in the Panama
Pacific Exposition was killed for this
session by the House.
Col. William Seymour Edwards, can
didate for United States Senator from
West Virginia, yesterday was arrested
on the charge of offering brides.
Hartwell Linney. son Of Postmaster
E. b. Linney, of Danville, was chosen
Speaker of the lower house of the Gen.
eral Assembly of Arizona, at Phoenix.
Robert Barnes, convicted of man
slaughter in connection with the killing
of Vernon Mckenzie in Pulaski county,
and was given two years.
Brent Altsheler, Louisville banker,
will spend year or more in the Afri-
can jungles collecting birds and beasts
for the Field Museum, Chicago.
Threats to kill Gov. Glasscock and all
of the military officials now in the West
Virginia coal fields are reported to have
been made at a meeting of the beliger-
ent miners.
The stockholders of the F. 9. & St. L.
railroad voted 10 increase the capital
stock of the road S6.OO0, 900, to be used
in retiriag 50, 300, 600 per cent. bonds,
due July7.
A measure prohibiting the raising OF
prices at hotels in Washington during
the Inauguration yesterday was intro
duced in the House by Representative
Johnson.
Nine children were slightly injured
and ], 200 narrowly escaped, when fire
yesterday afternoon destroyed the lab
oratory of the Asheville, N. c., graded |
school,
Democratic leaders who have been at |
tempting to keep down appropriations
concluded that they couldn's reduce
them below the republican mark of ST.
GA, 100000.
1t was charged before committee of
the Wisconsin Legislature that the
brewers of the country are in trust to
acquire ownership of all the saloons.
The West Virginia Legislature decid-
ed to investigate the charges Of bribery |
against the FIVE Legislators arrested on
Tuesday in connection with the ballot
ting for U. S. Senator.
Guilty as charged in all three indict-
ments was the verdict rendered by the
jury trying the case of John NJ. Patter-
son and % other officials of the National
Cash Register company at Cincinnati.
The miners of the West Virginia coal
neldS yesterday invaded charleston ana
threatened 10 take the State Capitol.
A riot call and the use Of the entire
Charleston police force quelled the DEM
onstration.
All through yesterday the Mexican
rebel batteries of heavy guns were
throwing schrapnel around the National
Palace, and Federal officers were com
PEELED 10 keep under cover. The Amer
lean Club was shelied, exploding bombs
tearing up the furniture, and the occu-
pants, mostly Americans, miraculously
escaped death. At p. m. it was re-
ported that Diaz had demanded the sur
render Of the National Palace.