The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1913-02-18
NEWS NOTES

Broad Smedley, aged go, a prominent
citizen of Middleburg is dead.
Martin & Walden. of Danville, bought
bunch Of 200-pound hogs at 2-3c.
Miss Margaret Patterson. aged 65. il
dead at her late home near Lancaster.
The Minnesota Senate killed the reso
luton putting woman suffrage before
the people.
G.. J. Bosley, aged SO, and w. J, Sui
livan. 62, both prominent citizens of
Lebanon, are dead.
Chester A. Lord resigned from the |
staff Of the New York Sun after con-
{ nuous service Of foriy-one years.
Robert Webb. automobile bandit and
slayer of Policeman Hart, Of Chicago, |
was captured after desperate battle.
Ground will be broken Saturday at |
Fort Tompkins, in New YORK harbor, |
for the statute to the American Indian |
Prison Physician Maggard denied that
Tom Butler, the State University stu
dent, in prison for arson, has tuberco-
losis.
The divorce bill requiring a residence
Of one year in the state instead of six
m nths was passed by the Nevada State
S mate,
The jury hung in the case OF Thomas
Di Zine, of Mercer. charged with incest |
ELEVEN of the jurors stood for the death |
penalty.
Harry Gamble, convicted at Lebanon
for having mistreated his l4-year-old
daughter, was given 10 years in the pen
itentiarY.
While painting a house, J. L. Jones.
of Lincoln county, fell from high lad
der, breaking an arm and hip and other
wise injuring himself.
George P. Caven, once mayor Of East
Dallas. Texas. shot ami killed Mrs Phil
ip Gibson at FL Paso, T xas, AID then
fatally wounded himself.
A proposition to build viaducts was
made TO the city Of Lexington by Presi
dent Milton II. Smith, OF the L. & N.
Railroad Co.
A highwayman at Kansas City, No,
in an attempt TO hold up dozen men
opened fire. fatally wounding a boy. He
was captured by his intended victims.
Business continues its steady conser-
valive expans on despite threatened
strikes and unfavorable weather, say
both Dun's and BradstreeL's weekly re
port.
The Indiana State Senate passed bill
providing vocational education in public
schools and the Brannaman bill prohib-
iting the drinking Of intoxicantS on rail
/ road trains.
The Postoffice Department will S. nd
experts TO Louisville and other points w
educate the public in the use OF the par
eel post as conduit for produce be-
tween farms and cities.
The suffragist army marching from
New York TO Washington, Friday, walk
ed from Princeton to Trenton. n. j., af-
ter sending letter to Gov. Wilson re-
questing an audience March T.
Three hundred and fifty cleryeymen,
representing forty denominatio yes
terday attended a luncheon in New
York IN honor of the Ambassador from
Great Britain, James Bryce.
The House Appropriations Commit ee
/ yesterday reported the Sn dry Civil Bill
carrying total appropriations of Sll3, 27I,-
GA, which is S4,855.36S less than the
same bill provided last session.
Twenty-Five indictments against the
L. IL N. and Q. & D. railroads were vot-
ed by the grand jury at Coyington. The
| jury also condemned the station used by
The railroads and urged more severe
enforcement of the laws and o-dinan-
ces.
President John H. Patterson, of the
National Cash Register Co.. Dayton, o.,
was sentenced 10 one year in the Troy,
o., county Jail and to pay fine Of S.,
600 for violating the Sherman anti-truat
law. Twenty-eight other officials and
employees Of the company were given
jail sentences.
In order to get Sll0 which John Ritch-
lie. of Hickman. had saved to take him
to a climate that would benefit his
health, Dick Shelby and Jesse Bunton
are accused of having lured Richie to
a lonely spot near Hickman and then to
have murdered him.
The Attorney General in an opinion
| given the Auditor holds that where a
reward is offered by the State for the
arrest and conviction of horse thief,
only one reward can be paid, even if the
accused person is convicted on several
different charges of horse stealing
Three Of the Breathitt county men
in Jail at Winchester. charged with the
murder of Ed Callahan. said to be Gov
an, Dock and Elisha Smith, have turn
ed States evidence. The whole plot is
said to have been given out by then, in
Guiding the name Of the parties who fir
ed on Callahan. They say Andrew John
son. Dock Smith and Jim Deaton did il.
The Sunday School of the First Pres
byterian church OF Lebanon, has been
awarded library for having the great
est gain attendance in November and |
December over June. 1912, of any Sun
day School in Kentucky. A tract socie- |
~ OF Cincinnati. through the Transyl |
vania Sunday School Bulletin, offered |
the prize. The schools gain was III |
per cent
Fighting was in progress throughout |
the day in Mexico City yesterday Diaz
repulsed an attack on his Y. NJ. @. A. |
fortification. IL was reported early this
morning that Gen. Huerta. command
ing the Federal forces. would attack
the arsenal, where Diaz is entrenched, /
with bombs. Another rumor was that /
De Is Barra would be arrested charged /
with aiding the revolt. President Ma
dero was said to have been pleased with
the reply of President Taft. disclsiming
any present intention 10 land troops in
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