The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1913-07-01
NEWS NOTES

Oklahoma is 10 have a two-c cent per
mile rate on her railroads after this
week.
There were ii deaths from heat stroke
and four from. drowning directly attrib-
utable TO the heat in Chicago Saturday.
Five men were killed and five injured
when 200 tons of fuel oil on board the
tank ship Mohawk exploded in New
York Bay.
President Wilson will spend the glo-
rious fourth at Gettysburg, mingling
with the old fellows who wore the blue
and the gray.
Charles Gillock, a turfman from
Nashville, Tenn, committed suicide by
shooting at Eighteenth and Colgan
streets, Louisville.
Thomas E. Hayden has been appoint
ed District Attorney for the Northern
District of California to succeed District
| Attorney McNao.
Gov. Goldborough, of Maryland, has
called special election for November
for successor TO the late United
States Senator Isidor Rayner.
Commander in Chief Beera, of the
Grand Army of the Republic, at Gettys-
burg advocated the erection of a
memorial to the women of the Civil
War period
Cecil Williams, former editor of the
Somerset Times, but now chief clerk in
the Insurance Department at Frankfort,
is an applicant for the Somerset postof-
flee.
The Kentucky Sinking Fund Com
mission by a resolution just made pub
lie has directed that copies OF all re-
ports of State Examiner GOodpaster be
placed in the hands of all seeking legis-
lative nominations.
Sheriff b. G. Fox. of Boyle, arrested
Tom Graham returning from Lexington
with thirteen gallons of whisky, three
dozen bottles of beer and guam it
of gin. He caught fine of 800 and
was given 80 days in the work house.
Although the trunk was packed for a
trip to New Hampshire, President Will
son brushed his vacation aside to exam
inc the tentative agreement reached fol-
the dissolution of the Union Pacific
merger
Lexington is to have another big loose
tobacco warehouse. A company with a
capital stock of $4,000 has been organ
lied to build one. Miller Rodes, w. F.
Land, X. l.. Stivers, l.. Nj. Land and
Charles Conner are among those inter
ested.
The drys of Pulaski county were de-
deated in the appealed case but they
will cut and come again. They are pre-
pairing a petition and will ask for an
other vote on the whisky question on
Sept. 22nd.
A contrast of the methods of President
Wilson and President Buchanan in us
ing Federal patronage was made by
Senator Lewis, of Illinois, in an address
at the unwilling of a monument to
Stephen A. Douglas at Brandon, Vt.
That the Imperial Tobacco Company
controls the purchase price of tobacco
in the Kentucky district ives: of Green
River and the American Tobacco Com
pany east of that river, was the asSer-
ton made yesterday by Henderson
county officials of the Stemming Dis
trict Tobacco Association before a con.
gressional committee at Washington.
The Administration Currency Bill was
introduced in the Senate by Senator
Owen, and in the House by Representa-
tive Glass, the Banking and Currency
Committee chairman. The House i'm
mediately referred the measure to the
Banking and Currency Committee, and
preparations were made for the CON-
I mittee to begin its deliberations today.
In speech before the House yester-
day Representative Mann. of Illinois,
attacked President Wilson and Attor-
ney General McReynolds for their &C.
lions in the McNab case and sarcastical-
ly criticised Commissioner General Cam
inetti, of the immigration Bureau, ia
Their of one of the defendants in the San
Francisco white slave cases, which
caused the episode.