The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1913-09-12
NEWS NOTES

Texas had soaking rain Thursday.
Fifty cents beefsteak is predicted for
this winter.
II was a mistake about the serious i'll
ness of Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner.
Mrs. w. G. Todd. of Winchester, died
Wednesday of tumor of the brain, aged
3S.
The Anderson County Fair cleared
$95l. The Stanford, Paris and and 9TH
er fairs lost as usual.
| The Anderson News says THAT j. S.
Coke, of that section, sold $3.50 worth
of peaches from one tree.
The worlds record was broken in an
automobile race at Corona, Colorado,
l02 IA miles being made in an hour.
j. @. Bailey's Preston, in his day the
champion five gated saddle stallion of
Kentucky. died at CrabOrchard, aged "a.
Mrs. Helena Tucker has been granted
a license TO practice law by the Franklin
circuit bourt. He husband is also a
lawyer.
Official returns reduced the local OPP
ton majority in Scott county to 376.
The county went dry five years ago by
1888.
Homer Baughman. owned by John S.
Baughman & Son, of Danville, won the
big race and 81, 900 at the Indianapolis
Fair in 2:l2.
DIR. CE. Terry, health Officer at Jack
sonville, Fla, declares that so per cent.
of the drug fiends are made so by physi-
clans
The Fife Brothers are holding big
revival in one The tobacco warehouses in
Maysville and there have been many
confessions.
An 1S-year-old boy was hanged at Fay
ettesville, Ark, for the murder of his
teacher, a young lady. He died pro-
testing his innocence.
James Farley, who originated the
strike-breaking industry. and amassed
a fortune furnishing men to break labor
strikes, is dead at New York.
It's an i'll wind that blows nobody
good. The owner of we'll at Carlisle
has been selling 5000 gallons of water a
day from it at zoe barrel.
Rev. G. E. Elmore, pastor of the Park
Street Christian Church, New Albany,
Ind, is under arrest for assaulting ne
gro woman with criminal intent.
The tobacco crop is not nearly so bad
ly injured by the dry weather as might
be expected. A rs per cent. crop is
probable in the county.-Lancaste Rec
ord.
| A defective rail ditched the 24-hour
express from New York TO St. Louis, in
juring 30 persons, eleven of whom may
die. Steel cars are said to have saved
many lives.
The election of officers for the Burley
Tobacco Society will probably be post
poned from October z to November /,
pending decision of the Court of APP
peals.
Harry Thaw was railroaded or rather
autoed out of Canada by the immigra-
ton agent, and landed in Vermont,
where he was arrested as an escaped lu-
natlc. He is in Jail pending habeas COR
pus proceedings.
John Spurgeon, aged 16, of Beaver
Creek, met the father of E. Bremen.
manager of the Consolidated Coal Co.,
on road near McRoberts and at the
point of revolver forced him to give up
$40. He was arrested, after much eif-
ficulty.
Sir Oliver Lodge, president of the
British Association for the Advancement
of Science, delivered is long looked for
address on Continuity at Birmingham,
England, submitting the proofs of his
research to establish the theory of life
after death, which seem unanswerable.
Mercer county suffered wind storm
Monday night, which did great damage
to the crops, especially tobacco, some
fields being entirely stripped. Trees,
chimneys and several houses were blown
down. A heavy rain fell for half an
hour.
David Cole confessed in Ann Arbor,
Mich, it is stated, that he has four
wives living, one of whom, the authori.
ties claim, is Mrs. Jane Hamilton, for
merly of Marion. KY. He will go the
tpen, but it would be more punishment
to be forced to live with them ALL