The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1913-09-16
NEWS NOTES

Friday Judge Stout decided at Frank
fort that mule is a common carrier.
Appellate Judge w. E. Settle has ap-
pointed his son, Robert, his law clerk.
Matte Burns was indicted by Mont
gomery court for killing his infant
found in we'll.
John Carter, a young white man. shot
and fatally wounded Dan Cobb, another
white man, at Nicholasville.
Tennessee is breaking all records in
murders. On the Memphis docket alone
there are 81 cases set for trial the CON-
ing court.
Judge A. ]. Kirk announces his can
didacy again for Appellate Judge. Judge
G. g. Turner beat him to it badly at the
last election.
The reunion of the Orphan Brigade
will be held at Pewee Valley, Sept. 10,
the 50th anniversary of the battle Of
Chickamauga.
The bushes section of Rochester, the
second largest town in Butler county,
was destroyed by fire entailing loss Of
SIS, co.,
Sure enough Judge Lassing did resign
his seat on the Appellate bench. Gov.
McCreary will appoint his successor
later.
A Montgomery county jury gave Mrs.
Addie Kelley slS,0ll in her suit against
the C. & o. for s32, 900 for the killing of
her husband, an engineer.
Winchester's telephone service is so
fierce" that that the city council has
directed the attorney to take steps to
declare the franchise forfeited.
The First National Bank, of Nicholas
vile, was made Government depository
to the amount of $50, 600 by order of the
Secretary of Treasury McAdoo.
The residence of William Clark, near
Marksburry, was struck by lightning
and Mrs. Clark and little son were Sc
verely shocked. The house and con-
tents were destroyed.
big Tim" Sullivan, the New York
politician, who rose from newsboy to
Congressman, was mangled by a train
and his body was not recognized for two
weeks as it lay in the morgue.
So rapidly has the work on the Tariff
Bill proceeded in conference that Chair
man Simmons. of the Senate Finance
Committee, predicted report would be
made before the end of the week.
Joseph Lewis, a negro, changed with
assaulting Mrs. Rosa Dorman, white, OF
Nicholasville, and arrested near that
place later, was lodged in the Fayette
county Jail, as there were indications
of mob.
The Franklin county bar will take
steps 10 disbar Mr.. and Mrs. CT. Tucker
from practicing law in Kentucky. They
got licenses in Ohio and the man is un
der indictment for using the mails tc
defraud.
Five persons were drowned, many
homes washed away and all the mines
disabled by a cloudburst at Goldfield,
Nevada. Communication with Tonopah
is cut off and rumors of loss of life there
are heard
President E A. Hanley, of Franklin
College, Indianapolis. is under arrest fol
whipping his father. He admits the
disgraceful act, and says it was in de-
Tense of his mother, whom he had treated
inhumanly
The Louisville Board of Trade i:
strongly opposed to the Fundamental
principles and provisions of the pending
Currency Bill, as atfording not only M
cure for evils existing in the present
currency situation. but inviting grratel
evils not now existing.
| United States Judge Aldrich, in tn,
District Court of New Hampshire. grant
ed the application of Harry K. Thaw fo
a writ Of habeas corpus returnable a
Littleton, N. II. Thaw is still detained
at Colebrook, awaiting hearing befor,
the Governor.
A member of the Brotherhood o.
Trainmen is killed every seven hour.
and fifteen minutes, and every min,
minutes man is MANNED, was the ties
timony of William Lee, representing the
Order of Railway Trainmen, at the meet
ing of the Arbitration Commission al
New York in the controversy between
forty-two Eastern railroads and theil
conductors and trainmen, over the EN-.
ployes' demands for more Fay and shorter
hours
There are in the United States 7,39,
national banks. There are 1922 savings
banks, Is, 3Sl State banks, LOCI private
banks and LAO trust companies; or IT,.
800 State and private institutions; 10, 00(
more than there are of national banks
The individual deposits in the saving:
banks amount to 4, 451 millions; in State
banks, 2,9l9 millions; in private banks,
152 millions; in trust companies, 1914
millions; in all, IL, 1876 millions of indi.
| vidual deposits against 1000 millions in
national banks.
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