The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1913-06-06

Elvin Anderson was mysteriously muir
dered near his home in Washington
county.
b. W. Gaines, of Lincoln, had five
ewes and five lambs killed by lightning
during the recent storm.
Gems worth SAC, 900 TO $4,000 were
stolen from New York City diamond
dealer Wednesday.
DIR. S. G. Jameson has rendered his
resignation as president of Mercer Uni
versity at Macon. Ga.
President Wilson has accepted the
resignation of William Williams, Com
missioner of immigration.
Hearing of Henry Youtseys applica-
tion for parole has been indefinitely
postponed at his request
Secretary McAdoo has asked for the
resignation of Fred 5. Stratton, collector
of customs at San Francisco.
J. Morgan Chinn has been appointed
circuit clerk of Franklin county to sue
coed Ben Marshall, who was made col
lectOr.
Six store buildings and several dwell
ing houses were destroyed at Harlan by
q III thdt OIls lhdlcu III pilObOSid
gallery.
1t is expected that the name of Josh
Griffith for the Greensboro collectorship
will shortly be presented to the Sen
ate.
w. G. Lee, of Cleveland, was re-elect-
ed grand president of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen at the convention
in San Francisco.
Zach Combs. convicted of manslaugh-
ter in Perry county, has been given q
new trial because some Of the jurymen
left court to save their homes from fire.
Elder Bender, representative of the
Adventist Church in Jamaica, declared
that missionaries are being imprisoned
in Hayti with no charges against them.
Jack Stuart, former Frankfort coun-
Gilman and prominent member of the
order of Elks, died suddenly at Dawson
Springs, where he went few days ago.
Senator Ollie James will make an eff
fort to have an active Democrat appoint
ed TO succeed Capt. K. l.. Dorsey, of
Louisville, supervising inspector of
steam vessels.
A reign of terror, more serious than
threatened by night riders against the
tobacco growers OF this district, says a
Henderson dispatch.
Shoe manufacturers testifying in the
the Government suit TO dissolve the I'm
tied Shoe Machinery Co. said competi-
tion in shoe machinery had practically
disappeared.
The statement that Richard l.. Met
calfe, associate editor of Bryan's Com
moner, is to succeed NJ. Ii. Thatcher
as Governor of Panama Canal Zone has
been officially confirmed.
On the ground among others that new
evidence has been discovered, a new
trial was asked for Charles Becker. con-
victed Of the murder of Herman Rosen-
thai, the New York gambler.
All sensational suffragette outrages
were discounted when a woman dashed
on the racetrack at Epson, England,
and pulled down the Kings horse An
mer. She was terribly injured and the
jockey was badly hurt.
Congressman Harvey Helm, of the
Eighth Congressional District, will lose
the present committee he is chairman
of in the House, but will most likely be
given the craftsmanship of another good
committee.
The State Board of Equalization has
certified the total value of land and per-
sonal property in Kentucky for 1918 al
1851, $50, 1863, from which is expected a
revenue of 81, 256, COL. The total assess
ment for 1912 was $40, 46S, 594.
The body of Ben c. Gibson, of Owens
boro, student at Columbia University,
who disappeared in New York May %,
was identified at the Harlem morgue,
where it was taken Monday after being
dragged from East River,
Attorney General McReynolds is con-
sidering asking graduated tax on
manufactured tobacco as means of at
lacking the four companies into which
the Tobacco Trust" has been dissolved
and which the Attorney General believes
have not carried out the decree OF the
Supreme Court as it should have been.