The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1913-06-24
NEWS NOTES

r. G. Hawley was killed and five
others injured by lightning at Little
Rock, Ark.
Ten thousand bootblacks in New
York City quit work as the first official
act of their new union.
Fifty persons were injured when a
Pennsylvania excursion train was de
rallied near Sterling, N. Y.
]. T. Howell, a merchant of Long
Branch, Ga, and his wife were called
to the door of their home and slain.
Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, former presi-
dent of the ID. A. r. = issued a second
statement opposing woman suffrage.
Representative Doremus, OF Michi-
gan last night was elected chairman Of
the Democratic Congressional Cam
paign Committee.
By unanimous vote late yesterday
the garment workers of Cincinnati
voted to 60 on strike to-day rejecting a
proposition made by manufacture
1
Civil War claims OF Kentuckians ag-
gregating tSS. 954 were provided for in
| bills introduced in the United States
Senate yesterday by Senator Bradley.
Thomas Ralston, charged with the
murder of young man named Finley
in Garrard, was given an indeterminate
sentence of two to twenty-one years.
j. w. Rafferty,, an aged and promi-
nent farmer of Taylor county, was
found dead in his barn just after an
electrical storm. 1t is believed that
lightning killed him.
Nine OF fourteen members of a Gov
eminent surveying party were drowned
in the Mississippi river near New Mad
rid, Mo, when squall capsized their
launch.
| Two boys were carried to their death
in the Whirlpool Rapids at Niagara
Falls when boat in which they were
playing became loosened anu fioated
down the stream.
Seven men were killed and another
probably was fatally injured in the
wreck of freight train on the Chicago
Milwaukee & ST. Paul railroad near
Clinton, Iowa.
Practically complete returns from the
Arkansas Democratic primaries give
Judge George W. Hayes lead of about
1000 votes over former Congressman
Brundige for Governor.
Boy Scouts expect by series of re-
lays-to deliver message from Presi
dent Wilson at the White House TO
Mayor Harrison in Chicago, a distance
of 77S.7 miles, in four days and three
and half hours.
The work OF erecting 5000 tents to
accommodate 10000 war veterans ex-
pected to attend the reunion on the
fiftieth anniversary of the battle OF
Gettysburg has begun.
That the United States is losing mil
lions Of dollars yearly through emigra-
ton to Canada and other countries
through the lure of cheaper land and
less stringent land laws was the decla-
ration of Speaker Clark.
Manuel Earnshaw, the new resident
commissioner in Congress from the
Philippine Islands, has just arrived in
Washington with his wife. 1t was
something more than ten thousand
mile journey, and Earnshaw will collect
20 cents mile as mileage fees.
Secretary of Labor Wilson assumed
entire responsibility for the postpone
ment of the Diggs-Caminetti trial in
San Francisco. which was made the
subject of the charges against Attorney
General McReynolds by District Attor
ney McNab, who resigned Saturday.
Senator Lane, of Washington, wants
the Indian Bureau of the Government
Investigated by the Indian Affairs Com
mittee of the Senate. There is a bill
impending to appropriate $4,000, 900
for the Indian reservation, and the Sem
ator wants this held up pending the
result Of the probe.