The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1913-07-15
NEWS NOTES

Three young women were drowned in
the Schuylkill river at Norrislown,
Penn.
Martin Treadway, aged rs, who lived
near the Montgomery and Clark line, is
dead
John ii. Curry, well known insur-
ance man of Lexington, is dead at an
advanced age.
Former Lieut.. Chas Becker, OF New
York, was denied a new trial in the Ros-
enthal murder case.
A new phase of the silk mill strike
developed in Patterson, n. j., when wa
ter was cut off from many families.
Groceries and household supplies have
increased II per cent in the past year,
Government contracts indicate.
The Masons at Shepherdsville have
let the contract for their new $4,000
building to Samuel A. Hornbeck.
Six hundred and twenty gallons of
whisky shipped from Louisville was
seized under the Webb law at Bangor,
Me.
A masked man who attempted TO hold
up the Cliff House night clerk in Mani
tou, Col, killed night Waterman and
escaped.
Kossush H. He'll, wealthy former
general manager OF the Hammond Pack
ing Company, committed suicide at
Chicago.
The special examiners are drawing
their report of the causes of the failure
of the First-Second National Bank of
Pittsburg.
A new warrent was issued at Atlanta
charging Mrs Mary Belle Crawford with
numbering her husband four years ago.
She has been located.
Secretary of War Garrison, through
Col. Edwin P. Brewer. will demand the
release of Americans held prisoners by
Mexican revolutionists at Hidalgo.
A girl was killed, two persons seri-
ously hurt and several others injured
when two steel freight cars crashed into
a passenger train at Alliance, o.
A resolution to reopen the Money
Trust" investigation for the benefit of
tho Houca Cnrrancy Cou,u,;t,aa ,yas in
troduced by Representative Henry.
The Georgia Federation of Labor has
demanded an investigation by the State
Legislature of the killing of 3 persons
by the militia during the Augusta street
car strike.
Ministers attending the convention of
Christian Endeavor Societies at Los
Angeles favor teaching religion and sex
hygiene in schools and barring crime
reports from newspapers.
1t was announced in New York that
trainmen and conductors.would be rep
resented at an audience with President
Wilson regarding a proposed amend
ment of the Erdman Act
Nelson Jones, the father of 10 chill
dren. by two wives, died of consump-
ton at Georgetown. He was rs years
old and recently contracted the dis
ease.
Commissioner Osborn, of the Internal
Revenue Department, has begun an in
vestigation of a charge by the Chicago
grand jury that oleomargarine manu-
facturers owe the Government $780,
600.
Representative Stanley stated before
the House that he introduced bill for
a steel investigation one year before La
mar, Martin and Lauterbach claimed
their investigation resolution was writ
ten.
Prof. G. L. Waterbury, principal of
the Consolidated High School at Paint
Lick, has resigned and Prof. R. A. Lon
don, of Bowling Green, has been chosen
to succeed him. Mr.. Waterbury will
accept a position at Union City, Tenn.
That child labor holds down the wag-
es of men was the declaration of A. J.
McKelway, secretary OF the Southern
States Child Labor Committee, to the
conference of Charities and Corrections
at Seattle, Wash.
A conflict between capital and labor is
expected to result from the testimony OF
NJ. NJ. Mulhall before the Senate Lobby
Investigating Committee, it is stated.
The jurisdictional clash between the
House and Senate continued, with the
Senate in possession of the witnesses and
papers.
After celebrating for an hour and for
ty-five minutes, the jury returned YER
dict at Winchester breaking the will of
the late Stephen Holiday. who left his
500, 600 estate to his widow. All of the
jurors voted to break the will. Accord
ing TO law the widow, Mrs. Amanda
Holiday, widow Of the testator's BROTH
or whom he married at the age OF n,
after remaining bachelor until this
time, will receive one-thir1 of the real
estate for life and one-half OF the per-