The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1913-08-15
NEWS NOTES

Levi Couch killed Jake Chambers in
Lee county.
Mote Scott, aged %, and a respected
citizen of Lancaster, is dead.
Suffragettes attempted to burn the
Carnavor county school in Carnavon,
Wales.
G. G. Walker, of Louisville, was cleo
ted president of the Southern Railroad
Agents Association.
The appointment of f. T. Schmitt as
postmaster of Louisville has been con-
firmed by the Senate.
DIR. ]. w. Acton and Miss Linnie
Moss, prominent Lancaster people, we've
married last week.
Cyrus Moberly.a well known citizen Of
the Stone section of Garrard, is dead at
an advanced age.
A two-year-old daughter OF Mrs Ruth
Harp, of Danville, fell from the porch
of her home and broke her neck.
Prohibitionists of Fulton county are
circulating petition asking for spec
ial local option election on Oct. IL.
The Peruvian towns of Caraveli and
Suicacha were destroyed by an earth
quake and thousands made homeless.
Business has an optimistic tone des
pite the summer dullness, say Dun's
and Bradstreet's weekly reports.
Roy Newman, an employee of the Lex
ington telephone company, came in con-
tact with a live wire and was killed.
Henry d. Clayton, who married
Georgetown. KY, girl, has been appoint
ed U. S. Senator from Alabama by Gov.
O'Neal.
The Knights Templar closed their tri-
ennial conclave at Denver. F. II. John
son, of Louisville, was elected grand rec
order.
Albert Pennington, somnambulist,
walked through third-story windew of
the Alger Hotel, at Cattlettsburg, and
was killed.
In boating accident on Lake Supe-
rio-, near Duluth, IA persons were
thrown into the water, seven being
drowned.
A miner was killed and two deputy
sheriffs wounded when striking copper
miners and sheriffs clashed at Seeber-
vile, Mich.
Panama is the fourth nation to accept
in detail Secretary Bryan's international
peace plan, the State Department has
announced.
Suffragettes are meeting in Washing
ton to plan campaign seeking con-
stitutional amendment providing for
woman suffrage.
The body of an unknown man was
found on the southern part of Danville.
He had been seen with a companion a
few hours before
Commissioner of Agriculture ]. w.
Newman thinks that the loss to the far
mers of Kentucky caused by the drouth
will reach $50, 900, 600.
Charles F. Eberhart, of Detroit, was
elected supreme president OF the Social
Order of Moose, which closed its 9Th an
nual convention in Detroit.
The American Federation of Catholic
Societies closed its annual convent ion at
Milwaukee by selecting Baltimore as the
next meeting place.
Louisville was chosen for the 1914
convention of the Atlantic Grand Coun-
Gil Jurisdiction, Young Mems Institute,
in session at Pittsburgh.
The nominations of T. Scott Mayes, of
| Springfield. as Collector at Louisville,
and w. ]. Price. of Danville, as Minis
ter to Panama, have been sent to the
Senate.
The San Francisco Call, a morning
paper founded in 1856, has been pur-
chased by the owner of the San Francis
co Chronicle and will go out of exist
ence Sept. /.
The uncertainty of the legislative sit
uation in the Senate gave rise to re-
port, it is stated. that Congress will
rush through the Tariff Bill, and then
recess until November.
Judged by popular opinion. it is claim
ed that Raper Com mandery, No. l, of
indianapolis, presented the best exhibit
ton of drilling in the first days compe-
tition of Knights Templar at Denver.
Gov. Eugene Foss, elected Governor
of Massachusetts three times as a dem.
ocrat, has issued statement which is
generally interpreted TO mean that he
will seek denomination in a republican
party.
President Wilson last night publicly
reprimanded Ambassador Henry Lane
Wilson for his recent attack on the Brit
ish Foreign Office, and instructed Am
bassador Page to express to Sir Edward
Grew the regret CT the American gov
eminent for the improperly.
An amendment designed to make it
clear that commercial paper based on
warehouse receipts for staple commodi-
ties would be accepted for rediscount by
Federal reserve banks, proposed in the
Administration Currency Bill, was prac-
tically agreed upon in the House Demo
cratic caucus.
Henry Lane Wilson, Ambassador to
Mexico, issued statement criticising
the British Foreign Office with refer
ence to his "congratulatory speech" read
befoe the foreign diplomats in Mexico
City, and President Wilson, it is stated,
considered asking that his resignation
take effect at once. 1t is also stated
that Foreign Powers favor the Washing