The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1913-08-26
NEWS NOTES

The Post-office Department. rules that
letterheads and similar printed matter
are mailable under parcel post regula-
tions as fourth class matter.
Thomas Keene, of Philadelphia, en-
ragged because his wife refused to kiss
him good bye. shot and seriously wound
ed her and then committed suicide.
Jake Motley, a prominent farmer of
Warren county was ambushed at his
home Sunday night at 9 o'clock and
fatally shot by two unknown assassins.
The jury in the case of Leo NJ. Frank
on trial in Atlanta, Ga, for the murder
of Mary Phagan, found the defendant
guilty. No recommendations were
made by the jury.
Hon. John NJ. Atherton of Louisville
has been namedl to represent the Gov
eminent in passing on securities as the
basis for loans under the move-the crop
fund deposits in Louisville.
Within a short time after he had saw
ed Lewis Phillips from drowning, VIM.
Zurelbry, one of the oldest citizens of
Taylorsport, was shot and killed by the
man whom he had rescued.
The indictment of Charles F. Muir
ply, the Tammany leader, has been
requested of the District Attorney in
New York for alleged conspiracy TO put
Gov. Sulzer out OF office.
The News Record, the Oldest paper at
Middlesboro was sold by receiver 10
John NJ. Miller. president of the Citi-
zens Bank Il Trust Company for the
creditors.
Five persons were killed and three in
jured when the Hooser Limited of the
Monon railroad struck an automobile
on grade crossing near St. Johns, Ind.
The chauffeur was racing with the train.
Mrs. Callahan, widow Of the assassi-
mated ex-sherff of Breathitt, and her
brother, young Deaton, are held for
criminal knowledge of the killing of
Greenberry Combs.
A Warren county man was arrested at
Lexington for bigamy. His wife had
been sent to the insane asylum and he
married another, telling her lawyer
| had advised him that he could marry
again.
A mob went to lynch Willard Martin,
of Mason county, who had been acquit-
ted of crime against his young sister,
when he wounded two and shot the heart
out of VIM. Dayton, the leader. He es-
capped, but was captured and lodged in
Jail.
Henry Setser. well known young
farmer of Congo, Laurel county, was
found dead near his home. In his pock-
ct was found an empty vial having con-
tanned strychnine. He had been mar
rie1 only three weeks.
At the Fourth International Congress
on School Hygiene in session at Buffalo
! n. Y, it was stated that out 66l, 5Sl mi
croscopic examinations for hook worm in
eleven Southern States 329 57S of the
persons examined had the hookworm
disease.
Gov. McCreary has appointed Mr..
Geo q. Webb, leading lawyer of Lex
ington, as special judge of the Kenton
circuit court, to hear the suits filed by
Circuit Judges Frank Tracy and Matt
Harbeson against the Scripps-McRae
Publishing Company and the Post Pub
fishing Company for $50, 700.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
fled with the Secretary of State release
made by the Fidelity Trust Company,
of Philadelphia, on fifty locomotives,
and 1000 fiat bottom gondolas The
equipme nt now becomes the sole prop
erty of the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-
road Company, and the mortage was
paid off owning to the prosperity of the
road.
Farmers, mechanics. railroaderS, Ia
borers, rely on DIR. Thomas Eclectric
Oil. Fine for cuts, burns, bruises