The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1914-08-19
NEWS NOTES

Tom Miller, of Lawrence county con-
victed of horse stealing, 1912, has been
pardoned.
Chas. w. Wright, 60, carpenter of
Lexington, dropped dead while doing
repair work on porch.
Morgan's men will meet at Olympia
Springs for three days session the 1st
Thursday in September.
A dispatch says that the Russian funds
seized by the German government in
Berlin banks amount TO total of $685.
900, 600.
Howard Lancaster, 32, city electrician
of Paris, died last Tuesday, after an i'll
ness of several weeks. He leaves wife
and two children.
T. l.. Southworth, former cashier of
the Peoples Bank at Stamping Ground,
Scott county, has been arrested, charged
with embezzlement.
The pencil factory at Burnside has
closed. Most of the output was sold to
foreign countries and the war has ruin
ed business, it is said.
| Latest war bulletin: The Germans
have beer bottled the Cynthiana boozerS
at Paris and are shelling the dreadnuts.
I-Cynthiana Democrat.
Hon. Leslie Combs, of Lexington, has
asked the State department to get in
touch with his son, Brownell Combs, be-
lieved to be in Hamburg, Germany.
Rev. j. D. Gwaltney, of Paris, has
about closed deal for the lease of the
Jackson Times, owned by John T. Hind
man and formerly edited by Ryland G.
Musick.
The State Department at Washington
is now in touch with all its embassies
and legations abroad, and every effort is
being made to look after Americans in
Europe.
The steamer Iroquos crashed into the
Berkshire in fog on the Hudson river
early Monday, but no lives were lost.
Both steamers were brought to dock at
Dobbs Ferry.
A map of Nicholasville, gotten up by
Joseph Whitney, county surveyor, gives
116S acres of land within the city limits,
AGO acres of which is farming land
Jessamine News.
During the past six weeks T. S. By
ars. Commissioner of motor vehicles,
has issued $500 automobile licenses, l.
100 chauffeur licenses and 600 motorcy
Gle licenses.
AS result of being struck by an In
terurban Car, Hyppolite Gysel, aged rs,
died in Lexington last Thursday. He
was native of Belgium, but had lived
in this country 40 years.
Full returns from the Ohio primary
only serve to confirm the nomination Of
Harding. Republican, and Hogan, Dem
ocrat, for the u S. Senate. Cox, Dem
ocrat, and Willis, Republican, were nom
mated for Governor.
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been held up at Tampico under orders
of Gen. Carranza. The breach between
the two men has grown wider Friday
diplomats completed arrangements for a
peaceful entry into Mexico City by the
Constitutionalists.
Although no conclusions have been
reached, it is very probable that the wal
tax, il imposed, will place part of the
burden upon tobacco products to make
up for the loss of revenue in the import
trade Beer also seems certain of an
increased tax.
Miss Katherine Shelby Todd, member
of prominent Kentucky family, died
at her home near Shelbyville last week.
She was a daughter of the late Captain
Thomas Todd, Mexican war veteran and
Past Grand Master of the Kentucky
Masonic Grand Lodge.
A woman caught German spy on the
, train from Antwerp in the act of releas-
, ing carrier pigeons, which he had con-
cealed in bag. She seized and held
!, him until other passengers came to her
! assistance. The man was handed to the
military authorities, tried by court mar
,, tial and shot.
Bishop Thomas Lillis, of Kansas City,
has ordered that flowers be barred al
! future funerals in churches of his dio.
cese. He declared the practice savors
of vanity, and often works hardships on
+ those who cannot afford it, He favored
S sending a memorial card to relatives ol
S the person who had passed away.
: Two negroes, Preston Griffith and
Charles Hall, were taken from the Mon
roe, La, City Hall tower last Friday ant
n hanged to tree in the Jail yard by /;
/ mob of 500 excited people, for killing A
= ]. Madden, whose grocery they robbed
About "a hours before, Henry Holme
% was lynched, charged with the sam
'r crime.