The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1915-07-09


ly at her home sear Phil, Casey coun-
ty.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hood is dead at
Somerset, aged 81. She was sister
Of w. !. Goodwin, Of Lexington.
Fourteen persons were killed and
more than fifty injured in n trolley
car accident near Queenstown, Ont.
A body attachment has been issued
for Evelyn Ne.bit TO force her to tes-
tify IN the Harry Thaw sanity trial.
John Bennett j. dead at Munford-
Vile, aged %. He was the father Of %
children, 10 Of whom are living.
Need of cooperation between bank
ers and farmers was stressed at the
fourth Banker-Farmer Conference in
Chicago.
The mines Of the Continental Coal
Corporation on Straight Greek, Bell
county, have been closed because Of
wage dispute.
The wife of Porter Crawford is
charged with having killed her young
husband in a family quarrel in their
home near huntsville.
Harvey Canter, who was shot in a
fight with Jesse Little in Breathitt
is dead OF his wounds.
John McElroy, for many years
prominent in Lexington politics, is
dead, aged 81. He was city assessor
at the time of his death.
Jesse Whittle, aged Il. shot and
killed Nolan Meadows at White Ridge,
Russell county, because the former
tried to put "A tick on him.
The extension of Christian Endeav-
or work among negro churches was
planned at Worlds Christian Endeav.
or Convention in Chicago.
The Official call for a 100000 good
roads bond issue election, in Fayette
will be held within the mex. two weeks
according to County Judge +. A. Bull
lock.
G.. NJ. Moore and wife, of Pinevile,
running the Moore Hotel. were con-
victed Of selling whisky and fined
500 each and given twenty days in
jail.
One hundred and fifty thousand
dollars worth of the road bonds voted
by Whitley county for road building
brought a profit of $3.50. The bonds
bear five per cent.
A. II. Adkins, who killed one son
and shot another near Hawesville on
June g, was exonerated at his exam
lining trial. Ii was shown that he
shot to save his life.
Gihner Bros, of Eminence, sold an
eight months Hereford bull for 5000
to Basil NJ. Brooks, of Slaughters,
and to Eugene McCabe, of Leichfield,
4 yearling bull for $500.
The Atlantic Transport liner Min
nehaha is making its way into port
with fire in the hold. and New York
police officials believe that Il may
have been caused by Frank Hollis
bomb.
A petition was circulated at Eliza
BEETHOVEN asking Communication of the
death sentence of Turner Graham,
Jr., who killed the sheriff of that
county but no signatures TO speak of
were obtained.
Frank Holt, who shot j. p. Morgan
and later confessed to having placed
bomb in the L. S. capitol, committed
ssicide by jumping from a window in
the Mineola jail to the court yard, fiji
~ feet below. ~ -.-----
W. K. Roberts, an itinerant street
preacher. was arrested at Nicholas
vile for preaching against Catholi-
cism. The warrant was sworn out by
two Catholics. The mayor went on the
preachers bosd. At his trial ne was
fined 500.
4 jury was selected from the spec
ial venire of 100 men summoned into
Mercer Circuit Court Wednesday and
the case of Mrs. Peayler Cor shooting
her husband, went to trial at , O'Clock
when the first witness for the Commn-
wealth took the stand.
Seven men involved in the Indian
apolis election fraud indictments en-
tered pleas Of guilty when arraigned
recently. OF the 1871 men nemed l20
were in court Thomas Taggart in a
statement, denounced the action
against hiss as persecution, not pros
ecution."
Mrs. Carrie {. Hunt is dead at Lex
ington. She was the widow of the
well known Baptist preacher, who was
pastor of the Stanford Baptist
church number OF years ago. Mrs.
Hunt was the mother of Clay Hunt,
who used to travel this section of the
State for a grocery house.
The belief that Holt was Eric Muen-
ter, fugitive Harvard instructor and
alleged wife murderer. was strength
ened by identification of the dead
man as Muenter by three men who
knew Muenter. These men went to the
morgue at Mineola, accompanied by
detectives, who spent busy day delv-
ing into Hollis past in an effort to
trace his possible accomplice or ac-
completes and to learn the where
abouts of dynamite owned by Holt
still unaccounted for.