The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1915-07-13
NOTES or CURRENT EVENTS
Brief Mention Of What IL Going On
The Country Over.

Rockcastle road bonds were bought
I at par By a Cleveland, o., firm.
Lieut.. Gov. McDermott has opened
headquarters with +. c. Leaning in
charge.
James Warks, farmer, whe lived
near Cynthiana, was murdered and his
house was robbed.
Eight hundred miners of the Pine
vile section have struck for ten per
cent raise in wages.
Hundreds of men have been given
employment on the new RAILROAD ex-
tensions in Southeastern Kentucky.
+. f. Elmer, aged So and a promi-
nent Pineville architect, was drowned
while rowing in lake at Middlesboro.
The death list, as the result of the
storm in Cincinnati, has reached thir-
ty-six. Several person are missing yet.
The crop outlook in Davicss county
this year is very bad, according 10 re-
ports received from me farmers In
that section.
G.. T.. Lutes. r. NJ. Sharpe sold TO
| J. n. Baughman two two-year-oid
cattle and two weanling calves for
S105.
/ Elaborate arrangements have been
completed at Greensboro for the en-
campment of the Safe militia, which
begins there Thursday.
Charles Tinsley, Joe Cloud, Arthur
johnson and Lawrence Crockett are
under arrest at Pineville for breaking
in to the postoffice there.
John l.. Whitehead, who used to
] Int fn n :
been a druggist at Williamsburg, has
filed deed of assignment.
A building boom is expected in Chi
cago following the compromise of the
building trades strike, which tied the
construction work for weeks.
Nody Starkey, of the Eastern Ken.
lucky Home Telephone Co., witt
headquarters at Pineviiie, has takef
over the Sandy Valley Telephone Co.
Judge w. p. Eichhorn, of Button
Ind. has been chosen special judge Il
try the men under indictment in Indi
annapolis for alleged election frauds.
Wheat. sugar, butter and mea
prices are being fixed by the Australi
an Government, due to a shortage OF
account of droUhs and European war
G. J. Bronston, son of the dea,
Lexington attorney, has announced
for the democratic nomination of Jes
samne county. He is opposed by Jas
II. Dorman.
Judge Quincy A. Myers, formerl,
Of the Supreme Benen, has declined t,
try the election fraud cases of gCn
Taggart, Mayor Bell and others Of
Indianapolis.
For half an hour after being STRUCK
by lightning "a crossing Waterman OF
the l.. & n. railroad lay unconscious
! in his tower in Louisville while traffic
went unguarded except by Providence
, in Louisville.
A reduction of 5.5 per cent. in this
years production of cigar tobacco and
an incpesse of 10 per cent in chewing
smoking, snuff and export types is
shown in comparison with last year,
according to Government report.
Alledged handbook operators and
'bootleggers" in Paris, were trapped
by two detectives who said they were
looking for a location for an airdome.
Mrs. Alice Davis, widow OF W, A. b.
Davis. who died while superintendent
Of Rockeastle county schools, is a
candidate 70 fill out the inePired
term.
The National Republican Progress
sWe Union has been organized and
headquarters opened in Washington.
The organization is intended to off
set the National Republican Publicity
League and to work for the nomiRa-
so9 ID Progressive Republican for
President.
]. A. Edge, a wel-known Lexington
attorney. will oppose Col. John r. AL
len, for the office of Common
wealtk's Attorney of Fayette. which
the latter has held for 20 odd years.
Washington X. Cook. an aged citi-
zen of the Rock Lick section of Pulas-
ki county, is dead.
Warnings to look out for bombs
concealed in their holds were flashed
Sunday night from Arlington 10 the
British steamships Howth Head and
Barren Napier, which sailed from Ney
Orleans July 9 with mules for the al
lied army. A letter. signed Pearce, re-
ceived in New Orleans, declared the
writer would carry out Hollis work
and kill J. p. Morgan and Sir Cecil
Spring Rice, and advised those having
friends on the ship to watch for re-
rpOrts from those vessels.