The interior journal., 1915-08-03
NOTES OF CURRENT EVENTS.


NOTES OF CURRENT EVENTS.
Eight deaths were reported in Phil
adelphia Sunday, caused by the heat.
The temperature was 96.
Will Johnson, negro was shot five
times and dangerously wounded in a
fight at a dance at Ford, Clark coun-
lty.
The health survey under way in
Bell county has developed many cases
Of trachoma, tuberculosis and pella-
gra.
The body Of Charles Becker, who
was executed Friday for the msirder
of Herman Rosenthal, was taken to
his wife's home in Bronx.
An agreement has been reached
with England so that Americans fak-
mers can obtain sugar beet seed from
Germany for this years crop
As the result Of a succession OF
.lawless acts within a comparatively
recent period, leading citizens OF haz-
ard have formed law and order lea
que.
DR.. Thomas l.. McDermott, member
of the Louisville Board of Public
Safety, and brother of Lieut.. Gov.
NcDefmott, died Sunday of cancer of
the throat.
An ancient temple thought to have
been erected in the reign Of Rameses
II. has been uncovered at Memphis,
Egypt, by the University of Pennsyl-
vania exposition.
Three more bodies were recovered
Sunday from the Chicago river where
the Eastland tragedy occurred. The
Redfield inquiry and Federal grand
Jury probe will be resumed.
Triplets, boys, were born to the
wife of Joe Bowling, Brush Greek,
Wednesday. They have been named
James, Dewey and Louis. All are do
ing well. Mt. Vernon Signal.
Three Americans were killed by
shell fire on board the British steam
Iberian, according to the official bst
of dead. The facts In the case have
been placed before President Wilson.
Plans to prevent diseases caused by
the war from spreading to the Unit
ed States will be discussed at the
meeting of the Public Health Off
GERS Association to be held in Roches-
ter, N. Y.
George Wyatt, one of the best
known citizens of hu,aski county, is
dead, aged 81. He was in the employ
of the @. & C. railroac FOR many
years and was held in high esteem by
that company.
DR.. j. c. Hexamer, of Philadelphia,
the United States for sup
plying war munitions to Europe, at
the preliminary meeting of the Ma
tioanl German-American Alliance in
San Francisco.
Victor Murdock, chairman Of the
Progressive National Committee, in a |
statement Sunday declared that the |
ranks of the Progressives had not |
been broken and that a full ticket
would be put in the field in 1916.
The cruiser Tennessee returned to |
port Friday after nearly a years |
cruise in the war zone. OF the So |
$4,000 carried abroad at the out !
break of the war for the relief of |
Americans only 100000 remains.
VIII Stanley, q negro arrested on a |
charge Of numbering the three Grimes
at Temple, Texas, was taken /
from the Justice courtroom at mid
light and was burned on the public
square in the presence of thousands
If men and women.
Eleven men were killed and six
seriously injured at the Patterson
nine of the United Coal Company at
Elizabeth, Pa, when a cable carrying
train broke on the incline. The cars
,rashed into a party of men at the
mouth of the mine.
State Senator Joe Bosworth, of
Niddlesboro, has withdrawn from the
ace as a Republican candidate for
from the Ninety-third
district, leaving the race between j.
NJ. Muncy, of Hyden and G. C. Bra
shear, of Perry county.
The Rock Island Co., has been plac-
I'd in the hands of a receiver. The
Rock Island Company, capitalized at
$3.50, 100000 was holding company
to take over control of the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
the operating company.