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Grayson county will vote June Bird
on bond issue of $4,000 for roads.
The Pittsburg and Toledo baseball
clubs are training at Dawson Springs.
Five hundred casse Of the measles
are reported at Owensboro.
OF 23 anti-liquor bills introduced in
the legislature only two passed.
Harlan county road bonds sold at a
premium of 81 on the hundred.
There are Sc entries for the Ken.
lucky derby, May 18th.
Directors of the Louisville Board Of
Trade decided on a trade extension
trip through eastern Kentucky in May.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Sampson, Bar.
bourville celebrated their sixty-fifth
wedding anniversary with reception.
John B. Russell, aged 40, prominent
lawyer at Hopkinsville, committed
suicide by the use of a shotgun.
Greensboro is also making an eff.
fort to secure the new shops of the
L., II. & St. L. Railroad.
The merchants and farmers of Trigg
county have organized a Development
League.
At Princeton Gus Lacy was acquitted
for killing Carl Coleman on the
grounds of self-defense.
The Henderson National Bank and
the Union Bank and Trust Company
of Henderson have consolidated.
The iron foundry at Middlesboro has
been started after being closed for
many months.
Mrs. Laban Phelps, of Louisville, in
fit of dependency, committed sui
eide.
Scarlet fever has appeared in the
public schools at Marion and all cases
have been quarantined.
A mechanical burglar device catches
and holds negro on Jefferson street
Louisville, until police arrive.
The estate of the late ]. b. Haggin
Lexington, was appraised at $40,
600, 900.
s. w. Bedford, the missing Lexing
ton insurance man, carried $4,000 life
insurance.
Stephen Burch Buchanan, promi
nent business man of Louisville, died
at Colorado Springs, Colo.
Senator Tom Moore, of Breckin
ridge county, has been confined in q
! Lexington hospital in a very serious
condition.
I Four men were killed and two
severely injured in an explosion al
the Pikeville Planning and Supply Com
pany.
Telephone, telegraph and steamboat
companies have been placed by an ac
of the Legislature under the jurisdic
tion of the Railroad Commission.
A millionaire colony from New Yorl
may take over Elmendorf, the 5000
acre principality near Lexington, the
property of the late James B. Haggin
The Louisville, Henderson and st
Louis Railroad shops at Cloverport
were destroyed by fire. New shops
may be erected at Henderson.
| The Southern Railroad has giver
medals to all of its men who hav,
worked for the company 20 years OF
more.
/ The death sentence imposed upor
a negro ravisher of white women il
Campbell county has been upheld by
the Court of Appeals.
| Duke Bowden, well-known lawyer
In Louisville, attempted suicide by
cutting his throat with a razor. He
will recover.
Four bootleggers were given 80 day.
in Jail and fine of 500 each at Ian
caster by the new police Judge ap
pointed recently by Governor Stanley.
! While starting furnace fire will
coal oil Mrs. Owen T. Yates, aged A
of Leitchfield, received burns from
which she died.
John w. Booth, elevator operator a
the Business Woman's Club. Louisville
was caught between the carriage ant
the floor, and killed.
Fire destroyed the Florida schoo
Of the Kentucky Military Institute
All the cadets escaped with most O
their property.
Fayette county's 100000 road bono
Issue was sold at Az per cent premium
on a 423 per cent interest basis. Four
keen firms bid for the bonds.
Bell county will vote on a $4,000
road bond issue May 18th, the secon,
in the past IA months. The first issu
Of $250,000 is not sufficient to put al
the roads in the condition desired.
Kentucky has 1853 officers and 1882
men members of the state troops read
for action In Mexico, II needed. Thi.
is more than any Southern state, ex
cept Georgia and Virginia.
James oliver. of Henderson, CON
mitted suicide by putting bulle
through his head and also hanging
himself. He had only been marie,
three weeks.
The rigid enforcement of the lid Law
In Louisville on Sundays has driver
hundreds Of Louisville's thirsty popu
lation to Jeffersonville and new Al
bany, Ind, across the river.
A little daughter of James Neal
| near Peaks Mill in Franklin comfy