The bee., 1916-09-19
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tional Democratic ticket.
Seven hundred and seventy-four
gallons Of beer we're seized and de-
stroyed by officials at Providence, Ky.
f. X. Brookbank, Of Augusta, is the
champion fisherman of Kentucky. He
took from a trot line in one run over
100 pounds of fish.
Typhoid fever is prevalent in q
number Of mountain counties, where
several deaths have occurred, accord
ing to reports from Whitesburg.
Scott, the one-year-old son OF Char
ley Merrideth, Of near Elizabethtown,
fell into a tub Of water and was
drowned, although the water was only
two inches deep.
workmen employed in the grading
and construction of a road near Nancy
unearthed two skeletons. A gold eagle
bearing the date of 1858 also was
found.
Several officers Of the First Ken
lucky Infantry, from Louisville, were
assigned to duty in the Twelfth In
fantry at Ft. Bliss, preparatory to
beginning regular army work.
J. c. Miller sued the members OF
the Campbellsville Christian Church
for $4,000, alleged to be due as a
balance on the construction of the
church building.
Sergeant Leuter saved the lives Of
two girls in Mammoth Cave by hold
ing back a rock which threatened to
crush them. He was seriously in
jured, and will likely get a hero medal
A three-foot alligator was caught
in Big Sandy River at Shelby. II
miles south Of Pikesville, by Richard
Ratcliffe. There is much speculation
as to how the alligator came to be in
the Big Sandy.
Claims for the new $11000,000 ar
NOR plant to be erected by the Fed
eral Government have been placed be-
fore the authorities at Washington by
Fort Thomas, Mt. Vernon, Wicklifle,
Dover, Louisville and Middlesboro.
1t has been decided by the Repub-
lican National Committee to send
Theodore Roosevelt into the noun
tains of Kentucky to make several
speeches in the interest Of the cam
paign.
Announcement was made by Presi-
dent r. H. Crossfeld, of Lexington,
that Pennsylvania College, of which
he is the head, will not institute a mil
itary department for its students dur
ing the coming school year.
OF 1856 industrial injuries report
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pensation Board only one claim has
been submitted for adjudication, all
others having been settled with the
sanction OF the board members.
Residents of Clay county celebrat-
ed the first arrival Of a locomotive
in that county. The Cumberland and
Manchester Railroad Company is ex-
pecting to complete the road to Man
chester by the end Of November.
Governor Stanley has fixed Novem-
Der II as the date for the electrocu-
tion of Harry Garrison, negro, Of Ken
ton County, convicted of the charge
of criminal assault and sentenced to
electrocution.
John E. Madden, of Lexington, sold
from Hamburg place, rs head of his
shorthorn cattle. They are classed
as expert cattle of the type known as
the Christmas beasts, and are to be
/, shipped to England for the holidays.
Kentucky shows a condition Of
crops far above normal according to
recent government figures. The COM
bined condition of all crops is estimat-
ed at 1857, a slight decrease as COM
pared with the condition in August.
The 1861 session of the Western
Kentucky State Normal School opened
with 20 per cent more students than
any other term. The indications seem
to forecast that the enrolment of the
present year will reach materially over
1000. For 1856 It was 1890.
Mrs. James Price, Of Lawrence Coun.
ty, and four of her children died as
a result Of ptomaine poisoning from
eating cabbage which contained poison
in a vessel which generated the poi
son. officials are making an investi-
cation.
"This years crop Of tobacco will be
the biggest crop that the Burley dis
trict has had since the bumper crop
of 1912" according to the statement
of Col John d. Walker, prominent
tobacco and cigar manufacturer 9f
Maysville.
From the stomach Of a bass caught
by Louis Fiber at Lake Ellerslie, was
taken a gold ring lost by Thomas
O'Day, of Lexington, in a pond an
hour before Fiber made his catch.
ODay identified the ring by initials
engraved on the inner side.
Gen.VGasil Duke, 7G years old, Of
Louisville, most famous Of all suryiv-
ing Confederate generals, died in New
York. Duke was a brother-in-law Of
Gen. John II. Morgan, famous raid.
err" and served through the war with
Morgan's mon, having command Of
them after Morgan was killed.
With a window weight torn from a
window in their room as a bludgeon,
George Noe, 16 years old Of Louis
Vile, and William Sexton, IA years
old, OF Portland, Ind, struck down
Keeper ID. r. johnson and made their
escape from the Detention Home at
Lexington.