The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1916-05-16

fore credited to HIS father, l.. V. Hark-
ness, against whose personal property
suits already are pending
Elaborate preparations are being
made to entertain Governor A. o..
Stanley and other visiting knights Of
Pythias who will attend the annual
memorial services at Henderson on
Sunday, May 2S This will mark the
FIRST visit OF Governor Stanley to his
home since his Inauguration as Gov
ernor last December.
The Boy Scouts of America have
effected an organization at Princeton,
and Irl H. Stevens, a young railroad
man OF that place, has been elected
scoutmaster Of the troop. The mem
bers of the troop have proffered their
service to the town authorities in an
effort to make Princeton a cleaner and
more healthful place.
Fred Brown Of Dover carries a
pocket knife which has been in posses
sion of the family for more than eighty
years. The knife was made in Ger
many, from which country It was
brought by Mrs. Browns father, Mr.
L. Raser. The knife has one large
hawk-bill blade and a saw blade, both
Of which are made Of the finest steel
The handle is made Of bone.
The Southern Railway Company
filed an equipment agreement with the
Pennsylvania Company for Insurance
on lives and granting annuities with
Secretary OF State Lewis at Frankfort.
The railway company has borrowed
$4,7O0OO0 for the following equipment:
Thirty baggage, express and mail
cars, 1900 gondolas. 1907 box cars and
100 cabooses.
Maj. Kinsey Hampton, United States
army paymaster, arrived in his home
at Winchester from a two-year stay in
the Philippines and declared that the
people Of the islands, that is, the en-.
lightened class. are very much wor.
ried for fear the United States Gov.
eminent will declare the Philippines
free to establish self,government. He
stated the Filipinos are a long way
from self government.
The Supreme Council, Catholic
Knights Of America, an organization
of national scope, at its nineteenth
triennial meeting in Louisville voted
unanimously to relinquish fits Ken.
lucky charter and to seek a new char.
ter under the laws Of the state OF Mis-.
souri,. This action, it was explained,
was taken TO conform to certain legal
requirements, and does not affect the
organic laws Of the order, which has
$4,000 members.
Working only few hours in a tun.
mel, on the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad in Laurel County, LeadneI
Thomas was crushed to death beneath
a cave-in Of rock, and his estate re.
covered a verdict of $4,000 for his
death. The Appellate Court at Frank.
fort affirmed this judgment in the case
OF the Louisville and Nashville Rail
road Company against Thomas's ad.
ministrator. The Court held that the
company did not furnish Thomas
safe place to work, and that he was
not sufficiently acquainted with the
work to assume the risk.
Through a ruling OF the court Of ap
peals Mrs. Ada Stratton Wilson Of st
Matthews, a niece of the late w. Al
Stratton, wealthy stove manufacturer,
was held entitled to $2O5, 900, the bulk
Of an estate left by her uncle. The
widow. Mrs. w. A. Stratton, who was
Miss Julia Eschmann, and formerly
housekeeper for Mr.. Stratton, is given
$4,000 under construction Of the will
Mrs. Stratton sued for a widows inter
est in the estate. but It was shown to
the courts satisfaction that the sum OF
$4,000 was settled upon Mrs. Stratton
prior to her marriage. Mrs. Wilson
was the sole heir OF the deceased.
A petrified stump was found in one
Of the MarrowbOne Coke Company's
coal mines at Rockhouse, near Pike.
Vile. II was discovered on top of
coal vein $500 feet from the mouth OF
the mine and at a depth of 500 feet
The stump, which is three feet in
diameter and two feet high, is intact
roots and all, and is well preserved
1t is so hard that It resists the best
tempered steel tools. A feature Of the
discovery was two petrifed seeds, re
sembling peach-stones, on top of the
stump. The stump shows that It was
cut OFF by sharp instrument, the sew
erance being clean. The prehistoric
find, which is an object Of much cur
iosity is on exhibition.
Adequate preparedness for national
defense demands the abolition Of the
alcoholic liquor traffic, according &c
the official call for the Kentucky pro |
hibition party, issued by Chairman
Francis Beauchamp, at Louisville. The
United States will never be really pre-
pared to defend itself against aggres
sion while nine-tenths of our young
men are rendered physically unfit for
service by the destroying influence OF
the liquor traffic" the call SAYS. The
prohibition convention will meet IN
Louisville May "a and 25. Delegates 10
the national convention will be elect
ed Leaders Of the party declare that
plans are being made for an aggressive
campaign.
Perhaps one of the largest poplar
trees ever marketed in Kentucky has
Just been cut, manufactured and load