The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1916-01-19

gestion in shipments from Eastern
Kentucky.
Joel. c. Clore, formerly of Hebron,
Boone County, has been appointed
postmaster of Cincinnati, to succeed
John Snuff resigned, who too was a
Kentuckian, coming from Bourbon
CO. ty.
.rhe "ow,nr aap~nnr!ations for
postofices has been asked by Secre-
Iary OF Treasury McAdoo, at Washing
ton: Ashland, $4,000; Glasgow. $500;
Lancaster. $500; and shelbyville,
$1,000.
Colonel Joseph H. Dorst, veteran
of Indian campaigns, Spanish-Ameri-
can war and Philippine Instructions.
a native of Louisville, died at his
home near Warrenton, Va. He re-
tired from the regular army in 1911
after forty years of service.
The Mercer County Girls Canning
Club has rounded out its second years
work and stands in the forefront of
canning club work in Kentucky and
the United States Government, hav-
ing captured every prize in which
they have competed
S. ]. Weller, cashier Of the Dundee
Deposit Bank, near Hartford, ended
his life by hanging, following a bank
examiner going over his books. No
reason can he assigned The SSssssss:-
liner could find nothing wrong with
the books.
According to Collector Ben Marshall
at Lexington, three-fifths of the bond
ed spirits and whiskey in the United
States is in warehouses in Kentucky.
He further estimates that seven
tenths Of the whiskey produced in the
United States is made in Kentucky.
The prevalence of grippe and in
fiuenza Is not confined TO the humans,
but also TO horses and livestock, ac-
cordine to DR.. c. N. Tyree, a veteri-
harlan. at Murray. who says that there
are many animals affected in that sec
tiOn OF the state.
Senator Helen Ring Robinson, Of
Colorado, the only woman Senator in
the United States. has been invited to
speak in Lexington by the Fayette
Equal Rights Association. She is at
present with the Ford peace party in
Europe, but has signified that she
will accept the invitation.
DR.. John F. Jesse, of Waddy, suf-
fered serious injuries when his ma
chine crashed into the iron super
structure of the Floyd creek bridge ON
the Shelbyville pike. thirteen miles
east of Louisville. Thurston Waddy,
companion in the car with him, es-
capped serious injury.
George Alexander, the Paris banker,
who is confined in the Frankfort
Penitentiary. is reported as seriously
III and permission has been granted
surgeons of Cincinnati to make an ex-
animation. His wife has made two
appeals to Governor Stanley, in an
effort to obtain a pardon.
Through a challenge two brothers,
ID. II. and Andrew Hargis, of Heb
bardsville. are in their grave. They
both went out to the. corner of their
home, stripped. and took a shower
bath from the drip OF the house dur
Ing cold winter rain. Both con-
tracted pneumonia and both died
within a few hours OF each other.
Miss Florence Phalin, 18 years old,
confessed that she shot Hayes Nelson
c. & q. expressman, who was found
near the postoffice at Ashland Satur-
day night, seriously wounded. Miss
Phalin claims that she shot through
her nun with 3S-calibre revolver
after Nelson had drawn a gun fol.
lowing a dispute.
One OF the sights OF the high water
OF last week was a farmer floating
down with the tide OF the river below
Munday's Landing and shocking out
his corn, still in the shock. which had
been carried on by the rapid rise in
the Kentucky River. He had his John
boat along and was throwing the ears
INTO II a. fast a. shucksd.