The bee., 1916-09-05
KENTUCKY NEWS
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Lexington has marked by a tablet,
the site Of blockhouse built there
in 1879.
The three regiments Of the Ken
lucky National Guard have been trans.
ferred to the Mexican border for pa
troll duty.
Geo. Dean was shot and instantly
killed by A. l.. Crabtree at Cotton,
near Harlan. The trouble arose over
a ball game which was in progress.
/ Secretary of War Newton T. Baker
has accepted an invitation to deliver
an address at a Democratic celebra.
tlon in Louisville, September 29.
With the reconvening of the schools
Commissioner of Agriculture Cohen
plans to rigidly enforce the provisions
Of the child labor law. Mandates Of
the law, he says, must be fulfilled.
George Bingham, who was proprie-
tor Of the Hogwallow Kentuckian, has
started a semi-weekly newspaper at
Mayfeld, his home. 1t is named the
Mayfeld Times.
The first case of infantiie paralysis
reported in Taylor County proved
fatal to the 7-year-old daughter of
John Rogers, who resides near Camp
bellsville
, An organized effort was begun at
Middlesboro to land one of the Gov
ernment armor plate plants for that
city. Full data Of the natural re-
sources of that section will be sub
mitted to the Navy Department.
General Basil Duke, Louisville,
famous Conferedate cavalry leader,
who underwent the amputation Of a
foot in hospital in New York, was
reported as doing as well as could be
expected.
Kentucky women have arranged a
demonstration for Lexington and
Winchester at the opening Of the
Republican and Democratic cam
paigns, September and 8, respec-
lively.
w. L. Petty, president of the Lex
ington Bonded Storage Warehouse
Company, has authorized the construc-
tion of a brick warehouse in LeXing-
ton with a capacity for 5000 hogs
| heads of tobacco.
| Ambassador Gerard has notified the
state department in Washington that
Germany has issued an order abso-
lutely prohibiting the importation Of
| tobacco. This cuts off a very profta-
BILE market for the export type of Ken
lucky, Tennessee and Virginia.
Secretary H. NJ. Taylor Of the
Morgan's Men Association, has issued
a call for the annual reunion of the
association to be held at Olympian
Springs, September 6, 7 and 8, instead
of September u, 13 and IA, as pre-
viously announced.
Work on the extension of the More
head G. Norfolk railroad from Red
wine to Lenox, KY, has been resumed,
and the contractors say the road will
be completed by December 1st. This
road will open the largest coal and
timber fields in Eastern Kentucky.
While on his way to Lexington to
secure a job, John Galligan, 16 years
old, of Cincinnati, fell from the bump
ers of a train on which he was steal
ing a ride and was badly mangled.
One leg was cut off near the hip and
the foot of the other leg severed.
Nose Wall, who operates a farm on
the border Of Simpson and Logan
counties, is doubtless the largest to-
bacco grower south of Louisville, hav-
ing IT'S acres Of the weed. The to-
bacco is of the broad leaf variety, and
is said to be the finest grown in the
/ two counties in years.
Fred Link, Chief of Police Of Paris,
was arrested by Patrolman George
Judy, charged with violation of a city
ordinance prohibiting the parking of
automobile on Main street. He was
fined So and costs, which was suspend
ed upon the Chief promising to be
more careful in the future.
Kentucky's right to jurisdiction over
the waters of the Ohio river between
this state and Indiana is upheld in a
decision handed down in Louisville by
Judge William II. Field. Judge Field
held valid an act of the recent general
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seine in the waters of the Ohio.
Harry G. Dickerson, Assistant Post
master at Glasgow, has been arrested
by Federal officers, charging him with
having taken $1,000 in currency from
the mails. 1t is said that he con
fessed. His arrest caused a sensation
because Of his standing in the COM
munity, being identified with church
work.
That the Kentucky School for the
Blind is in a position to teach the
adult blind a trade by which they can
earn a living, was brought home to
Frankfort people when John Grimes,
a young man Of that city, returned
home after a two weeks stay at the
home, able TO make brooms, mops and
cane chairs.
Mrs. Rhoda Lawson, 81 years old,
Is a pupil at a moonlight school organ
ized at Richardson school, near Eliz-
abethtown, by G. l.. Crume, the moon.
light school supervisor Mrs. Lawson
has attended the school before. Last
wear Richardson school was awarded