Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1916-09-22
GENERAL NEWS NOTES

b. week
: Gallatin county sold $50,00'
a road bonds at $1,000 premium Il
: MAYER & Co of Cincinnati.
: State University, Lexington
opened with 9OS students, the
largest attendance in its history
! Roosevelt will probably be
sent into kentucky and Missouri
for speeches IN favor of Hughes
Henry Eden Is years old, was
indicted in Rowan county for the
murder of his father.
+ Germany denies that she has
seized the entire cash in the Bel
gian National Bank.
/ The Farmers and Merchants
Bank, of Catlettsburg, with $50.
1000 capitol, was chartered last
week.
| Mrs. James Price and four
children died in Lawrence county
last week from eating poisoned
cabbage.
E J. Marshall a Grant county
farmer. is reported to have gath
cred beans yard long from his
garden.
Seven states will vote upon pro-
hibition November Z. They are
California, Montana, M ichigan,
Nebraska, South D akota, Idaho,
Missouri,
Harry Garrison, negro, of Ken
ton convicted of criminal assault.
will be electrocuted Nov. 18th,
at Eddyville.
Villa, with Goo followers, at
tackled chihuahua City and was
repulsed with heavy losses. Those
taken captive were executed.
Villa escaped.
The State Bank & Trust Com
pany, of Harrodsburg, has in
creased its capitol stock from SIS,
GOO to $500, 1000.
w. L. Scott, age "a, died sud =.
denly on his farm in Shelby
county last week. He and his
brida had just returned from
their honeymoon spent in Col
orado.
Mrs. Annie E. Howe, only sis
ter of President Wilson, died of
peritOnitis at New London, Conn.
The body will be taken to Col
umbia, S. C, for burial.
Mrs. MOusie Robinson, who
was given from 8 to II years in
the pen for killing her husband,
John Robinson, at Messy Bottom,
Pike county, escaped from the
Pikeville Jail. .
President Wilson will make his
first speech of the campaign at
Shadow Lane Saturday to the
business men of New Jersey. He
will discuss the provisions of the
eight hour railroad law.
Nine shares of Citizens Nation.
al Bank stock, Danville, sold at
public auction there Monday at
$500. Hop Myer was the pur-
chaser and Mrs. Allin, of Ken
lucky Woman's College sold it.
Gen. Basil Duke, famous Con
federate soldier, lawyer, and his
torian, died in New York hos.
pital Saturday morning following
the amputation of his foot sew.
eral days ago. The burial was
at Lexingtons
Attendance -rScords were bro
ken by this years state fair which
closed at Louisville SATURDAY..
night Exactly I48, So7 people
Visited the fair this year, 1881
more than in the previous year.
"Bad Nose" Feltner, who play
ed a big role in the Hargis; Cock
rell feud in Breathitt county. was
shot to death by United States
Deputy Marshall G. A. Sizemore
at HazaId, when he refused to 90
to Jail On a charge of moonshin
ing. -
November will see the compile.
tion of Lock No. ia, the last of
fourteen to be built by the United
States Government to permit
water.line tapping of the rich
Eastern Kentucky coal fields
The Lock is located at Heidle.
burg, Lee county.
j. E. McGlone, circuit clerk of
Carter county, with 9 indi ctments
against him for stealing So, coo by
making out false witness claims
pleaded guilty. gave back the
money and was Immediately par