The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1916-10-13

four others probably MORALLY wound
ed during a general battle following
dispute In school trustees election
at the Beech Grove precinct in Breath
lit County. Alfred Keen was killed.
and the following we're wounded: Ike
Short, Ledford Johnson, Anderson Spi-
Ger and John Anderson, Jr
| The indictments in every criminal
case docketed for the October term
Of the Cumberland County Circuit
| Court, ~ in number, were stolen from
the Court House. The theft was lat
er discovered More than half the
indictments had been returned against
alleged yiolators Of the local option
| laws.
Since the death OF Director Joseph
H. Kastle, rr A. M. Peter has taken
charge of he Kentucky Experiment
Station at Lexington. having been
commissioned acting director at
meeting of the Board OF Control He
Is the senior member OF the station
staff and his appointment follows the
usual precedent
The Court of Appeals held, in the
case of the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad Company against the COM
monwealth, appeal from the Kenton
| Circuit Court, that the company must
provide separate coaches for colored
and white passengers on the trans
fer train which runs from Latonia to
Cincinnati. The railroad was fined
$500
Kentucky's race tracks, saloons.
breweries and distilleries will be
made to yield large revenues to the
state by the provisions of the new
tax bill now being prepared by the
State Tax Commission, to be pre-
scented soon at special session Of the
Kentucky Legislature, which is ex-
pected to be called by Governor STAN
ley.
State Auditor Greene announces the
amounts on hand in the various fupds
of the state government as follows:
Balance in sinking fund, $4,69S.48:
State University fund, $2,642.95;
school fund, $47S,548.26; general ex-
pense fund, $55S,39119; balance in
| treasury, pl,Oft,LoO.oo. 4 hC Out-
standing warrants amounts to $4,304,-
1892. as against $4,116,911.57 for
last month.
The child labor law is to be In
voked to punish parents who are not
sending their children to school. This
announcement was made by Commits
sioner OF Agriculture Cohen, who is
also the Commissioner Of Labor, aft
er conference which he had with
Mrs. Charles Hamilton Musgrove, of
Louisville, State Labor Inspector, and
Assistant Attorney General Charles
Morris
Fire destroyed building in New
port containing the drying ovens at
the plant OF the National Colortype
Company In the ovens were hun
dreds OF Kentucky automobile tags
in the process of baking. The firm re-
Gently secured the contract from the
State of Kentucky for furnishing the
1917 tags. They have arranged to car
ry out the contract with only short
delay. ~
CHASING presidential electors as
state officers, Attorney General M. N.
Logan has held that it would be nee
essary, under the states new corrupt
practices act, that they file statements
of the expense incurred in the CAM
paign. Others who must file such
statements with Secretary of State
Lewis are members of the Democratic
and Republican State Campaign Com
mittees. sf,.
The Louisville & Nashville Railroad
has just experienced the most prosper
our year in its history. according to
the annual report of President Milton
II. Smith. The company earned near
ly 20 per cent on its s72,000,0O0 Of
stock and reduced its bonded indebted
ness $2,5O0,O00. A corresponding In
crease In the surplus was effected.
Gross revenues from operations were
greater than ever before, being $780,
317,993.
Declaring that Jefferson Davis was
the most illustrious man that Chris
tian County has produced. and that
1, his place. in history makes him i'm.
+ mortal Gen. Bennett H. Young, OF
Louisville, has written to County
Judge Walter Knight urging that the
Fiscal Court, by formal action, name
the road from Hopkinsville to Fair
view where the President of the Con-
federacy was born, THE Jefferson Da-
Wis Highway"
The completion Of Lock No. IA in
the Kentucky River, at Heidelburg.
the last Of series Of locks built by
the United States Government, will
be made the occasion for an indus
trial excursion early next spring. to
be conducted by the Frankfort Cham
Der Of Commerce. Delegates from
each of the 20 counties bordering on
the Kentucky River will be named to
| participate in the celebration. The
President will be invited
A meeting of the Mississippi Val
ley Conference on tuberculosis was
held in Louisville with several hun
dred delegates in attendance. Cover
nor Stanley welcomed the visitors.
The primary object of the conference
| was to bring about a closer relation