The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1917-03-06
DoINGs THE COUNTRY OVER

idot WEN.
The $4,000 residence of Shullor
Reams, of Middlesboro, burned. Fir,
originated from the furnace.
The bill to relieve Federal Judge.
when mentally or physically disabled
was defeated in the House of Repre-
sentatives.
The Economy Stock Co., Leban
on dry goods concern, has gone tc
the wall. Henry Srragens was made
assignee.
Five firemen were killed and three
others injured, one of whom may die
when three floors of a building or
fire in Detroit collapsed.
Mrs. Fannie Bryan, an aunt OF
Ben Bryan, out on the Danville pike
is dead at Franklin. Her husband was
well-known Confederate soldier.
Mrs. Wesley Duncan, aged 68, is
dead at Monticello. She was a daugh-
ter of William Bartleson and is
survived by her husband and three
brothers.
Development of coal lands in
Letcher county, Kentucky, will be
aided by the Louisville & Nashville
railroad through extensions and
double tracking.
James Turner, aged II, is dead in
Garrard, after long illness. He is
survived by two sons, John and Joe
Turner, of Lancaster, and Mrs. Joe
pope, of Hyattsvlle.
Participation in spy plot formed
in the United States to aid Germany
is charged in indictments returned
against three men by Federal grand
jury in New York.
The conference report on the Pos
tai Appropriation Bill, embodying
the Reed "bone dry amendment,
was approved by the Senate. 1t now
goes to the President.
Possible extension of naval war
fare to the Pacific was forecast in an
inquiry by Chinese legation official
as to what the United States had
done on the armed ship problem.
The Naval Armor Plant Board
will be in Louisville March Is to hear
arguments of representatives of Lou
isville. New Albany and Jefferson
vile seeking the award of the site.
j. NJ. Craig paid $59S.75 for five
shares of the capital stock of the
Bank of Mt. Vernon sold at public
auction Monday by the administra-
tors of the estate OF the late George
Levisay.
Ten members of the crew of the
coast guard steamer Yamacraw were
drowned in attempting to assist the
American tanker, Louisiana which
grounded on Little Gull shoals, off
Ocean City, Md, Sunday morning.
T. l.. Hornsby, Eminence; j. M.
Elliston, Glencoe; II. NJ. Froman,
Client, and F. R. Blackburn, Stanton,
were named on the State Livestock
Sanitary 0bard by the State Board
of Agriculture in session in Louis
vile.
To pay the Virginia debt iudg-
ment, resolution in the West Vir-
ginia House of Delegates proposes to
create a new State from four coun-
ties, the counties tn pay $1,000 by
bond issue in consideration for sepa-
rate stateship.
Charges that thousands of prison
ers are forced to work close behind
the French line under the fire of.Ger-
MN cannon were made by Lieut..
Gen. Won Stein, Prussian Minister of
War, in the ReichstGg He announced
that reprisals had been taken.
Figures vouched for in London
show that German submarines de-
stroyed 100000 tons of merchant
shipping in February. This figure is
less than half the 100000 tons
which Berlin claimed would result
from unrestricted submarine war
fare.
The Federal Trade Commission
accepted a PROPOSAL by news print
paper manufacturers that it fix q
price for their product, and named
$3.50 a hundred pounds as a reson- /
able charge. Higher prices were set /
for paper in less than ear load lots .
and for sheet paper.
During the last hour of the Sixty !
fourth Congress, President Wilson |
in his room at the Capitol, Signed the ,
following bills introduced by Senator !
James, providing increased pensions !,
for Kentuckians as follows: James p.
Hardin. of New Castle, $40; Berry
y. Smith, of Somerset, $50: w. II.
Rranaman. of Wilde, $50; Jesse
Denny. of Pine Hill, $50; Isaac
Weaver, Plato. $40; William Bru-
mette. of Brodhead. $50; and Elijah
Cox. of Brodhead $40.
The Senate repassed the Naval APP
preparation Bill with an amendment
for S150,000, 200 bond issue strick-
en- out after the House had threaten
cd to block passage of the measure
on the ground that in inserting the
amendment the Senate had usurped
the powers of the House. The bond
issue was for the purpose of carry
ing ost the navy building program.
caders in both branches agreed at
he same time to pass a Joint resolu-
lion carrying the money eliminated {
when the amendment was killed. {
German Foreign Minister thinner
nann's frank admission that Ger I
many did seek to ally J4pan and Mex
co with her to war AGAINST the Unit
,d States, caused little surprise to !
american officials. They said that {
Minister Zmmermann's defense of
he Intrigue on the ground that IL I
MY was intended 10 he carried out I
N the event the United States did
rot remain neutral did not change {
he situation in the SLIGHTEST decree.
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