The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1917-06-19
DoINcs THE COUNTRY OVER

Judson C. Clements, of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, is dead
at Washington.
Belgium's official mission, headed
by Baron Moncheur, former Minister
to the United States has arrived.
A mob of 1000 men and women
lynched negro in Oklahoma after a
farmers wife identified him as her
assailant.
Henry county, by a small majority,
voted an extra levy Of 20 cents on
the 500 each year for ten years for
road purposes.
Col. Ion B. Nall, for wears editor
of the Farmers Home Journal, is
dead at the home Of his son.in-law at
johnson City, Tenn.
The Rt. Rev. James A. McFaul,
bishop of the Roman Catholic do
cese of Trenton for nearly a quarter
of century, is dead.
Judge G. s. Num-, of Marion coun-
peals, is a candidate for State Sena-
tor in the Fourth district.
Representative A. B. Rouse was
appointed first assistant whip of the
Democratic side of the House Of Rep
resentatives by Speaker Clark
Discovery of the body of 18-year-
old Ruth Cruger, the missing New
York High School student who had
been murdered and then buried in
the cellar of bicycle dealers shop,
cleared mystery which had baff1ed
the police since February.
Exactly forty-two years to the day
after former Representative Joe C.
S. Blackburn secured his appoint
ment to the Naval Academy, the
Senate confirmed Hugh Rodman, a
native of Frankfort as a Rear Admit
raj in the navy.
Miss Honora May O'Brien, aged
90, won her suit for suit for breach
of promise from John B. Manning,
aged IS, and retired capitalist. The
verdict carried with it $225,0OO in
damages. The trial attracted the at
tention of many New York City peo-
pie.
The Kentucky Wagon Works of
Louisville, has closed a contract with
Capt. John p. Fletcher, of the Unit
ed States Army Quartermaster's De-
partment. for assembling all the mo-
tor ambulaLces for the United States
Army before sending them to their
destinations.
The issue of Liberty Loan bonds
will be limited to $4,000, 100000,
Secretary McAdoo announces. Hun
dreds of the larger subscription will
be pared down until the total reaches
the amount originally allotted. The
overscription may go as high as
5000, 100000.
A new tax of PEI cent. on the
net profits of all newspaper and mag
azine publishers was written into /,
the war tax bill by the Senate FL /
nance Committee in lieu of the 2 per |
cent. advertising tax previously |
agreed upon and of the second-class !
mail rate increases proposed in the
House Bill.
Steel ship builders called to Wash
ington by the Shipping Board and
Maj. Gen. Goethals. chairman Of the
Fleet CORPORATION. were
told that the Government would COM
mandeer Immediately all shipbuildine'
contracts. There is no present inten-
ton, they were told, to commander
the yards themselves.
Congress- delay in passing the Ad-
food bills drew from
President Wilson an order directing
Herbert G. Hoover to proceed i'm
lemiatelv with organization of the
new food administration in so far as
t contemplates food conservation and
of waste through the aid
If volunteer forces.
A local Railway Committee on Ma
.ional Defense. subcommittee of
he American Railway Associations
Special Committee on National De-
'ense, was organized in Louisville
With j. C. Loomis, of the Louisville
Demurrage Bureau, as chairman. The
purpose of the organization is to
work out plans for the best possible
shipping efficiency with a view to ia
'ilitating the movement of freight
If all sorts.