The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1917-05-29
DoINcs THE COUNTRY OVER


John H. Payne, aged 80 and {
prominent citizen of Lexington, i!
dead.
Sara Elliott, aged Is, shot herself
to death while brooding over the
death Of her brother.
John ID. Rockefeller has subscrib.
ed another five million dollars to the
Liberty Loan. This makes fifteen
million worth of the bonds taken by
him.
An Greensboro mill has closed q
contract for eight carloads of corn
meal for the Allies for immediate
shipment. The consideration was
$4,000.
The production of petroleum in
the Kentucky fields has almost reach
ed an average of $4,000 barrels
weekly, the weeks run aggregating
$4,000 barrels.
The age limit for applicants for
enlistment in the regular army has
been raised from II to 35, to Is to
40. These are the ages at which men
will be accepted.
Los Angeles suffered an earth
quake. At Brawley, in Southern Cal
ifornia, the quake rocked school
where exercises were being held so
sharply that several of the children
tainted.
A socialist presided over the House
Monday for the first time in history
when, during calling of roll on a
point of no quorum, Speaker Clark
called Representative London, Of
New York. to the chair.
Ernest Kershaw, six years old, of
GRANVILLE, and Lee Emmert. four, of
Morganfield, died at Henderson
hospital Sunday of tetanus. Both lads
had their feet cut by weeds few
DAYS ago while going barefoot.
Five Akron, o., autOists, three men
and two women, were killed when an
Erie passenger train crashed into
their machine on a grade crossing at
Mantua, o., near Ravenna. Two
Others suffered severe injuries and
one is not expected to live.
After sleeping ninety-six consecu-
tive hours Joseph Ely, 81 years old,
well-known farmer of McCracken
county, died. He was suffering from
measles when the state of coma de-
veloped and physicians were unable
to awaken him.
Fire originating from stroke of
lightning burned to death seven head
of standard bred horses and destroy
ed the stock barn of r. s. Strader,
on the Winchester pike, near LeXlng-
ton, Sunday night. The total loss is
given at $4,000, with $500 insur-
ance.
Appropriations in the Administra-
ton Food Bill were cut SO, 100000
bv the House Saturday. Passage of
the measure is expected early this
week. An amendment was adopted
declaring that men employed on the
food survey are not to be exempt
from the draft.
Indiana has Joined the States which
have filled their quotas in recruiting
for the regular army. With a quota
of 5,4OO Indiana has supplied 5,459
men, making the State the fourth to
complete her part of the work and
the first large quota to be filled. The
other three are Nevada, Oregon and
Utah.
Mountain Park Hotel at Hot
Springs, N. c., has been taken by the
Government to house some OF the
1000 interned Germans, most of
them sailors from the German mer-
chant ships. All who cannot be cared
for there will be taken to Govern
ment lands in Western North Caro- |
lima as soon as quarters can be made
ready. i
City Assessor John Buechel, of
Louisville, will be made expert ad- /
wiser of the Kentucky Tax Commits.
sion, which will be composed of
State Auditor Robert L. Greene. At
torney General M. M. Logan, both of
whom will resign their present posi-
tions, and j. A. Scott, of Pikeville:
Ben Marshall, Collector of Internal
Revenue, has been selected secretary.
Assistant Attorney General Charles
H. Morris will succeed Mr.. Logan.
More than 200 persons have been
killed, a thousand or more injured
and millions of dollars worth OF
property destroyed by tornadoes in
illinois. Indiana. Kentucky, Tennes-
see, Arkansas, Alabama and Kansas.
Nation, ILL.,, was the heaviest suffer-
er. Fifty-four persons are known to
be dead there, a score missing: 300
injured and the property loss being
estimated at $2.000,000. Thirty-eight
are dead at Charleston. Ill. Seven
have been killed in Indiana, six in
Tennessee and more than a score IN
Kentucky. The number of dead in
other States has not been definitely