The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1917-05-22
DOINCs THE COUNTRY OVER

Irvine is to have new depot at
the cost of $4,000.
Logan CaldwelPs large stock barn
in Boyle county, was destroyed by
| fire.
Mayor John G. Harris, of Bloom
nigton. Ind, has been indicted for
malfeasance of office.
| Representative Daniel W. Com
stock, of Indiana, is dead of pncu-
monia in Washington.
It is reported that the Standard
| Oil Co. has bought the holdings Of
the Wood Oil Co. and Of Root. Hupp
d Dupp in Estill county for 81 ,000,-
600.
Eve robbers held up and robbed a
paymaster of $4,000 on Racine av-
enue, Chicago, after shooting the de-
tective guarding the man with the
money
On his way from church to his
home Lafayette Kitchen, a farmer,
was shot to death near Graysop, late
Saturday night. Eight men are under
arrest, charged with the crime
Sam Corum, a wealthy farmer. Of
Slaughtors, lost his life, and Floyd
Gentry, his brother-in-law, was sew
erly injured when their automobile
w9s overturned near jacksonville
early Sunday.
Strong opposition on the part Of
Kentucky Democrats has developed
against the appointment Of Percy
Haly. Of Frankfort, as Collector of
the Seventh Internal Revenue district
to succeed Men Marshall. Haly is the
choice of Senator j. c. w. Beckham.
Mrs. Belva Lockwood, The first
woman admitted to practice before
the Supreme Court, a pioneer in the
woman suffrage movement and the
only woman who ever was a candl-
date for President of the United
States, died last week after long
/ illness, at the age of Sc years.
Lawrence Dempsey, negro. was
lynched at Fulton, early Sunday
morning The negro was taken from
the city Jail, where he was held on
a charge of severly cutting Clarence
Dublin, an Illinois Central Waterman
who is in a serious condition in a
hospital. Dempsey was hanged in the
rear of the Jail.
Senator Beckham will name the
Seventh district collector to succeed
Dcll Mcll Shall, NHOSt lClHi mas C@N-
pired, Secretary McAdoo announced
last week. Beckham has made a de-
termincd fight against MarshalPs re-
appointment, while the Frankfort
man had the support of Senator
James and Representative Cantrill.
Four men were killed and eleven
/ injured, several of them probably ia
tally. when a turbine engine eXplod-
ed at the Bessemer plant of the Re-
pupblic Iron & Steel Company. Off
GERS. who have started an investiga-
ton, say they are unable to assign
a reason for the accident. A major
! ity of the men killed were American
steel workers.
/ Col Roosevelt has announced that
| all men who had volunteered to
serve with him under the American
/ flag in France had been absolved
! from all further connection with the
movement, and that the only course
open to them now is to enter the mil
itary service in some other way if
they are able to do so. and if not to
serve the country in civil life.
Lexington suffered the most de-
structive confagation in its history
| Monday morning, when fire original
ting about 2 o'clock in the livery
stable of Porter & Jackson corner
Limestone and Church swept south
ward and westward, DESTROYING, or
damaging most of the BUILDINGS in
the business block bounded by Lime
stone. Short, Upper and Church
streets. Sparing the McCelland office
building, the Farrell building just to
the east and few structures firing
ing the east side of North, Upper
street, the fire leaped across Church
street and devoured several build
ings on the north side of that thor
oughfare and, as if to give a spe~ta-
cular finish to its destructive work,
scattered sparks which caught the
lofty tower of the Second Presybte-
ran church on Market street, over a
block away, leaving that splendid edi-
flee a blackened ruin. The loss on
buildings. stocks and fixtures is vari-
ously estimated at from 100000 to