The interior journal., 1917-06-26
DoINGs THE COUNTRY OVER

ed for the summer.
| Beaumont, Tex, is to have a ship
building plant to cost $2,O00,000.
The marine corps needs 1852 mer
to make up its full authorized
strength of $4,000.
Charles Duncan, prominent
young man of Central City, was
drowned while swimming in Green
river.
Paid admission fees to the 10000
film theaters throughout the United
States in 1914 are said to have been
1919, 100000.
Subscriptions to the Liberty Loan
have surpassed the highest estimate
of the Treausry officials and exceed
$4,000, 100000.
All Kentucky guardsmen are ex-
| pected to be assembled at Camp
Stanley, Lexington, in near future,
a Quartermaster having been select
ed for the camp.
More than 1000 persons were kill
| ed or injuded or are missing as a re-
suit of an explosion of munitions at
Bloeweg, Austria.
T. P. O'Connor and Richard Haz-
Teton, Nationalist members of the
House of Commons, have arrived in
America to explain the issues of the
Irish situation.
In a fight between guards and
miners at Clay, in the Southwestern
portion of the State, one man is
dead, another fatally wounded and
two are slightly injured.
In the less than three months since
war was declared fully 100000
Americans have volunteered for SER
vices with the various fighting
branches of the United States.
Elihu Root and members of the
American commission won the sup
port of the Moscow governing
boards, which are said to have turn
ed deaf ears to all previous foreign
appeals.
Forty-five persons were fined ST.
800 in the Fayette circuit court ir.
one day on the charge of conducting
disorderly houses, permitting gamb-
ling on their premises by means of
handbooks, slot machines, cards or
other devices.
Much alarm is felt in the vicinity
of Sergent, in Letcher county, over
the disappearance, about ten days
ago, of Millard Collins, 20 years old.
II. It
play is feared.
Increase of the commutation price
of the navy ration from 80 to 40
cents was asked of Congress by Sec
retary Daniels. He pointed out that
the increased cost of living has made
the limit of 30 cents day existing
for years inadequate
Alfredo Cocchi, a prisoner at Bo-
logna, Italy, abandoned his pretense
of innocence and confessed that he
murdered Ruth Cruger, high school
girl, in his bicycle repair shop in
New York. He admitted that an as
sault preceded the crime.
Mrs. Walter Schade, wife of mo-
tor company president, was instantly
killed and her husband and Ray
mond Conde, insurance expert, were
injured when their automobile leap
ed a bridge wall three miles from
Louisville on the Bardstown road.
Mai. Gen. Goethals, manager of
the Emergency Fleet Corporation,
will be authorized by President Will
son to commander Immediately all
shipping now building, speed up its
construction and spend the $780,
100000 appropriated by Congress
for shipbuilding.
Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart, chair
man of the Kentucky Illiteracy Com
mission, is taking the necessary
steps to teach the thousands of Ken
tuckians who may be drafted soon
and who are unable to read and write
in order that they may communicate
with relatives and friends while at
the front.
Silas Mason, of Lexington, has of
fered his great public works plant
near Newport News. Va, to the Gov
ernment for use in France. The plant
is estimated to be worth nearly half
a million dollars and consists of
road making and general contracting
works. He has also offered his per-
sonal services and to send his force
of workmen and engineers to France.
Liberty Loan subscriptions total
ed $3.035, ,226,850, an oversubscrip-
ton of nearly 81 per cent. The final
tabulation was officially announced
Saturday night, showing that more
than 100000 persons bought
bonds. Ninety-three per cent. Of the
subscriptions, or those of 3,3G0.p00
persons, were for sums varying from
$50 to 100000, while twenty-one
subscribers applied for allotments of
$5.000,000 each or more.
Prohibition regulations of sweep
ing character We're written into the
Administration Food Control liill
by the House. After several hours of
parliamentary sparring, ,IGring
which the prohibitory proposals We're
thrown out repeatedly on points of
order, the prohibition element got
the upper hand and forced adoption
Of amendment which forbid the use
of any foodstuff during the war of
making intoxicants and would give
the President authority to take over
il his discretion all stocks of distill-
ed liquors. The bill was passed, 365
to 5.