The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1917-06-22
The Interior Journal Stanford Kentucky Friday June d. 1911
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l.. & N. officers and employees in
Louisville took Liberty bonds
amounting to s5OO,95O. There were
5,s17 individuals subscriptions.
The University of Kentucky has
bought the Judge Mulligan home in
Lexington for $4,000. 1t is one of
the most valuable pieces of real es-
tate in the city.
| German casualties so far amount
to 4,356,760. During May $4,000
soldiers were killed or died of
wounds, 26,562 were taken prison.
ers, 62,394 were wounded, making a
total of 11O,976.
Representatives Of coal mine
workers in five counties in Western
| Kentucky, at convention held at
jacksonville, adopted a resolution
calling upon the miners to strike
July 8 in the event the operators
have not granted the miners de-
mandS Dy tnat Date.
In his charge to the Fayette coun-
ty grand jury, Circuit Judge Charles
Kerr urged that body to make a
thorough probe into the high cost of
food and coal, and to inquire into
prevalence of ildeness and loafng in
the community with view to find
ing indictments against the guilty.
Another American steamer, the
Standard Oil tank, John d. Arch
bold, has been sunk by an enemy
submarine. 1t is believed that four
members of the crew were lost in
the disaster, which occurred when
the Archbold was two days out from
France bound for the United States.
Charging that Beach Hargis, STAY
er of his father, Judge Hargis, of
Breathitt county, has repeatedly vio-
lated the parole given him by the
Prison Board, of which he is chair
man, Daniel E O'Sullivan has writ
ten letter to the present board rec
ommending that Hargis be returned
to the penitentiary
B. F. Choate, of Graves county,
who maltreated Henry Campbell,
whom he accused of intimacy with
his wife, was given three years in
the pen. Meeting Campbell in lone
ly portion of the county road,
Choate gave him the preference of
death or submitting to an operation.
He chose the latter.
The Glenmore Distilleries Com
rany, of Daviess county, has increas-
ed its grain mash per day from 1867
to 1000 bushels, Notwithstanding the
high price and the threatened prohib-
tory tariff on grain, which is now in
war tariff bill before Congree. Be-
ginning on Friday the company will
mash $500 bushels of grain per day.
Officers and men on all merchant
vessels plying between ports of the
United States and the war zone must
be insured by owners of the ships
for from $1,000 to $4,000 against
death, manning or capture. Regula-
ton governing the operation of the
new seamen's insurance division of
the War Risk Insurance Bureau
were issued by Secretary McAdoo.
Marking the site at Valley Forge,
Pa, of the encampment of Washing
ton and his army during the winter
of 1777-7S, a memorial arch, for
which Congress appropriated $685.
900. was presented to the State by
Champ Clark, Speaker of the House
of Representatives, on behalf of the
Government. More than a hundred
Senators and Congressman attended
the exercises.
Any drink containing alcohol was
defined by the Post-office Depart
ment as Intoxicating liquor within
meaning of the. law forbidding mail
ing of liquor advertisements into dry
territory after July 1. Methyl, wood
and denatured alcohol are excepted,
The department ruled also that the
prohibition against advertisements
applies to liquor for scientific, sacra-
mental, medicinal and mechanical
purposes.
A force of from 10000 to $4,000
workmen will be required in the con-
struction of the sixteen great canton
ments for the new national army,
according to figures furnished by the
War Department. Some idea of the
magnitude of the projects may be
gained from the estimates, which
show that 1914 miles of insulated
wire, 100000 kegs of nails, $4,000
barrels of cement and 10000 show
er bath heads are to be used.