The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-02-15
NEWS OF The WORLD
FRIDAY.


FRIDAY.
A story of disaster at sea, affecting
the hearts and hopes of Americans. al
though they have been schooled to ex
pect 1t ever since the first contingent o
their fighting men left an Atlantic por
to become brothers. in arms to the En-
tente warriors who are intrenchet
against the German hordes, fortunately
has dwindled in the telling, One humid
red and one lives were lost in the tor.
pedoing of the British troopship Tus.
cania off the Irish coast at dusk Tues.
day evening, according to the latest re
port. She carried 1897 souls, including
2,179 United States army foresters en-
gineers, supply train men. military po-
lice and aero units. Apparently retri-
button at once befell the enemy under
water boat. According TO the testimony
of an American officer a British de-
stroyer dashed toward the evident To-
cation of the attacker and dropped
depth bombs that resulted, in the
phrase of the submarine hunters, in the
enemy being done in"
The Kentucky Senate Appropriations
Committee heard arguments fayoring
the establishment by the State of a
farm colony for feeble minded. An APP
preparation OF $4,000 annually for two
years is asked, which amount speakers
before the committee declared would
really call for $4,000 additional to the
income derived from the present pau
per idiot claim system. The Committee
on immigration and Labor, in the
House Of Representatives. filed ia
vorable report on the Thornton Eight
hour Bill. The Committee on Courts and
Legal Procedure, in the Senate. will to-
day report favorably on a bill to be in
troduced by Senator Nuna to abate
houses of Ill repute and disorderly
houses by Injunction.
Three suits against the Louisville
Gas & Electric company were filed
yesterday by the city. An Injunction is
asked compelling the defendant to ex-
tend its lines so as to penetrate fields
of natural gas more available to supply
its consumers. General Manager Nc
Donald, of the Gas company, agreed
yesterday that the remedy for the gas
shortage was the extension of pipe lines
but said that the application of this
remedy was not possible until after the
war,
Railroad administration officials are !
apprehensive that the sudden thawing
weather will cause floods more disas-
trous to transportation than billiards.
Although the higher temperatures have
brought unexpected relief to the biz ,
card stricken East the coal situation is
still acute and many mines report they
have not been supplied with empty
cars. Labor is more plentiful and load
ing and unloading operations went on
faster throughout most of the country,
The first spy search on board an ar
irving passenger ship in trans-AtIan
tic service was conducted when the
Nieuw Amsterdam, of the Holland
American line, reached her dock Fed
eral authorities in charge declined to
recognize customs and barred zone
passes at the pier and an examination
was made of passengers and baggage
The Food Administration. in de-
NAL of statements that the production
of ammonia is ample to meet all needs.
declared there is a great possibility of !
a serious ammonia shortage and con- j
sequent curtailment of artificial ice !
next summer. To forestall
such shortage, steps are being taken TO {
have large harvest of natural ice.
Figures based on the Interstate Com !
nerce Commissions report of revenues,
expenses and incomes of the nations
'ailroads indicated that in 1917 the
combined railway systems of the Unit /
d States earned s95S.OOO, 900, which is q
rear the amount the Government will q
AVE to pay the roads this year as com l
'ensation under national operation.
Theodore Roosevelt, who was operat- :
d on at Roosevelt hospital, New York,
or assesses in the ear, was reported
asst night as resting easy. His condi-
ion was declared to be serious, but not .
ritical.