The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1918-10-18

Oct 20 because of Spanish influenza
About 400 men are in the corps.
II. NJ. Robertson shot and killed
his father-in-law. William G. Ed
dinger. in Henry county. He gave
himself up TO the authorities, but re
fused TO say why he did the killing.
J. w. Stigall, aged AZ and 9
prominent farmer of Pulaski, wal
found dead from drowning in q
spring on his farm. His head and
shoulders were submerged in the
spring.
Gov. Stanley, in a letter to Mrs.
John G.. South, president of the kcn-
tucky Equal Rights Association,
pledges his cordial support of the
suffrage amendment when elected 20
the United States Senate.
Two negroes were killed, lS po-
| fcemen were stabbed or cut. many
| civilians received minor injuries M d
several soldiers and sailors were IN
jured in a riot which resulted from
fight between a white man and =
negro in Brooklyn.
T. y. Hunt, retired merchant of
Dumore, was instantly killed, three
other persons were seriously injured
and two received slight injuries when
an automobile in which they were
riding overturned on the Dixie High
way near West Point.
The Maylield Messenger suspend
ed publication several days for lack
Of mechanical help to publish A
shortage Of printers, augmented by
the spread Of FLU" completely
barred the path, and Editor Lemon
u-rs forced to Sugppnd
Mr.. Thomas f. Baldwin. Sr., father
Of Mrs W. II. Shanks, Of this city, has
bought Of Robert f.. McCreary the
handsome McCreary home in Rich
mond Mr. Baldwin and family were
occupying the home az the time of
Senator McCreary's death.
Infant mortality in Petrograd has
increased TO 80 per cent, and the sit
nation is daily growing worse with
the probability that during the COM
inc winter the juvenile population
will be wiped out unless food Is pro.
vided from foreign countries.
President Wilson walked in the
gtCat Liberty Day parade in New
York. He went the whole route.
| Some excitement was occasioned
when a man rushed from the crowd
and grasped the Presidents hand. He
was arrested and found to have
meant no harm.
Gov. Wager estimates that $50
lives we're lost in the earthquake in
Porto Rico Friday. Practically every
town in the island reported damage
20 property and scattering fatalities.
and at Anuadilla q tidal wave killed
many There were also reports Of
damage in Santo Domingo.
The Court Of Appeals has affirmed
he decision Of the Pockcastle circuit
court in the case Of Mrs Maggie Null
Inns against the l.. & N. who was
Given judgment for $4,000 for the
death Of her husband. Frank Mullins,
who was killed bv a train near Null
Inns Station about two years ago.
If 'he United States agrees to Ger
manv's plan for an armistice the
war is lost, according to senator
Lodge. who gave his opinion in the
form Of an interview. Germany, by
an armistice. he said, would have a
chance 10 refresh her armies and plan
new war OF conquest. Now that
we are on the eve Of victory, he de-
clared. we should impose our own
terms.
A Versailles dispatch says: Hun
dreds Of guests. invited from Wood
ford county and throughout Central
Kentucky. will assemble on the lawn
of the Edwards residence, near Yer
sailles, "Wednesday night, for the we'd
ding Of Miss Florence Cotton Ed
wards and Frank Bohannon, a young
farmer. Prevented from holding the
ceremony in the Christian church as
Miss Edwards had planned, because
of the influenza epidemic. the chan
eel, instead will be the front porch
Of the home. and the guests will oc-
cupy seats arranged on the lawn.
More than 500 persons are dead
or missing and at least 12.OO0 have
been made homeless by five fearful
forest fires which have spread across
Northern Wisconsin and Northern
Minnesota during the past 80 hours.
The towns Of Cloquet, Brookston,
Brevator, Corona, Adolph, Thomp-
son, Arnold, Moose Lake and Wright
have been wiped out, according to
refugees. Scores of hamlets and hun
dreds of settlers homes have been de-
stroyed The property and timber
loss, which will total many millions.
will surpass that claimed by any Of
the historic fires which have swept
this region.