The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1918-02-26
DoINGs THE COUNTRY OVER

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Ford cars have been advanced 500
on the car.
Fifteen people were killed and 2t
injured in wreck on the Southern
Railway near Columbia, s. c.
J. T. Quinby, an ex-Confederate
soldier and a prominent citizen OF
Spencer county, is dead at Taylor
vile.
Mrs. Minerva Jane Pulliam, mo-
Their Of former Commissioner Keel
ing G. Pulliam, of Lexington, is
dead.
Standard Oil interests have bought
a track of 55 acres of land in Lee
county for $4,000 and will drill for
oil at once.
One American was killed and
three wounded in an attack by Mex
lean bandits on an oil boat at Tam
pico Wednesday.
An amendment to the Administra-
ton Railroad Bill empowering the
President to take over all short lines
competing with trunk roads was pass
ed by the House.
Frank Beadler was ambushed at
midnight at Clay, KY, by unknown
men at Mine No. 7, of West Ken
lucky Coal Company. Beadler was
shot nine times with a pistol and died
before aid could reach him.
Emma Goldman and Alexander
Berkman, the Anarchists now in pris-
on for conspiracy to interfere with
the draft, co-operated with German
spies in foreign countries, according
to letters made public by the Depart
ment of Justice.
The Red Cross liner Florizel, from
st. Johns for Halifax and New York,
with 140 persons aboard, including
seventy-eight passengers, was wreck
ed twenty miles north of Cape Race
during binding storm. Some 60 of
the passengers and crew were saved.
Five American aviators in the
United States and France fell to their
death Saturday. Three of the air.
men were killed at Park Field, near
Memphis, one at the Evermore Field,
Fl. Worth, and the fifth was shot
down in combat over the lines in
France.
The scope of control by the FEEDER
al Reserve Boards Capital Issues
Committee of municipal bond issues
was greatly increased by the reduc-
ton from $25O,OOO to 100000 as
the minimum size of municipal issues
over which the committee will extend
its influence.
Increasing demands for raw ma
terials caused an increase of $780,
100000 in the imports of this coun-
try for the first seven months of the
fiscal year. Restriction of exports not
contributing directly to the prosecu-
ton of the war caused a $1S6,000,-
600 decrease in exports.
That the administrator of the es-
tate of Mrs. Mary Lily Flagler Bing-
ham will contest the operation of the
Kentucky Inheritance Tax Law was
indicated in a report submitted by L.
w. Bolts, vice president of the Fidel-
ity & Columbia Trust Company. The
valuation of the vast estate was plac-
ed at $65,322, OO4.19.
Four National Army soldiers are
held in the guardhouse at Camp
Lewis, Washington, on a charge of
treason. The men, it is charged, plot
ted to kill their officers the first time
they got into action in Europe and
deliver the American force to the
German army. Authorities at Camp
Lewis are awaiting presidential
warrant from Washington for the in
ternment of the men as alien enc
mics. The Judge Advocate General
announced that all charges of trea-
son would be tried by a court-mar-
tial.
Meatless days in the United States
have saved 140,0O0,O00 pounds of
beef in four months, the food admin
istration announces. In this period
165,000,000 pounds of beef were ex-
ported to the allies, together with
pounds of pork prod
ucts. The announcement concludes
eff the many people who have assist
ed in the accumulation of exportable
stocks of meat products could receive
the expressions of gratitude with
which these shipments are now being
received in Europe they would feel
amply rewarded for the sacrifice"
Appeals were made to the Railway
Wage Board not to forget the thou