The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1918-01-01
DoINGs THE COUNTRY OVER

Inc mother OF GOV. James +.
Goodrich, of Indiana, is dead at
Winchester, that State.
Two children of Sherman Wright
were burned to death when his home
at West Pont was destroyed by fire.
The 0,O0O,O00,O00 francs asked
for in the third war loan has been
exceeded, it was announced at Paris.
Three children were burned to
death in a fire that destroyed the
residence of Nose Miller near Pres
tonburg.
Those retail grocers having on
hand as much as $250's worth of
sugar must notify State Food Ad-
ministrator F. M. Sackett of it.
A plea for war time economy to
assist the United States in financing
itself and its allies, was issued last
night by the Federal Reserve Board.
Lawrence Fl. Armour has resigned
as vice-president of Armour & Co.,
Chicago packers, to accept COM
mission as lieutenant in the u. S.
Army.
Every house in Guatemala City has
been rendered uninhabitGble by the
earth shocks that began Christmas
night and are continuing. Loss of
life was slight.
American soldiers in France play
ed Santa Claus to the hundreds of
French orphans in the vicinity of
their respective camps and for day
made the children forget the horrors
of war.
Sixteen persons were killed and
112 were more or less hurt when a
Pittsburgh street car ran away down
mile grade and crushed into tel
egraph pole as the car emerged from
tube.
On and after January /, 1918, the
maximum price for the regulation
16-ounce loaf of bread in Louisville
will be 9 cents instead of 10 cents.
the price previously fixed by the
Food Administration.
Forty-seven officers of the expedi-
tionary forces were recommended
for promotion by Gen. Pershing in a
list made public by the War Depart
ment Among them is Second Lieut..
ed for captaincy of infantry.
The American Government will
take over 200 locomotives construct
ed for Russia, and refit them to the
American gauge track. To meet the
emergency, 100 locomotives for use
in France on American built track
also will be withheld temporarily.
Negotiations for the purchase of a
large part of the Cuban sugar crop,
amounting to an estimate of 3,000,-
900 tons for the use of the United
States and its allies, have been vir-
tually completed by the Information
al Committee and the Cuban Com
mittee.
The earthquake which began De.
cember rs and continued two days,
demolished so per cent. of Gaute.
m4ia City; According ! to Advices re.
ceived from the American Charge
there. Forty deaths have been off,
cially reported and thousands are
homeless.
At an executive session held last
week the Democratic State Central
and Executive Committees decided
to establish permanent State head
quarters in Louisville. State Senator
Seldom R. Glenn, who was elected
secretary. will be in charge. His sal
arv was fixed at $4,000.
The Philadelphia & Reading Rail-
way Company announces that a great
number of passenger trains on the
entire system will be annulled, effec-
tive at once, in order to conserve
fuel. motive power and men and to
facilitate the handling of Govern
ment material and troops.
Eight are known to be dead and
about twenty injured as the result of
a head-on collision between q west
bound and an eastbound Baltimore
& Ohio train mile east of North
Vernon Saturday night. All the dead
were members of the crew. The west
bound train carried several soldiers
n according to reports, but it is not
known if any were among the injur-
ed.
Small packers of New England,
testifying before the Federal Trade
Commission inquiry into the meat in
dustry, declared that they had been
out of business by groups
of the larger operators. They declar-
ed that the big packers even prevent
ed their buying the waste products
for use in rendering business. Even
the cornerstone trade was controlled
it is charged. Witnesses told of being
given the alternative of either enter
ing the combine or being driven out
of business. Two testified who had
defed the trust and managed to live.