The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1918-02-19
DoINcs THE COUNTRY OVER

/ DS HE NOONlNI WEN
Porter Eubank, who shot and kill
ed Henry M. Ringo at Mt. Sterling
was sentenced to ten years in prison
President Wilson is prepared Il
intervene in the shipyards strike
though what action is contemplated
is not made known.
The Senate on Saturday confirmed
the appointment of Sara w. Sims a.
postmaster of Springfield and Sam F
King as postmaster of Winchester.
| Vernon Castle, the greatest dancer
of the age, was killed in an aero.
| plane collision near Fort Worth, Tex
as. His real name is Vernon Blythe.
Indiana's statewide prohibition
law has been declared unconstitu-
tional and void by Judge f. M. Hos.
letter, of the Vanderburg county
Supreme Court.
Stewart r. Fischer. Louisville
cripple, fired three shots through the
BODY of his wife, killing her instant.
lv. He told the police he was tired OF
allowing his wife to beat him.
Women section hands employed by
the Lehigh Valley railroad on the
Shenandoah Lost Creek branch, are
on a strike. They receive $3.50 for q
nine-hour day, and they are striking
for SO.
Bolo Pasha, who was convinced by
a court-martial of treason and sen.
fenced to death, appealed from the
verdict to the Court of Cessation
He said he chad thousand grounds
for appeal"
While trying to save her two
small children from cremation in hel
burning home at Dorchester, Letchei
county, Mrs. Emma Bledsoe, &C
years old, received burns which caus.
ed her death.
New England can manufacture nc
blankets or overcoats for the army
and navy unless coal is rushed to the
factories. A number of industries
have been forced to shut down owing
to slack of fuel.
Over 1900 Gypsies, gathered al
Berkeley, Cal, swore allegiance to
President Wilson. They had congre-
gated there to select King to sue
coed Alexander, but the factions
split, agreeing only on their fealty
to the President.
The United States Employment
Service will rely upon each locality
so far as possible to supply the labor
needed for producing the nations
food crops this summer If others are
required they will be obtained from
the surplus workers in industrial CEN
tiers.
Needing the protests of neutral
countries, an amendment of the draft
so as to exempt citizens or subjects
of those countries who have declared
their intention to become American
citizens has been drawn by the War
Department and introduced in Con-
gress.
Reduction in the retail prices of
both anthracite and bitumipous coal
IL eapoeted-bv-sfe Fuel Edministfa-
ton as the result of decision an
nounced to eliminate jobbers' COM
missions after next April /. Under
the new regulations retail dealers will
obtain coal at the same prices wheth-
er purchasing directly from the mine
or through middle men.
German soldiers at Grodno and
Kovno have refused to obey the or
der to join the German forces on the
west front. News of TIE mutiny was
received in Petrograd from Moscow,
which saws that the troops have in
tren"hed themselves under the pro-
lection of their own artillery and
have DEBATED detachment of loyal
forces sent to punish them.
Praisinp the results of the heatless
days. Fuel Administrator Garfield. in
an address to the alumni of William
College, announced details of the
causes and results of the closing or
der hitherto unannounced. AS a re-
suit of the closing order. said DR..
Garfield. 480 ships carving more
than 100000 tons of food. fuel,
and other war sunplies,
which had been tied up in Atlantic
rorts. were bunkered and sent to sea
by January 20.
President Wilson has teleuraphed
l.. Hutcheson, general presi-
dent of the Brotherhood of Carpen-
ters and Joiners. that he can see
to be gained by comforting
with him personally about the strike
of shipyard carpenters until he has
accented and acted upon the princi-
pie that in the present circumstance
of the nation no BODY of men has the
the right to strike until every other
method of adjustment has been tried
to the limit. "If you do not act up-
on this principle" said the Presi-
dents message, "you are undoubted-
ly giving aid and comfort to the en-
envy, whatever may be your own pur-
pose"