The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-04-26


are asking too much
Says Barkus: .Dem Eyetalians
Keep sayin' dey gwine to leave Paris
Den why don't Dago?"
We will send you the Kentuckian
Ind any daily paper in Louisville
both one year for $500.
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,'7 Because rich relation cut him
off with 81 in his will, Robert Merck
ie, Cincinnati tailor, hanged him
self
The President has decided to stay
IN France another month and the
George Washington will return with
a.lOad Of soldiers.
The Rhode Island legislature has
passed a bill declaring that beer con-
taining less than A per cent Of alco-
boAWill not intoxicate.
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Count Won Bernstoff, former am
bassador to this country, will pro-
pose a league of nations of his own
when he gets to Versailles as dele
gate from Germany. One Hun at
least has not lost his nerve.
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The Internal Revenue Bureau an
nounces that al lave applicable to
monshiners will be applied to those
who make booze or beer in their own
homes. There are several penalties
carrying heavy fines and imprison-
ment
Those who have passed through
the eras of tallow candles, coal oil,
gas and electric lights viii be inter
ested to know the income from cleo
tric lights in the United States in
1917: was half billion dollars from
6,541 establishments.
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Postmaster General Burleson has
ordered the telegraph companies to
handle press messages criticising
him, even though they may be libel
Gus. The. order was brought about
from the fact that messages filed by
the New York World were refused on
the ground that they were libelous.
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Mrs. Frank P. O'Hare, of St. Louis,
Wit of one man and mother of four
children, who left her home and went
to Socialist meeting in Bismarck,
s. D., a town with a German name,
and made disloyal speech, has had
her sentence of FIVE years in the u
S. Penitentiary affirmed by the Su-
preme Court.
Italv's behavior in the last days of
the peace conference, bids fair to de-
stroy much Of the good opinion her
soldiers in the field won for cour-
Try that needs such influential friends
as TIE nations that have recognized
herfzs one of the Council Of four"
Italv only Injuries herself by trying
to make her part of the world strug-
gle a mere war of conquest.
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The new federal tax application to
the child labor law went into effect
yesterday. 1t provides that any per-
son or company working in quarry
OF mine a child under 16 or in any
factory or workshop child under IA
years Of age shall be taxed ten per
cent of his or its income for the year.
The law does not appear pclude
messengers, carrier or delivery boys
or children who work on farms. but
is a serious handicap that should be
kept in mind by thoSs employing
children in any capacit
$3.50
President Wilson has put Premier
Scnnino of Italy in hole by de-
handing vote of the Italian people
on hte question of Sonnino's bolt
from the peace conference and plan
for a separate peace with Germany
and a war with o-Slavia over the
seaport of Fiume. President Wilson
in reply to Sonnino's claim that
the population of Fiume was Italian
said New York had larger Italian
population than any city in Italy. but
he could not favor its being turned
Ber to Italy. The President believes
Tie Italian people will upset Sonnino
and demand peace in spite of him.
Carranza seems to be ruling Mex
leo with the iron hand of Diaz, the
last President Of Mexico who main
tanned semblance of order. His
policy was to execute rebels without
: mercy. Carranza's soldiers recently
captured and killed Zapata, the
chronic trouble-breeder of Moreles
. This week two Generals who attempt
,ed to start rebellion we're slain. One