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THE WINCHESTER NEWS
AST EDITION
VOilUE 7; Ne. 84.
WINCHESTER, KENTUCKY, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1912.
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FARM
TO BE SOLD
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Ccnsists of 243 Acres, Lying Near
Cane Ridge, In Bourbon County.
Nicely Improved.
In an advertisement 511 another
page, Mr. David .Pi-cwift announces
the sale on February o of the farm
of -Mrs. L. IL Prcwitt, consisting
of 243, acres, lying nearCane Ridge,
Bourbon county, Ky. Possesion
trill be given March 1.
This farm is mostly in grass, lias
on it a large colonial dwelling house,
a ten-acre tobacco barn, a large
stock bam, a tenant house and all
necessary outbuildings, all in good
repair, is well fenced, and all the;met ,lis (lcath ;nst.intlj.
boundaries well supplied with water.
See ad. for terms.
AFTER-SCHOOL CLUB
nUnillLLU IlLllL'cral services will.be held at St.
Misses Trend and McManus Repre
sent National Organization Fr
School Children in This City.
The After School Club of Ameri
ca, an, organization of able edu
cators and trained experts in child
culture, is being represented in
Winchester by the Misses Trend and
McManus'.
The club has grown from a small
dub for children started about three
years ago, a great national, edu
cational "movement, having back of
it some of the ablest men and wo
men of America.
It is to be hoped thut the parents
of Hie community will avail them
selves of the advantages of the
Club.
PATRICK J. KEARNS
KILLED ON RAILROAD
Was Formerly Popular Resident of
Winchester. Mother Was Killed
In Similar Manner Years Ago.
News of the tragic death of Mr.
PatricIwJ. Kearns, formerly of this
city, who was killed on the railroad,
has reached here.
.Mr. Kearns lived with his family
in "Winchester about fifteen years
years ago. He was popular with ev
erybody, and the news of his death
is heard with great regret.
His mother, Mrs. Mary Kearns,
was struck by a. train and killed
while the family lived in Winchester.
Shortly afterwards, a brother.
Will Kearns, died in the ulTice of
Dr. Browne and Son a moment af
ter having been carried there from
the street where he had alien.
A dispatch from Lexington says:
Lexington, Ky., Jan. 27. A tel
egram was received -here Friday
morning from Morehead, Ky., an
nouncing that Mr. Patrick J.
Kearns, a well-known railroad con
ductor of this city, residing with his
family at 321 Walnut street, but
who for tie past four years had
"been roadmuster for the Morehead
& North Fork railroad, bad (been
killed near that place.
The telegram, which came to his
irife, Mrs. Ellen Kearns, gave no in
formation as to the circumstances
of his death.
Mr. Kearns, who was about sixty
years old, bad for several years
been engaged in construction work
011 this new line of railroad, which
connects with the C. & O. at More
bead, arid extends into the Eastern
-Kentucky mountains in the direction
of West Liberty. He was ei cousin
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. of .Mr James V. Kearns, one of the
proprietors of the Criterion Cafe in
tins city, and, was , well-known in
Lexington, where lie has lived for a
number of yea.
Besides his wife, he is survived by
eight children, seven daughters and
one son.
The body was brought to Lexing
tcn for burial.
The Uetails of ' the Jaccident in
which Mr. Kearns met his death,
were told by a man who accompa
nied the ibody Jiere. 'Mr. Kearns,
who had made his- headquarters at
Wiigley, had just left the station at
that place, after having read a
newspaper, as was his early morn
ing custom,- and had slaiteil down
the railroad tracks to where a
squad of men were atjvork on the
road. Before he had proceeded
but a few feet from the station
platform, the switch engine backed
down upon him, giving no warning
of its approach, as the bell was si
lent and the exhaust of the engine
cut off, and the unfortunate mat
The engine struck him in the back
and knocked his body across the
rails in such a manner that the
wheels of the engine passed over the
body at the waist, crushed the head
Peter's Catolic chucrh Tuesday
morninj; at 1 o'clock and the bodv
will' be taken to Paris for burial.
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PUPILS FOR EXAMINATION
Showing Sp?aks Well For Thei:
Ability as Teachers, And The
Work Which They Have Accom
plished. In the examination of county
graduates, which closed Saturday
afternoon, the following teacher.
furnished pupils: ,
Miss Eddie Osborne, three.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hubbaid, three.
Mrs. Fannie Tanner, one.
Miss Nancy Holly, eight.
Miss Nancy Swopc, fonr.
Miss Lcla Haggard, one.
Miss Nannie L. Owens, one.
Miss Rosa L. Jones, one.
Miss Fannie Clark, one.
Miss Rosa Coachman, four.
Miss Carrie L. Lyon, one.
Carrie B. Lain, colored, one.
This s-peaks well of their ability
a teachers, alo of the work .which
they have accomplished. It should
be the aim of every teacher 'each
year to prepare as many pupils as
possible for this examination.
It is hoped that those teachers
who did not furnish pupils this
month will have them ready for the
May examination.
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AT LYRIC THEATRE
Mr. William WatsOn, of Cincinnati,
Will Render Latest Songs And
Ballads in This City.
The management of the Lyric
Theatre closed a deal with Mr. Wil
liam Watson, of Cincinani, who
will render popular songs and bal
lads at tJie theatre both afternoon
and night. 'Mr. Watson comes to
Winchester highly recommended as
a singer and gentleman.
Mr. Watson's engagement will
start with the Monday matinee.
CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH
There will be regular sen-ices at
the Central Baptist church Sunday
morning and evening at the usual
hours. Rev. David Bryan, of
Louisville, will preach.
Rev. Mr. Bryan is earnest and
eloquent, and the public is cordially
invited io hear him. .
Mr. J. C. Bryan, of North Middle
town, who has been in Georgia for
the Iat four weeks, spent Friday
night with Mr. Charlton. Lowe and
family on his return home.
CONSOLIDATION
OFHIIB
Jouett's Insurance Agency And Gar
ner and Fitch's Agency Will Con
duct Business as One Organization
Mr. B. R. Jouctt, owner of
Jouett's Iiis'iiranco Agency, "and
Messrs. John E. Garner and R. O.
Pitch, owners of Gorner & Fitch's
Insurance Agency, have consoli
dated their busincs and it will,
in the future, be conducted under
the style of "The Security Insur
ance Agency."
These gentlemen advise us that
the Security Insurance Agency will
be incorpiratcd at once, and will be
one of the the largest and. strongest
agencies in the state, representing
some sixteen or eighteen fire insur
ance companies in addition to life
liability, live stock, automobile and
bonding companies of the greatest
strength and stability.
They will write insurance of every
class, giving epecial attention to
lire, country property, life, live
tock, liability and bonds.
The Security will give its exclu
sive attention to this business and
expect to build up a permanent in
surance establishment which will be
1 great credit to them, Winchester
and Clark county. They have se
cured a five years' lease on the en
tire Rash Building on Main street,
one door south of the Citizens' Na
tional Bank, and will fix it up with
the latest and most improved in
surance furniture and fixtures, so
as to make, the office one of the
most modem and up-to-date in the
stale.
Mr. Jouctt and Mr. Fitch wnl!
leave next week for Louisville, Cin
cinnati, Indianapolis and other cit
ies to make a thorough investigation
of some of the largest ngencie.3 of
those cities, and to secure the books
and furniture for i'.ie Security.
' The men back of this business arc
hustlers, and with the twenty years
or more of insurance experience
which they bring to tho Security,
should make of it a most valuable
acquition to Winchester's business
enterprises. They tell us that tins
is but 'a stepping stone to a larger
ind more influential .business ven
ture which they have m view for
Winchester at an early date.
The Security w'.ll have state li
cense which will enable them l
write through the Security's office,
any insurance that the New York or
London offices can place, and there
will be 110 need of anyone lcamg
Winchester to place their insurance.
Miss Helen Slack, who has been
stenographer and (bookkeeper for
Jouett's Insurance Agency, will be
cashier and bookkeeper for the Se
curity. AT
THEJALW
Fearing Rescue at The Hands of
Friends, Extra Precautions Are
Taken at Hanging.
Osceola, Ark., Jan. 27. .Fearing
a rescne at the hands of friends of
Henry Coats, convicted murderer of
Marshal R. L. Ferguson and Jdlin
Mcllvaue, slayer of Jake Thomas,
xtra precautions .were made for
the double hanging, which was held
here- Friday without untoward mis
hap. Extra deputies surrounded the
jail, and a troop of militia at Bly
theville was kept in readiness to
hasten to the scene if anything sav
oring of violence should occur.
Both men were hung at 2:30 Fri
day nfteroocn on a double scaffold,
built for a negro hanging a year ago
This was the first legal "hanging of a
GUARDED
white man inhe history of Missis
sippi county.,
Mcllvanc died without a state
ment. Coats protested that he had
been shot at first by Hie cfliecr
without warrant.
His final words were addressed
to his young son, whom he told to
remember that Deputy Sheriff Bob
Dean was the cause of his death.
The son seemed impressed with his
father's admonition. "
TOBACCO SALES
The sale of loose leaf tobacco will
be opened Monday morning at 9
o'clock at the warehouse of R. A.
Scobec with anywhere from 200,000
to 2o0,fl000 pounds on the boor.
Planters House
The sales at the Planters' Loose
Leaf House were stronger and bid
ding more active Friday afternoon.
Epperson & Crow, of this county,
sold one crop of about G,()00 pounds
Friday afternoon of fair colory to
bacco at an average of $23 per hun
dred. Green and damaged sold as
fl per hundred.
The Planters' House will have
their sales iXIonday afternoon with
about lo0,000 or 200.000 pounds on
the market. Both houses report
prospects very much better for
higher prices.
PARTY OUT FOR
A GOOD TIME
Two Men And Two Women Fined
50 Each Fcr Shooting On Public
Charge.
Whoop! Bans!! Gentle remind
ers of the wild and woo.lv West were
evidently what Steve Vaughn and
Thomas Hill, two white men of
Madison county, wanted to give the
peaceful inhabitants of Clark coun
ty when they started out Thursday
and shot their trusty pistols at vari
ous and sundry objects, such as nail
heads and telephone poles, from the
city limits to a distance of eight
miles out on the Ruckcrvillc pike.
The facts came out in the County
Court Friday. The men came to
this city Thursday morning and hir
ed a hore and buggy 'each; then
each got a woman companion and
started 011 tjieir little jaunt. The
women were named Kopchcll How
ard and Allic Walker and were both
of this city.
Well Supplied
When flic men were arrested by
Deputy Sheriff Geo. Hart and Po-
liceman Wallace Strode about 3:30
Thursday afternoon one mile from
the city limits on the Ruekerville
pike, tlicy had in their possession
a bottle of whiskey, a pistol, cigar
ettes and other forms of tobacco
and a box of matches.
All the joy hunters, were fined $50
each. The women paid their fines
but the less deadly of the -species
were remanded to durance vile.
jTJiey explained that they were
"just 'out fcr a good time."
There was only one pistol in the
erowd but all confessed to having
shot it.
Little Mary Frances Kerr, daugh
ter of Mr. and 'Mrs. F. S. Kerr, of
this' city, has been very ill at the
home of her grandmother, Mrs. J. C.
Byyan, of North Middletown. Mr.
Kerr was summoned to her bedside.
It is thought the child was threaten
ing with diphtheria, but she is now
much better, and the -danger is
averted.
Novel Forces.
Two novel forces have arisen In re
cent times lor the defense and sup-
Dort of the religious feeling: psycnoi.
oev 'and comparative religion: these
are already applying to the soul the
same vitalizing method which the
scientists have applied to the rest ol
theunlverr.
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Put "Savior" to. Death When Po-
lice Arrived.
Lotz, Russian Poland, Jan. 27.
The timely arrival of the nolice iusf
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pi evented a band of fanatical women 3Iau5 cities tIirouSao"t eoun- the Kentucky Lesgislature for twel
ffrom crucifying a man whom they ' !'y have "S"' privilege of exhibit- j ve years, and blocked all importaut
had adopted as their "savior." " ms thls ra:rveIos machine, but to legislation in its interests, has "va
A new sect was reccntlv formed , te onl" """"ati ls been given , mooscd." Not a si"n of the brew-
by women of the Moravian commu
nity. They selected a man named
Kowlaski, whom they worshiped as
their savior. They urged him to al
low himself to be ciueified so as to
enable them to prove their tenets by
his resurrection.
Kowalski's faith, however, wav
ered and he opposed the canying
out of the suggestion to crucify him.
Ultimately, thirty determined women
tcok his 'house by storm and were
proceeding with his immolation
when the police appeared and put
a stop to the sacrifice.
PUTJO DEATH
Shot by Angry Populace, Dragged
Into Streets, Beheaded and Burn
ed. Great Excitement.
Guayaquil, Ecuador,. Jan.. 27.
Gen. Pedro Montero, who recently
was the popular hero of Guayaquil,
was Thursday shot by the angry
populace, dragged into the streets,
bcherded and burned.
Ge:'. Montero in November l:it
was proclaimed president by the
troop: in Guayaquil but handed
over the leadership of the provision
al go ernment to Gen. Flavoria Al
faro. A revolutionary anriy de
nted the government troops and
cventt ally forced Guayaquil to 'cap
itulate. Gen. Montero with other leaders
was captured on January 22 and
Thur day evening Gen. 'Montero was
brourht before a court martial and
.sentenced to Hi yenrs' imprisonment
in a penitentiary..
M:eu the sentence was announce
ed ciowds of angry people who had
surrounded the government palace
awaiting the result shouted violent
protest.
TI:c excitement increased rapidly
and some of them rushed into the
com t room, riddled Gen. Montero
with bullets, seized his body and
dragged it into the open air.
Tacre they hacked the head off
Wie shoulders, gathered fuel with
which they started a fire and then
east head and trunk into the flames.
The, excitement lasted throughotu
the night and revolver shooting oc
curred in many parts of the city.
CINCINNATI AUTO SHOW
All the world has been akrt and
keen to have close, personal view of
that mechanical masterpiece, the
Marmon "Wasp," that walked
away with the first prize at the 500
mile event in Indianapolis on Deco
ration Day last.
Considerable time and money
were expended in tearing down and
building up again this racing marvel
which is as delicately balanced and
attuned as a fine hair-spring watch
and runs so lightlythat despite thc
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gruelling Svork of over half a thous- I full of dramatic climaxes and side
land niles .only three changes of splitting comedy,
tires were made. I This is positively the best play of
Driver of tins- tamous car was tne
modest Ray Harroun, who distin
sniisbed himself by clean-cut work,
he attending strictly to his own af -
fairs, with no effort at any time to
pocket or distress any one of his
forty odd rivals on the track.
Harroun drove without the pres
ence of a mechanic at his side and
with a mirror directly in front of
him at the dash board. It was a
sight not to be forgotten to watch
this cautious dare-devil come
lound the track, lap for lap, hang
ing heavily out his car to the pole
lwde, training iris
eye to points a
half mile ahead, and at the same
time keeping in sight through the
mirror, every angle of the course for
. llalr a t0 t rcar-
haif a mile to tho rear.
assurance any where near positive,
Accordingly, those who visit the
Automobile Show, to be held at
Music Hall, Cincinnati, during the
10 days beginning February 19 and
ending February 28, will have an
opportunity of inspecting the Mar
mon "Wasp," the car that won the
greatest auto race of the century.
witn an ease that now seems almost
incredible.
A large number of persons in this
city have already expressed their
intention of paying visit for one or
more days to the Queen City during
progress of the auto show.
Edward Grimmel Cured of Desire
to Steal and Forge Checks by
Surgeon's Knife.
Buffalo, N. V., Jan. 27. Edward
E. Grimmell, who is believed by-sur-gcons
and criminologists to have
been transformed by an operation
his skull from a chronic criminal to
a normally moral man, is hack at
his ihorao berc after serving three
years of a nine-year sentence in
Clinton prison at Danncrmora. He
was convicted of forserv in 1908.
The state parole board authoriz-
cd Gnmmel's release following his
statement that the operation com
pletely freed him from certain mys
terons impulses that formerly
prompted him to steal and forge
checks. Tho operation was perform
ed in the prison in March, 1909, at
Grimmel's -request.
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WOMAN'S DEAIH
Screamed Several Times When
Burglars Flashed Light, And Then
Lapsed Into Unconciousness.
Pas.,iac. N. J., Jan. 27. Despite
th
e continuous efforts of physicians
.r twenty-four hours, Mrs. Lucics
for twenty-four hours, Mrs. Lucics
Spencer died lnursoay night at
her home here, a victim ot inght
from a visit of burglars. Fear of
marauders had .always haunted Mrs.
Spencer and when she was awakeu-
ed Wednesday night by the bash of
a dark lantern through a bed room
window full in her face she scream-
ed in terror several time-, frighten
ing the intruders away and then lap
sed into -unconsciousness. Physi-,
eians were unable to arouse her.
'SATIN'S IMP."
Saturday night, at the Opera
House the Harvey Stock Company
will close their week's engagement
with a splendid stirring tale of the
j hills entitled, "Satin's Imp," a play
. tie week and it is your last op-
portunity to see these popular play-
ers in a splendid play. A packed
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. house is anticipated. Seats should
be secured early at Strode's Drug
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There was Never a Member in Leg
islature Who Received Se Many
Telegrams of Congratulations.
Frankfort,
Ky.,
Jan. 27. The
"liquor lobby," which has infested
cry representatives was seen here
Friday, so complete was their rout
j Thursday by Senator Thomas, who
, led the light for the County Unit bill
in the Senate.
Probably there was never a mem
ber of the Kentucky Legislature
who received as many telegrams of
congratulations as did Senator
.Thomas Thursday
night. He has
certainly evened the score with
those who spent so much money to
j defeat him in his race for the nomi-v
nation for Congress two years ago.
He received telegram and telephone
j messages, r.ne after the other, urg
I ing him to make the race again for
the nomination for Congress.
Declines to Make Comment
He received the congratulation."?
in the spirit they were given, but re
served all comment, realizing, as he
said, that it was his fight for what
he believed was right and for the
Democratic platform that merited
the congratulations, and that he had
the satisfaction of knowing he had
not sacrificed any principle to win
over the interests whose money and
organization had been used to de
feat him.
The Senate did not meet Friday,
but the committees from the Senate
on charitable institutions left for a
visit to these institutions. They will
return to report Monday and the
session next week will be a busy
one.
TWO BANKRUPTCY
PETITIONS FILED
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John Robinson, Promient Jeweler
And H. M. Wade, a Farmer, Are
Bankrupt.
Mt. Sterling, Ky., Jan. 27. Two'
-bankruptcy petitions have been filed
here. John Robius-on, who has been
engaged in the jewelry business here
j for years, and who is one of the
most popular men in the city, esti
mates his liabilities at $8,000, with
assets of about -?4,000. Cincinnati,
Louisville and Eastern firms arc
among the creditors. H. M. Wade,
.1 ifarmer. formerly ensajred in the
hery bu,;nc, thu dtyf has a3.
f . , his i;a1);iit;e5 arc
t d M m JMh of thc fail
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ures are due to dullness of business.
Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Hadden are
nests of Mr. Asa Kidd and family,
; the country, and will remain over
guntav.
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THE LYRIC
Making a Man. (Biograph.)
. Romance of the De-ert. (Pdthe)
A trip to Atlantic City. (Lubin.)
The great Durbar picture next
Wednesday.
LOST Bunch of white aigrettes, at
thc dance Thursday night: Re
turn to News office. Reward.
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LOST At the dance Thursday
evening -a pm with topaz setting
fcind, filigree ifxame. ierai re-
ward if returned to Mrs. J. M.
PickrelL ' 1-27-lwk
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