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i "HootsvBlle Eentuckian. I WATCH THE DATE After your came, rMn promptly, and r.olmlinntH. ber. The Poital rtjruUtloM r eg aire uhcrlptlcm to b paid Id advance. THER for ; Kentucky Tuesday fairs.- , , HOPKINSVILLE KENTUCKY, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1915. No. 53 A FATAL M'DERMOTT ON STUMP . MI WU SINK GERMAN ' TORPEDOBOATS British Destroyers More Than Even Up Scores in North Sea. EDITORIAL' COMMENTS. S CRAP GAME t Dr. C, C. Ferrell. The tragic death of Clifton Fcrrcll at Birmingham, Ala., Sunday morn ing, has caused a profound feelingof Borrow in Hopkinsville. . Although he had nqt lived here for many years he was known to everybody by reas on of his f requentvisits to his fath- -er, uie laiu iuaj. ti. v. rerreii, anu of more recent years, to his mother. His boyhood was spent here and . many of, his former schoolmates at tended his funeral services yester- . a ay. ivr. rerreu was one 01 ineoest educated men Hopkinsville ha8 turned out in a generation, ' He was of books that attracted wide atten- AS A -.1 . 1- - 1 1 1. uuu, is uu cuucpiur iic nuu reucn? ,' ed a high position, when he decided to enter, commercial life. To his widowed and now childless mother, the sympathies, of many wa rm friends a.navttinr1n1 onerea Dy me American luanumcc- tunng rum Co., for the best photo play submitted. The title is "The Dia- d From the Sky." McCardell is ;ll known writer of photoplays, name was not discovered until mutee. Hon. A. O. Stanley opened his campaign for governor at Frankfort Saturday to a large, crowd in the old statehoUse yard. Mr. Stanley's speech was vigorous, comprehen sive and full of vim, butwithout bit terness on invective. The speech will-in the near future be given in full. -The ladies of Owensboro have or- 1 .i . aI "It .'.XL -tt TTT1 not let "The Athenaeum," of Hop kinsville, invite the ladies to send a representative er to the opening session Thursday night? AvBaptist church at Jackson has calleji the Rev. J. H. Broom to the pastorate. The capital of Breathitt should be a splendid place fora min ister to clean-up. Elizabethtown News. Trio rantninof the Gulflicht droo ped dead, when his ship was hit by a German.torpedou balling tne nign seas is no calling for a man nowadays who is liable to be scared to death A conference of Dixie Highway workers, including some from Louis ville, was held atSalem, Ind., Satur day. Several routes out of Louis ville are proposed. Webster county may renounce State.aW for roadB aa public .opinion is believed to be against the plan Butreested by the State Highway Commissioner. JanesVille. Tenn,, had aJynehing hn other nicht. Tom Brooks, who JpMksd RrL. Day and Pleas Hawkins, W taken from the sheriff and haog- eci by a mob. Nw York h unemployed amount II 1 1 1 1 1 IK I.I 12111 OJUJ. VW MVW " - . . I n AO AAA n AdM-iliniT f r n Antiffmnn. Af r.nhnr mil 1IT WUt WIIIVIIII w m-- 4- j '. - - -- - nTiamnfnn ItnV orfltor .3 iiuffanu a viis"j""" ' named Hvrnn Haeon UiaCK. lie nrou- ably won by being a busy B. A r " ' L . " - - - " Another blcr battle in Mexico be- fill Ml. U III.Mr.llliril LIOB A severe snowstorm in California and other Western States caused much damage Saturday, Dr, Cherry evidently cawluded .t 1 1 n . . - that ne was not or ine uuyiuur Wood" variety. Twelve hundred morphine tablets were stolen from drug store in The 42;centimeter sheila used by the Germans tnwwure 164 inclm in length. Boiworth is the first man to file hia petition in tbeiownor's raee. EYE-OPENER IS PLANNED Bluegrass Farmers To Be Brought to Christian County. TO LEARN f. FEW" THINGS ,r- GeolTrey Morgan Has Demon stration Plan To Show What Can Be Done. , In order that the people of the bluegrass section may get a fair idea of what a fine country western Ken tucky really is and what a progress ive lot of farmers live here, Geoffrey Morgan, formerly farm demonstra or for Christian county, but now dis trict supervisor .of farm demonstrat tors for about fifteen central Ken tucky counties, with his headquar ters ,at Richmond, Ky., is arranging to bring a big party of farm demon strators and farmers from that sec tion down here for a visit. He has picked out Warren and 'Christian counties as the ones to be visited. In a long letter to the Hopkinsville Business Men's Association he out lines his plan, and says the party will leave Lexington on a special train of sleepers on June 1, reaching Bowling Green on the morning of June 2 and spend the day there and then come here for the next day. In each county he purposes that the local commercial clubs provide automobiles to carry thje party to points of interest in the counties vis ited, and tha't in Bowliag Green they be given a big strawberry dinner and at Hopkinsville they be given a bar becue. Also any other entertaipment may be provided. Mr. Morgan sayB that this plan has the enthosiastic endorsement of the United States agricultural depart ment, which has agreed to pay the expenses of each of the twenty-two farm demonstrators now employed in central Kentucky counties. In ad dition be proposes to bring not less than four farmers from each county, and they must agree before coming to write articles for their local pa pers when they return home. In his letter Mr. Morgan flays: "Tlieir idea of Christian county is aland of sassa fras bushes and sage grass, night ridere, 'possum hunters and other disturbances. I have become weary of this, and so have hit upon a plaa to disillusion thebr minds and intro duce them to the 'Modern Garden of Eden.'" The proposition has met with en thusiastic acceptance both here and at Bowling Green, and it seems al ready assured that it will fee carried out, and the visit -of the bluegrass farmers will be a memorable occa ion. ' B. Gordon Kelson o the Kentucky Cam Club department, whose home is here, is actively co-operating -with Mr. Morgan in working the matter up. Crawley Vass. Herbert Vass and Miss Mary Lee Crawley stole a march on their f riendB Wednesday afternoon by go ing to Evanaville, where they were married. The young people came to Henderson several months ago from Hopkinsville. Miss Crawley had been doing somasewing, while Mr. Vass holds a petition in the Hotel Kingdon barbeifh). They were lovers before comh to Henderson and their marriage was ht a sur prise to their close personal friends. Wednesday they went to Evans ville, secured a llcen.pnd were mar ried in the af terno in.' They returned to Henderson on the 7 o'okwk) trac tion and went to the bride's. Hoard ing house at R. S. Eaatin's, o Maple avenue, before telling, any on of their marriage. For the present they will board at Mr. Eaatin's and may go to housekeeping later. Both are quite popular and, have a host of friends both here aad Hopkinsville, who wiih them much happiness through life. Glner. t Dead Body of Cross Billingsly Found Early Sunday Morning. AT WHEATLAND GRANGE HALL Three Negroes in Jail Await- T. ing Trial Next Thursday. Cross Billingsly, a young negro man about 25 years of age, was found dead near the road close to the Wheatland Grange Hall, at 2 o'clock Sunday morning. The discovery was made by Dick Moore, who reported the fact at once. Billingsly had last been seen with two other negroes named Ed Sanders and Wallace Goodrich and as soon as he could reach the scene Sunday morning Sheriff Jewell Smith went to Mr.P.B. Pendleton's. where they lived, and took both men into custody. Upon reaching the city they acknowledged the kill ing, but said that the fatal wound was made by Calvin Yancey, an ex convict. Sheriff Smith made a re turn trip and arrested Yancey. Ihe killing grew out of a crap game, is the report, and on the spot where the body was found there was evidence of a struggle. Billingsly's clothing was torn and the only wound was a knife thrust 2 or 3 inches be- low the collar-bone, on the right side, that severed an artery. The supposi tion is that one or more held him wnue ne was nueu, as ne was a powerful man, weighing 200 pounds. An inquest was held and the verdict implicated Sanders and Goodrich. M. H. Carroll was foreman. Yancey has recently been a day hand at F. B. Lacy's. Billingsly lived at Ben Bradshaw's. All three of the men are in jail and the examining trial will be held Thursday. JUGULAR VEIN CUT Negro Man Survives a Most Dangerous Knife Wound. Frank Davie, who resides on Mr. Frank Stowe's farm, near Church Hill, had his throat cut Saturday af ternoon while in the city. Davie de clined to say who cut him, stating that two other negroes were in a fight and in attempting to separate them he received the wound. The gash in his neck was six inches long and the jugular was severed. He lost much blood and it took quick work of a surgeon to stop the flow, It took fifteen stitches to close the wound, after both ends of the jugu Iar been tied. Davie was able to. be taken to his home the same afternoon and the chances are that he will recover. Owensboro Wakes Up. Come on with your bitulithic streets, Mayor Hickman. Extend the work out Frederica street at least to Griffith avenue, and up Thitd street to Daviess. The Messenger will cheerfully pay its part and help out the Y. M. C. A. on its part, also Good streets for Owensboroand good roads for Daviess county should be the motto of every progressive citi zen. Owensboro Messenger. Overstreet-Woodson. Mr. and Mrs. Urey Woodson, of Ow. ensboro, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Janey Wood son, to Mr. William E. Overstreet The wedding will take place on June 1. Married U Memphis. Lawrence Hord, son of Mrs. J, G. Hord, of this city and Misa Mary rbox were married in Mwpma tUyasffo, lhgroornjten refwo ip wempjiit, jor antral 1 i DR. FERRELL ASSASSINATED Shot To Death By A Negro Seeking To Koh Com missary. KILLED WHEN HE APPEARED. Remains Brought Here For ' Internment Yesterday Afternoon. Mr.' Ferrell had taken his wife and children into Birmingham that morning and had returned in the afternoon. Late in the night he heard a suspicious noise about the commissary, which wasin a sepa rate building near the dwelling house. He arose and went out to investigate, firing a pistol into 'the ground to frighten off the- thief. A negro man was under the commis' sary armed with a shotgun and fired upon him with both barrels. One load took effect in his left arm and the other in' the left side of his bowels. He lived fifteen minutes, conscious to the last. Dogs were put on the trail at once and went straight to the cabin of a negro man who was found feigning sleep with a shotgun in his house and his shoes still wet with dew. A negro man had been seen to run away. He had a fifteen-year-old boy with him, who had been playing about the mines only the day before. Both negroes were arrested and the lynching of the murderer was narrowly averted. The body accompanied by Mrs. Ferrell, Maj. Taliaferro, his father.- in-law, and Mr. George Conners, his cousin, arrived here yesterday morn ing. It was met by a number of friends and taken to the home of Airs. J. 0. Ferrell, on South Main street. Chiles Clifton Ferrell was born near Greenville, S. C. August 20, 1865. He was the only son and child of James Overton and Elizabeth Austin Ferrell. He was 8 years old when his father came to Hopkins ville and his education was be gun in his father's school here from 1875 to 1881. He graduated from Vanderbilt University with A. B. degree in 1885 and with A. M. the following year. He was in structor of Greek in Vanderbilt from 1885 to 1889. In 1889 he became a student at the University of Leipsic, Germany, from which he took the degree of Ph. D. in 1892. He traveled extensively in Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy and in 1894 took a course in Paris and in 1902 returned to Berlin for a summer course. He became professor in modern languages at the University of Mississippi, at Ox ford, in 1983 and remained there until 1907. He was a member of the Mod ern Language Association of Ameri ca, and was a member of the Van derbilt Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. He was married at Birmingham, Ala., August 16, 1899 to MissTenney, Marr Taliaferro, who survives him. Of three children born to them two survive, Chiles Clifton, Jr., agi 9 and James Overton, aged 3. In 1907 Mr. Ferrell gave up his work as an educator and went into business with his father-in-law in Birmingham. Since that time he had moved to a suburb of Birming ham, 25 miles out, and was engaged in coal mining, having recently opened the Pratt mine. Funeral services were held at the First Baptist church at 3:30 o'clock by Rev. C. M. Thompson and the interment was jn Riverside ceme tery. The pall-bearers were former Bcnoo.TmKs ot we. ueceweu or pu- i 'i ii. i i pus or n wuier -ueo. & uary. ira - ij.Bmiin, a. woomnuge, y. a. Glass, A. W. Wood, R A. Rogers, W. T.Cooper and Chas.M. Meacham. THE LOCAL ACCOUNT Birmingham, Ala., May 2. Dr. Chiles 'Clifton Ferrell, president of the Export Pratt Coal Company, 1 with mines forty miles in iim Presents His Claims to the Voters of Christian County. HEARD BY" GOOD CROWD. Able Lieutenant Governor Has Many Warm Friends Here. Lieut. Gov. Edward J. McDer- mott spoke here yesterday after noon in the interest of his candi dacy for Governor. Mr. McDer- mott arrived on an early train and spent the forenoon meeting the peo ple on the streets. He was intro duced by Judge Walter Knight and the crowd that greeted him was large and representative. This brief article cannot go into a detail ed report of his speech, which was published in the daily papers of Sundav. It was substantially a repetition of the Owensboro speech of Saturday. Mr. McDermott makes a strong presentation of his claims, based on his familiarity with State affairs and his knowledge of the state's needs. He defined his position on the prohi bition Question as an original advo cate of the present platform of the party. Gov. McDermott is popular in this county, his ability and fitness for the honor he seeks being admitted by all. DIED IN SPRINGFIELD Remains of Richard Harris In terred Here Yesterday. Rirhsrd Hani3on. formerly of this city, died in Springfield, Tenn., Sunday, after a long illness of ps ralysis. The remains were brought here yesterday morning and interred in Riverside Cemetery. Mr. Harrison was a son of the late Byron Harrison and was reared in this city. He resided in Esrling ton some years ago and liter lived in Providence. Ky. He had been a a resident of Springfield for several i ears. The deceased was about 60 years old. His wife and one chi d survive. part of the county was shot to death this morning about 1:30 o'clock when went to Investigate barking by his ittle dog, suspecting that the com missary ot the company was being robbed. Several times recently the store of the company had been broken into and Dr. Ferrell, who resided across the road from the store, decided to keep a close watch. Hearing the dog this morning he rushed hastily to the outside of the house with a pistol and then two shots were heard, one of a pistol and the other of a shotgun. ' Dr. Ferrell was picked up later mortally wounded with buckshot wounds in head and chest, from which he died forty minutes later. Two negroes charged with the crime were arrested and held. Dr. Ferrell graduated at Heidel i . i j? t oerg ana ior iweive years was pro fessor of Germanic languages in the University of Mississippi. He mar ried MIss,Tennie Taliaferro of Birm ingham, and is survived br a widow and two little sons. He came to Birmingham district and went into . the coal mining business a few years TT 1 il . uku. ms remuujb were laxen 10 Hopkinsville, Ky., for burial. Yesterday's Nashville Tenneisean Bald of Wm. ..,, FerreI, was a br, iiant Btudent at Vanderbilt ami wn electeil to the Phl Beta KanT,a . orBrv fratemitv after tht frt0.. nlty was founded here. He was well-known in Nashville, especially to the older Vanderbilt graduates, some of his classmates still living in Nashville. News of his deatb will be received with aorrpw in Nashville ami UnnltinsvllU. his nll Km, ONE ENGLISH JVARSIHP SUNK. Three Merchant Vessels, In;? eluding One American, Are Destroyed. London, May 3. A German sub marine on Saturday sank the old . British destroyer Recruit off the Gal- ' loper lightship, in the North sea, but " the score was more than eqalized by other British destroyers, which, af- . ter a stern chase overtook and sank- - the two German torpedo boats that had accompanied the submarine on her cruise. Some of the crew of the Recruit were rescued by the trawler Daisy, but as the submarine fired on the) fishermen they were compelled to leave the others to their fate. The British destroyers rescued most of the crews of the German torpedo boats and two officers were picked up by a passing steamer and taken to Holland. Besides these incidents in the North sea the German submarines contin- ued their operations off the Scilly Islands and in addition to torpedoing;' the American tank steamer Gulflight whose captain died of shock and or which two men were drowned, sank the French steamer Europe and the British steamer Fulgent, the captain of the latter vessel being shot and killed. Beyond this there is little war news. The Germans claim an ad vance in their raid into the Russian Baltic provinces, and after defeating: the Russians, to have reached the region southwest of Mitau, which is 1 well on the road to Riga.and, if they are in strong force, they shouldt prove a serious menace to Russian communications. It is believed here. . however, that the movement is noth ing more than a raid, and the Rus sians profess not to be disturbed over it. There has been no further bom- bardment of Dunkirk, which wondd' seem to indicate that the Germans" only had one big gun in nosition.nrvi that the French airmen have madf- o uncomfortable for the mm crew that it has been withdrawn. As a reply to this bombardment the French have brought one of their big guns to bear on one of the forts on the south front of the fortress of Metz. Along the rest of the western front, attacks and counter attacks continue, but no battle of import ance has developed out of them. It appears that the Turkish report that the Asiatic part of the Darda nelles Is free of the invaders was correct, the French having gone ashore there only to make the land ing of the British on the other side easier, and this accomplished, have been withdrawn, doubtless to land at some other point. News of these operations is awaited with the great interest, as. for the moment, they are considered among the most im portant of the war. ' " Lafferty-Cashman. Miss Mamie Cashman, daughter of Rsv. W. F. Cashman, of Russell ville, formerly of this city, andG. M. Lafferty, of Casey, III., were mar ried Sunday morning, tho bride's father officiating. After a visit of a ftw days in Louisville, the couple will go to the Pacific coast to attend the exposition. Three-Legged Chick. Mrs. R. L. Nickols, of Oak Grove' reports thehacthlng of a chicken on day last week that had three well de veloped legs. ' Misa Anne Morgan, the famous financier's daughter, advises girls te marry when the right than coaiav alntin ' ' n mi .1 a. a, - wvua 4