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A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE HOME CIRCLE
VOLUME I.
RICHMOND, KENTUCKY, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1913.
NUMBER 11.
STORM StILLS MANY
TORNADO LEAVES PATH OF
DEATH IN WESTERN ' AND
SOUTHERN STATES.
PROPERTY LOSS IS $3,000,000
Blizzards Accompanied by Snow and
Rain Cause Death and Destruction
Over Five States Trans-Missouri
Country Overwhelmed.
St. Louis, March IT. Causing loss
ol life and great property damage a
huge storm spread over the entire
middle west, the Rocky mountain re
gion, the south and the southeast
Friday. .
In the middle west and the southern
states the storm took the. form of
winds of high Telocity.
A conservative estimate places the
number of dead in the southern states
and lower middle west at fifty, with
not fewer than 200 . injured and a
property loss of $3,000,000 or more. -,
Following is a summary by states
f -some of the more important dam
age done by the wind storm: :
Georgia Five missing near At
lanta. Heavy damage at 'Columbus.
Cardinal baseball players in storm, but
none Is injured.
Missouri One probably fatally and
' several seriously hurt in Montgomery
county. Large property damage.
Tennessee Twelve reported killed
in towns wrecked by tornado, many
Injured. Property damage great. ,
Louisiana Four killed, SO injured,
in Provencal, Natchitoches parish, and
district south of Fisher, Sabine par
iah. Property loss, $50,000 in Pro
vencal, and other districts suffer
greatly.
Texas One killed, several injured.
- and property loss of $100,000 to
Brookeland.
Omaha, Neb., March 17. The entire
trans-Missouri country from the river
to -the Rocky' mountains had for twenty-four
hours Friday night been in the
grip of the worst spring storm ever
known in this territory. Not a freight
train was in operation between Omaha
and the mountains Friday, half the
telephone and telegraph wires were
down, passenger trains were from four
to ten hours late, and general business
was suspended. - The temperature was
only just -below freesing, but a fifty
mile wind was filled with snow, and
plows were in service on all lines.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 17.
Twenty persons were killed or seri
ously injured.by a destructive cyclone
here Friday. The property damage' is
very heavy.
GUNBOAT SMITH WHIPS WELLS
Navy Boxer Knocks Out - England's
Heavyweight Champion in See.
ond Round in New York.
New York, March 15. A new heavy
weight champion came to town on
Friday. His name is "Gunboat" Smith,
a sturdy son of the United States
navy. In less than two rounds he laid
low Bombardier Wells, champion of
England. Three times Smith beat
Wells to the mat. Twice Wells took
the count of nine, but the third time
he dropped, the Englishman was un
able to respond. He was dead to the
world and had to be carried to his cor
ner by Referee Joh and his seconds.
A terrific right swing to the Jaw
automatically gave Smith a claim to
the English, title. The punch knocked
Wells flat on his face. He ' lay
sprawled out like a man nailed hand
and foot to the floor. " -The
knockout came after one min
ute. and .17 seconds of fighting In the
second " round. "
SARAH BERNHARDT INJURED
Noted Actress Has Both Ankles
Spr&lned When Auto Collides
With Heavy Truck.
Loa Angeles, Cal, March 14.
Madame Sarah Bernhardt, the world
famous actress, had both ankles
sprained in an automobile accident In
Pico Heights, on the outskirts of ..the
eity "Wednesday when her machine, in
which she was being driven to the Or-
pheum theater from Venice, collided
with a heaw truck and was badly
wrecked. Madame Bernhardt was
thrown out and in , addition to suffer
trig sprains of both ankles, was cou
Blderahlv bruised. Desnite " her in
juries she proceeded in another auto
mobile to the theater, and. rather
than disappoint the large audience.
rehearsed her full program.
' Man Who Lighted World's Fair Dies.
, TJtica, N. Y., March 15. -Francis
Boradnax of Montclalr, N. J a dlstin-
jruished engineering expert, was found
dead In bed at a hotel here. His death
was the result of diabetic coma. Mr.
.Boradnax installed the electric light
ing system for the , world's fair at
' Chicago and was a consulting engineer
-on the Brooklyn bridge. H was Bixty
. ; years old. ;
EXTRA SESSION APR. 7
WILSON AND UNDERWOOD CON-
FER ON LEGISLATION.
Conservative Tariff; Revision as
Planned by House Leader Ap
proved by President. ,
Washington, March 13. President
Wilson, it was stated at the White
House, will Issue his call for the spe
cial session at congress within ; the
next few days. At a" conference be
tween the president and Chairman
Underwood of the ways and means
committee, the tariff and other legis
lative matters were discussed at
length and these things were decided
upon:
Extra tariff session to be called by
President Wilson for April 7.
Necessity for tariff revision down
ward to be recommended by the pres
ident as the most urgent legislation
with, reference to needs of revision of
the money "laws and the early passage
of legislation insuring Philippine leg
islation. "
Special messages will be sent by
the president, in which his legislative
views will be set before congress.
A conservative revision, as planned
by Underwood and his committee, was
approved, instead of a sweeping down
ward cut which would disturb legiti
mate business unnecessarily.
Neither the White House nor any
of the members of the cabinet will in
terfere with the work of the ways and
means committee. -
Free trade members of the ways
and means committee will be given
no comfort by President Wilson in
their demands on Underwood for re
ductions in tariff below the point the
majority of the ways and means com
mittee may decide as necessary to
produce the heeded . revenues for the
government.
" Frequent ? consultations between
President Wilson andvTJnderwood on
disputed important duties carried in
the bill will be held.
Harmony between the majority of
the ways and means committee and
the president will be maintained.
Mr. Underwood said afterwards that
the tariff schedules would be ready
when " the special session is called.
The committee has voted on about
one-third of the items in the tenta
tive schedules.
TELEGRAPHIC
NOTES
Boston, March 14. Former com
mandant of theCharlestown: navy
yard and one of the heroes of San
tiago bay, Rear Admiral Joseph Giles
Eaton, retired, of the United States
navy, who died suddenly March 9,
was laid at rest in Oakland cemetery
near Lowell with an utter lack of
naval honors Wednesday.
New York, March 15. In a collision
with an unidentified steamship be
lieved to have been a tramprthe steam
lighter Wyckoff, bound ' from Perth
Amboy to some point up the sound,
was sunk about 600 feet off the south
end o Governor's island Thursday
night Eleven members of a crew
of 12 were lost.
Rheims, France, March 15. Two
sergeants of the army aviation corps
were fatally Injured in a collision be
tween machines in midair Thursday.
The accident occurred in the course of
maneuvers of five aeroplanes.
San Francisco, Cal., March 15.
Chas. M. Busch, grandson of Adolphus
Busch, arrived here with his face bad
ly battered. He said he had been held
up in Carlln, Nev., by a thug, who hit
him with a gun and took $180 and sev
eral diamonds.
Los Angeles, March 15. Reported
to be on the verge of a nervous
breakdown, President Arthur T. Had
ley of Yale has arrived at the sum
mer ranch home of E. M. Pratt, broth
er of Mrs. Hadley, who accompanied
her husband. Mr. Pratt's ranch is in
the Ojal Valley.
'HUMAN FLY' HAS CLOSE CALL
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Daredevil's Plan to Soar Into Sky
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v. of Powder Explodes. : ' .
New York. March 14. A steel rock
er containing Rodman ' Law, the "hu
man fly'' in which he intended to be
Bhot 3,500 feet into the air descend
ing by a parachute," exploded when 800
pounds of powder behind it was fired.
Law was hurled 25 feet from his seat
in the rocket, but was unhurt.
Protected by padding and a helmet.
Law crawled into the rocket with his
parachute, and gave the. order to fire.
The fuse was lighted and spluttered
for 30 seconds. There. was a burst of
flame, a cloud of smoke and a terrific
report Hundreds of spectators saw
the ropket leap forward a few feet and
burst into fragments. . ' ... .'
Law' was " hurled violently through
the air and to the ground. V -
VIEW OF THE MIRAFL0RES LOCKS
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, Presiaent Wilson is expected to visit tbe Panama Canal in June, and
this photograph shows one of the Interesting points he will see. The system'
at Mlraflores consists of two twin locks in flight, having a total lift of about
fifty-five feet The concrete work on the locks is now about ninety-eight per
cent completed. , . '
J. P. MORGAN AT ROME
HAS BAD SPELL WHILE ON
BOARD STEAMER.
Financier Carried From Vessel to
Train Improves on Arrival in
Eternal City.
, Rome, March 14. When J. Pierpont
Morgan reached this city his relatives.
friends and physicians who are trav
eling with him showed considerable
anxiety over the condition of the New
York" financier's health.
Seized with a sudden . weakening
spell as he was about to disembark
from the Adriatic at Naples, It became
necessary for Mr, Morgan practically
to be carried ashere by three persons
and lifted aboard the train for Rome.
So great was the concern of those
around him that it was feared any
thing might happen before Rome was
reached, but fortunately the journey
was made without recurrence of the
symptoms. As an extra precaution to
Insure the comfort of the invalid, the
special train costing $3,000 was made
heavier by adding two cars to prevent
jolting.
Mr. Morgan's installation at the
Grand hotel here was attended by en
couraging signs of improvement
- He is resting quietly, : but under
strict injunctions that the three weeks'
stay here, which has been decided up
on, shall be characterized by absolute
repose, neither paying nor receiving
calls. There is a constant stream of
callers at the hotel leaving cards for
Mr. Morgan, Including the king's per
sonal aide, government officials, diplo
mats and American tourists.
TROOPS AWE LYNCHING MOB
Three Militia Companies Guard Assail
ant of Young Girl in
Salem (III.) Jail.
Sale tn. 111.; March 17. The jail "at
Salem was ' guarded Friday night by
three companies of militia. The state
troops were ordered out by Governor
Dunne in response to a message from
Sheriff Charles W. "PurceTl of Marion
county that he was unable alone to
cope with a situation arisen through
the arrest of Frank Sullens, white,
twenty-one years old, charged with an
attack on Dorothy, the fourteen-year-old
daughter of Judge Charles Holt
.All afternoon an. angry -.mob-.of . men
swarmed through the streets and sev
eral' times were dispersed from in
front of . the - jail by Sheriff - Purcell
and a number of specially sworn in
deputies.
The mob, though threatening, lacked
leaders, and was handled by Sheriff
Purcell and his deputies, though late
in the afternoon the sheriff appealed
to the governor for assistance. Militia
from Olney, ShelbyyiHe and Effingham
at once were ' ordered to Salem and
later the company at Altamont was
dispatched. .
HAWTHORNE IS FOUND GUILTY
Dr. W. J. Morton and Albert Freeman
Also Get Jail Terms Jury Out
: .for Twenty-Seven Hours. ;
New York, March 17. A '-verdict of
guilty was returned here Friday
against Julian Hawthorne, Dr. William
J. Morton and Albert Freeman, who
were" charged with having used the
mails for fraudulent purposes.; Joslah
Quincy, co-defendant with the . other
three, was discharged.
Judge Mayer sentenced Freeman to
fivevyears imprisonment in the Atlan
ta penitentiary, the term to be con
sidered -as beginning January . 1, 1913.
Morton . and Hawthorne were sen
tenced to serve one year, and one day,
th tprm to b considered aa "beein-
1 sing November 23, 1912.
I BY INSURGENTS
FEDERAL COMMANDER AT NO
. GALES SURRENDERS TO REB
ELS AFTER BATTLE.
SHOOT INTO AMERICAN HOMES
Six Hundred United States Cavalry
men on Guard on Arizona Soil See
Comrade and Others Wounded
Women In Escape.
Nogales, Ariz., March 15. After a
terrific battle which lasted throughout
the day the federal garrison at
Nogales, Sonora, surrendered to Gen
eral Obregon, the rebel commander,
Thursday night at 6:40 o'clock.
Late in the afternoon the federals
were driven back from their outposts
by a determined attack on' the right
front and extreme left trenches, the
Huerta soldiers fleeing to the cover of
the town. This was followed an hour
later by their surrender. ' The fire on
the American side was increased by
the retreat and when a report reached
Lieutenant Colonel Tate that one of
his 600 troopers of the Fifth cavalry
had been wounded, he hastily assem
bled his men. Orders had been re
ceived from Washington to withhold
fire and these orders were obeyed all
day. t
Bullets rained on Nogales, Ariz.,
during the battle and created a crit
ical international situation which has
not been equaled since the battle of
Juarez two years ago.
Three noncombatants were wound
ed on the American side and two
women had narrow escapes from in
jury, one bullet piercing a woman's
skirt while she was on the porch of
her home. 1 The killed and injured in
the battle could not be learned, but
the number is large.
In the meanwhile troops were
rushed here from Fort .' Huachuca,
Ariz., and Thursday night American
troopers were on duty along the bor
der. ..
TWO HELD IN CONN CASE
Nurse Is Arrested in Detroit and Min
ister's Wife Detained at Mil-
' waukee.
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Detroit, Mich.,-March -' li. Mrs
Katherine Pope, a nurse, is being de
tained at local police headquarters in
connection with the Owen D. Conn
burglary case at San Francisco.
Mrs. Pope told the police that she
became acquainted with Conn about
two months before she left San Fran
cisco to come east. 3 She left there
February 27. She said " that she does
not know of any wrongdoing, on the
part of Conn.
Milwaukee, March 15. Mrs. Mabel
Clarkson,-wife of Rev." Nestor K.
Clarkson of Chicago, who it is alleged
left her husband and five children at
Christmas time to run away with
Owen Conn, now under arrest at San
Francisco, Cal., .on the charge - of
stealing $100,000 worth of jewelry, ia
being, held here awaiting the result of
an investigation at Chicago. '
KILLS WIFE AND HIMSELF
Illinois Man Slays Spouse in Street
at Cambridge, Then Ends His.
' .... " ., Own . Life. . . ;
Moline, IiL, March . 15. Walter
Shears, aged twenty-seven, killed, his
wife.jased twenty-three, on the street'
at Cjcnbridgei 111.,' then shot himself,
dying;.two hours. later. !. " V ; V .,.',
; The couple had been prominent and
prosperous at Galva, J11. They were
itarried last August'"' ' v' , .
PAYROLL HELD
UP BY DECISSON
OPINION GIVEN BY ASSISTANT
ATTORNEY HOGAN RESULTS
IN EMBARRASSMENT.
APPROPRIATION IS GONE
Hogan Construes Statute Governing
Funds For State School of Reform
to Provide For Only Five
Thousand Dollars.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Frankfort. Complications '. have
arisen over the payroll at the state
school of reform, which may result in
the introduction of a bill at the next
session of the general assembly to in
crease the appropriation for that pur
pose, and in the meantime the situa
tion has the auditor's department and
the prison commission undecided how
to proceed.
The embarrassment ia in conse
qence of the discovery that the an
nual appropriation for the school of
reform is only $5,000, while tha pay
roll for February alone amounted to
$3,222.35; and in an opinion given
Deputy State Auditor G. B. Likens,
Assistant Attorney General O. S. Ho
gan advises him not to issue warrants
in excess of the stipulated annual ap
propriation of $5,000. There is a pen
alty for exceeding the appropriation.
The appropriation for the year, end
ing June 30, 1913, already has been
overpaid three or four times.
Heretofore the statute has betm con
strued as carrying $5,000 quarterly,
which would mean an annual appro
priation of $20,000. When the Feb
ruary payroll showed a monthly pro
rata that would run the . annual ex
penditure over $38,000, the auditor
asked the attorney general's depart
ment whether he should limit the is
sue of warrants to the appropriation
or honor the demands to any extent
under a statute which authorizes the
appointment of whatever employes are
considered necessary at the school of
reform. The statute was investigated
and found to real an appropriation of
$5,000, payable quarterly, and con
and found to read an appropriation of
$5,000 only instead of $20,000.
Rules Against School Superintendent
Under Section 4445 of the new
school law the privilege of spe
cial charter schools to have their
teachers examined by a board appoint
ed by the trustees is abrogated to the
extent that those teachers may . not
draw any of the pro rata apportioned
the school from the state school fund
for ' their salaries, said the court of
appeals, reversing the Mercer circuit
court in the case of the Harrodsburg
Educational Division against " County
Superintendent Ora L. Adams.
The superintendent had refused to
pay to the trustees $843.10 of its pro
portionate share of the county's .pro
rate in the state school fund because
three of the teachers had not taken
the examination required by the com
mon school law. The court said this
is no reason for not paying to the dis
trict its share of the fund. The share
J.s not . sufficient for the pay of eight
other teachers, who do hold the proper
certificates; but none of this money
must be used In paying the three. As
the district augments the state ' fund
by local taxation these three teachers
may be paid out of local funds. The
;ourt suggested that Harrodsburg may
organize its school as a city school
nd adopt its own provisions for the
examination of teachers.
Insurance Schedules Sent Out
Schedules of basic insurance rates
and charges ' on dwellings, and their
wmtents In all cities and towns in the
state, In accordance with the terms of
the compromise of the suita of fire in
surance companies against the state
Insurance commission, have been sent
out by" the - commission to the : com
panies, and the suits in thes tatd and
federal courts, attacking the rates,
promulgated In December, will be dis
missed. The new schedule of rates
will go into effect May L It is stated
that the rates , are "20 per cent lower
than the rates- heretofore in effect
though not as low in particular in
stances as the rates promulgated in
December which were to go into
effect . Farm property rates are omit
ted from the schedule and will be
taken up next' by the commission.
after which mercantile Insurance and
special hazards wOl be considered.
Federal 1 Experts To .Come.
The federal department of. roads has
promised Commissioner of Roads R. C,
Terrell that experts will be sent from
Washington , to make addresses before
the conference of -county road, engl
neers in Louisville the "week of Apri
7 , to 12. 'Rrad .departments of,:Ohio
and Indiana are expected to seni rep
resentatives to the mealing.
JAMES M. COX
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Ohio's New Governor who will speak
at the meeting of the Kentucky
Manufacturers' Association in Lot
isville in April.
Jim Crow Decision Not Involved.
Carrie Conley, colored, failed to se
cure a reversal of the Franklin circuit
court in a suit for damages against the
Central Kentucky Traction Co. She
sued for $2,000 damages and recover
ed $200, but a new trial was granted
and the jury found for the defendant.
She was a passenger, bound for Lex
ington, August 13, 1908, during the
Bluegrass fair. She and two other ne
gro occupants of the colored compart
ment were requested to take Beats ia
the front vestibule. She refused and
the conductor seated white passengers
n the compartment She alleged she
was subjected to great indignities by
the conductor and passengers. The
court said its opinion did not disturb
a former "ruling that the separata
coach law applies with equal force, to
the protection of colored people as to
whites, and that it' dealt only with tha
question of whether the oourt below
exceeded its authority in granting a
new trial.
Farmers To Incorporate.
Having no capital stock, providing
that no, private pecuniary profits shall
be made for any one and that the
officers shall serve without remunera
tion, articles incorporating the Chris
tian County Crop Improvement asso
ciation have been filed. The associa
tion is formed to advance in every way
possible the agricultural, horticultural
and stock raising interests of the coun
ty The chief feature of the plans al
ready under way is the employment
of an expert agriculturist ' 1
Program for Meeting Prepared.
The program committee of the Ken
tucky Mining Institute, for the meet
ing to be held May 16 and 17, has se
lected twenty-four events for the
statewide first aid contest to be held
May 16, at Lexington, in connection
with the spring meeting of the Ken
tucky Mining Institute, and the judges
on. the day of the contest will select '
five out of the problems, and these five
problems will be performed by eack
team participating in the contest
Peace Day to be Celebrated.
May 18 will be observed by lb
schools of Kentucky as peace day, in
commemoration of the opening of Th
Hague Peace Congress in 1899. At the
request of the American School Peae
League, Superintendent of Public In
struction Barksdale Hamlett has des
ignated that day and issued a bulletin
requesting all public schools to ob
serve the occasion with appropriate
exercises. . .
Rush For Automobile License.
March records for antomobibs
licenses already have beea broken.
Thomas , Byars, automohil clerk in
the office of the secretary of state, has
issued 167 licenses since the first Ol
the month, which is 20 percent more
than he issued during the whole of
last March. The rush begins in April
and continues through May and Jun:
Court Overrules Motion of Inspector.
The court of appeals overruled th
motion of Oil Inspector Castleman for
a rehearing of his case against th
St3tids,id'Oil Co., in which , the ini
sfector of Jefferson couuty haa author-
Hty only to Inspect oil stored there U
be sold in Jefferson county or to be
shipped into counties where there ara
no inspectors. . ,
Damag'es For Lost Leg. 1
The jury in the federal court tryini
the case of Sam Baughman, of Lex
ington, against the Cincinnati, New
Orleans & Texas Pacific Railroad Co,.,
found for Baughman ia the sum 1 1
$1,600. . Baughman, while unloading t
car in Lexington, lost a leg.' , " ?,
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