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A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE HOME CIRCLE
VOLUME I.
RICHMOND, KENTUCKY, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1913.
NUMBER 17.,
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SHEEP INDUSTRY
IN DANGER FROM SHEEP ROT
COMMISSIONER OF AGRICUL
TURE GIVES ADVICE. -
Local Department Allowed to Handle
Rot Situation If Effort to Era
dicate Is ' Made.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Frankfort, Ky. Foot rot : has be
come a menace to the sheep industry
of Kentucky, the income from which
amounts to approximately $5,000,000
annually, and Commissioner of Agri-t
culture J. W. Newman lias sent out a
communication to the county judges
and livestock inspectors all over the
state, advising them as to the means
of curing the sheep and eradicating
the disease. Where a field has be
come thoroughly impregnated with the
bacilli, government 'experts say treat
ment -and eradication -cost more than
the value of the . sheep, and advise
slaughtering all -the sheep and aban
doning the field for two years. Stock
yards are forbidden to ship any of the
sheep, where cases are found among
carload shipments received by them,
and they are required to slaughter all
the sheep ' in the lot. The govern
ment has issued an order raising the
quarantine on Kentucky sheep for the
scabies May 1, but has consented to
give the local department an appcrtu
.nity to handle the foot rot situation
without; interference if measures are
taken to eradicate it.
CHARGED WITH HORSE STEALING
- Princeton, Ky. R. E. Decrese, giv
ing his age as 19 years and claiming
Louisville his home, was. arrested here
by Chief of Police C. T. Martin. " The
man was given a preliminary hearing
before City Judge J. T..Aikin on th3
charge of horse stealing-and held to
the June term of the Caldwell circuit
court. His bond was fixed at, $250 and
in default of it he was ordered to the
county jail. The young man denied
having stolen, the horse, saying he had
lieen asked by a man to get on him
and ride a short distance to ascertain
-whether or not he would buy him, and
while he was riding him the owner
came" on the scene and demanded his
horse.
CHOLERA SCARE UNFOUNDED.
Lexington,' Ky. The fact that the
ground- in the rear of the First Bap
tist church, which . was used as a bury
ing ground for victims of the cholera
epidemic of 1833, is now, being opened
in order to widen'-) the alley between
Short "and Main streets into a street,
has caused some apprehension less it
lead to a" fresh outbreak of the disease
even after a lapse of eighty years. . An
investigation, - however, . shows that
such fears are entirely groundless.
Aside from the long lapse of time prac
,. ticallyull the bodies in the old ceme
tery were removed after the chilera
of 1849, which proved the necessity
of a larger cemetery farther from the
center of the city. '".
KNIGHTS AND LADIES TO MEET.
Louisville, Ky. Samuel J. DeLong,
of Indianapolis, major general com
manding the , Uniform Rank of the
. Knights and Ladies of Honor, is in
Louisville to organize the york-.of
preparations for the session of the su
preme lodge and the second biennial
encampment of the order, which will
be held in Louisville September 8 to
12. The- encampment, it is said-, will
Ve a spectacular- ceremony.
VICTIM OF MAD DOG.
J Maysville, Ky. A dog, which it is
feared had the rabies, bit a. little
daughter of the Rev. Mr. Darapler at
Sand Hill, Lewis county.' The dog's
head was brought here for examina
tion. Mr. Dampler will leave at once
with his daughter, for Bowling Green,
where she will take the Pasteur treat
ment. The dog had attacked several
persons before it was killed;
OIL STRUCK AT GREAT DEPTH.
stt sville. Ky. The White Plaines
Oil and Gas Co., which has been drill-
ir? a well on the A. T. Hinton farm,
Rtnwlr a Me flow of oil ' at a depth of
. 300 feet. , This well is considered the
best recently found in the county, and
has attracted a srreat deal or atten
I tion on account of being in a territory
altogether different from the; other oil
."fields of thecounty. '' :');''""
NEW BANK FOR SARD IS.
,' Maysville, Ky. The Farmsrs' bank,
of Sardis, this county, with' a captal
stock of $15,000, filed articles of in
corporation here. The stock is divid
ed into 300 shares of $50 each. This
bank replaces the defunct Sardis bank.
arid ' is-to be controlled; by the citizens
of that section. . - . :
DELEGATE TO CONFERENCE.
Lexington, Ky. Dean Anna J. Ham
ilton, of State university, has been in
vited as a delegate to the fourth Amer
ican Peace Conference, which will be
held at St. Louis, May 1, 2 and 3, and
has accepted. There are five delegates
from Kentucky, Mrs. Thomas Jefferson
Smith, president of the Federation of
Women's clubs, Dean -Anna J. Hamil
ton, first vice president of the Ken
tucky' Federation of Women's clubs,
and Mrs. D. H. Dickey, editor of the
Woman's Club page of the Louisville
Times. The other two delegates have
not been announced.' This , is the sec
ond time Dean Hamilton has attended
the congress, having been in Holland
when the first congress was held at
The Hague. Headquarters this year
will be at the Odeon and delegates
from eleven South American and Cen
tral American countries have accepted
invitations to attend. President Wood
row Wilson is honorary president of
the congress and hopes to be present
at this year's meeting. Secretary of
State W. J. Bryan and Secretary Knox
are expected to address, the congress.
RECEIVERS FOR BIG COMPANIES.
Paducah, Ky. On petition of the
Paducah Veneer and Lumber Co., a
receiver was appointed for the Lucas
Land and Lumber Co. by Judge Wal
ter Evans in" the United States court.
Muscce Burnett, president of . the pe-
tioning company, was named as re
ceiver. Both are, Paducah corpora
tions. The estimated value of the as
sets of the Lucas Land and Lumber
Co. is about $350,000, with liabilities
aggregating $225,658. . The' petition al
leged that W. A. Lucas, president and
general manager of the Lucas Land
and Lumber Co., was dissipating the
assets -of the company, and that if his
hand was not removed and the affairs
of the concern brought to a speedy
close the stockholders would realize
nothing. '
FALLING GUN KILLS FARMER.
Harrodsburg, Ky. "You fellows
have to clear out of here because it
is my bedtime," said Benjamin Crouch,
a farmer, when he entered his home
at 9 o'clock and found that two young
men were visiting his daughters. The
men showed no signs of vacating and
Crouch reached for a shotgun that was
hanging on the wall. Two hours la
ter-he was dead, the gun having fallen
from his hands .and exploded..-. As
Crouch reached for the gun his wife
satd:- Watch out, that gun might be
loaded." Realizing that his joke might
prove to be serious, Crouch started to
replace the weapon and dropped it
The charge entered his leg. Crouch
was 50 years old.
FORGED CHECKS ARE PASSED.
Shelby ville, Ky. A number of petty
forgeries have been perpetrated in this
city recently. There were four in all
and all were passed upon four saloons
and in amounts of $15 each, except one
that "was for $20. The name of W. R.
Spann, a prominent farmer and im
porter of Jersey cattle, was signed to
each cheek and all were made payable
to "Henry Beckner and the word - for
"labor" noted on each. When shown
the checks Mr. Spann pronounced
them forgeries. The man who pre
sented them is described as a low
sized, chunky fellow of dark complex
ion with black hair and wearing a mus
tache. He was dressed as a farm
hand.
BUILD NEW COURTHOUSE.
Augusta, Ky. County Judge W. H.
Gibson has called a special meetina
of the Bracken fiscal court to be held
on May 6 to consider the question oi
building a new courthouse at Brooks
ville, the" old one having been con
demned. .Three or four years, ago the
fiscal court began setting aside a fund
for the purpose of building a court
bouse;.' and this year, there. will be
about $17,000 in the fund. There is ""a
difference of opinion as to whether oi
not the court will have the legal right
to begin , the erection of a courthouse
until the full amount necessary has
been collected, and the meeting of the
fiscal court on May. 6 has been cajled
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SALOONKEEPERS FINED.
Lexington," Ky. Twentythree sa
loonkeepers pleaded guilty to indict
ments for suffering gaming by permit
ting counter roulette and sixteen-dice
games. The total fines paid, were
$7,000. Pleas of not guilty were made
in a number of cases. - One of these
cases, against William Bradley, re
suited in a hung jury. '
HARLAN TO ADVERTISE.
Middlesboro, Ky. The Harlan
Board of Trade will spend $10,000 in
advertising Harlan county's natural re
sources. Also an urgent request and
a public donation will be offered the
Southern railroad to enter this terri
tory as a competitor .against, the Loty
isville & Nashville in the coal an4
lumber , business. - , , , ... ;
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jured. . The fire started. at two o'clock In the morning, and the guests, trapped on the upper floors, jumped from
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BRYAN TO COUNSEL
LEAVES CAPITAL TO SHAPE CALI
FORNIA ALIEN BILL.
Governor Johnson Notifies Secretary
of State That He Would Wel
come Visit.
. Sacramento," CaU-April ?5; -Governor
Johnson' replying to a message
from President Wilson on Wednesday
asking if it would be agreeable to the
governor and the legislature 'of this
state to have Secretary of State Wil
liam J. Bryan visit Sacramento to
counsel with them regarding the pro
posed alien land laws said: ,
"I shall at all times be pleased to
consult with the secretary of state,
and it will be entirely agreeable to me
to have the secretary visit Sacramento
as suggested in "your telegram."
Legislators . find themselves con
fronted with an unprecedented situa
tion" In the anti-alien land bill.
For ' President Wilson had tele
graphed both houses of the legislature,
and also the governor, that he wished
to send Secretary of State 'WTilliam
Jennings Bryan to Sacramento to
"counsel" with legislators concerning
the land laws to be adopted. :
AND NEAR
Chicago, April 24. Stanislaus Zybsz
ko of Poland defeated-. Constant , Le
Marin, the Belgian, "in a finish wrest
ling match at the Coliseum Wednes
day in two. straight ' falls. The time
was 53:00 and 39:30.
Johnstown, HPa., ; April " 26. Edna
Nedman, two yeais old, was rescued
and . resuscitated after being washed
through more than . 300 feet of six-teen-inch
culvert pipe -near her home
at Winber Thursday. L The child was
playing near a creek, and fell into the
water a few feet above where the
creek entered the .culvert under :a
road. The child was drawn into the
pipe and was ' unconscious when re
covereds ' . - . . -
Des Moines, Iowa, April 24. Gover
nor Clarke appointed former Secre
tary of Agriculture James Wilson
head of a commission to go abroad
and study such agricultural methods
as may be applicable to Iowa. v.
Raleigh, S. C:'April'26.-t The,, plant
and building of the Raleigh jNews. and
Observer, owned and . edited by, Jo
sephus Daniels, secretary oi. the navy,
was destroyed by- fire Thursday.
Washington, f 4pril 24. A social
trust has been formed by the ladies of
the cabinet and Mrs Marshall,' wife
of the vice-president, by which a. joint
; cabinet reception will be ' held every
Wednesday instead of the . individual
receptions : which have hitherto pre
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Tofleld, Alta., April, 26. The Fen
berg brothers, outlaws, who shot and
killed Detective Bailey of tba North
western mounted police and seriously
; injured Constable Whitely, escaped
into tne umoer tnrougn a lunnei irom
their lonely cabin at . Grassy Lake
Thursday night. ,: .
: ? Socorro, N; M., - April 26. Irwin
.Frazer. .and Francisco Grandado. mur
derers, were hanged In the county jail
here. '
SEVEN PERISHED IN HOTEL FIRE
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AUSTRIA IS DEFIED
'SCUTARI IS FROM TODAY MON
TENEGRIN," REPLY SENT
POWERS BY THE KING.
WAR APPEARS INEVITABLE
Government of Francis Joseph Tells
Nations to Turn Invaders Out of
Captured City or It Will Under
take the Task.
London,- April 26. A circular note
sent by the Austra-Hungarian govern
ment to the powers, Thursday, de
clared, "Take immediate combined
action to tarn the Montenegrins out
of Scutari or we shall do it alone."
The note was virtually an ultimatum.
Austria-Hungary declares she can
not permit, the Montenegrins to flout
the decision of the great powers. The
prestige of the European nations has
been violated, says the note, and Austria-Hungary
demands that the pow
ers decide promptly on the steps to be
taken to restore that prestige, adding
that if the powers should be unable to
reach a' speedy decision she will see
to it herself that the will of Europe is
respected and that the Montenegrins
vacate Scutari.
"Scutari is from today Montene
grin," on the other hand is the defiant
reply of King Nicholas to the invita
tion to surrender the hard-won Turk
ish citadel. ,
The king made this statement in the
course of a speech delivered fromthe
balcony of the royal palace at Cettinje.
Among his auditors were the ministers
of the Balkan states, who came to
congratulate him. He added:
" VShould Europe still think of
snatching Scutari from Montenegro,
which has given its life blood to. take
it, Europe . will have to carry out tine
task by force of arms." -v
CHANGES P. 0. SAVINGS PLAN
Burleson Gives Bureau to Third As
sistant Postmaster-General to
. Open Way for Improvements. .
. .Washington, April 26. An order
transferring f the postal savings sys
tem, which since Its creation has been
a separate bureau under, the direction
of the postmaster-general, to the bu
reau of the third assistant postmaster-
generaT, -effective ' May 1, was Issued
by Postmaster-General Burleson. In
tfce -future--the system will be known
as the division of postal savings.
"Under the new arrangements," said
Mr. Burleson In a statement, "the op
eration of the system in conjunction
with the - other financial divisions of
the department" will - not only avoid
the, duplication of - similar work and
make possible substantial economies
in "administration, but will open the
way for important improvements and
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. Bryce Quits as Ambassador. :
Washington, D C, .April 26. James
Bryce, British ambassador, laid down
the office he has held here more than
sx; years and left for New York to
begin. his.. trip liome. On Monday he
met , his successor,' Sir Cecil." Spring
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RECOVER 45 BODIES
RESCUERS IN MINE HAVE DIFFI
CULTY IN REACHING VICTIMS.
Dead Will Number at Least 115 and
. Hope That Any of Entombed Min
ers Are Alive Is Given Up.
Pittsburgh, Pa., April 26. Fortv-
nve bodies of miners have been taken
from the Cincinnati mine of the
Monongahela River Consolidated Coal
and- Coke company, a subsidiary of
the Pittsburgh Coal company, at Fin-
leyvllle, the scene Monday of a disas
trous explosion. Many other bodies.
it is said, have been located,, but the
greatest difficulty is being experienced
in finding means to convey the bodies
through wreckage to the surface.'
Seventy miners are still unaccount
ed for. These, with the forty-five
dead recovered, bring the probable
list of fatalities to 115.
The pumps have become disabled
and most of the mine is under a foot
of water. Unless the pumps are re
paired soon the mine may be in such
condition that it will be impossible to
get into it for days. Iv is believed
that the fire has been put out. No
more" tapping by entombed men is
heard.
The mining district about Courtney
is stunned. The wild grief of the
women and children who lost heads of
families and brothers in the disaster
has subsided and funerals are being
arranged, . both for those who have
been brought out and identified and
those who are still in the mine and
are known to be dead.
It was ascertained that there , were
two explosions and that 54 men who
escaped the first were caught by the
second.' The first was caused by an
accumulation of gases and the second
by coal dust. The 54 were caught as
they were running toward the .Court
ney entrance. All except the 70 who
escaped tried for that entrance; the
fortunate ones got out through the
Flnleyville and Mingo entries. -
Pittsburgh, Pa., April 26. Two of
the miners imprisoned in the Cincin
nati mine near Finleyville by the gas
explosion there three days ago .were
rescued shortly' after midnight." The
men were mqre dead than alive when
they were carried to the surface. The
finding of these men has given added
impetus to the "work of rescue, and
large parties are now searching In the
gangways In hope of, finding alive
others of the men who were caught in
the mine at the time of the explosion.
BASEBALL PROBE IS ASKED
Representative. Demands Inquiry Into
Alleged Trust "Ty" Cobb Case
.Causes Action.
Washington, April 24. Declaring
that the American "and National
leagues of, professional baseball clubs
was '.'the most audacious and auto
cratic, trust in the world," Represent
tative Gallagher of Illinois on Tues
day introduced, a resolution In the
house calling upon Attorney General
McReynolds to make a thorough In
vestigation into -Its workings;. The
case of Tyrus R, Ccbb, center fielder
of the Detroit, clati - and leading bats
man In the American league- last sea
Bon.' was the-direct cause for the in
troduction oi the- resolution asking- for
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S7.0Ij0,DD0 WAS LOST
OIL MAGNATE MEETS CHARGES
BY CLAIMING CONFIDENCE
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FINANCIAL DEAL IN DETAIL
Henry Clay Pierce on Witness Stand
Asserts That Senator Joseph Bailey '
Was the Recipient of Securities
- as Assignee;
St. Louis, April 28. Testifying here
Friday before Special Commissioner
Muench in the suit of the National
Bank of Commerce to recover from
him securities alleged to be worth
$1,500,000, which had been pledge!
with the bank, Henry Clay Pierce
told how he had become Involved in
the Tennessee Central railway deal to
the extent of nearly $7,000,000 through
financial transactions engineered' by
officers of the bank. He blamed' his
entanglement mainly on what he
termed misplaced confidence in the
late J. C. Van Blarcom, president of
the bank.
Pierce testified regarding the con
nection of former Senator Jo.seph
Bailey of Texas, that it was his under
standinL that the $1,500,000 stock of
the Nashville Terminal company,
which the National Bank of Com
merce seeks to recover, was turned
over to United States Senator Joseph
W. Bailey of Texas, as assignee of
the Tennessee Construction company,
after the loan for which it was
pledged had been paid.
He said: "In 1901 or 1902, I was
forced into a larger interest In the
Tennessee Central enterprise than
other individual subscribers to the
syndicate, when my son-in-law, Rich
ards, in my absence and without my
knowledge signed my name to a
guarantee to buy $1,500,000 of the first
mortgage bonds of the railway. Since
the collapse of the syndicate it has
been necessary for me to advance
over $4,000,000 in cash to the Tennes
see Central railway to pay its ex
penses. t
"After the syndicate collapsed,
Senator Joseph W. Bailey of . Texas,
was made the assignee of the Tennes
see Construction company and all of
its properties were turned over to
him. He was authorized to take
charge of the affairs of the company
and wind them up.
"Senator Bailey sold over $4,000,000
worth of property of the company, and
it was my understanding that from
the sale of these properties the loan
at the Bank of Commerce, for which
the Nashville Terminal stock wa3
pledged, was paid, and that the stock
then went back to Bailey as as
signee for the construction . com
pany. "The stock was later pledged to the
Standard Trust company of New York
by Senator Bailey, and remained for
three years. It was finally delivered
to Eben Richards, on my order, after
the trust company had notified
me that it had no further claim
to it.
FIND MISS R0M0NA BORDEN
Detectives Discover Missing Girl With
Two Women in Boston
HoteL
New York, April 28. Romona Bor
den, : the - missing daughter of Gail
Borden, has been found in Boston. A
telegram to Mr. Borden at the Man
hattan hotel shortly before midnight
Friday told him that his daughter
with two women had been located in
the Hotel Vendome. Mr. Borden
started at once for Boston.
The movements of the runaway girl
and her older companions, as traced
by Mr. Borden's detectives, include an
evening spent in New Haven at the
Taf t hotel and a "decoy" departure
for Boston on Thursday morning. The
detectives believe that the little party
purchased tickets to Boston only as a
' blind and that they doubled back on
their tracks before arriving in : the-v
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:girl has a narrow escape
Plunges From Head of Statue of Lib
erty and Is Save by Chum
Clinging to H.r Dress.
. New York, April 28. Margaret Don
ovan, eighteen years old, sas saved
Friday from a 300-foot fall from the
head of the Statue of Liberty by her
chum, Gladys Revere, who caught hold -
of her dress as she was slipping from . .
. the window ledge that surrounds Miss
Liberty's crown. .; ,
Helen Taft a Bridesmaid.
Washington, April 26. Miss Helen
Taft, daughter of former President
: William Howard Taft, visited Wash-
ington the first time Saturday since
the inauguration of President Wilson,
when she acted as a bridesmaid at the
wedding of Miss Alys Apple ton Mey
er, daughter of former Secretary of
the Navy George Von L.. Meyer, to
Lieut. Raymond P; Rogers, U. 8. N.
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