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A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE HOME CIRCLE
VOLUME I.
KICHMOND, KENTUCKY, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1913. '
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NUMBER 21.
IffCARIY KILLED
IN FIRST ROUND
BLOW FROM PELKEY BELOW HIS
HEART FELLS THE GIANT IN .
; FIRST, ROUND. '
PRINCIPALS ABE ARRESTED
Dislocated Neck Caused the Death Say
the Physician Who Performed
Autopsy Arena Is Burned.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Calgary, Alberta. Luther McCarty,
recognized white heavyweight cham
pion pugilist of the world, was knock
ed out and killed by Arthur Pelkey in
the first round of their scheduled ten
round bout here. A short right hook
landing just below the heart staggered
the champion and he fell to the can
vas, djiing less than 30 minutes later.
The authorities placed Pelkey under
arrest, and he is being held pending
the action of the coroner's jury.
Pelkey had landed but four blows
during the minute and " forty-five sec
onds that the men were in the ring,
and McCarty had just broken out of a
clinch when he raised his hands and
toppled backward to the canvas.
The knockout ; blow was a terrific
hight-hand blow over the heart. , Mc
Carty collapsed. He was carried from
.the ring after the referee had counted
him out, but never regained conscious
ness.
Here is the history of the fatal
round The big 1 fellows posed for a
photograph and then sparred off.
. Pelkey was sure of himself and began
using a left jab to the face. He land
ed three straight lefts and McCarty
then. made a weak come-back with the
right to the body. Then, when Mc
. Carty rushed, Pelkey met him with a
- stiff left to the jaw, and a right to the
heart. McCarty wavered for a mo
ment, staggered 'and flopped on his
back.
A dislocated neck caused the death
of Luther McCarty during his fight
with Arthur Pelkey, according to in
formation given out following an au
topsy conducted by Dr. Moshier at the
Tequest of Coroner Costello.
It was stated by the physicians that
death undoubtedly had been caused by
the dislocated neck and that the heart
was found to be- sound. A clot of
blood on the brain aided in convinc
ing the physicians that "death was not
due to the blow near the heart. '
Tommy Burns' prize fight arena, in
which Luther McCarty was. killed in
the fight with Arthur Pelkey, was
burned to the ground.
"ASHES HURLED INTO FLAMES.
San Francisco. The ashes of Joa
quin Miller, "Poet of the Sierras,"
were cast into the flames on the fu
neral hill which had been raised with
bis own hands. Nearly 1,000 persons
made the pilgrimage to The Heights,
the poet's home in the Fruitvale Hills,
and stood with" bowed heads during
the ceremonies, conducted by mem
bers of. the Bohemian Club, in accord
ance with Miller's last request. Col.
John P. Irish, for many years Miller's
fellow member of the club, applied the
torch and cast the ashes on the flames,
while the club choir' of 40 voices sang
a hushed threnody written by the poet.
AUTO RUNS WILD ON FERRY.
Camden; N. J. Hundreds of passen
gers were thrown into a panic, one
man was drowned and two boys in
jured when an automobile with three
passengers started forward on a ferry
boat entering the dock here and was
brought to a standstill only after it
had plunged through the iron guard
rail and half way over the front of the
boat. William F. Goos, a deck hand,
endeavored to hold back the heavy au
tomobile and was pushed into the
-river and drowned. Philip Kurtz and
Jacob Mintzer, seventeen-year-old
boys, who were, in the path of the ma
chine, were thrown down and injured.
BEER BOTTLE EXPLODES. ,
Portage, Wis. Harry: Sherman,
manager of a stock company, was se
riously 'injured. In the "struggle
scene" of a play, Miss Florence Frey
was to strike . Sherman with a -beer
bottle. As she was raising the missile
over Sherman's head, the bottle ex
ploded, and the glass penetrated Sher
man 8 face, nearly severing his nose.
It was feared he would bleed to death,
but a doctor in the audience stopped
the flow. Coolness on the part of the
, house attendants prevented a threat
ened panic , and the audience retired.
Sherman was taken to a hospital.
FOUR ARE INJURED. '
Toledo, Ohio. Four men were hurt,
two probably seriously, when the two
.motorcycles on which they were riding
collided on the Point Place road, about
one mile north of the city limits."
FOR WORLD PEACE
KING GEORGE SOUNDS FIRST PO
LITICAL NOTE OF ROYAL
VISITS TO BERLIN.
KAISER'S DAUGHTER A BRIDE
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Princess Victoria Louise Is Wedded to
''"prince Ernest August, Who . Be
comes Ruler of New -State Created
by Emperor 'WiltTafn. ? " L
Berlin, May 26. "The preservation
of peace Is my fervent desire, as It
was the chief aim and object of my
dear- father's life," , declared .... King
George of England Saturday at a
luncheon given by the British ambas
sador to th members of royalty, who
were assembled here to attend the
wedding of Princess Victoria - Louis,
Emperor William's only daughter, and
Prince Ernest of Cumberland.
This is the first political note
sounded during the wedding ceremo
niesof Emperor William's only daugh
ter, for which three emperors and
many princes are gathered. The
king's words seem, according to the
opinion expressed in influential cir
cles, to epitomize the chief signifi
cance of the royal visits as a' demon
stration of the peaceful and friendly
relations among the three powerful
dynasties.
Love . and diplomacy entered into
the marriage Saturday of Princess
Victoria Lcuise and Prince Ernst Au
gust. In brilliancy and in point of the
great number of royal 'personages
present the nuptials far outshone any
similar event during the past decade.
Kings, monarchs of lesser rank and
crown princes and princesses saw the
fair-haired, blue-eyed twenty-one-year-
old daughter of the German kaiser
become tha wife of the strapping
twenty-six-year-old prince, and with
the ceremony was healed a breach
between the houses of Hohenzollern
and Guelph which had existed for
about half a century. The ceremonies
really began Thursday, with the mar
riage ceremonies Saturday as the cli
max. The civil ceremony took, place
in the new marble palace at Potsdam;
the religious rites were celebrated-in
this city. -
Princess Victoria Louise had for her
attendants three of -the prettiest girls
of her own caste In Europe. They
were Princess Mary, daughter of King
Charles of Roumania: Grand Lnicness
Olga, eldest daughter of the czar ot
Russia, and Princess Yolanda of Italy
As would be Imagined, the wedding
gifts are almost fabulous. Their value
is estimated at close to $3,000,080
The kaiser was so glad that the old
auarrel with the house of Guelph was
settled that, after the marriage had
been arranged, he promised to create
a new German state and make the
groom the ruler- of It. Accordingly
Prince Ernst became the .. duke of
Brunswick and the grand duke of
Lunebure. This gives the young hus
band a responsible job and makes him
the equal in rank with the kings of
Saxony and Wurtemburg and the
prince regent of Bavaria. A consider
able portion of the province of Han
over, which belongs to Prussia, was
added to the new states.
TWO KILLED IN FEUD FIGHT
Four Others Seriously Wounded
. Brother Kills Brother, Son
Shoots His Father.
Merigold, Miss., May 26. Five min
utes after a trivial fight between Mar
ion Henry and a man named John Law
had started Saturday, In which both
were hurt, two men were dead and
four seriously wounded, a brother
had killed a brother and a son. had
seriously wounded his father. With
the exception of Law, all parties to
the 'tragedy were well-known resi
dents, wealthy loggers and farmers
The dead : Will McMullen and Jake
McMullen, brothers. .
The injured: Marion Henry, Sr.,
Marion Henry, Jr., D. J. Breen, a prom-
nent mill owner, and John Law,
stranger. "
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' A deep-seated and long standing
hatred existed between the McMullens
and the Henrys, father and son.
Amputates His Own Foot.
Penn Yan, N. Y., May 26. Isaac
Bassett of this county is a man of
nerve. Fearing he would die from gan
grene which originated in his large
toe, Bassett amputated the diseased
member a week ago with his pocket
knife. ThlH, however,' did not arrest
the progress of the disease, so he cut
off his foot Saturday with the same
surgical ' instrument. Bassett la seventy-five
years old. He lives in the
extreme western part ,of the county;
many miles from a physician.
Thugs Beat Business Man. .
Cleveland, 0 May 26. Thomas F.
McMahon, head of the McMahon &
Troughton Candy company,- was - se
verely beatin and robbed Friday; by
two thugs. " Police captured one man.
vfa gave Uie name of James Reed.
GEORGE P. NEWETT
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George P. Newett is the editor ant
publisher, of Iron Ore, of Ishpeming,
Mich., who is being sued for libel by
Colonel Roosevelt. The case is set
for trial this week.
H. M. FLAGLER IS DEAD
OIL AND RAILWAY MAGNATE
SUCCUMBS IN FLORIDA HOME.
Greatest Achievement of Life Was
Building of Railroad From
Miami to Key West.
West Palm Beach, Fla., May 22.
Henry M. Flagler, wealthy railroad
builder and owner, who has been seri
ously ill for some time, died here
Tuesday. The end came with mem
bers of the magnate's family at his
bedside. Mr. Flagler has been sick
for three months, although it was
thought several weeks ago that he
would recover.
Mr. Flagler was born at Canandal
gua, N. Y., in 1830. Little is known of
his early life except that he was clerk
in a country grovery in Orleans coun
ty, Michigan, while In histeens. Later
he moved to Saginaw, Mich., where he
engaged in the manufacture ' of salt
Becoming interested in. the possibili
ties of the petroleum Industry, he
moved to Cleveland,, where he or
ganized the company of Rockefeller,
Andrews & Flagler, engaging in the
refining of oil.. The Standard Oil
company was the, outgrowth of this
venture.
In 1885 Mr. Flagler paid his first
visit to Florida and became impressed
with the business possibilities pre
sented there by the railroad field in
connection with the development of
winter resorts. He built the Florida
East Coast railroad and later erected
the Ponce DeLeon and Alcazar hotels
at a cost of $3,000,000. His greatest
achievement was the extension of his
railroad from Miami to Key West
INSANE PATIENT KILLS FIVE
Roommates Slain Without Struggle as
They Sleep Guards ' Across the
Hall Hear Nothing.
Blackfoot, Idaho, May 23. Peter
Bradovitch, an insane, Austrian con
fined in the southern Idaho insane
asylum here, killed his five roommates
by beating them over the head with a
table as they lay asleep Wedifesday. . .
, Thre was no evidence of a struggle
between the maniac and his victims
except on the body of Peterson. Two
bruises on his arm showed that he J
had tried to ward off the blows. So
quietly did Bradovitch accomplish the
killing that guards sleeping across the
haJ were not awakened.
Bradovitch was committed to the in
sane asylum two years ago from the
state penitentiary, where he waB serv
ing a life sentence for murder.
MEN0CAL IS CUBfN . HEAD,
Is Inaugurated President of hsland Re
public Promises Clean Business
Administration.
Havana, Cuba, may 22. With the
Inauguration of Gen.' Mario G. Menocal
as president - in . succession to Jose
Miguel Gomez and of- Dr. Enrique
Jose Varona as vice-president the
Cuban republic Tuesday entered on a
new phase or its existence in a spirit
of high hopa ; for -the preservation of
peace and the establishment of tbe
prosperity of the island.
JAPAN'S RULER ILL
SLIGHT COLD DEVELOPS INTO
PNEUMONIA AND MIKADO HAS
HIGH FEVER.
DOCTORS ISSUE A BULLETIN
TheyTell of Increased Temperature,
But lnsit There Is No Cause for
Alarm Wilson Cables His Sym
pathy to Emperor.
Tokyo, May 24. The mikado la seri
ously ill from an attack of pneumonia.
It had been known for several days
that the emperor was ill but it was
not until Thursday that the Illness
was known to be serious.
The court physicians issued the
following bulletin:
"The emperor, who has been suffer
ing from a e light cold for several days,
has developed Inflammation of the
lungs. Wc do not consider, that his
condition justifies anxiety, but his
temperature Is high."
Yoshihito, who is thirty-four years
old, has never been of robust health
and at the time he ascended tbe
throne fears were entertained that his
reign would not be a long one. From
time to time have come rumors that
the good man," as he is known by his
subjects, had developed tuberculosis,
but these were always promptly de
nied officially; t
Washington, May 24. Secretary of
State Bryan and Ambassador Chlnda
will resume the active discussion of
the California land law situation next
week, according to -Information avail
able the state department Thursday.
Umcial dispatches from Tokyo In
dicated that the Japanese government
is far from being satisfied with the
American reply to the original protest
against the-enactment of the Webb
law. The United States'reply, accord
ing to foreign office officials at Tokyo,
Is regarded there as being entirely
too frank, in its tenor and in a man
ner insulting to the Japenese nation.
- Acting tactfully at a time jwhen re
lations between the two governments
are reported to be a trifle strained.
President Wilson sent a message to
the emperor- of Japan, offering his
hope that the latter have a speedy re
covery from the Illness from which
he is suffering. The cable follows:
"His Imperial Majesty Joshi Hito,
Emperor of Japan, Tokyo.
"Reports received through press
agencies are current to the effect that
your majesty is indisposed. I have
heard these reports with sorrow and
with great concern. Should they prove
to be true I desire to offer to your
majesty for myself and for the gov
ernment and people of. the United
Statesthe assurance of my' sympathy
and to express the ardent hope that
your illness may prove to be of brief
duration and your recovery rapid and
complete. . .
"WOODROW WILSON."
FLA
OFF THE WIRE
Geneva, Switzerland, May 21. King
Peter of Servla will abdicate as soon
as peace is restored in the Balkans.
The king is sixty-nine years .old and
the carrying on . of the war against
Turkey has broken his health.
Memphis, Tenn., May 21. City cen
sors of moving pictures placed em
bargo on all pictures showing dances
such as the bunny hug, grizzly bear
and rags. Everything suggesting such
must stop at once. ' ,
Edinburgh, May 23. A bomb was
exploded in 'the Royal observatory
here Wednesday, making a big hole in
the - second floor and destroying a
large quantity . -.of valuable instru
ments,. Suffragettes are suspected.
Baltimore, Md., May 23. One person
is known to have been drowned and
several men, women and children are
reported missing as a result of a col
lision between the Bay freight steam
er Avalon Jid the Bugeye Elijah, with
about 40 berry pickers aboard In the
harbor here.
SIX DIE IN TRAIN WRECK
Cars Are Swept 300 Feet Down Moun
tain Side by Landslide Caused by
Cloudburst.'
'Huntington, W. Va., May 23.--S1X
persons were killed and a number In
jured Tuesday night when- a mixed
train on the Sewell branch of the Ches
apeake & Ohio railroad was swept 300
feet down a, steep mountain side by
a landslide and completely ; swal
lowed up. " -j . . .
- Boiler Makers' Strike Growing.
Grand Rapids,-Mich., May 24. The
strike of tlte 'Pere Marquette boiler
makers Of . the Wyoming yards as
sumed more serious aspects Thursday
when 2001 machinists and helpers
walked out in & sympathetic strike.
JUDGE R. C. FLANNIGAN
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Judge Richard C. Flannigan of Ish
peming, Mich., is the magistrate be
fore whom the Rcosevelt-Newett libel
case is oh hearing this week.
PLAN PARTY CHANGES
REPUBLICANS WANT SENATORS
ON CONGRESSIONAL BODY.
Progressive Conciliators Appointed by
Senator Sherman, Will Meet
Cummins.
Washington, May 24. Reorganiza
tion of the Republican congressional
committee to include senators as well
as representatives was planned at a
conference of 31 regular and progres
sive Republican senators who met and
selected a committee of five to bring
about a joint caucus with Republicans
of the house on the new plan. , The
Democratic ' congressional committee
Is already reorganizing on similar
tines, at the suggestion of President
Wilson.- - ;
The conciliators, appointed by Sen
ator Sherman of Illinois, who was em
powered to do so by. the progressive
Republicans ' who met in Chicago,
with Senator Cummins to plan for
a presentation of their scheme to
the executive committee of the Re
publican; national committee, which
Chairman Charles D. Hilles has call
ed for a session here.
The members of the conciliation
committee are Senators Cummins,
Crawford and Jones, Representatives
Crampton of Michigan, Rogers of Mas
sachusetts and Anderson of Minneso
ta, and ex-Governor Hadley of Mis
souri, .
The members of the committee of
five selected by the senators to ar
range for a joint conference with the
House Republicans are Senators Gal
Unger, Townsend, Clark of Wyoming,
Norrls and Jones.
BRITON RULERS IN BERLIN
Emperor William, Welcomes; King
George and Queen Mary to, Ger
man Capital,
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Berlin, Germany, May 23. True
"Hohenzollern weather" brilliant
sunshine and cloudless sky set in for
the wedding activities of Princess Vic
toria Louise, daughter of the German
emperor and empress, and Prince
Ernst August of Cumberland. The of
ficial receptions began here Wednes
day with the arrival of the bridegroom
and the state entry into Berlin of King
George and Queen Mary of England.
At. the station awaiting .the : arrival
of the royal , train were Emperor Wil
liajm and Crown Prince Frederick Wil
liam In the uniforms of their British
regiments, with the empress and the
crown princess. All the royal per
sonages and princes assembled in Ber
lin and a mass of brilliantly -uniformed
military and navaj officers and min
isterial and court functionaries sur
rounded them. '
THREE GUNNERS ARE KILLED
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Rifle Bursts in Practice In Fort Moul
' trie Shaking Entire City of
Charleston, S. C. v" '
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' Charleston,' S. c:, May 24 Three
men were instantly killed and nine
others badly injured by the explosion
of one of the three-inch rifles' in Fort
Moultrie In the harbor off tils city
Thursday evening.
The explosion which occurred, blew
off the breech block of the gun and
almost annihilated the force that was
working it. O ' 1 '
The roar of the explosion (was dis
tinctly heard throughout the city "and
the resulting shock made all the
houses tremble. ' '; - "
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JAIL DELIVERY
NIPPED IN BUD
DASH FOR FREEDOM PLANNED
,FOR JUNE 9, WHICH IS FLOW
! ER MISSION DAY.
LEADERS 60 TO EDDYVILLE
Were To Grab Women of Mission So
cieties and Use Them as Shields
From Attacks of Guards. '
Woatern Newspaper Union News Service.
Frankfort, Ky. An order entered at
the Kentucky reformatory to transfer
to Eddyville penitentiary, Allen Hall,
a murderer of Pulaski county, serving
a life sentence, and Clarence Fryer, a
negro murderer of Garrard county,
serving a life sentence, disclosed that
Warden Wells nipped in the bud a des
perate plan for a general delivery of
convicts.
It was planned to make the delivery
on the Sunday the local baseball sea
son opened, but the death of Warden
Mudd prevented it. Soon after War
den Well took charge he scented
trouble, and as a result of an exami
nation of 30 convicts he learned that
the attempted delivery would be made
June 9, which is Flower Mission Day.
The blowing of the prison whistle for
dinner was to be the signal for the
convicts to attack the guards simul
taneously and disarm them. The con
victs planned to grab the women of
the mission societies, who were dis
tributing flowers, and use them a3
shields from the attacks of the out
side guards.
No Tax Is Due on Notes.
The Kentucky and Louisville Mutual
Insurance Co. will not have to pay
taxes to the state on the notes held by
J the company against the policyholders.
Chief Justice Hobso'n determined that
the notes upon which the common
wealth was endeavoring to collect
taxes have no cash value at a volun
tary sale and are only an obligation to
the company to pay the assessment
when they become due. The Jefferson
circuit court adjudged that the notes
were of value unless such assessment
as had been paid, on them and were
subject to taxation as omitted prop
erty. The company holds $62,000
worth of such notes which are given
by the policyholders to guarantee the
payment of the assessment when they
come due. The judgment of the lower
court was reversed.
Editor To Be Honored.
Work on the monument to be placed
over the grave of Theodore O'Hara,
noted as poet and editor, in the Frank
fort cemetery, probably will begin
shortly. Plans for the monument hav
been under way since July, 1912, and
it. was 'announced that a general con
ference between Lieut. Gov. McDer
mott and the committee will be held
in Frankfort soon. Thi3 committee
is composed of Mrs. Jennie C. Morton,
Miss Sally Jackson and W. W. Long
moor. The top of the monument will
be in the shape of a harp. On one side
will be the first verse of "The Bivouac
of the Dead," which was written at the
exercise incident to the unveiling of
the sate and national monument In the
Frankfort cemetery.
Militia To Be Inspected.
. Capt. E. L. D. Breckinridge, inspec
tor instructor with, the organized
militia of Kentucky, will inspect Com
pany K7 Carrolltoh, May 24; Company
L, Pineville, May 27, and Company I,
Lexington, May 28. The date of theN
state encampment of the Kentucky
brigade, National guard, under com
mand of Brig. Gen. Roger D. Williams,
at Middlesboro, has been fixed as July
16-23, inclusive.
Whitley-Pine Knot Contest.
In deciding that the county seat elec
tion of September 7, 1913, when Whit
ley City defeated Pine Knot for county
seat of the new county of McCreary,
the court of ; appeals " Instructed the
county judge to call an election for
the regular November election day.
The 1912 election waB void because
the constitution requires all . elections
to be held on the regular election day.
Execution Day Is FJxed.
Gov.'McCreary fixed June 20 the date
for electrocuting Thomas Lawson and
Thomas Martin, who killed Hardin In
gram in Shelby county, and June 27
the date for the execution of General
May, who killed Belle Meredith and
her husband in Harlan county.. .
Mercer and Madison Not Raised.
Madison and Mercer counties' as
sessments were not raised by the
State Board of Equalization. Carroll
county was raised 10 , per cent on
land; 1 Qwens, 15 on land and 10: on
lots; Rockcastle, 10 cn land and lots,
and Scott, 6 on land and' lots. " '