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Swell Turnoutstwo sepcial premiums offered by

the H H Babcock Buggy Cothrough their agents Yerkes Kenney was one of the most hotly contested the fair last week

The of the specials wasthe horse had to be driven to a

Babcock vehicleMr C C Harris with Ashland

Maid won the first premium and MrShropshire driving Rooseveltlanded the second

This hustlingfirm of Yerkes Xenney did much toward the success ofthe fair Their display in the twotents of handsome vehicles and farm

not haveat any fair in the State

Railroad MeetingThe citizens of Moorefield Nicholas

county and held a mass meeting in Moorefield school house for thepurpose of devising means of raisingthe bonus which is to be subscribed byNicholas count to the Carlisle andOlympian Springs railroad The meeting was one of the most enthusiastic ofthe series of meetings which have beenheld in that county C S Templemanwas elected chairman Short talkswere made by H R Bryson of Carlisle and J R Shaw of the KauffmanShaw Construction Companypromoters of the road Mr Shawstated that Nicholas county has beenasked to and that themoney should not be due until the roadShall be completed

A mass meeting of the citizens ofNicholas county will be held in Carlisle on Saturday September 14 atwhich time the bonus for the county isexpected to be secured-

A meeting will also be held inSharpsburg on Saturday September 14

Big SuitA G Patterson Auditors Agent

has filed suit against the LouisvilleProperty Company in Bell county forpossession of about 50000 acres ofcoal lands alleging that the landsreally belonged to the L N railroadand are therefore subject to escheat

o the StateWill Run il Pushed

An intimation that President Roosevelt may be persuaded to run again forthe Presidency under certain circumstances was given out by hiss soninlaw Nicholas Longworth just beforehe sailed from Honolulu for San Francisco

President Roosevelt will not become a candidate for renomination

the country demands it he saidHe has firmly made up his mind to stickto this course and only a more

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200 Doomed to DeathTwo hundred men are believed to be

doomed in Las Espera o mine in Mexico where they are hemmed in by flamesand their only hope is for aid to reachthemRescuers have made little headwayin reaching the imprisoned men

The cause is an explosion that is believed to have killed at least twentyseven minersThe miners are furious at the

as this is the second explosionand precautions have been taken toguard the mine against possible attacks

Poison Put in Fine Fish PondSome miscreant whose identity it

will be difficult to discover poisonedthe fish in the large pond at L VHarkness Walnut Hall stock farm inFayette county on the Newtown pikeand nearly a thousand pounds of deadfish were gathered from the water surface and hauled away Saturday andSunday v

The pond was well stocked with bassnewlights bream and other varietiesHundreds of these fish weighing froma few ounces to five pounds were foundfloating on the water Saturday morningand an investigation showed that practically all the fish in the pond had beenkilledThe

supposition is that some personor persons who had become offendedbecause they had been refused permission to fish there had poisoned thewater the fish Thepond was too close to the farm housefor the miscreants to have used dynamtie and the belief is that poison wasresorted to An effort will be madeto discover the guilty persons

Monthly Crop Report

bring good news to the corn and toTracco growers as well as other

Septembers report issued byCommissioner Vreeland says

Notwithstanding a very late and unspring under favorable

the month of Augustcrops are maturing rapidly and whilethey are late unless we have earlyfrosts the prospects are excellent fora good crop of corn and tobaccoThreshing of all grain is about completed The yieldof wheat was smallaveraging ten bushels to the acre forthe State the quality being good

The prospects for a full crop ofcorn is 88 per cent and the conditionof the crop is 91 per cent

Fall plowing has progressed nicelysections and the indications

are that the usual average of wheatwill be sown

Some tobacco has been cut and onsticks but the most of it is stilling and lat e plantings are still in danger of early frosts

Meadows have yielded an averagecrop of hay and it has been saved as arule in good condition Pastures have

good and all live stock is in fineshape Hogs are reported scarce andhigh in some sections

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Byron 0 Billingsley 60 years ofage formerly of Lexington died at 4

body was brought to Paris for interment and the funreal was held yesterday

Bryon OBillingsley Was born incounty Virginia now West Vir

ignia and mored to Kentucky druingWar He held a position in

the quartermasters departmentCamp Nelson and at thewar accepted a position under WillardDavis Internal Revenue Collector forthis district Several years later he

ernment by Secretary Ben H Bristowand was one of a committee of three todestroy and macrate recalled papermoney which is done twice a week

He married Miss Eliza Burbridge of

May Stanley of Middlesbourne WVa and George Billingsley of LexingtonMr

Billingsley was a very ableman and was popular with all his

He was an expert accountantpossessing the rare faculty of adding

person adds one column

Mansfield Left 10000The will of Richard Mansfield who

It bequeaths all the property realand personal to his widow Susan Hageman Mansfield and also appoints herexecutrixMrs

was known to thetheatregoing public as Beatrice CameronHer attorney stated that the personal property of the estate amounted to10000 and that there was no real

estate

Twelve KilledThe ChicagoMinneapolis flyer

Rock Island railroad was wrecked nearIa and twejve persons were

injured The passenger train left the rails and crashed intoa freight which was standing on a sidetrack The injured were taken toWaterloo Ta and placed in a hospital

Million Dollar Failureworst failures in the

financial world in recent years is thatof the BoceyCragan Lumber Companyof Lexington with liabilities of about

125000 ant 100000 assets Thestartling eature is the involving of

field Tenn Fincastle LumberTuthill Patterson

Company of Cincinnati 0 footing up nearly a million dollars liability

Inyoiuntary petitions in bankrupctyhave been filed against all these concerns in the United States Court ofCincinnati Covington and Frankfort

have in banks from Maineto California and from the Guif to theLakes and scores of have beenemployed in the proceedings

LATEST NEWS

The Great Council of Redmen metin Norfolk Va yesterday

The Krupps are constructing 30 J2inch gunsf or Japanese battleships

A strike of 630 telegraph operatorson the Cincinnati Southern Railway isthreatened

A hailstorm at Richmond and vicinityalmost destroyed the growing tobaccocrops

A pearl weighing 75 grams and valued at 1500 was found in White RiverIndiana

The Southern Cotton Association has

The Kentucky AntiSaloon League isarranging for a big rally in Lexingtonon October 20th

The famous Cliff House a noted landmark of the Pacific coast burned atSan Franciso Saturday night

A terrific hailstorm at PaoliIcd demolished everything out of doors andkilled poultry and even hogs and cattle

The passers of bothspecie and currency have been particularly busy in Louisville and Cincinnatiof late

The English end of the TobaccoTrust has engaged American counseland will join vigorously in the defenseof the Governments suit against it

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Chairman of the House Committee onRivers and nominated byacclamation for Mayor of Cleveland atthe Republican City Convention Saturday Mayor Tom Johnson will be hisopponent

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day from a two weeks trip thrqughthe east including JamestownYork City and Washington Cityat Jamestown she

she being the delegate to that Bodyfrom the Kentucky Association TheConvention was well attended therebeing representatives from mostUnited States and from t

The first morning of the Conventionthe osteopaths welcomedat the Inside Inn by the Governor ofVirginia Thursday was a setaside by the Governor of Virginia

Thursday was a day set aside bythe Exposition OsteopathyDay and in the afternoon of that dayan informa reception was given inthe Virginia Building

Next year the National Conventionwill be held in Kirksville Missourithehome of founder of the science Dr AT Still The meeting will also commemmorate the eightieth birthday ofthe Old Doctor as he is familiarlycalled

At Kirksville is located the oldestand largest of the osteopathic collegesThe Alumni of that college of whichDr Petree is Secretary will duringthe year employ a well known NewYork artist to go to Kirksville andpaint a Dr Still which willbe formally presented to the collegeat the convention

A Watermelon StoryAn exchange tells of a farmer in a

neighboring county who one springhad left on his hands several barrelsof slightly soured sorghum molassesHe planted a large patch of

and just to be projectingabout a quart of the molasses in

each hill The result was he raisedthe largest finest flavored melonsever raised in this or any other countyPeople came for miles to sweeten theirtooth on the famous melons

McCrearys OpionionIn an interview at ashington Sena

tor McCreary said that the entireDemocratic ticket from GovernorCommissioner of Agriculture wilHjbeelected When asked about the

race he said although it is earlyDemocrats are discussing the contestwith much interest He gavehis opinion that Kentucky would easther votes in the nominatingtion in 1908 and at the November election William Jennings Bryan aidhe many Kentuckians

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Louisville in his annual report Fridaymorning advocates that all childrenas soon as they are born be vaccinatedand says that he believes that a lawrequiring such vaccination ought to beestablished Dr Whittenberg saysthat in all of his superintendency ofthe hospital which has been for thelast five years of all the persons vaccinated at the hospital none have diedof small pox He says that if childrenare vaccinated young they will sufferlittle or no pain from the serum andwill be free from all danger fromsmallpox

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