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A i THE WINCHESTER NEWS Pall SOLONS TO TAKE 4 VACATION TODAY Final Adjournment Is Fixed at March 12 I APPOINTMENTS SUSTAINED Senate JudlciaryCommittee Replies to Governor Harmons Criticism Saying Action Was Legal and Proper and Will Stand Quote Opinions to i Justify Confirmation of MorrisEx ecutive Names Sullivan of Butler as Railway Commissioner Columbus 0 Jan 22 Although the senate and house will recess at the close of todays session until Feb 15 the finance committee will not enjoy a vacation Instead they will take up even more work than anticipated for the expectation that appropriations for two years instead of one as originally planned will be authorized before the solons adjourn March 12 that date having been decided upon when the house concurred in Senator MatherJs joint resolution The senate confirmed two of Governor Harmons appointees which forecast a wholesale change in the state department agriculture The governor ignored the recommendations made by the agricultural convention held here last week and appointed as members of the board Former Congressman Jacob Beidler of Lake county and Jesse Cross of Payette county Republican and Democrat respectively With the confirmation of these men the board is taken out of the hands of the Republicans and made bipartisan Simultaneously with the action of the senate in confirming the governors appointments came the announcement that the Republican members of the senate judiciary committee have drafted a reply to the criticism of Governor Harmon that the senate was wrong in confirming the recess appointments The reply takes the stand that the senate was wholly right in every particular and i declares that not any of the recess appointments can be removed In regard to the confirmation of Morris member of the railroad commission the reply says that his ratification was wholly legal and quotes various opinions to the effect that he can not now be removed Governor Harmon also sent to the senate the appointment of John Sullivan of Butler county a Democrat to succeed Morris a Republican on the expiration of his term in February The appointment was referred to the committee on railways and telegraphs Mr Sullivan has been identified for years with the a railway of which Governor Harmon is receiver receiverThe The antiCox members of the senate secured the addition of four new members to the finance committee Senators Tod and Tuttle Republicans and Senators Alsdorfi and Got schall Democrats Thus they say the committee is so constituted as to prevent any criticism of playing fnto the hands of the Cincinnati political leader The resolution of Senator Cleven ger of Clinton county providing for a probe in the city of Cincinnati and Hamilton county was referred to the judiciary committee A short time before this reference had been made Senator Huffman of Butler county of lered a resolution providing for a bipartisan investigation at Cincinnati by a joint commission of four This was offered as a substitute for the Clevenger resolution which provided for a commission of six and which Democrats have charged was intended ed to provide a partisan commission Senator Yount of Darke county offered I a resolution authorizing investigations of the city of Cleveland and Cuyahoga county and of public contracts by a bipartisan commission of four Senator Mathews of Cuyahoga presented a resolution providing for a bipartisan commission of four to investigate state departments and institutions The senate adopted the house bill making Feb 12 1909 the hundredth anniversary of Lincolns birth a legal holiday One of the interesting bills intro duced in the house was by Representative Canfield whica if passed would mean the establishment of connections between telephone compa mies Compulsory connections are provided for as is also a rate of one half cent a mile for five minutes conversation on long distance lines Provision also is made that the cost of telephones in cities of not to exceed 100000 people is to be 24 each annually with 6 added for each additional 100000 population MOTOR PLANT SOLD Pope Concern at Toledo to Resume at Full Capacity New York Jan 22The sale of the Pope Motor Car company of Toledo 0 to a syndicate headed by Richard Apperson of Lynchburg Va was announced in this city It was stated that the plant will soon resume oper atioai at full capacity under the name of the Apperson Toledo Motor company It will mot be removed dram Toledo 00 zJ 4 a WORK OF SEn RING I COOPER JURY LAOS I I Court Opens Today Witt Six Men In the Box Nashville Tenn Jan 22 When court convenes today for the trial of Duncan and Robin Cooper and John Sharp charged with the murder of Former Senator Carmack six men were seated in the jury box The delay in securing a jury is owing to the fact that the men examined at yesterdays session were mostly residents of Nashville or vicinity where the case has been thoroughly discussed and most of the people have taken sides It is dim fiii ItZ1 I COURTHOUSE AT NASHVILLE cult to find men who do not know some of the defendants especially John Sharp who was sheriff of this county for four years and who thus was thrown into contact with most of the citizens Cooper Sr too has been in politics for years Curtis one of the talesmen examined when asked if he had any prejudice against the defendants startled the court by exclaiming in aloud voice Yes sir they ought to have been hanged long ago He was excusedrBaring fearing Closes Today Chicago Jan 22 The taking of testimony in Chicago in the governments Suit to dissolve the Standard Oil company will probably close today The attorneys for both sides will then prepare for the presentation of the case before the judges of the United States court at St Louis on March 23 Talesman Springs Surprise San Francisco Jan 2Howard Black one of the talesmen brought about a sensation at the Patrick Calhoun bribery trial by Informing the court that his wife was approached by a man who sought to ascertain his opinion concerning the case ABED COUPLE TORTURED Masked Robbers Secure Savings of Lifetime at Lonely Farmhouse Cincinnati 0 Jan 22Thomas Trevor and his aged wife living on a farm near the Indiana state line were attacked by three armed and masked men who burst into the lonely home dealt Trevor a heavy blow on the head felling him tq the floor Then seizing hold of the wife they threatened to brain her if she did not reveal the hiding place of their supposed hoard Mrs Trevor saved herself by fainting Turning their attention to the husband two of the men grabbed him and dragged him toward an open coal grate and held his head over the red hot embers until he promised to comply with the demands and turned over 312 in gold and bills the savings of a life time The Trevors were found unconscious by neighbors who summoned medical aid Both are ina precarious condition Tobacco Pool Completed Louisville Ky Jan 2lThe Union Tobacco society after months of preparation and preliminary meetings received the final couches of the promoters and as a result the tobacco growers of Kentucky Indiana and Wisconsin are welded into one body with a central administration The purpose of the society is the pooling and holding of the crops of the members and attending to the necessary financial operations connected therewith therewithWAR WAR SCARE DECRIED War Department Explains Proposed Fortifications at San Pedro Washington Jan 22That the recommendations by the general staff of the army that the harbor of San Pedro California be fortified had been made in view of a possibility of trouble with Japan was emphatically denied by officials at the war department It was said that the general subject of the improvement of San Pedro harbor had been under consideration more than two years beginning before there was any thought of any dispute between the United States ad Japan It was taken up as a natural military problem involving the necessary protection of the southern California coast from foreign invasion and without reference to any particular enemy cio A I NORMAL ILLINOIS 0 The infant daughter7 of Mr and Mrs Ed Moberly is very 10rwith pneumonia Mr and Mrs Vessi Dixson and Mr Robert Parker of Leroy Ill were the guests of DeVary and fam ily Saturday and Sunday They also visited Mr and Mrs DeVary Mrs Emma Lesher and baby visited her father and mother Mr and Mrs DeVary Mrs Auther Stump of Main street Bloomington was the guest of Mrs Jennie Deb nry of 304 Linden street The revivals at the Methodist and Christian churches are being well attended and are doing much good Mr James DeVary and Miss Sarah Bird of Bloomington visited Miss Winefred Gaines at Normal Mr Frank Gilbert is able to 0 return to work this week after a severe A attack of QuinseyI Mr Marshall Deitz general fore man on the repair track at the A has resigned and left for Shawnee Oklohoma where he has accepted a better position in the shops there Mr Deitz was presented witha handsome watch chain and Mrs Deitz with a solid silver oyster dish We wish them much success There was a social given Friday evening January 15 by Mr James DeVary at his home on 13l2 Mason Refreshments were served and an enjoyable evening was spent by playing games Those present were Misses Edna Voyes Winefred Gaines Sarah Bird Lyda Br okS Bertha Webb Messrs Lawrence Bird Oscar Dawson Hyman Ris Oda Seals Mr and Mrs Jollie De Vary Mrs Voyes All report a fine time Mr Oda Seals left Sunday evening for his home in Tennessee MOVING PICTURES 3000 feet moving picture film at the opera house Saturday night Best of the season Admission ten cents 1222 Banker Gets Three Years Owensboro Ky Jan 16T Anderson former president of the defunct Daviess County Bank and Trust company was found guilty by a jury of swearing falsely to a statement of the banks condition and was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary South Africa Reports Qua Cape Town Jan 16 Several earthquakes have occurred recently In various parts of South Africa One was felt at Johannesburg but no damage was done JUMPS THRtE STORIES New York Italian Makes Sensational Escape After Murdering Man New York Jan 22After a sensational chase over roof tops in which he distanced his pursuers by jumping a height of three stories an unknown Italian made good his escape after shooting down a fellow countryman Pasquale Miami Miami hit by two of the five shots fired by his assailant died a few minutes after having been admitted to Bellevue hospital Angelfood cake twentyfive cents Try one Winchester Bakery PriSatlmo MOVED HIS 0 SHOP Tom Cowan the popular barber who was burned out in the Court View Hotel fire would like to have his customers and old friends call on him in his new shop in the Simpson and Hathaway building BASKET BALL CRAZE 0 ON AT HARRODSBURG HARRODSBURG Ky Jan 22 The basket ball craze has struck Har rodsburg and a game will take place tomorrow night at the Armory Hall between Beaumont Boarders and the Beaumont Town team The contestants are girls of Beaumont College The teams have been practicing hard An interesting game is promised Fresh lady fingers and almond macaroons Ten cents a dozen at the Winchester Bakery I CROSSES OF HONOR FOR CONFEDERATE VETERANS PRINCETON Ky Jan 22 Crosses of honor were conferred hereupon seven Confederate eVterans by he Tom Johnson Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy The exercises were held at he church and were presided over by the president Mrs Grace Lyon Devil who is a daughter of the late Gen Lyon Several addresses were delivered Marked Improvement My washerwoman Mrs Lapsling was saying used to lose ever so many of my sheets and pillow cases but she doesnt now I mark them all with intelligible ink 0 1J 0 COLORED COLUMN Baltimore Md has a colored steamboat company Tbe Colored Federation of Wom ens Clubs of New York City is building a 50000 hall The new 30000 girls dormitory at Louisville built by the colored Baptist women of Kentucky will be dedicated the first week in February Last Saturday night Mrs Franklin was hostess at her beautiful home at an elegant 6 oclock course dinner to friends in honor of Mrs Mrst i The Quarterly Conference of the i church will meet at Clay City i February 10 Rev Jno Sanders pas past torThe i The funeral of Mrs Millie Hawkins I was preached at Allens Chapel Tuesday by Rev A Steward pastor Jack Garner Taylor attended Mt Sterling court last Monday Miss Isa Taylor left Wednesday for Georgia to teach in a college with Miss Willie Frazier also of this city Mrs John Hailey fell Monday and broke her arm Dr Deany attended her herWinchester Winchester has thirtyfive employed and reemployed colored teachers Joe Smith an eightyearold colored boy carried eleven little children from a burning building in Philadelphia last week North Carolina has twelve colored Building arid Loan Associations Miss Nettie Peroine visited her sis 7 i Zti ter Mrs Bettie Wilson in Mt Sterling this week Andrew Robert Sheldon Lizzie and Mary children of Mrs Millie Hawkins came from Ohio this week to attend the funeral of their mother Robert and Andrew are preachers I and Sheldon is policeman in Dayton OhioRev Rev Timberlake is in Louisville and Rev A Strauss will occupy his pulpit tomorrow The Pleasant Green Baptist GhUl hat Lexington was this week left half interest in a house and lot bv the will ofone of its deceased members The annual report of Broadway shows the receipts of the church for the fiscal year just closed to be 700 with 42 additions Tandy of Lexington GrandMaster of the Lodge deferred his annual visit here till March 18th Wm Gbulson coloredof Des Moines Iowa bas served as messenger under five Governors Howell colored of Atlanta Ga bas just opened a barber shop for whites costing 3500 A Howard coloredof New York City has a large establishment for the manufacture of shoe polish Wm Bell and Silas Martin are on the sick list Arrangements are being made hereto celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln on February 12th The Christian church here has sev eral preachers under consideration but will not call before spring 0 f1 Co 0 Mrs Lavinia Franklin will attend the Methodist Conference at Indianapolis Ind Mitchell Bean better known ash Fossett Guy and Miss Hatt ie mt Jackson were married at Sidville Bourbon county Thursday night Chas Fountain and others of this city are arranging a petition tQ present to Congressman Langley to have him introduce a bill to pay certain men pressed by the government to work on certain fortifications ring the Civil War Rev Colerane is building a handsome residence on Broadway Dr Green wife and mother of Cincinnati have been sick all itie winter Dr Green is weliknoynf here where he sells medicine andy toilet articles of his own make Rev Taylor Rhome has gone to 7 take charge of the Mt Zion Baptist church at Pike ville Ky 0 Wm Hall the popular barber of the Johnson and January shop has gone to Jackson to work 4 1 GRAND JURY REFUSES TO INDICT CREEL MT STERLING NY1Jan 22 The grand jury here refused to indict Creel charged with embezzle merit and he was released by Judge Young Creel was charged with em bezzling funds of the Singer Sew Machine Company while its agent at this place I 4l i I Sirfwcrftt Fir Tfci Kiws 1o 11.