NEWS: 1904, The Georgetown Times -------------------------- Submitted by Dave Sanders Date: 11 Jul 2002 -------------------------- The Georgetown [KY] Times, December 21, 1904 NEWS FROM NEIGHBORING COUNTIES -- BOURBON -- Paris - Col. J. G. Craddock is seriously ill of pneumonia, at St. Joseph's Hospital, Lexington. Although his condition is slightly improved, his advanced age causes considerable apprehension among his friends as to his recovery. The County - Mr. John S. Goff, a prominent farmer, aged 35 years, died Sunday night. -- FAYETTE –- Lexington - Died, Mrs. Mary E. Chick. - Died, Mrs. Kate C. Williams. - Died, of consumption, Miss Rose Mary Shannahan, aged 23 years. - Died, of scarlet fever and meningitis, Miss Julia Hill, aged 18 years, daughter of Mr. Grant Hill. - Lula Lee, infant daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Baker P. Lee, died of scarlet fever, aged two years. - John T. Slatten died at St. Joseph's Hospital, from appendicitis. - T. C. Wright, butcher has made an assignment. - Married, Mrs. Annie Saunders and Mr. D. J. Dodd. - Mr. John Kane died Monday from a stroke of parelysss. -- FRANKLIN -– Frankfort - The broom factory at the penitentiary was partially destroyed by fire at noon Friday. - Miss Mary Cammack fell on the icy sidewalk and broke a hip. - Died, Mrs. H. K. Brawner. -- GRANT -– Williamstown - Died, Mr. B. J. Northcutt, in the 89th year of his age. The County - Died, at Dry Ridge, Mrs. Ann Conyers, widow of Jas. R. Conyers. -- OWEN -- Owenton - The three-year-old daughter of Jesse O’Banion was fatally burned by her clothing taking fire from a grate while the family were in an adjoining room. GENERAL NEWS - Minneapolis had a $7000,000 fire last week. Two firemen were killed. - John D. Rockefeller’s income from his Standard Oil holdings this year will be only $14,400,000, as compared to $17,600,000 last year. - May Young, ten years old, over-excited because she was to recite a verse at a Sunday School entertainment, dropped dead in Brooklyn, N. Y. - Blowing her nose too hard caused the death of Mary Mielke, a fifteen year old girl at St. Charles, Miss., the violent effort producing a hemorrhage of the brain. - In a street duel in the town of Magee, Miss., Edward Mangum was killed by Prof. Woodward, principal of the high school, who was fatally wounded. Woodward had whipped Mangum’s boy for unruly conduct, which led to the trouble. - W. M. Stevenson and wife and Mrs. Willie Barrett, a visitor, were burned to death in the Stevenson home near Monticello, Ark. Stevenson was known to keep considerable money in his house, and it is believed the house was attacked for the purpose of robbery and set on fire to cover the crime. - A physician at Rogers, Ark. is authority for the statement that Miss Carrie Sawrey, of that vicinity, has just completed a self-imposed fast of forty-eight days with no ill effects. She weighed 240 pounds at the beginning of her abstinence from food, which was undertaken to reduce her flesh. She now weighs ??? pounds, and although for the time named she subsisted entirely on water, it is said she is in the best of health. - In the future, persons suffering from consumption will not be employed in United States postoffices or other government positions from which they are likely to spread the disease. This decision has been reached by the U. S. civil service. Commissioner Cooley has sent out an order to this effect. The order reads that hereafter all persons must submit to a physical examination and if the presence of the disease is found, the sufferer must not be employed. - Wrapped in a faded bit of brown paper in the bottom of an old trunk that he had bought at a storage warehouse auction for $4, Max Hart, a postoffice clerk of New York, found bonds of a southern electric and lighting company which have a market value of between $17,500 and $20,000. Accrued interest at six percent which has not been collected in years adds nearly $10,000 to the value of the find which is estimated by bank officials to be between $25 [remainder of page missing]. ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ***********************************************************************