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NEWS NOTES. The banker convicts, Stensland and Hering, were paroled by the Illinois Pardon Board at Joliet. The decapitated and mutilated body of a woman, identified as Anna Furlong, was found in Chicago. The suspension of Roberts, Hall & Criss, brokers on the New York Stock Exchange, was announced. An inves. tigation will be made. Two women and a man were found murdered in an apartment on the sixth floor of a New York flat. The heads of all three had been beaten in with a blunt instrument, The movement to prolong human life was the topic discussed by the various speakers at the morning session of the National Association of Life Insurance Presidents at Washington. The conference of Governors in Washington determined to meet again this year at some date between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The gathering will be in one of the State capitals. U. G. Walker, president, and W. D. Duncan, secretary, of the South Cleveland Banking Company, which recently failed for more than $1,000,000, were indicted by the grand jury at Cleveland on the charge of perjury. An Indianapolis dispatch says: An estate valued at $1,000,000 is left entire to a woman known as Elma Dare by the last will of the late George Rhodius, of this city, whose marriage to the woman was annulled. according to the announcement of her attorneys. While relating some of his interesting war reminiscences and attired in his old Confederate uniform, E. Holmes Boy, one of the leading lawyers of Virginia, was stricken dead with apoplexy at a Confederate veteran banquet at Winchester, Va., on Gen. Lee's birthday. He was 70 years old. With a warning to all others who might contemplate similar offenses, Judge Read sentenced Edward Reuter and E. F. Kinley, employed by the Heuck Opera House Company, of Cincinnati, to 30 days each for posting immoral pictures of a dancing girl on private property. H. B. Tally, a teamster, created' a sensation at Carlisle when he announeed that he knew the name of the person who killed Hiram Hedges in March 1908, during the night rider raids, and that he would disclose the name to the next grand jury, which convenes the first week in February. Thomas L. Lewis, of Ohio, was reelected president of the United Mine Workers of America, over William Green. of Ohio, his only opponent, by 23,597 majority. Frank J. Hayes, of Illinois, was elected vice- president. Edwin Perry was chosen secretary-treasurer without opposition. After an exciting chase a party of 15 South Christian county farmers ran down and killed a largegray wolf which had been playing havoc among the sheep in that region. A pack of fox hounds started the wolf on C. L. Dade's t farm and after a long run, brought it, to bay and the animal was shot by Fred Tyler. d Not one railway in the eastern secd tion of the United States or Canada accepted the demand made by the e Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen or the Order of Railway Conductors for an increase in wages anduniform working conditions, according to a statement made by W. G. Lee, head of the trainmen. Attorneys for the Commonwealth in the suit to prevent the merger of the Frankfort and Cincinnati railroad with d the L. &N. railroad have notified the attorneys for the L. & N. that when the argument on the motion for the right to expend $34,000 for new bridges on the F. & C. is begun they will make a motion to have a received appointed for the F. & C. Arthur Goebel. brother of Gov. William Goebel, of Kentucky, who was assassinated, died at Phoenix, Ariz, Friday. He was the youngest member.of a family of three brothers, and was born at Carbondale, Pa, in 1863. He e was educated in law, but abandoned f that profession on account of ill health. He was the sole heir to his dead broth-
