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...Mississippi mob took its cue from similar action earlier this month in Kentucky where a rowdy throng invaded Governor Laffoon's home at Frankfort in protest against a 1% sales tax passed by the House (TIME, March 14). Last week the Kentucky levy died when the General Assembly ended its session without Senate action...
...while Garibaldi defended the Janiculum and Manin led Venice to starving martyrdom, Germany talked and blustered and Bismarck had his way. Perhaps in no other gathering in the history of the world would the Vagabond have been so at home as at the National Parliament which met at Frankfort to create a united Germany, and which dispersed in the face of armed fact. There he could have satisfied his lust for unlimited declamation. Cheated of his heritage by a trick of Fate, he can at least assuage his yearning by letting Professor Fay burnish the plates of memory when...
Knox County moonshiners killed Gilbert Botkins. Deputy Sheriff John Stewart of Knox County pulled a gun on someone, died from loss of blood when a bystander knocked it to the ground, accidentally shooting the officer in the leg. Hunter Burchell, guard at the State reformatory at Frankfort, shot Sheriff N. J. Tipton of Rockcastle County. Mrs. Tipton is now the third Kentucky sheriff's widow serving out her deceased husband's term. Clit Clarkson of Casey County murdered his wife. Vernon Blankenship killed his brother-in-law at Pikeville. Jack Warren killed Hugh Beckham in his roadhouse near Bowling Green...
...Frankfort the Kentucky General Assembly petitioned President Hoover to free Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. N.. his mother-in-law and the two naval enlisted men, held at Honolulu, pending trial for the murder of an Hawaiian who allegedly raped Mrs. Massie (TIME...
Busy indeed was Republican Flem Sampson's last day in office as Governor of Kentucky. As Frankfort prepared to inaugurate a Democrat on the morrow. Governor Sampson commissioned 40 more...