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ANTI-P00LR00M BILL SAVED FOR PASSAGE. Lexington, Ky., March 14. — The anti-poolroom bill, which was passed by the senate at Frankfort ten days ago, had its first reading in the lower house of the legislature today and will have its second leading Monday and be submitted to a vote Tuesday, the last day of the session. Its passage is next to a certainty and it is said to be no question , but what the governor will sign the act. Night riders burned tobacco barns on two thoroughbred breeding farms In Woodford county last night. The first destroyed was that of George C. Graddys Daytonia Farm, the home of the stallion i Tithonus, near Versailles, and the other was on the farm of Captain Jim Williams. Messrs. Graddy and Williams are not members of the society. Night t guards have been placed on nearly every breeding farm in this section, particularly where tobacco 1 has been a portion of the annual crop. The speedy Musett" half-sister to Melba, dam of f Stalwart and Perverse, by Juvenal- Thrill, foaled I a big, lusty chestnut colt by Adam at Mill-stream i Stud today. At Castleton Stud, Anomaly dam of Superman, . has a bay filly by Disguise; Fairy Slipper dam of I Sweeper, bus a bay filly by Delhi; Ballyhoo Belle ! has a bay or brown colt by Wild Mint: Jessaut a t bay filly by Disguise and Rapture a bay filly by Kingston. Irviu Railey, because of the scarcity of stable room at the local track, has opened the Fair Grounds ! at Versailles for the use of thoroughbred horses in i training. There are about 150 stalls at that traeu. The victory of Meelick in the Crescent City Derby at New Orleans today was well received here. The sou of Plaiiudes and llitliyia was bred and foaled 1 at John E. Maihieus Hamburg Place and was sold I to Mr. Hildreth at Belmont Park last fall. A telegram from Kansas City announces the death I there today of Mrs. Piatt, mother of the wife of trainer Henry McDaniel.
