From the Lawrence Daily World for July 4, 1910: “The first authentic account of the death of Bert Ridley, the Lawrence man who was shot near Jasper, Ala., on June 18, was received by the World Saturday. Ridley was shot eight times by a fellow miner in a dispute over money owed the former. His slayer was exonerated at a preliminary hearing on a plea of self-defense…. For several days a haze has been observed hovering about near the horizon. It is especially noticeable along the river and differs from the more pronounced morning mists. One of the university professors has been studying the phenomenon carefully and believes it is finely divided particles of comet dust floating in the atmosphere…. Baseball by arc light is sweeping the east, and in view of the number of games played after supper by merchants and other Lawrence teams, ought to prove popular if introduced here. Salina has become infected with the fever and finds the new sport highly exciting…. There is one man in Lawrence who will not reap a harvest from the Fourth. He is Louis Nero, whose assortment of liquors and personal liberty were taken into custody by the officers yesterday afternoon. One case of beer, two quarts of whiskey, and a cart load of empties were discovered in Nero’s house two miles north of the city.”