Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-02-02


which he has failed TO account.
The Indiana Senate decided that
the text Of the prohibition amendment
not appearing upon the journal Of the
General Assembly Of 1881, il is there.
fore not before this Legislature.
"A dispatch from Washington says
the whisky bond extension ILL is sure
to pass as soon as il is reached. In
the meantime, whisky men are failing
in various parts Of the country, and a
leading republican Congressman says
"let EN- fail"
The people Of Cincinnati are now
in speaking communication with one
hundred and thirty cities and villages
within radius of seventy FIVE miles.
The Telephone would be big thing
if the Western Union Telegraph Co.
did not own controlling interest.
The Commonwealth entered suit
in the Franklin Circuit Court against
delinquent railroads for the taxes Of
1882. The roads sued are the Cincin.
natl, New Orleans q Texas Pacific,
Chesapeake. Ohio a Southwestern
and the Louisville d Nashville a
Great Southern.
Capt. George Everett, State Su-
perintendent OF convict labor on the
Kentucky Central extension, was shot
and killed near Winchester Tuesday.
Everett had drawn his pistol in a
quarrel with negro workman, who
grabbed the weapon, and as they
struggled for its possession il was dis
charged with the above result.
"A monster cattle company has
been organized in New York city to
operate in New Mexico. The organi-
zation is to be known as the United
States Cattle Company. The capital
stock has been fixed at 81, 800, 900 d.
vided into $4,000 shares. A large
amount Of land has been secured,
amounting to 100000 acres of we'll
erased and well watered land. II is
already stocked with 10000 head Of
cattle.
The New York Commercial Bul.
letin prints a tabulated statement Of
the earnings of the fire insurance COM
panies of that city, that of the sc COM
panies reporting. thirty succeeded in
making their premiums pay losses and
expenses (most Of them barely doing
this) and thirty.six came outatthe end
of the year 10 a way which proves con-
clusively that either rates are too low,
expenses too high, or management
lacking somewhere in the elements es-
sential to successful underwriting.
A special from GraysOn says;
The sensational report started by
Lexington crank that mob of 1000
men had been formed in this county
to attack the soldiers and hang Neal
and Gait, is the merest bosh. No
mob has been formed in or near this
county aud my word for it, there will
be no such trouble. Such idle reports
do not only injure this section, but do
the State incalculable injury. There
is disposition here to accord Neal
aud Craft fair trial, and believe that
they will be so treated.
The alarm in Wilkesbarre, Pa,
over the caying in Of an old mine un.
der the city continues, and the situa
ton for some of the inhabitants ap
pears to be really disastrous. Their
water supply is cut of; they dare not
light fires, lest their house be burned
by the overturning of stoves in case OF
a further settling of the ground; they
are obliged to keep watch during the
night in orler they may have warn
ing in time to escape if more Of the
root Of the mine should give way, and
their children dare not attend one Of
the public school which stands in a
precarious position.
Beck and Dawes had lively lit
tie tilt during the debate in the Senate
on the tariff bill. Dawes claimed that
in opposing the bill Mr.. Beck was
working in the interest Of foreign man
ufactures Beck replied; 81 fatty
contradict the statement, it is untrue.
at is vain" said Mr.. Dawes, "to de-
ny the fact" "The statement OF the
Senator" responded Beck, 81 again
pronounce utterly untrue Dawes
said he did not imp ign the Senator's
motives, but some how the interest of
the people abroad are benefited by his
efforts" "The Senator" concluded
Beck, "can not gel out Of the sugges.
ton that / am knave by saying am
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