Semi-weekly Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky.) 1883-1895, 1883-08-07

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The sheds of the Nashville Cotton Com.
$: press company burned on the 3lsr; loss
$4,000. At Belleville, Ind, Morgan,s
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fire losses were Charles Kings hide mill.
n gtaqai May, $4,000; thsl8slta audi fambssr
mill at Ascoda, Mich, $4,000; stables at
Orangeville,, Ont, ST., Oo0y ? ,~f~1.t
To THE horrors of the accident on the
Rome and Watertown Road is added the
failure of theroad,s officials to care for tho
dead. Friends of the dead saw that some
of the bodies lay for fourteen hours expos
ed TO the sum- and thieves Fwere allowed to
rifle their pockets and valises.
A MEETING of prominent Israelites was
:; held at Baltimore on the 31st, to consider
whether further aid shall be given the Mid.
+ dlesex, Va, colony of Russian refugees.
The committee which visited the colony re-
ported the needs of the people, and it was
determined to make further effort in their
pehalf. Contributions will be asked for. so
that 500 per month may be raised for re-
hevlng their pressing wants, and for the
purchase of implements of husbandry. A
committee was appointed to push the mat
ter, and another and more general meeting
will be held. The colony consists of about
sixty persons.
.DExTER's hat factory, at Darbury, Conn,
burned on the 31st with its contents The
loss is nearly 500, 900, partially insured.
: CoAMIssARY SERGEANT VERNON, having
been crossed in love, committed suicide at
the U. S. barracks in New Orleans on the
list. There was s., 900 in back pay due him.
In Hampstead County, Ark, few days
ago, two white man, Wyatt and Montgom-
cry, had row about some land with
couple of negroes, and one of the white
men broke the stock Of a shotgun over a
negro's head. On the 31st a band of negroes
went to the school-house where Wyatt was
teacher, and shot him dead. Great excite
ment followed, and at the latest account
both whites and blacks in the neighbor-
hood were collecting and arming, but no
further outbreak has been reported.
PROF. A. MENzEHL, of st. Louis, at
tempted to kill his wife few days ago and
then commit suicide, but the pistol he used
was so small that the wounds he inflicted
were not mortal. Both are in the city hos
pital, but not much hurt. Jealousy was
the cause of the act.
A MILL was fought between O'Connor and
McCune, of Chicago, on the 1st, sixteen
miles south of the city. O'Connor's arm
was broken by fall in the first round.
The police pursued the party in patrol wag-
ons, but caught nobody.
The coopers in nine different shops in
North st. Louis have struck for higher
pay. They demand seven cents for hoop
ing and ten cents for making full handmade
barrels. They have been getting five and
eight cents. About ninety men are on the
strike.
THE Executive Council of the Irish Ma
tional League, in their meeting in New
York on the 1st, considered the land grab
bling in Western States by English capital
lists, and resolved to aid no lecturer who
lectured for other than League objects.
B. F. SEMIG, Assistant Surgeon, U. S. A.,
was found dead in his room in the Occi-
dental Hotel at San Francisco on the 1st.
The deceased was lying in bed with bottle
labeled poison at his side. Army officers
reject the theory of suicide, and think that
his death resulted from heart disease. An
autopsy was ordered.
HORRIBLE stories of Ku-klux outrages
are reported in Jackson, White, Bank and
Hull counties, Ga. Bodies of masked men
parade the counties at night, numerically
whipping negroes for the mosk trivial
offences. In two instances it is reported
murder was committed. Many of the ne
groes are leaving their homes and fleeing
from the State for safety. A meeting of
the best citizens has been called at Nays
vile, when the attention of the Legislature
now in session will be called to the matter.
WHILE a vault in the rear of McCor-
mick's Block, at Bay City, Mich. was being
cleaned few days ago, the bodies of five
dead infants were found. The matter is to
be thor lgh1y investigated, and those
guilty of this wholesale slaughtering of in
nocents brought to justice if possible.
Two Troy and Boston freight trains col
lided at Pownal, VT, on the 1st. The loco
motives and trains were totally wrecked.
Six men, all employees of the train, were
instantly killed The collision was caused
by the neglect of telegraph operator at
Petersburg Junction to obey the orders of
the train dispatcher to stop one train at his
station.
Personal AND POLITICAL
The Democrats of Pennsylvania held
their State Convention at Harrisburg on
the 1st. The platform adopted favors a
tariff which will encourage productive in
dustries, and calls for the abolition of
the present system of internal revenue
The question of civil service reform is met
by declaring in favor of such reform as
will secure the election of good men to Of
flee. Governor Pattison's work is highly
Endorsed.
EX-PREsIDENT RUTHERFORD B. HAYES,
of Ohio; Howard Potter, Theodore M.
Dwightand Morris K. Jessup, of New York;
Charles F. Coffin, Richmond, and Fred II.
Wines, Springfield, Ill, issued call, on
the1st, for, all corporate members of the
National Prison Association, and others in
terested in prison reform, to meet in Sara
tOga, September I, to reorganize the Asso-
citation, and to consider such questions,
either of business or discussion, as may
then be brought forward.
AUSTIN P. PIKE was elected on the I'd
United States Senator from New Hamp-
shire. The balluting has been in progress