Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-06-01

Dan Timberlake, charged with outrsg-
ing a little negro girl, was sentenced At
Lexington yesterday TO be hanged.
Lieutenant. Colonel W. q. Mitchell,
acting AdjuIant General on lIancocks
staff, was attacked by pneumonia week
ago and expired Wednesday.
"A brakeman, Benjamin Hickman by
name, who lost leg on the Chesapeake,
Ohio 4 Southwestern X. r., has obtained
judgment for $4,000. The suit was gained
on the ground Of negligence Of the compa.
ny's other employees on the train.
The republican State Central Commit.
tee will meet at "A. NJ. on the 9Th Of June,
for the purpose Of organizing and mapping
out programme for the campaign. Geo.
Denny, Jr, is now a member Of the Com
mittee. The meeting will be at Louisville.
1t is at last stated with some authori-
~ that plan Of consolidating the internal
revenue districts has been prepared, ap.
proved BIZ Secretary Folger and by him
submitted to the President At present
there are 126 districts, and the plan pro.
poses to reduce the number to ninety-two,
Let il be done by all means.
Dorsey the Star Route thief says 81 had
the evidence that Garfield promised to sp-
point Stanley Matthews to the bench Of the
Supreme Court in consideration Of 500, 900
contributed by Jay Gould to the Indiana
campaign fund Whitelaw Reid was the
man who acted as middleman in the ar
ran cement Of the affair"
Jim Curry, the rascal who 80 coward
ly murdered the actor Porter, Of which a
Texas jury Of roughs acquitted him, had a
close call in New Mexico, Tuesday. His
bartender became enraged at him and
arming himself with rifle fred 62 shots
into the house, wounding Curry who was
crouching behind barrel.
The new bridge between New York
and Brooklyn has already been the scene
of frightful accident. Wednesday pam
ic stricken crowd forced its way out Of the
entrance and over small flight Of stairs,
piling upon each other until 10 persons
were trampled and crushed to death and
fully half hundred wounded.
Another accident on the c. $. 4. r.
The through freight train going north
came into collision with loose car ne ar
Georgetown, which had slipped on the
main track. 1t was on down grade, and
the shock threw all the cara of the track
wounding the conductor and fireman Sc
verely, tearing up the track some 200 yards
and utterly wrecking the entire train.
"A dispatch from Knoxville Of the S0th
says: Tonight at the Knoxville Water
works the bottom Of one Of the reservoirs
dropped out. emptying in five minutes
100000 gallons Of water into cave be-
meath. The water has not come TO the
surface, though the reservoirs are on a
hill several hundred feet high. The ex-
istence Of the cave was not previously
known.
AT O.enton the democratic committee
Of Owen county passed resolutions con-
demning the methods by which j. Proctor
Knott secured the nomination for Govern
or and approving the action Of the Owen
delegation in dividing its vote, aud censur-
ing the change af,erward recorded, and
pledging Col. Jones the support of the
county should he claim to be the nominee
of the convention. Col. Jones has given
up all claims that he may have had and
this effort to stir up strife should be con-
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