Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1885-10-06
VOTES OF c0RafxT EVENTS.

VOTES or CURRENT EFkhTS.
The special delivery letters will not b
delivered on Sundays.
A heavy seven day rain has proved
very disastrous TO the cotton crop.
A boiler explosion at Pittsburg scsld'
ed II persons beyond hope Of recovery.
From Washington there comes predic'
tions that Fitzhugh Lees msjority will
reach 10000.
F. Haussaurek, editor OF the leading
German paper in Cincinnati, died in Paris,
France, Saturday.
Franklin Moses, sx Governor OF South
Carolius, was sentenced to three years in
the penitentisry at Boston.
Matte Anderson, a beautiful Jessa.
mine county girl, aged 16, eloped with a
black negro to Cincinnati, to be married.
Mayor Reed has sold 1000 shsres Of
L. & ". railroad stock belonging to Louis.
Vile, for ASH, through New York brokers.
a-Mr. W. w. Anderson, Of the Eliza.
BEETHOVEN Ners, is recommended by the
Commissioner for an important Indian
agency.
The great charge Of 275,0 900 pounds Of
dynamite with which it is proposed to de.
molish Flood Rock, in He'll Gate, will be
discharged at $50 A. NJ. Octobe. Z.
The brokerage and banking firms Of
Vim. Heath & Co. and Henry NJ. Smith, Of
Wall street, New York, collapsed Friday
with liabilities ssgregating 100000.
AT Portage Gorge. N. Y, j.. E. Delion,
Of Springfield, Ohio, walked tight rope
one inch in diameter, stretched across the
falls, two hundred and fifty feet below.
John Robison's forward circus train
broke in two on the Northern Pacific K. r.
and colliding with the rear, killed FIVE
men an horribly msngled many Others.
The United States has only thirty
nine ships in its navy, but it has 100 doc
tors, 100 psymasters and 242 engineers.
There are also 7 rear admirals and forty
five captains.
The trade in patent medicines, the
Boston Globe states. amounts to about 49,.
600, 900 per snnum, and Of this $40 o0o,'
900 year lie spent in advertising. There
are 5000 kinds in the market.
The wife Of New Jersey editor and
one Of his printers were found lying to.
gether, dead, in Central Park, New York
They loved a hopeless love and decided by
lot to end their heart ache by suicide.
Another member Of the Civil'Service
Commission, DR.. Gregory, has passed in his
to the President. 1t is said
that Thoman will follow suit, and then
Mr.. Cleveland will organize the Board on
a practical basis.
John Alexander is in Jail at Paris, Tex
as, to answer for a murder committed
thirty-two years ago. His father, who
was the principal in the crime, was sent to
prison for life for the ofense FIVE years ago,
and died there
AT the sale OF the late Mrs. Mary ].
splendid collection OF orchids at
New York, one plant brought $3.50 and
quite a number sold at from 5000 to $500
each. As a general thing common plants
sold low and rare varieties high.
The case Of Fowler, sentenced to be
hung for the murder of Miss Barnett in
Union county, will be appealed, owing to
one Of the Jurors having expressed an
opinion. There ia always something to
prevent q speedy execution Of justice.
Joseph II. Dodson, the most important
witness against the young lawyer Cluverius,
sentenced to be hung at Richmond, Va,
for the murder OF Fannie L. Madison, died
Should Cluverius get a new
trial, his chances for acquittal are good.
"A smooth.fsced boy, eighteen years old
is enjoying the revenue Of his enterprise as
a stage robber in Texas. He operates alone
and quite recently robbed the mail bags on
a coach near Abilene, but did not disturb
the six passengers, who, likewise, carefully |
refrained from disturbing him.
Near Greensburg Jas. H. Msrcum was
murdered by his father in.law, Joseph B.
Cochrane, an old man supposed to be weak
minded. Cochrane slipped into Marcum's
bed room before the latter awoke, and
crushed his skull with an ak. When ar
rested he claimed that be had been badly
rested at his son in laws house, and could
tand il no longer.