Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1885-12-18
s0rEs or CURRENT EVENTS.

JEFF. Hendricks shot and killed Frank
Rentro in Bell county.
The Fifth Avenue Hotel, Louisville
has beeh forced to an assignment. Lisbil.
ities $4,000.
Commodore Charles Lowdes, Of the re-
tired list Of the U. s. Navy, died in Mary
land, aged 81.
The Virginia Legislature has elected
John w. Daniel, Senator to succeed Ma
hone in 1887.
Virginia has instructed her Congress.
men to vote for the removal Of the whisky
and tobacco tax.
Judge james Pryor, for 20 years Cir
cult Judge in the Covington district, is
dead at the age OF SO.
The two California Senators, Fair and
Stanford, are estimated to be worth sl2,-
900, 900 and $40 100000 respectively.
Senator George has offered bill to
pension Mexican soldiers. 1t is the same
% the one passed by the House last session.
Since O,tober1 the number Of iron
furnaces has increased from 1853 to 1893. and
the weekly capacity from 1852 to 76,6O6
tons.
Acting on the Presidents suggestion
bill has been introduced in the Senate to
suspend the coinage OF the standard silver
dollar.
1t costs over million dollars a year
less under democratic administration to
collect the internal revenue than IL did
twelve months ago.
A negro beat white woman to death
near Nashville after outraging her. He
was lodged in i,il hut the same night was
taken out and hung.
There are four persons under sentence
Of death in the St. Louis Jail, John OHars
having been added to the number this week
for breaking Mrs. O'Conner's skull with q
beer mug.
The neurological record of the year
contains three distinguished nsmes-Vic'
tor Hugo, u. S. Grant and w. H. Wander.
bilt The greatest Genius, the greatest
General and the Richest Man.
An effort will be made in Congress this
winter to pass bill prohibiting the levy
ing OF tax by any State or city upon per-
cons from another State selling goods by
samples. on the ground thst it is unconsti-
tutionsl.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has affirmed the decision Of the Su-
preme Court OF Utah in the case of Angus
NJ. Cannon (Mormon) who was convicted
Of unlawful cohabitation with more than
one woman.
Roscoe Conkling and Gen. Butler will
be the leading attorneys tor the defense in
The trial OF the Boston preacher, Downs,
Who has been indicted for adultery. The
sensational hypocrite preached to another
arge audience Sunday.
There we're 27,043, 4O7 gallons Of whis-
~ in the distillery warehouses OF Kentucky
IN the last day Of November. There we're
Produced during the month 1918 gal
one; withdrawn, tax paid, 1,l59,5l5 gal.
ons; exported, 149, $40 gallons.
Col. John Pitcher, Of Moline, H., aged
eventy.tvo, who was recently married TO
Rebecca Well, aged nineteen, was found
lead in his bed, with his skull fractured,
md his young wife and the hired man
Missing. She was his fifth wife.
The bill for the admission Of Dakota
INTO the Union will be presented by Sena.
or Harrison at an early day. The repub-
leans. anxious 10 increase their power in
he Senate by two additional republican
'enators, will doubtless psss the bill.
Charley Jones, the famous third.base.
,sn Of the Cincinnati Base Ball Club, was I
talking along the street with a woman -,
nth whom he hsdbee familiar, when she s
nddenly threw handful OF red pepper in ]
, his eyes. She was arrested, but he bail. t
d her out. :
Lucy A. Jackson, a daughter Of Judge 4
arvis Jackson, an old democrat Of London,
aurel county, Ky has been appointed to '
1920 position in the Printing Bureau. Il
his is fitting recognition Of a good dem n
cratic family in a good democratic dis. "
let. The appointment was secured b
trough the recommendation Of Congress- p
IAN McCreary. p
"A horrible railroad accident occurred
.ondsy night near Atlantis. While one 81
ain was taking water, another, running at b
e rate OF thirty miles an hour, ran into "
The engine passed half way through a ID
eeping car. standing on a trestle thirty Ell
ct aboye the ground, killing twelve pass. dl
gers outright, fatally iDiurinR three, and te
riously iDjurlng ten others. Bernard m
'vton Of Charlottesville, Va, friend Of at
e writer, is among the killed. III