Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1886-04-23
soTEs or CURRENT EVENTS.


y. P. Wilkerson, Of Casey county, has
been appointed storekeeper and gauger.
Charles Mitchell, aged SO year,, father
Of Maggie Mitchell, the actress, died at
Troy, n. Y.
Prohibition has BEEN adopted in
Charleston, the capital Of West Virginia, to
take effect May 1st.
"A dam gave away at East Lee, Mass,
drowning IL persons and nearly sweeping
away the whole village.
Two ladies standing in a doorway Of
house eight miles from Newcastle, Pa,
we're struck by lightning and killed.
The Mississippi at Memphis is with in
six inches of.the food Of 1882, which was
the highest within the memory Of man.
"A negro desperate and horse thief,
tracked for 30 days, was caught and killed
in the swamps IL miles west Of Memphis.
The Bishop Of Madrid, Spain, was
shot and killed az he came out Of the ca
thedrsl by dissraced and deposed priest.
The officials OF the Iron Mountain
and Missouri Pacific state that traffic has
been fully resumed on each Of those roads.
BY the break up Of the ice gorge in
the ST. Lawrence at Montreal many mil
lions worth Of property has been destroyed.
New York pays for lighting her streets
with electric lamps 20 cents each per night
and from $40 to $50 3 year for each gas
lamp.
The vspderbilts have added q quarter
Of million to their previous gifts to the
College Of Physicians and Surgeons, New
York.
Thirty prominent Louisville citizens
have been indicted for being present and
aiding and sbetting the Warren Barnes
prize fight.
A portion Of the old Libby prison at
Richmond fell in and destroyed stock to
the value Of $4,000. 1t was used as q
warehouse.
-Powderly says on oath that there are
500, 900 Knights Of Labor, including fe-
males who are on an equal footing with the
men in the order.
-Mrs. Charles Cole, Of Covington, q
bride OF but two months, took poison and
died at the home Of her mother. Cruel
treatment is the alleged cause.
The heaviest Krupp gun ever made
weighing seventy tone, more than 80 feet
long and throwing shell Of 7S4 pounds
weight has just been mounted at Berlin.
Abe jackson has been arrested At Wa
co, Texas, charged with having blown
open with dynamite the home OF Sam
Jones, the evangelist, at Cartersville, Ga.
Railroad agents will sell excursion
tickets 10 Atlantis, Ga, where, on May l.,
the Benz II. Hill statue will be unveiled,
and Jefferson Davis will deliver the ad-
drese.
The Chicago ourt.house is tumbling
TO pieces and fence has been constructed
about it to prevent persons approaching
near enough to be struck by the falling
fragments.
Senator Blackburn appeared before the
Postofice and Post roads Committee to OPP
pose Mrs. Thompson's confirmation. The
committee postponed FINAL action until
next week.
"A primary election will be held 10 Ma
son county May 9Th 10 decide whether the
Hon. J. Dexter Kehoe or Judge Garrett s.
Wall shall be the candidate Of the demo.
Gratis Of that county for Congress.
John Carpenter, the wife murderer,
confined in the New York Tombs, killed
himself by cutting his throat He no
doubt thought il was time he was dying
for the deed, and The law was slow.
Jay Gould has sent bis check for $500
to liam Williams, a deputy sheriff, who
was shot and seriously wounded while de
Tending the machine shops Of the Iron
Mountain railroad at Baring's Crossing.
The negro, Bob Smith, who wac hung
al Nlcholasville last Saturday, sold his
body TO Msysvills physicians for s25 and
spent il for candies and cakes, with the ex.
ception OF 81, which he gave his mother.
The Knights Of Labor of st. Louis
have notified butchers firm to cease sup
plying meat to Vice. President Hoxie, on
pain OF a boycott. The butchers respect
fully decline to comply with such sense
less demand.
The May Century will contain the last
psi per written by Gen. Mcclellan for publ
cation. 1t is description Of the critical
time from the second battle Of Bull Run Il
the advance from Washington toward South
Mountain and Antietam.
WIN. J. Davies, OF Hsrrodsburg, hsr
advanced to the fourteenth day in self
imposed forty days fact, losing sixteer
pounds in weight during the two weeks
He ia trying to rival Tanners 40 dlys