Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1886-05-21
sOrEs or cUaRFET EVENTS.

ing yotes.
In row at Martinsyille, Va, J. X
Terry was killed and seven others fatally
wounded.
Hon. VIM. N. Springer. Of Illinois,
has Just been nominated for 9TH term in
Congress.
The Falls City Coopersge works at
Louisville burned. LOss SCI. $50; iusur.
ance $4,000.
John F. Davis has been re-appOinted
by the Governor and confSrasd by the SEN
ate az Commissioner Of Agriculture.
There are pension bills now before
Congress, which, II passed, will take thou.
sand million Of dollars from the treasury.
The President has sent about 2,100
nominations for civil Offices to the Senate,
Of these 100 have been confirmed and on
ly thirteen rejected.
The nomination Of Gen. w. s. Rose
Grams to be Register Of the Treasury was
confirmed BY the Senate after much I'M
necessary opposition.
Lewis D. Craig, Inspector Of Convicts.
at Greenwood, has resigned, and Gov
Knott has appointed Msj. A. T. Ksene, of
Greenwood, to succeed him.
AT the last term OF the Somerset court
divorce was granted to Mrs. Kate c.
Hansford from her husband. w. B. Hans.
ford, Of the Junction City Herald.
George Wood, who once owned thea.
tres in half dozen cities, including Gin.
cinnati, died in poverty at New York this
week. He was worth 500, 900 at one time.
On account Of pressing legal engage.
ments Senator Kenns has been compelled
To decline the Chsirmanship Of the Dem
ocratic Congressional Campaign Commit
tee.
-"Do You still insist that you will not be
a candidate for reelection" q correspon.
dent asked Gen. Wolford. ayes" be said,
"Pve got enough; don't want TO come
back"
Davis, Mallory & Co., Davis & Co.,
Davis, Trsbue & Co., firms inter.connected
and doing business as Wholesale dealers In
cotton, dry goods, notions, Louisville. have {
Jailed for s225, 900.
Plymouth White, alias Frank Parke,
q dead at Reading, VT. He was the prince 9
II confidence men, and it is estimated that z
le has fseced the gullible during his long I
lie out Of nearly million and half dol. .
ars.
The Exposition building at New Or {
cans which cost over half million Of dol
ars and which contains over ten million n
eet OF lumber, was sold at auction this a
Veek for $1,000. The whole concern was :.
be most gigantic failure Of the century. r
The legislative, executive and judicial
ppropriation bill, as reported by the SUBJ h
to the full Committee on Appro. n
riations, aggregated s2O,7lO,s77, being Il
$50, 900 lees than the bill of last year. a,
he estimates amounted to S2l, 406,6S5. r.
"A disgraceful row occurred at Frank >,
,rt between Bart Jenkins, Sergeant-at. IN
rms OF the Senate, and bis son Bill. keep. m
OF the cloak room. Bart hurled q glass
Bill, who responded by blazing away at Ia
ls old man with pistol No damage.
Bishop Turner, Of the African NJ. E. F.
,urch, attributes the recent storms, cy- p,
ones, foods etc., TO the unbalancing air. A,
rrents which be charges to electric in IT.
fences in the hand Of man. He thinks ~,
an went too far when he utilized electric. g.,
--Gev. Knott re appointed Messrs. ]. vi
nkney Thompson, of Marion, and John We
Young, OF Bath, Railroad Commission IN
}, and appointed Hon. 1. A. Spalding, of
Mon, to succeed the late Hon. A. r. l.
zone, deceased, as member Of the Com
ssion. na
The Senate Committee on Pensions se'
q voted to postpone indefinitely the ioi
ouse Mexican Pension Bill and to report Gle
q substitute substantially the Senate bill 10
last session, making dependence and dis an
ility the necessary qualifications Of ue
nsioner. OF
"A petition signed by 106,894 Scotch
N, protesting against Irish Home Rule, Nj
9 presented in Commons this week. 1t to
one and one.fourth miles in length,
ighed 274 pounds, and was borne into lie
House on the shoulders of the stalwart res
endants. No
The convicts will be removed from ant
nsee mines within thirty days. The TOW
son & Foard Company have made a con. ny
ct with Huntington to work several der
ndred convicts on the new railroad from do'
wport to Maysyille, and they will short Pu
be employed there. the
The Cincinnati Art Museum, built by he
muniicence Of the late Charles w. Tui
ct. who gave $4,000 upon the condi- ly z
/ that the citizens should give like the
D, and who afterwards gave $4,000 TO Jud
ow the museum, was thrown open to mer
public this week. 1t Is located on the nizi
hest point in Eden Park. tlon
Brooks, alias Maxwell, the St. Louis melt
TX murderer, has made written state won
It OF the method by which his room =
e, Preller came 10 his death. He ac.i