Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-11-02
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congress in the Third Illinois district.
The Case School of Allied Science
at Cleveland, o., was destroyed by
fire.
j. Maham dug up a jug containing
$500 in gold and silver, near Sey-
mour, Ill.
Another $lO,OOO,OOO3 per cent. bond
call has been made by the secretary
of the treasury.
St. Johns Military academy at
Haddonield, N. j., has been destroy
ed by fire.
Olney is taking active steps to Sc
sure the Illinois State fair for the
next two years.
San Antonio, Tex, is making the
experiment Of shipping refrigerated
meat to Europe.
VIM. NJ. Dustin, banker, Lincoln,
ILL.,, has failed, with liabilities
amounting to 100000.
Mr.. Powderly went to Baltimore
and made good impression on the
Catholic prelates.
Henry Schmidt was convicted of
murder at West Union, To-, and PEN
atty fixed at hanging.
Fatalities from the great Wiscon-
sin railway disaster are now thought
10 be twenty-five.
A company has been formed to
build a railroad from Wichita Falls,
Tex, to Winfield, Kas.
A big syndicate is to open and cul-
tivate 100000 acres of land in the Va
zoo delta, Mississippi.
In Lee county, Ala, negro named
George Hart brutally murdered a
white man named Waldrup.
Commissioner Colman thinks the
new diffusion process for making su-
gar from sorghum success.
James Arthur, of Gentry county,
Mo-, died from the effects of a scis-
sors stab inflicted by his wife.
A man named Greenman, mailing
from St. Louis, was severely stabbed
at Laddonia, Mo-, by VIM. Bybee.
A woman named Mrs. Day at
tempted to kill the wife of Rev JAS
per L. Douthit at Shelbyville, III.
AT Fort Smith, Ark, yesterday six
United States prisoners were sem
fenced TO be hanged ON January IA.
Miss Lille Quick, of Ithaca, N. Y,
fell off Lehigh Valley train at the
Pattinburg tunnel, and was killed.
1t is now estimated that the loss
to depositors by the Dustin bank fail
ure at Lincoln, H., will reach $780,
900.
The funeral of Mrs. Cornelia NJ.
Stewart, widow of A. T. Stewart, the
New York millionaire, occurred
Thursday.
The old Missouri, Iowa and Ne
braska railway has been reorganized
under the name of the Keokuk and
Western.
Gen. Clark, clerk of the national
house of representatives, figures OH
Democratic majority In the next con-
gress CT 20. 1890
John Denny, formerly confined in
the Elgin Qll.) Insane asylum, but
who escaped, murdered his wife at
Dixon, Ill. g4tNlt
Attorney-General Garland decides
that the per cent. called bonds can
not be used as basis for national
bank circulation. arr.
A swindler has been arrested al
Bloomington, Ind, who has been
working that State extensively as a
special pension agent.
A big smashup occurred on the
Louisville, New Albany and Chicago
railroad near Cedar Lake, Ind. Two
train men are reported killed.
Fire at Pocahontas, Va, destroyed
sixteen buildings. George Barber, OIL
Lynchburg, persisted in the flames
and several other persons are miss.
ing. n..
The Illinois State Labor associa.
ton has issued a circular of warning
concerning the vote on the convict
contract question. ft. IN
The steamer Pavonia of the Gun.
ard line went ashore ON High Pine
ridge, near Duxbury, Mass, in 0
thick fog. No lives lost.
The three partners comprising The
firm Of A. Tannenbaum & Son, New
York, have absconded, and creditors
mourn their fight.
John Reifenschneider, of New
York, has been convicted of eating
dog meat, which seems to be viola
ton of the health ordinance.
VIM. II. Dennis, an adventuresomt
young fellow, is making a trip in ,
small clinker-built boat from Buffalo
by way of the Miami canal, the Ohio
aud Mississippi rivers, the Gulf o
Mexico, Atlantic ocean, Hudson riv
er and Erie canal TO Buffalo. lie il
now at Mamnhio Tapn