Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1889-12-17
NEWS CONDENSED.

ground.
-Eighty-one tons OF quinine have al
ready been consumed in this countr,
this year.
Mt. Vesuvius is in active volcanic
eruption and Naples is crowded with
sight-seers.
All Europe is said to be sneezinl
with the epzootic, which promises to af.
tiict America.
Statistics show that there are $780,
666 persons serving penal sentences in
the German Empire.
Since 1860 the amount of conscience
money sent to the treasury department
foots up over 81, 100000.
Judge w. Ii. Pettus is announced as
candidate for Mayor OF Somerset and
he would make good one.
Lucy Watson, hayward girl OF 20,
from Barbourville, suicided at Knoxville,
Tenn, by taking morphine.
Mr.. Brewer, of North Carolina, Fri
day introduced in the House a bill for
the repeal of the tax on tobacco in all its
forms.
Another Kansas bank has burst, the
First National, of Abeline, and conf
dence in such institutions there is dread
fully shaken.
This country is getting along with
one office holder to l57 adults. The civ
il servants OF Uncle sam d raw about
sl65, 600 yearly.
The citizens OF the Big Horn Basin,
Wyoming, stormed the camp of Kettle
Jacks gang of murderers and thieves
and hung IL of them.
-Adolph Tieman was killed at the
same crossing in Cincinnati and by the
same engine that crushed the life out of
his son two years ago.
II. II. Grimes, of Bath, sued A. b.
Barnes for SIC, 900 for seducing his daugh-
ter, instead of taking his shot gun TO him
as is customary in such cases.
"A proposition is under consideration
in judicial circles in Washington TO pro-
vide for increasing the membership OF
the Supreme Court from nine TO eleven.
At watervlle, Me-, IA l,000'pound
weight dropped from the clock in the
Unitarian church, crushing the costly
organ beyond the possibility of repair.
Mrs. Margaret billiard, who with her
paramount, William Bartholomew, was
convicted OF the murder OF her husband,
was sentenced to be hanged at Easton,
Pa.
The death OF Jefferson Davis leaves
out one survivor of President Pierce's
Cabnet-the Hon. James Campbell, of {
who was Postmaster GEN
sral.
-Ex-President Cleveland declines to
yell his Brick Top" residence near ;
Washington, refusing an offer OF $780,.
100 therefor. He will have need for it
{ in 1893. .
Physically Speaker Reed is the larg-
st man in the House. He weighs as
much as ex-President Cleveland and is
aller. Carlisle is one OF the smallest
but largest mentally.
w. G. Shurtleiff, OF Waterloo, Iowa,
has been appointed to succeed silcott.
The members who lost their salaries we
ire glad to know have at least shirt
eft.-Hopkinsville Kentuckian.
As the result of joke one man is
lead and another horribly mutilated in
Marion. John Benningfeld, the man
oked, attacked Josiah White and killed
him, when Whites sons assaulted him
With an axe and split his nose open.
David Dillon, formerly champion
,arsman OF Australia, but now OF New ,
York, is adrift at sea in a small boat,
having been driven into the Atlantic be-
ore bowling gale He was in tow OF
he bark Marie and the bat line parted.
F. b. Gowan, the well-known Phila.
Ielphia lawyer and ex.president of the !;
Railroad Company, shot
himself at Washington and died iipme-
lately. He started the movement which
,roke up the "Molie Maguires," who
aused reign OF terror in the Pennsyva-
ia coal regions for 20 years.
There are but three survivors now I,
1 jefferson Davis Cabinet of remarka- :
lie men-Senator Reagan, OF Texas, who :
vas Postmaster General OF the Confeder-
cy from first to last; Thomas II. Watts,
t Alabama, who was Attorney General !
Or a short time; and George +. Davis, OF !.
,orth Carolina, who was also attorney !;
General for few months.
The periodical case ofpremature bur !.
Al comes from Madison, Wis, to shock :,
he nerves of those who fear like fate. /,
. month ago a young girl, supposed 10 ),
e dead, was buried and Saturday on :,
he removal of the corpse the coffin was =
pened and the body was discovered ly- :,
~ on it's face, the hair wrenched from i
ne head and the flesh literally torn from a
ne face and hands.
A banker named Tolleson has been
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