Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1890-05-02
NEWS CONDENSED.

Winchester has voted in favor o
water works and $4,000 for publ,
school building.
&C. Creach has been appointed pos
master at McWhorter and |. F. Green at
Raccoon Bend, both in Laurel county.
Mr. Russell Cecil, vice-president OF
/ the Mercer National Bank at Harrods.
burg, died suddenly this week. lie was
in his 18th year.
MIR. Frank Champ, a popular and
highly respected farmer and horseman,
brother of the editor of the Paris News
died in Bourbon this week.
At the request of Judge Henry Hill
ton the grand jury OF New York indict-
ed the editors and publishers of the New
York World. charging them with Grim
inally libeling the late Alexander stew
art
Jake Alderman, burglar, thief and
wiie.beater, was shot and killed in the
prisoners dock Of the Memphis police
court. Alderman was on trial FOR beat
ing his wife. Lizzie, who, as she stood IN
the witness stand, shot her husband four
times before any one could interfere.
Mrs. Laura Knight, OF Belliontaine,
o., has given birth to four children in
side of a year The first was lone boy,
the last were triplets, two girlsand a boy.
The combined weight Of the three Is IL
pounds, the boy weighing :, one girl >
and the other /. They are perfectly
healthy. are finely developed and lively
as CricketS.
John T. Chefs the contractor for the
W. Va. Pineville n Tennessee road, has
about 100 men grading the line between
Pineville and the Tennessee state line,
at the forks of Straight Creek. II is ex-
pected to have this section completed by
May |. Proposals for 5000 ties, to be
distributed by June !, have been adver-
tisel for. L. :. Fitzhugh, Of Pineville, is
chief engineer.
The Morrill, Service Pension Bill, .
which will add something over 100000
names TO the pension rolls, at cost OF
$50, 900, 900, was rushed thro' the House
"Wednesday, under a special rule limit
ing debate ~ about three hous. Tn .
der It's provisions, every man who serN-
ed 20 days in the army, and who has
reached the age OF so years, shal! receive
A pension of = month.
Hereafter bibulous Bos'onians will
not be able to ingurgitdte their customa-
~ beverages over public bars, the police
board having ordered all saloons to close.
Hotels are excepted from the order, and
an easily meet the law requiring liquors
% be sold with food only. Ii would
'eem that saloon-keepers at the hub
nave not heard OF the general western
ashton of "a hard boiled egg with each
link except a schooner. CD.
Joshua VI. Fields, who died in Boyle
his week, aged 81, is said TO have never
been outside of its limits but twice when
ne went TO Harrodsburg. He lived and
lied in the house where he Was born,
md never slept out OF it single night,
md never ate meal ont OF il but one,
when he dined with 4 nephew Mr..
Fields was farmer and a bachelor AMI
eft an estate estimated at $4,000.
A vestihule train on the Chesapeake
md Ohio road dashed down heavy
yrale at stanton, Va, with frightiul We
ocity The air.brakes refused to work,
mi sleeper, containing the Pearl OF
PeEin Opera Company, was hurled
through the front OF a brick depot. Miss
Myrtle Knox was horribly mutilated and
lilled instantly and six other persons
eceived serious injuries. Miss Knox
vas Just II and noted for the rare beau
V Of her face and figure.