Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1890-04-04

The newspapers continue 10 hunt
JOB for j. T. Hsrrahan. The latest Il
that he will be made general manager o
the Louisville, New Orleans a Texas.
A Louisville grocery bill dated tn,
dav before was found i'm yard at Cincin
natl and check drawn in Louisville
further i'm Ohio, the next day after the
tornado, supposed to have been taken
/ thither by the wind.
/ The directors OF the Louisville Fair
have determined to suspend all opera
tions for the present and no fair will be
held this year. As soon As the cyclone
disaster is repaired the enterprise will be
started, and it is expected that 1891 will
witness the first fair.
--Gov. Buckner has issued a proclg-
nation designating April II as Arbor
day and recommending that all public
schools and colleges OF the state observe
the same by suitable exercises, having
for their object the imparting of knowl-
edge in arboriculture and the adornment
of schools and public grounds.
Dan Caudill. who killed Bill Rice,
Rowan county desperate, last fall, while
the latter was resisting arrest, has sur
rendered himself Rice was one OF the
meanest oithe old Tolliver gang and was
captain OF the squad OF outlaws who
bu,chered John Martin before his wife,
when he was being returned manacled
prisoner IRON Winchester.
Fayetteville, Tenn, also suffered ter
ribly from the tornado. Scarcely bust
ness house or residence in the town es-
capped destruction or injury. tits stated,
strange 10 cay, that the casualties were
few and in no case fatal. Relief is said
TO be greatly needed in the way OF tenn
porary shelters for the large number
whose homes were rendered uninhabita
BILE. -,
The list OF killed in the portion OF
the State visited by the tornado, outside
Of Louisville, shows 63 persons, with
MANY more wounded. The loss OF
dwellings, barns, fences, farming imple'
ments, live stock. etc, must be enor'
nous when the total is computed. Nalu-
able orchards and tracts OF timber are
laid waste and these items will likewise
contribute to swell the damage lar up in
TO the thousands.
The situation in the Lower Missis
sippi Valley is appalling. The backwa-
tiers from the mighty river have covered
hundreds OF miles of fertile territory,
and are now sweeping downward toward
the gulf, carrying everything before
them. Whole towns have been wrecked
either by the flood or the wind storms
and the people are fleeing for their lives.
Starvation will overtake many OF them
before the necessary relief can arrive.
Under the head OF Thanked" the
Courier Journal had these sensational
lines Yesterday: The h. " /. Bridge
Company steals march again and Sc
cures it's own tracks into the o. NJ.
wards. The Pennsylvania people make
lswless attempt to thwart the plan; Supt.
Porter severely injured by the inten-
tional wrecking OF J. NJ. d ]. car; he
refuses TO leave, however, until the OBJ
structions are removed from the track.
The Monon outwitted and an old right
oi-way utilized by the new bridge.
The mystery of the burning OF Sec
rotary Tracy's house has been revealed,
The servant woman who went to early
mass has confessed that she rose
early on that fatal morning and while
the other servants were in the basement
he took can OF kerosene, saturated the
carpet in the drawing-room, IN the hall
and part OF the way up the front stairs.
She then applied match to the oil
soaked carpet and TO the curtains, shut
ali the doors carefully and went to mass.
The woman is crazy and has been cor
lined. She had been with the secretarys
iamily over II years.