Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1890-12-16

Culuh u pOWucr ldCtOTy Has bio"h "a
and killed 800 men, and one-half OF
I large city has been destroyed by fire.
Fort Worth, Texas, is on boom
among other things doing there beinI
the purchase Of $4,000 hotel site, OF
which $4,000 building is to be erect
ed.
White Caps visited the house o
Thomas Burgess, a farmer living in
Meade county, to whip him. He sho
and killed one and badly wounded two
others.
Ellen Williams, who was accidently
shot at Jelico, the bullet entering the
back and lodging in the womb, has given
birth to 10 pound boy and both are
doing well.
Seven OF the young ladies who were
given an entertainment at Buchtel Col.
lege, Akron, Ohio, were seriously burned
by the ornaments Of paper aud cotton on
their dresses catching fire.
The Court of Appeals has decided
that the proprietor of Seelbach's Hotel,
Louisville, must pay back to X. 5. Trip
lett, Jr., the money he lost at poker, be
cause he profited by the take-out.
Murderer Blanchard was artistically
worked off at Sherbrooke, Que, by the
official hangman OF the dominion. The
dispatches state that no unpleasant incl
dent occurred during the performance.
AT Paines Valley, |. T., Senator San
Paul, OF the Chickasaw legislature, quar-
relied with his son over woman of bad
repute and they fought duel, in which
the son was killed and the father serious
ly wounded.
1t is stated that little battle with
the Indians in the Bad Lands has occur
red and that three Indians were killed,
but it is possibly not true. Gen Miles
probably wants to make out like he is
doing something.
A bill has been prepared to be intro
duced in the Indiana Legislature pro-
viding that children born out OF we'd
lock shall take the fathers name, be
supported and educated by him, and be-
come an heir to his estate.
The Richmond Register says the
fishing privileges of the water works res
ervoir has been rented to c. ;. Powell,
who will stock it with fish. The Lex
ington reservoir rents for $500 and the
renter clears $500 year on it.
The Druid Mills Manufacturing Co,
Of Baltimore, the largest cotton duck
in the United States,
have made an assignment. The compa
ny gave employment TO $50 operators
aud consumed 40 bales of cotton daily.
The. theatrical managers of Georgia
are wrought up over the bill which is
intended to tax theatrical companies $50
for every Georgia city or town they play
in. Some of the managers are talking |
about closing their houses il the bill |
passes.
The c. & o. having secured a per
petual lease on the Orange & Gordons'
vile branch of the X. 4 ID. and trackage
with that road to Washing
on, it has now a line practically it's own
from Cincinnati TO the capital.
Judge Elliott. at Pine Bluff, Ark, in
a man 10 be hung on Thurs
lay, against the usual custom, explained
hat Jesus Christ was crucifed on Friday
md he would not insult His memory by
sentencing murderer TO hang on that
lay.
A Georgetown undertaken makes the
tatement that he buried S75 people in
our years in that city, and only two
4 the number died OF consumption.
his is indeed a remarkable fact. This
anne man says that 20 people die every
ear in Anderson county OF consump-
ion.
Experiments by Yankee fishermen
long the Florida coast have proven so
ar satisfactory that a number OF large
chooners, manned 10y hardy and expert
need shippers, have gone there from
Jew England TO catch mackerel, mullet
nd red snappers for the American mar
.et.
Gen. Lyon having declined the APP
ointment OF warden OF the Eddyville
G. l.. Curry, of Morgan
eld, has been appointed in his stead and
Ion. S. o. Num-, Of Crittenden, deputy
,arden. A large number OF convicts
ave been transferred to that prison
rom Frankfort.
According to Or. LOOMS, the emi.
ent New York physician who has re-
nrned from Berlin, every drop OF DIR. {
,och's lymph is worth $1,000, and phi
containing 80 drops would have an
ctual commercial value of $4,000. This
alculation is based on the assumption
hat drop of the lymph, when diluted,
1ill furnish 1870 injections, and every in
.ction will be worth $40 to the physi
ian makingit. A drop of the liquid is
,orth three times as much as a fine dia-
lond the same size.