Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1890-05-30

Pr Simpson county VIII vote on prom
p, bition Aug. -. The issue is to be Il
J. vorced from local politics and will 10
Il contested on its merits.
e Bret Harte's hayward son has jus
!. had a verdict Of $4,000 damages score
il against him for alternating the affection
5 Of another mans wife.
Y The governor has ordered a specia
o election i'm the 9Th district on June Il, e
ill the vacancy caused by Mr.. Carlisle
1 promotion and resignation.
D The statistics of the Interstate Com
merce Commission is authority for IN,
statement that last year the railroads o
the United states killed 5,S23 persons
and injured 26,30o.
The charred stump OF odd Sequo
ia." the giant OF California forests, is 4
feet i'm diameter. IL has been calculated
that the tree must once have been near
" 800 feet in height.
-Dr. Walton, pension agent, paid &c
Mrs. Annie Lee, OF Maysvile, this week
$4.673.33, whose husband was captain
in the war. This is the largest pension
ever received in Kentucky.
New Workers are good drinkers.
They succeed in disposing OF i7OOO,ON
gallons of liquor, beer and wine in a
single year. The average drink is gill,
say. making ,5O4 100000 drinks.
President Harrison, Nice-Presdent
Morton, Secretaries Blaine, Window and
Rusk and Attorney General Miller are
at Cleveland. o., to take part in the Car
field Monument celebration to-day.
The Iowa Indians have formally ac.
cepted the governments offer TO buy
their lands at =. - per acre after having
received 80 acres per capita. BY the sale
22l ,GlS acres become public domain.
Mrs. John r. Ennis, residing near
Martinsyille, Ind, gave birth few days
ago to triplets girls and boy. The
mother herself is a twin and her mother
and grandmother are each one OF set
OF twins
T. \. Green. who was acquitted OF
stealing $4,000 worth OF diamonds while
an Adams Express messenger hes
brought suit at Lexington against the
company Tor 100000 for defamation Of
character.
Judge Lawrence, Of the supreme
Cour OF New York, vacated an attach
ment against a national bank on the
ground that attachments against nation
al banks can not be secured in state
court actions.
The heaviest mail carried over any |
mail route in the United States is be-
tween New York and Philadelphia.
The average daily weight OF the mail
carried over this route last year was POL
Sl3 pounds.
-Gov. Buckner has pardoned Mrs.
Mary Hunt, wife OF Pat Hunt, who was
hung at Paris several months ago. She
was sent to the penitentiary for thr'e
years for a murder she claims her hut
band committed.
The Chicago Tower Company was
incorporated Monday with capital
stock Of s2,OO0,0OO. The tower is TO be
! 800 feet high, $50 square at the base,
and will contain among other things a
hotel OF 1000 rooms.
DIR. q. w. Norman, representative
from Henderson county, has announced
himself candidate for Congress in the
I'd district. The present member, Col.
w. T. Ellis, and Editor c. c. Owens, OF
The Greensboro Inquirer, are also candi-
iates.
Miss Ashcraft, a Winchester maiden
1f l., was so taken with the glittering
costumes OF the travelling female base
1all club that she ran off with them, but .
,fter one trial at Cynthiana she gave up
he Job and returned home a sadder and
wiser girl.
Senator Carlisle was placed on the
Committees on Finance, Territories and 6
Woman Suffrage. He takes Senator
place on the Committee on :
Territories, who goes 10 the Committee ,
N Appropriations to fill the vacancy 1
here caused by the death OF Senator !
Beck.
Jack Bland and Robert Arvin at .
empted TO cross the Rolling Fork about I
wo miles below Charlottesville sunday. I
Bland. having been raised on the Fork /
wan safely over, but Arvin becoming
xci.ed was thrown from his horse and a
He was from Boyle county
nd leaves wife and two children. '
A great sensation exists at Mary a
lille, Tenn. The grand jury found a
rue bill against DR.. j. w. Hannum, a !
wealthy and very influential physician /
# that city, charged with numbering II ,
}. Wilson, found dead in his room on v
lay II at that place. He has left town
o avoid arrest, but his friends say will
ONE back. 1t is thought there is
woman in the case.
The Winchester Democrat says the 7