Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1890-04-18
NEWS CONDENSED

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father.
B. I. Barnum killed his iather-in-
law, w. Ball, in New Kent county, Va,
in family broil.
The railroads have already made a
half-fare rate to the Il. 4. X. meeting in
Boston in August.
The Metz Companies, doing a large
business in slaves, barrels, lumber %c,
in Louisville, and employing 200 men,
have assigned.
The question of re-submission OF
the prohibition question in Iowa was
killed in the House, which settles the
business for two years longer.
The steamer Suetta was wrecked of
the coast OF Thurdan Island on March J..
One hundred and thirteen people were
lost, SO of whom were negroes.
The Gilbert starch works, at Des
Moines, Iowa, were destroyed 10y fire.
Loss 100000. Two girls and man
were burned to death in the building.
Alice Elliott, OF Ottawa, adopted the
novel method for killing herself OF swal-
lowing a penknife with the blades open,
but it hadn't killed her at last accounts
I'm the Senate, Navada and Wyo-
ming. with only 30,j73 votes all told,
will have double the power of the great
State OF New York, which has 100000
votes.
-Four members of gang OF convicts,
on their way to the western part OF the
State, jumped from the train at Leitch-
field, Tuesday night, aud escaped in the
darkness.
The longest American railroad tun-
mel is the Hoosac tunnel on the Fitch
burg railroad-4i miles. The st. Goth
ard tunnel, in Europe, is over Q miles
in length.
The butchers OF Louisville have sign
ed an agreement 10 make their own sup
ply OF ice and to refuse to handle meat
from Armour 4 Co. They will build an
ice factory.
The Merchants and Traders Tx
change, big bucket shop, with head
quarters in Nashville and branches at
various Southern points, have failed, car
rying with them McCrea d Co, their
representatives in Louisville.
The House has decided the election
contest cases OF Posey VS.. Parrett, from
Indiana, and Bowen VS.. Buchanan, from
Virginia, in favor of the sitting demo
Gratis, Messrs. Parrett and Buchanan.
There were never any grounds for a con-
test in either OF the cases.
A young lady in Brooklyn wanted to
Join Bible class and was hindered by
the remark OF rude man, to the eff
feet that she was not proper person 70
belong to such a class. She promptly
cowhided the offender, thereby proving
her right to belong to a Bible class il she
wanted.
! Abraham Kelley and Samuel Logan
OF Washington county, good friends anc
Just married, got to joking each othel
about their wives, which changed t
caustic and bitter remarks. Kelley GO
mad and going off secured musket anc
shot Logan dead. The murderer es
! capped.
The stockholders OF the East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia road, a
Knoxville, Tenn, Tuesday, ratified thu
Erlanger deal, which gives the +. I. Y
4 e., the ownership OF the Alabama
Great Southern Road, and, with thi
ownership the control OF the Cincinnati
Southern road.
Since May 10, 1917, there have land
ed at Castle Garden, New York, 1853
635 foreign immigrants, nearly all {
whom have become citizens OF the Unit
ed States. 1t is not probable that NOR
than 100000 immigrants entered a
the other American ports.
Representative Wilson introduced
bill to pay Gen. T. I. Garrard sl3,19
and the heirs OF j. and ID. White,
Clay county, 81 $50, for destruction
: salt and injury to salt works by the fe'
r eral army in 1862. The salt works We
4 destroyed by order OF Gen Buell..
: Those who believed the silly predi
ton OF that religious fakir, Mrs. Woo
worth, that Oakland and other Gallo
= MIA cities would be destroyed by I
= earthquake ON the l4th, are slowly
e turning to their homes looking We
$ much like the idiots they are. 1t is u
$ necessary to state that no sign of an u
heaval occurred.
1t is a remarkable fact that in d
= Northern States 3, 3s6, 800 republican VI
!. ers elected l26 representatives in Co
gress, an average Of not quite $1,000
o each representative. The 1904, l65 der
z ocratic votes cast in these States eli
ted only AZ members OF Congress,
d average OF IS, 40s votes TO each represe
?. tative. The republicans in Congre
n want to hold on to this advantage, hen
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