Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1891-06-05
NEwSY NOTES.

tariff on coal is not felt.
AT Lexington, Lee c. jenkins was
sentenced to death for the murder OF
Washington Ramsey last April.
; In a drunken row in Martin county,
sunday, Stewart McNeeley and Frank
Hurley shot each other to death.
The Wiggintons were given life sem
fences at Mt Sterling, for poisoning
Brack Watts and William Furguson.
While attempting to board NOV
ing train, b. T. Samuels, OF Mt. Sterling,
fell under the wheels and had his head
cut of.
A cyclone passed over a narrow strip
OF the country adjacent to Watertown,
: D., resulting in the destruction OF
crops, barns, etc.
The highest point touched 10y gold
during the war of the rebellion was 2S5.
The Argentine Republic has beaten this
and gone to go.
Hon. John Hancock, State Commits.
soner of common schools of Ohio,
dropped dead in his office at the State
cap tai, Monday morning.
TWENTY-FIVE shots were exchanged
| between the sheriff and cowboy near
Gainesville, Texas, and when the smoke
OF battle cleared both were dead.
Ada Townsend and Elmer Foster, of
Gal, ma, ILL.,, whose love was opposed by
the girls parents, took strychnine, and
were found dead together in the same
room
The monument erected by the PEG.
pie OF Mississippi to the memory OF
Jefferson Davis and the soldiers of the
South unvailed at Jackson Tues
day, with imposing ceremonies.
The wife OF Judge II. Brent at Paris
is dead after six months of suffering. 1t
will he remembered that the muscles OF
her legs contracted so suddenly with
rheumatism as to break them both.
The only widow of a soldier in the
Revolutionary war from Kentucky is
Mrs. Sallie Heart, and she lives at Burn
side. Mrs. Heart is So years of age.
She draws pension OF Sl2 month,
A New York hotel, about to be
built, will have 600 living rooms and 26j
bath rooms. 1t will be big enough to
take the head of the list of mammoth
American hotels and will cost round !
100000.
The body OF +. NJ. Haskell, who had
been dead for 20 years, was exhumed at
Mortified, MINI f., the other day, when |
it was found that his beard was % inches
long, although he was clean shaven
when buried.
-Harrogate Inn, at the new noun
tain town OF Harrogate, near Cumber-
land Gap, one OF the finest resort hotels
in the South, WAS burned to the ground
Wednesday. 1t was owned mostly by
Eastern and English capitalists.
A jury in Webster county refused to
give man any damages in a suit for
s, 900 for alternating the affections OF his
wife, although the defendant made no
plea, because as they said, the husband
was benefited by getting rid of such
wife in any way he could.
A meeting to condemn mob law was
held at Columbia, Tenn, two lvnchings
having taken place there recently. The
law and order men organized the meet
ing, but the opposition controlled it.
The mass meeting practically expressed
itself as being in favor OF lynch law un-
der certain circumstances.
In Northern Kentucky a severe
storm extended from the Licking to the
Sandy At Covington the G. and o.
shop was partially destroyed,
and James ID. Watts was killed. At
Falmouth, James Austin's Ii year old
daughter was crushed in the wreck of a
barn. Augusta and Ashland report
great damage by wind.
Lexington has organized Press As
ISOLATION. Col. Jno. o. Hodges was
elected president b. q. Bruce, vice.
president; c.. II. Bradley, secretary,
and Mrs Eugenia Potts, treasurer. The
organization is in the nature OF Press
Club. A resolution was adopted invit-
ing the Kentucky Press Association to
hold its next meeting at Lexington.