Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1893-10-20
NEWSY NOTES.


The loss Of life in the storm on the
lakes last week is 40 souls and property
of s675,OO0.
Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell, the we'll
known woman suffrsgist died at Dorches
ter, Mass, aged 70.
Mrs. G. o. Dallas was burned to
death at her home in Carlisle by her
skirts catching fire.
A Commissioner General has been
appointed and offices already opened to
make preparations for the next Worlds
Fair at Paris in 1900.
The Treasury Departments reports
show that for the nine months ending
Sept. 30 our imports exceeded our ex-
ports by 81, 22l 40.
Amos Desssmore, the inventor OF a
typewriter and other mechanical con-
trivances, died in New York from can
Ger Of the face, aged SO.
Robert Fitzsimmons, the champion
middleweight fighter, authorized his at
torneys to challenge on his behalf any
middleweight in the world.
Five persons were killed, two were
fatally injured and three others were Sc
riously hurt at Emington, Ill, by the
premature explosion OF dynamite.
Lizzie Thompson, who, in fit OF
jealousy killed Maggie Purvis, near
Owingsville, and her baby, born in jail ,
have been received at the penitentisry.
The steamer Wockken, of Cleveland,
foundered on Lake Erie, near. Long
Point, in the recent gale, and Is persons
were drowned, only three OF the crew be-
ing saved.
Maurice Edmonde Patrice Maurice
MacMahon, Marshal OF the French En-
pire and President OF the French Repub-
lie, is dead. He was both a soldier and
statesman.
Senator Vest, who has been circulat.
ing a call for Democratic Senatorial
caucus to consider the silver question,
has secured the signatures OF majority
OF the Democrats.
j. g. Hubbell, for several years
bookkeeper OF the Phoenix Hotel Com
pany, of Lexington, has been appointed
Bank Examiner for Kentucky. The
place pays 1000 per year.
Morris j. Jones refuses to trot Alix
against Pixley, but will match Alix
against either Nancy Hanks, Stamboul
or any other horse owned or controlled
by parties challenging him.
Fire in Owenton destroyed % build
ings, embracing two blocks. The Ex-
change Hotel was burned, together with
the livery stable, leaving the town with
neither a hotel nor stable.
The bill providing that proof OF 10y
atty during the civil war shall not be
necessary in any application for county
land, when the applicant is otherwise en-
tied thereto, passed the House.
The Salem, lad, White Caps, who
so brutally whipped Mrs. Dalton, have
been sentenced TO the penitentiary. Her
husband and his brother, who led the
gang, go up for five years each.
John D. Hamilton's two grandmoth-
ers had each eleven children. His wiie's
two grandmothers had each fourteen
children. Mr.. Hamilton has twelve liv.
ing and one dead Richmond Climax.
The bill of Representative Cox, o,
Tennessee, for the better con troll of ma.
tional banks, was passed by the House.
1t places restriction upon the loaning Of
money to officers or employees of bank.
Senator Morgsn, in a speech in the
Senate, referred to Senator Hill, OF New
York, as an "astute politician with con-
science so easy that he could change his
opinion as his political necessities might
require"
Richard Pennistan, who drew half
million in the Havana lottery and in
vested $780, 900 of it in Bluegrass stock
farm near Lexington, died in a Pennsyl-
vania home for superannuated and inn
pecunious actors.
The McCresrv bill amending the
Geary act was passed by the House, the
vote by tellers being LIS to l. The most
important feature of the bill is thas ex-
tending for six months the time allowed
the Chinese to register.
unfortunately for the good of the
country, Mr.. Samuel Bennett, of West
Virginia, whose wife hes just given
birth to her 18th son, all of whom are
alive and hearty, is republican. This
is an infant industry that should not be
encouraged.