Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1893-12-19
NEWSY NOTES.

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| Versailles, is dead.
An open hearth exploded at Steel
ton, Pa, killing seven men.
Cholera killed 2l5,l57 persons in
Russia last year, and 30,2Si this Year.
There were six or more legal neck
stretchings in the United States Friday.
Owing to the scarcity of grass in
western Texas cattle are dying by the
hundreds.
AT Piedmont, W. Va, p. f. Holde-
man, mine superintendent, was killed
AID robbed of $1,000.
e NJ. Ashford, merchant OF Beth
any, Mo. rated at $4,000, is in Jail charg
ed with counterfeiting.
The bill abolishing the postal note
and making other postal changes was
passed by the House.
"A postoffice has been established at
Egypt, Jackson county, aud David S.
Smith appointed postmaster.
AT Baltimore Morris Wilmington
and James Brown were fined $40 each
for eating peanuts in church.
The House has voted to admit Utah
and Arizona into the Union, leaving
New Mexico as yet out in the cold.
-Gompers was reelected president OF
the Federation of Labor, after a bitter
fight, by majority of 92, in vote Of
1856.
Nathan Matthews, democrat, was re-
elected mayor of Boston. His plurality
is about 1000 The city voted for liquor
license.
Mississippi has just elected a new
Legislature. The feature OF the election
was the crushing defeats encountered by
the Populists.
Altoona, Wis, lays claim to the
champion high kicker of the world. His
name is w. S. Stokes, and he has a record
OF ten feet six inches.
The Kentucky Legislature will be
gin to sit January 2, and according to the
new Constitution they can remain in
session for only go days.
-Ex-Cashiers @. F. Davidson and
William Locke of the, Cumberland Val
ley Bank, have been indicted by the
grand jury of Knox county.
The Circuit Court Clerks of Ken
lucky will meet in Frankfort January 10
to take into consideration the question OF
fees, especially in felony cases.
Chairman Carter, OF the Republican
National Committee, has called a meet
ing OF the Executive Committee, to be
held in Washington January IL.
-Schaefer, the billisrdist, beat Frank
Ives by the absurd score OF 600 to 90 at
Madison Square Garden, Chicago. He
also broke the worlds record by making
q run of 566.
"A bridge gave away on the Western
New York * Pennsylvania road as an
accommodation train was passing over
it, and five persons were killed outright
and six injured.
j. X. Armstrong the embezzling
treasurer of Upton county, Indiana, in !
whose books a shortage OF $4,000 was
discovered, was found guilty
and sentenced to one year in the peni-
Tertiary.
The Court OF Appeals has overruled
the motion for rehearing in the railroad
tax cases. This involves about $1,000
900 taxes on railroads, from which the
railroad companies were claiming to be
exempt under seperate acts.
Henry Givens, a negro accused of
stock and suspected of putting
poison in a school well, drew a pistol on
a committee that ordered him to leave
Nebo, Ky. Next morning his body was
found tied to a tree and riddled with
bullets.
-Middlesborough is without water
supply, 80 a dispatch says. The en-
gineer was discharged, but before he left
smoved the valves of the pumping
engine, and now the only water the peo-
Pile OF the magic city can get is from yell
ow creek. The court ordered the
engineer to restore the valves. u