Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1893-01-27
NEWSv NOTES.

Senator Mills was unanimously re
nominated and elected by the Texai
Legislature.
Near Morgantown, w. Va, on the
Monongahela river, the ice was gorged
% feet high.
Jacob McClain. IS years Of age, and
the wealthiest farmer near Shelbyville, is
dead OF paralysis.
BY the explosion OF fire damp in the
Fortschrtt mine, at Dux, in Bohemia,
50 miners were killed and scores injured.
Gov. Turney, of Tennessee, is much
improved, and were it not for the office
hunters, would be able, to go to Nash
Vile
The King Cotton Carnival was in.
augurated at Augusta, Ga. Ten thous-
and people witnessed the arrival OF His
Majesty.
Senator w. NJ. Stewart was re-elect-
ed by the Nevada Legislature. He was
the silver party candidate and received
! a unanimous vote.
--rwenty-three deaths have resulted
from the oil explosion at Alton June
ton, Ill. There yet Is who are coBsid.
cred fatally injured,
Fire at Elwood, Ind, destroyed Nc
Beths lamp.chimney works, valued at
100000. Florence Walk, an employe,
was burned to death.
The president has again declined to
pardon +. l.. Harper, the Fidelity Bank
wrecker, who is serving out a l0.years'
term in the Ohio penitentiary.
The Kansas populists with the aid
OF three democratic members OF the Leg
islature succeeded in electing Judge
john Martin, to the u. 5 Senate.
The house occupied by DR.. Wiley,
in Harrodsburg burned while Bill Nye
was lecturing and the cry OF fire created
a panic, which came near being serious.
During the progress OF the Bowling
murder trial in the circuit court at Mt.
Sterling Thomas II. Carter, a prominent
citizen, who was spe ctator, dropped
dead.
Near Somerset, at the Barren Fork
coal mines, John and Jim Ledford shot
and killed negro named Luck Sutton.
The shooting was the result OF drunk
en- row.
Letters mailed at Baltimore, con-
tanning drafts, checks and coupons for
collection, representing over a million |
dollars, were burned in postal car near
Trenton, n. j.
The democratic caucus OF the lndi. |
ana General Assembly voted over
whelmingly against restoring to the gov
ernor the appointment of the reiorma.
tory and benevolent boards and prison |
directors.
james Francis Eagan, convicted OF
participation in a dynamite plot at Biz
minpham in 1884, and sentenced so 20 |
years penal servitu lie, has been released
because of ill health.
Under the new revenue law a ped |
dler's license for the whole State costs
only $40 a year for man on foot, or s. |
for any one county. The fne for ped
ding without license is Sl00
A bill providing for National quar-
entne has been passed by the National
House. 1t differs in some points from
the bill passed by the Senate and will
have to go through the latter.
Congressman Breckinridge electri
fled the Virginians with his eloquence
in response to the toast at a democratic
banquet at Richmond, "The President
elect and the Democratic Party"
Babe" Burgess attended party
given by his brother-in law, in Barren
county, and among the other guests were
three brothers named Wheelock. An
old quarrel was renewed, terminating in
the killing OF one OF the Wheelocks and
the fatal shooting OF another by Bur.
CESS.
A series OF concerts OF the glee clubs
of the larger American colleges is pro-
posed for the Worlds Fair. 1t is plan
ned to have the series begin immediate
ly after the college commandments,
when the clubs will be in their best
forms.