Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1894-05-11
NEWSY NOTES.


dent OF the Louisville Commercial Club
Fire st Lexington destroyed the to-
bacco warehouse OF y. Quisinberry a
Co. Loss $4,000
MIR. George X. Duckworth, one OF
the leading men of Cincinnati, died there
Tuesday evening.
The National convention OF the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineess is
in session at st. Paul.
Two of his sons killed Bud Hixon
in Tennessee, for telling that they were
running an illicit distillery.
"A four years drouth in Zapata coun'
ty, Texas, has reduced the people to
starvation, aud they ask for food.
On the strength OF a prophecy OF an
earthquake, the people of many Greek
district deserted their homes and fled to
the hills.
The State National Bank at Wichi-
ia, Kansas, has suspended, leaving a
large number OF depositors in bad fin.
ancial condition.
1t is charged that the employees OF
the Northern Pacific are allowing the
common wealers to ride in freight cars
without molestation.
"A Russian village OF Vohynia caught
fire and the people moved their effects
into the open air, whence they were car
ried away by a cyclone.
Mr.. Henry Watterson, who is now
on the Pacific Coast on lecture tour,
has been elected president of the West.
ern Society OF New York.
The supreme court of South Carroll
ma decides that there is no authority
We sted in any power under the law to
grant liquor licenses in the State.
Mobile and Ohio engineers have ac-
cepted cut OF per cent. in their wa
ges, agreeing that the cut shall 90 into
effect May and remain in force until
Dec. |.
Miss Lillian A. Ashley, OF Boston,
filed suit against Lucky" Baldwin, the
millionaire turiman, of Los Angeles,
Cal, for $4,000 damages for alleged Sc.
duction.
The pick-pocket who worked the
crowd at the Breckenridge speaking at
Lexington, tried it on the Paris crowd
gathered for the same purpose, and got
nabbed.
Policeman Frank Ball shot and prob
ably MORALLY wounded James Davis, a
painter at MiddlesbCro. Davis was
drunk and disorderly and had been ar
rested, when he resisted.
.-Coxey's camp at Washington must
break. The district health officers have
decided it to be nuisance and danger
ous to health. The district commission
ers have given Coxey and his followers
As hours to abate the nuisance.
A heavy defalcation has been dis.
covered in the accounts OF Cashier
Thompson, of the suspended First Ma
tional Bank OF Sedalia, Mo-, and he has
fled to escape arrest. The property OF
those who owe the bank is being attach
sd by the bank examiner.
After hearing Gen. Coxey, the
House committee on Labor, by vote OF
7 to 2, decided to report a resolution for
|. joint investigation by q special COM
nittee of the Senate and House to inves.
.ieate Coxey movement and the depress-
ID condition OF the country generally.
"A terrific earthquake took place in
Venezuela on April IS. The cbies of
Merida, La Guinillas, Chiguara and San
Iuan. situated in the northwest OF the
epublic, in the region of the Andes, are
eported as having been totally destroyed
" fierce shock and 10000 people per.
she'd.
The State Board of Equalization's
ompleted labors shows the grand equal
zed total OF all property in the State to ,,
70 SSH, 2S3, 500, or raise of $40, 1873, 496 Z
yer the assessed valuation. The grand |
oualized total shows decrease OF S25,-
1924 as compared with last year, due a
D the collapse OF several Eastern Ken
ncky booms and the general deprecia.
ion in the value of personal property.