Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-11-05
GENERAL NEWS.

western Nebraska naQ lO-lnch
snow Oct. 20, delaying trains in
places.
10000 tons more of Alabama
pig-iron were shipped to England
recently.
The scarcity and high price of
wheat it is feared will cause II
famine in India.
Jean de Reszke, the tenor singer,
was welded in Paris to the Coun-
tesse de Mailly.
One day last week money went
up to IA rate of interest equivalent
to 100 per cent. in New York City.
Austria is erecting tariff barriers
against u. S. glucose, which is bet
ter and cheaper than the Austrian
article.
Canadians think they have found
a good quality of anthracite coal
in large quantity near Sudbury,
Canada.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, U. S. Consul
General, is coming home from Cuba
on business visit and to see his
family.
The rise in wheat has caused
bread to advance a half penny per
loaf in London and the poor people
feel it acutely.
700 quarts of nitro -glycerine
suddenly exploded into gas at Gen
eva, Ind, and damaged people and
property terribly.
Truxton Beale's wife, who was
Hattie Blaine, daughter of James
G. Blaine, has brought suit for
divorce at Augusta, Me.
The South Pittsburg, Tenn, iron
company has recently sold large
lots of water piping for Costa Rica
and the Hawaiian Islands.
The steamboat Courier, with one
/ 5f her engines crippled, and being
rowed by toy boat, struck a
bridge pier and s.', AZ Cincinnati.
-"ata,r, the actress,
wa. on ,1-s.ys Pal st,
the = brewrl'- son, " IN
she pl. lIcly cowhided some time
ago.
Charles Doran, of Glendale, o.,
took pinch of snuff for cold
and sneezed so violently that his
eyeball popped out. His eye may
be saved.
Mrs. Mayo, widow of Frank
Maye, the noted actor who recently
died, passed away from the effects
of surgical operation in removing
a tumor.
The final tests Of the great bat
tleship Massachusetts showed her
to be all that is claimed. The
great guns stood the test of full
service charges finely.
The parents of IO-year-old Effie
Woods, of Nonesuch, Calden Co.,
Mo-, gave their consent to her mar
riage to Nathan jackson, aged 26,
and that community is indignant.
The two students who were ar
rested for egging the Bryan pa
rade in Chicago were dismissed
from their college. Their relatives
refused to assist in the defense in
court.
An estimate places the winter
apple crop of 1896 in the United
States at little less than 59,000,-
900 barrels. In 1895 it was co.
500, 900, and in 1894 it was 81, ,00O,-
900.
At Victoria, British Columbia,
DR.. John A. Duncan challenged DR..
G. /. Milne to fight a pistol duel.
DIR. Milne demanded choice of
weapons and named pea shooters
anu ey ilnSeo'
The three new battleships of the
u. S. Navy were named Ala
bama, Illinois and Wisconsin; the
six new gunboats, Annapolis, Ma
rietta, Newport, Princeton, Vicks-
burg and Wheeling.
The North Atlantic squadron of
the U. S. Navy will assemble some
time the coming winter tor the
greatest series evolutions a: gen.
eral drill seen in American waters
since the Civil war.
Mrs. Eliza McNeely, aged 81,
living miles southeast of SCOTS
burg, Ind, attempted to drive a
!, ram from the yard and was at
tackled by the animal and mangled
so badly that she died.
Tornadoes did damage and kill
ed some people in Oklahoma Ter.
last week. New Orleans had a
roof-lifting blow, that injured sew
eral people. Various other places
were visited by tornadoes.
A mill at Castalia, South Dako-
ia, is paying farmers $3.50 per ton
for Russian thistles for fuel. The
weed is a most harmful pest, but il
it becomes useful some insect will
likely attack it, as the humorous
fellow said.
Lewis C. Bramkamp, of Cincin.
natl, has sued the Wire Nail Man,
ufacturers' Association for $780,.
900 damages, alleging that it hat
subsidized the makers of wire mai
machines to not sell machines out.
side the Association and he cam
buy machines.
!. The experiment of free mail de
!, livery in the rural district of Hav
Greek township, Indiana, is no