Owingsville outlook., 1896-12-31

a 57-lb. Kentucky turkey was
served at the table of President
Cleveland Christmas day.
Gen. Lew Wallace. of Crawfords-
vile, Ind, is candidate for the
Indiana u. $. Senatorship.
The sea-island cotton planters
and the rice e-growers want pro-
tectiye tariff on their products.
The widow of Joseph +. Brown,
Georgia's noted statesman, died at
Atlanta at the age of 20 years, last
week.
There were 1,S02 miles of rail
roads built in 1896, or one mile less
than the 1895 mileage, and the least
since 1875.
Albert Willis, of Louisville, u.
5. Minister at Honolulu, Hawaii,
is thought to be near death from u
long illness.
\ movement is in progress to
send ship-load of corn from Hi
nois TO the famine threatened dis
tricts of India.
An l.. & n. local train went
through a bridge on the Cahaba
river, Alabama, and 80 persons
were destroyed.
The question of an international
silver conference is to come up in
Congress soon. The Republicans
generally favor it.
The marriage engagement of
LOic Fuller, the famous dancer, to
State Senator Jacob A. Cantor, of
New York, is rumorcd.
The Lincoln Memorial Universi-
ty has purchased the Four Seasons
Hotel property at HarrOgate, Tenn,
for the use of the school.
The Car of Russia has sent as
present to King Menelik of Abys-
slnia set of musical instruments
and band of musicians to play
them.
The wife of Herman, the sleight-
of-hand man, declares that he left
not nsre than $2,O00's worth of
proporty, and not enough to pay
his debts.
A war is threatened between the
cattle men and sheep men in Routt
Colorado, over the right to
Craze their herds aud fiocks in
certain sections.
Three train robbers held up the
st. Louis and Chicago express train
on the Chicago d Alton road at
the famous Blue Cut and got
large sum of money.
Chas. ii. Grimm, of Clear Lake,
iowa, IN a match at 100 birds at
Chicago, defeated DIR. Carver by
JS to So and became the champion
trap shot of America.
! Dingloy is eaid Z proser maxim ,
4 tariff bill bearing his name to
Cabinet position and expects the
Dingley tariff law to be on the
books before the end of 1897.
The Three Friends ship and crew,
that made the recent trip in aid of
the Cuban insurgents and fired on
the Spanish vessels, may be treated
under the laws against piracy.
Ex-Congressman W. II. Hatch,
of Missouri, died of Bright's dis,
ease. He was familiarly known as
Farmer" Hatch and championed
the Anti-Option bill in Congress.
Annie Held, the French singer,
sang on the streets of Pittsburgh
Christmas day and took up collec-
tions amounting to $S06, which
were given to the Humane Society.
VIM. Jennings Bryan says only
five lectures have been arranged
for up to this time, and, as he has
other work on hand, may not de-
liver any more than those arranged
for.
The general arbitration treaty be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain is about ready for ratifica-
ton. 1t is to last five years, and
if satisfactory may be renewed in
definitely.
An explosion of fire damp in a
coal mine at Princeton, Ind, re-
suited in the death of five miners,
fatal injury of four, serious injury
of three, and four yet to be taken
from the mine.
The Is Texas sharp-shooters in
Cuba are said to have been "bot-
tied up and all killed by the Span
ish soldiers, but not until they had
killed and wounded more than
twice their number.
Gen. Weyler claims that he has
twenty-sIx battalions, of 500 to
1000 men each, so disposed in the
province of Pinar del Rio that the
remaining insurgents there must
either starve or surrender.
f. J. Phelps. of Burlington, VT,
ex-Minister to England, agrees with
Secretary Olney's position in regard
to the recognition of Cuba. He
says it is for the President, and
not Congress, to determine.
1t is reported that Juan Fernan-
dez Island was destroyed by an
earthquake. Alexander Selkirk
was marooned on it from 1704 to