Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1896-03-06
or LOCAL NATURE.

1T ia likely that Middlesboro VIII
vote on local option, May II.
The collections in this internal rev.
enue district last month amounted 10
$s9,s776s.
Niles Mamie Harcourt, teacher III
the public school at Richmond dlen
Tuesday night.
There are II candidates announced
for county officers in Jessamine not"ith'
standing the fact the election IL ~ months
of.
John Boston, formerly of Indiana,
Ia in jail at Harrodsburg for blowing of
the locks OF Widow Whitecotten's door
with dynamite.
C. q. Chadwell, colored, has been
appointed postmaster at Caldwell In
Madison. lie lie the only colored postmss-
ter in Kentucky.
-Heber Craft, an admirer OF Rev.
George o. Barnes aud for years a sub
scriber Of this paper, died at Mscombe
City, La, OF paralysis.
The two.year old son of Alex spratt,
who died of whooping cough at somer-
ct, was buried in the graveyard at Go
hen the fret OF the week.
Three of Lebanon's most attractive
young ladies', Misses Ella Wilson, Ella
Hays and Jeanne Breeding, have gone to
work as typese,ters on the Lebanon En-
terprise.
Mrs. Alexander Taylor, living II
miles EAST OF London, while standing in
front OF an open wood fire caught and
was no ieariully roasted that death en-.
sued in few hour.
The court OF appeals reversed the
damage case Of Il. J. Breckenridge, Jr
VS.. the L. 4 n. for $500. Mr.. Breckin-
ridge vas put OIL train On route from
New Orleans TO Danville.
-Isham q. Scott, an old man from
Adair county. was convicted in the Fed
ersl court at Louisville on three charges
OF forging pension papers He was
charged with having forged - papers
but 90 of the cases against him we're bar.
red by the statue OF limitation.
A man calling himself Join Schaier
and believed to he slick conf lence
man, was arrested at Corbin on the
charge Of attempting To sell green goods
He was held in 81 900 bond by the com
missioner aud Marshal Stringer, who ar.
rested him, took him to Covington.
-E. F. Moore and wife, two grown
sons, and married daughter and her
husband, claiming to have walked all
the way FROM Whitley, were given shell.
ter by the Louisville authorities Tuesday
night. They were en route TO Tennessee
as they said times we're TO hard in the
mountains.
-Barrodsburg has raised its liquor Ii.
cense from 900 to 81 600 beginning next
December. There are eight saloons in
the town. An ordinance Was also pass
ed making it a fiue of $40 Tor any person
to be proven guilty of eating a meal, a
piece Of bread or meat or picking his
teeth in any restaurant connected with a
saloon on Sunday.
The u nited States court OF appeals
at Cincinnati has reversed Judge Bars
decision in the Mercer county bond case,
holding that the bonds are not valid be-
cause they were to pay for railroad
which was TO ito pass through the coun-
ty." The roai was built to within two
miles OF the border line and did not pass
through the county as promised.
MIR. Ulie j. Howard, brother OF
Miss Gertrude Howard, came near being
asphyxicated in Covington a few nights
ago On entering his room he turned on
two gas jets and forgot to light one OF
them. Retiring immediately after wards,
he was soon asleep and when his room
mate came he was in stupor, 40 deep It
wss with difficulty that ne was revived
Mr.. Howard graduated at the Centre Col
lege Law School and is well-known IN
Danyille "a well as here.