Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1897-12-07
News Briefly Told

Woodford county sold $4,000 worth
of 4 per cent bonds at par.
Capt. John Leech, prominent citi
zen of Barren county, is dead.
John Bott, proprietor of the Lexing'
ton Street Brewery, died OF typhoid fe'
yer.
a wife-murderer was hanged at the
Connecticut State prison at Wethers-
field.
Another infant, making the third in
week, was burned to death in Da-
viess county.
The Kansas exhibit at the Omaha
Exposition is to be car load of can
celled mortgages.
The Tennessee Medical College at
Knoxville was destroyed by fire, caus-
ing loss of $4,000.
Fire destroyed the Mcmillan opera
house and other property at Lacrosse,
/ Wis. Loss 100000.
Tom Reynolds, Chattanooga sport,
attempted TO kill himself because he
! lOst neaVlly AZ carus.
In rat hunt by two sides OF 100 each
at Delaware. o., 10000 of the pestifer-
Gus rodents were slain.
Three persons were killed and sever
al seriously injured in collision OF
electric cars in Detroit.
Harrison county, which has freed its
pixies, has put them up for the lowest
bids to keep them in repair.
Thomas Winfield. of Southampton.
Va, is wanted for shooting his little
son when he asked him for dime.
Louis Zeigler, Of Milwaukee, Wis,
shot his wife to death and then de-
stroyed himself by taking carbolic acid.
john ). Morgan, a condemned MUIR
derer, escaped from Jail at Ripley, w,
Va. He was to have been hanged Dec.
TO-
They are mining gold out az Cripple
Creek with plows and wheelbarrows.
The ore varies from 81 900 TO $1,000
ton.
Two broiled cats were devoured with
seeming relish by several members OF
the West End Atlantic club OF Louis
Vile.
At Horatio. Ark, w. Milwee shot
and killed two Smith brothers, who
abused him for presenting bills TO
them.
Albert johnson, the oldest engineer
in the U. S., died at Asheville, n. C,
aged So. He began running an engine
in 1896.
The mercury is away below zero in
Kansas and the Northwest and II inch
es of snow covers the ground at Sioux
City, Iowa.
Frank Epperson, circus employe,
shot himself TO death at Elwood, Ind,
because his employer abused him for
getting drunk.
Thomas Raines, OF Cairo, ILL.,, in at
tempting to shoot out tooth which
was aching, was so badly wounded that
he will likely die.
The English Sewing Cotton Company
was organized in London in opposition
to the Coates thread concern. with a
capital of sl3, 100000
The steamer George w. Morley, of
Cleveland, was burned To the waters
edge on the beach at Evanston, Ill.
She was valued at S35, 900.
Martin Thorn, convicted of the muir
der of William Guldensuppe, was sem
fenced to be electrocuted in the week
beginning January 10, next.
Henry Heldorn, farmer living near
Evansville, Ind, fell from the top oil
his corn bin aud broke his neck, but
strange to say he is still alive.
The Illinois Central Railroad Com
pany proposes TO extend its system into
Warrior and Walker counties, Ala. TO
develop IL 900 acres OF coal lands.
Miss Kate Neal, of Sedalia, Mo-, who
is described as both beautiful and ac-
and an heiress TO $4,000,
eloped with mulatto few days ago.
The sheriff OF Henry county has lev
led on the COURTHOUSE at New Castle
and advertised it for sale TO satisfy
bill of costs incurred by the county in a
law suit in the court of appeals.
Frank Sherman was killed and his
son, Stephen, was seriously wounded
from ambush near Sweetwater, Tenn.
Pete and John Sherman, nephews OF
the first named. are under arrest.
The Indian Head cotton mills, about
to begin operations in Cordova, Ala,
has already sold its output for five
years for Chinese consumption, and
will at once double the size OF its plant.