Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1897-05-07
News Briefly Told

| The senate committee lHcrcdseu WV
tax on beer from 81 to sl.44.
S. L. Ewing, the well-known adver
tisers agent, is dead at Louisville.
A Negro, who was formerly preach
err. was hanged at Somerville, n. j.
for murder.
BY the burning of charity bazaar a
Paris. 200 people lost their lives ano
800 were injured.
| John V. Crum, the famous sprinter
died at Des Moines, Iowa, as the result
of an operation for appendicitis.
BY the overturning of skiff neal
Gallatin, Tenn, John Nolin, his two
daughters and farm hand were drown
ed.
Ten thousand dollars in cash and p
car loads of corn were subscribed al
Chicago for the famine sufferers in In
dia.
Albert q. Porter, ex-governor OF In
diana, and minister to Italy under Har'
rison's administration, died at Indian
apolis.
w. H. Gayle, aged 81, died at New
port. He was born in Goochland coun'
ty. Va. and had been Mason since he
was 81.
1t is said that William Waldorf AS
tor owns 1900 houses in New York CT
ty, and that his annual income is near
ly s6,OOO,OOO.
VIM. H. Gayle, said to be the Oldest
Mason in the L. ). is dead at Newport.
He was born in 1901 and took his first
degree in 1922.
The town of Pulaski. Va, was Sc
verely shaken by an earthquake. No
damage resulted, but the people were
terribly frightened.
Ex-Prison Warden Deshler, of Phil
adelphia, is an inmate OF the prison he
had charge Of for years. He got two
years for ENLIGHTENMENT.
At Paxton, H., Frederick Hellman,
believed to have murdered six women,
was sentenced TO be hanged May IA for
the murder of Mrs. Geddes Dec. =.
Australia is preparing to send 100000
sheep and 5000 bullocks to England for
the dinner to be given TO the poor OF
London at the Queens diamond jubilee.
DIR. Alfred Holt was shot and perhaps
fatally wounded at Natchez, Miss, by
Horatio n. Ogden, as result of Holt
striking his wife, who is Ogden's sis
ter.
Elijah Morton, "blue gum" Negro,
who has murdered nine people during
his career as a desperado, was captured
near Macon, Ga. He was a terror TO
his race.
Perry Kaufman, William Davis aud
John Drobenstrot, of Markle, w. Va,
stole gallon of alcohol and drank most
of it. The first two are dead and the
latter can not live.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles, commanding
the u. 5. army, has sailed for Europe
and the best vantage point in which TO
watch The military operations in the
ko-Grecian war.
The court of appeals has affirmed the
decision of the Clark circuit court and
billiard, Rainey, who killed Aaron Ad-
ans. will hang at Winchester unless
the governor interferes.
During 1896 only one passenger was
killed for every l00,000,OOO miles of
travel. The number of railway en-
ployes killed curing the year was larg-
err than usual, being BIS.
The Atlantic and Pacific railroad
brought Sl2, OO0,O 600 at auction. Aldace
f. Walker, chairman of the board OF
directors of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe railroad. was the purchaser.
Lulu Kopp, a well-known sporting
woman of indianapolis, has at last sue
ceeded in killing herself. She tried
hanging, strychnine and drowning, but
nothing would have the desired effect
but morphine.
The president of the collapsed Globe
Savings Bank, of Chicago spends his
days now in weeping in Jail. Several
thousand depositors of his institution,
however, are compelled to do their
weeping at home.
A lotion stone, swinging from der
rick, at Chicago crashed into a passen-
ger train on the Chicago ~ Alton,
bound for st. Louis, and badly hurt six
persons, besides wrecking two coaches
aud delaying traffic.
The court of appeals has decided that
when passenger in a railroad train
puts his head out of "a window while
the train is going through tunnel and
is killed, the heirs can not recover
damages from the railroad.
The government has just made a con-
tract with William +. Salter, of Wash
ington, ID. c., to carry the mail from
Juneau to Circle City, in Alaska, a dis
lance OF 900 miles each way. The con-
tract is for a round-trip every month,