Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1897-12-24

BY wreck on the Pennsylvania roat
, three men were killed and S15, 900 wortl
. OF property destroyed.
Grcenberry Lewis, who was the old
est white resident OF Woodford county
is dead at the age of 81.
, The Railway Age reports the con.
struction of 1854 miles of railroad In
the United States in 1897.
IL is stated that Armour will lose a
cool million dollars as a result of his
dealings in December wheat.
Judge Parker in the case of the Belt
line road at Lexington decides that
railroads must pay afranchise.
William Lloyd Garrison, in speech,
characterized Henry George as zone of
the greatest men OF all time"
| According to New York paper, of
297 $50 workers in the city. the records
show that 2,075 are out of work
John Laswell was killed and Horace
Wathen seriously injured by a dyna-
mite explosion at West Point, Ky.
The strong room OF the Ward liner
City of Washington, containing $780,
600 in Mexican coin, was robbed of 49,
600.
While attempting to cross a river,
John West, age IL, OF South Carroll
ton, jumped from his horse and was
drowned.
After having been giving p years by
jury for manslaughter, Ben French
gets of with two in second trial at
Louisville.
Four men were instantly killed Sat
urday night on the Bear Creek logging
road in Florida by the explosion Of
locomotive boiler.
The book and job printers in New
York compromised on a 9t-hour day.
They have been working 10 hours and
wanted to make it nine.
James Griner. a former member OF
the Pennsylvania Legislature, killed
his step-daughter as the result OF a
quarrel over money matters.
Alexander Il. Campbell, an aged spir-
itualist of Nashville, Ind. got tired of
waiting TO become spirit, so he took
the morphine route to the spirit land.
Rat poison accidentally dropped into
coffee at a social at Elk City, Kan.
causing the death OF one person and
caused others to become critically i'll. |
Now that the various cracker and |
biscuit companies have consolidated, it |
is announced that prices will be advanc-
ed, in some instances as high a. 30 per |
cent.
Fire in ST. Louis destroyed the build
ing and stock of the Mermod & Jaccard |
Jewelry Company, one of the largest
in the world. and entailing a loss Of
1895. 900.
Hoyt Custer. book-keeper at the Cat
National Bank, has been
placed in Jail charged with embezzle-
ment, and has confessed. His short
age is SSH.
Gen. Weyler declares in an inter-
view that autonomy is sure TO fail in
Cuba, and that II the Spanish govern
ment persists In the scheme IL will lose
Cuba in few months.
The business block on Vine street In
rear of Central police station, Lexing-
ton. owned by c. II. Stoll and Asa
Dodge, was completely destroyed by
ire. which started insa fireworks store.
Great damage was done by the sleet
storm which prevailed for three days
n Texas. The effect on live stock was ,
disastrous, many cattle being killed.
he loss in some instances being as high
Is 30 per cent.
Ill health caused Miss Leila Herbert,
laughter of former Secretary OF the
Navy Herbert, to commit suicide at |
by jumping from third {
tory window. She had previously sew
red the artery at her wrist with a pair $
Il scissors.
In answering the petition of employees {
a reduction of over III per
ent. in wages. the cotton mill opera
ors of the Fall River district frankly |
ay that they can not compete with the |
southern mills and that the reduction {
will be ordered.
Messrs. Rothschild and Mirrabeaud, I
4 Paris. are said TO have bought for
everal million dollars the rich Ingu- 5
an copper mines OF Mexico, and will |
evelop them. building railways 10 the )
'acific ocean and TO a connection with
be Mexican National Railway.