Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1897-04-20
News Briefly Told

May "a will be Kentucky day at the
Tennessee Centennial Exposition.
In Bath county the turnpike raiders
have fixed the price of Hour at sl.5O
per 100 ms.
William Barer, farmer near New
Carlisle, o.. committed suicide while
suffering from the grip.
New York State has tramp who
goes from one town to another on his
begging mission on a bicycle.
Mat Erwin was sentenced at Bristol
Tenn. to two years Imprisonment for
attempting to wreck Il train.
Col. w. L. Kellogg, commanding the
Fifth L. S. Infantry, Is dead at Me-
Pherson Barracks. near Atlanta.
A son of Loudon Pedigo, OF Allen
county, accidentally hung himself
while playing in his fathers barn.
Miss Nellie Baird, known as the
"New Woman" of Rome, o., had her
nose broken while playing base ball.
Thomas Woods, of Elkhart, Ind, fell
off of his horse while returning from a
Baptist revival and was fatally injured.
The Grant County Bank gives 800 a
year for the privilege of being county
treasurer, besides executing bond for
800, 900.
John Foley, of Lebanon, o., tried to
kill himself with his pocket knife be-
cause his sweetheart refused to go driv-
ing with him.
Constable Hickman and Ben Heag-
Ter, OF Boone county, Tenn, were kill
ed by William Hembree, whom they
were trying TO arrest.
John Combs, of Leslie county, was
bitten by a rattle snake and died short
ly afterward, says dispatch, but this
is pretty early for snake stories.
Nelson Clark, Paducah steamboat
man, went TO sleep on the boiler of the
steamer, Jennie Gilchrist. The safety
valve opened and he was scalded to
death.
Wesley Minor was killed and Rich
ard Cummings probably fatally hurt by
a premature blast in the quarry of the
Standard Cement Company at Charles
town, Ind.
The "Red Strings" and "KukluXes'
in Breathitt county have agreed to bury
the Ratchet and have laid down the
arms that the Judge permitted them To
bring into court.
Andy Wepler, the well-known saloon
keeper and former politician, died in
Louisville. He killed Harry Clay, 1t
will be remembered, for which he serv-
ed a term in the penitentiary.
Bourbon county has acquired free
turnpikes without anarchist raids. The
fiscal court purchased II miles of pike,
leaving the county seat accessible by
free roads from every precinct.
because they wouldn't let them go.
Cashier Joseph A. Stickney, of the
Great Falls National Bank, OF Somers-
worth, n. H., was found in the bank
dead, with his throat cut. About So
600 had been stolen from the safe.
Owney, the great railway mail dog,
went down TO his grave ''unhonored
and unsung." A policemen at Cleve-
land dubbed him tot death before he
knew that the dog was a celebrity.
The Georgia woman will not be hung
this week. The execution of Mrs.
Dollie Mobiles, who killed her husband,
has been ordered stayed by Judge Har-
Ian. a writ of error was allowed.
Robert Carlton and Theodore Stone
were buried in a mass of debris by an
imperfect blast at the Monarch Coal
Mine, near Madisonville. Their dead
bodies were found several hours after
the explosion.
Suits have been filed by the banks OF
Louisville, asking that the State be
restrained from collecting taxes from
them under the recent decisiou, OF the
court of appeals and the supreme court
will be asked TO settle the matter.
The jury in the case of ex-Asylum
Attendant Plat, for the murder of Jes-
Sc Tyree, returned verdict of guilty
of manslaughter and fixed his punish
ment at four years imprisonment.
Platt ran of to England after the kill
ing and was recently brought back by
the sheriff of Fayette.