Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1897-12-10
News Briefly Told

An associate justice of the Montana
supreme court killed himself
Herman Paul Schultz, wife muir
derer. was hanged at Milford, Pa.
A Louisville Negro shot his sweet
heart because she smoked cigarettes.
! Available cash balance in the L. ;.
treasury s22S, sol, 795; gold reserve
Sl5S.036,1 1877.
Near Columbia, Tenn. VIII Fit
gerald shot and killed JEFF Lanam, his
father-in-law.
Capt. Noah Spears. prominent citi-
zen of Georgetown, died as the result
of an accident.
Horton, Gilmore, McWilliams Il Co.,
wholesale hardware dealers of Chica-
go, failed for 100000.
Wyatt Leach was hanged at Clinton,
Tenn, for the murder OF Mine Super
intendent J. ID. Heck.
AT Sioux Falls, man was hacked to
pieces with an AK by a man whose
daughter he had betrayed.
A man committed suicide in San
Francisco, after writing note saying
he had killed his wife at Caldwell, NC.
The four-year-old sou of II. Ia. Will
son fell into vat of boiling lard at
darlington and died later in great
agony.
Thomas Perkins, of Cairo, H., ended
a spree by shooting his wife fata lily
and then sending bullet through his
own brain.
Mary West, the Lexington demi-
monde who shot VIM. Wilder to death,
was held in $1,000 She was unable to
give bond.
John N. Mills, prominent citizen of
Hopkinsville, and brother of United
States Senator Roger Q. Mills, of Tex
as. is dead.
The railroads have been given until
January |. 1900. to finish the equip
ment of all cars with automatic couples
and air-brakes.
Gov. Atkinson, of Georgia, vetoed
the anti-foot ball bill, saying the game
tends to keep alive courage, manliness
and endurance.
Will Croot, the English bantam died
from the effects of knock out blow de-
livered by Jimmy Barry, of Chicago,
ia a contest before London club.
John f. Morgan, the triple murder
err, who escaped from jail at Ripley,
w. Va, was recaptured at Walton, w.
Va He will be executed Dec. )6.
At Vanceburg a celluloid comb worn
by Miss BERTHE Wilson, caught fire and
burned off all her hair. Her clothing,
arms and shoulders were also burned.
The foot ball game between the Van
derbilt and Virginia teams 70" the
championship of the South, resulted in
a tie, neither side being able 10 score. ]
Immediately after sending his mes
sage to Congress, President Mckinley
returned to the bedside of his mother
at Canton, O. She is still alive, but
sinking rapidly.
The Fayette fiscal court has purchas- /
ed the Winchester turnpike for 3d. ZOO, I
leaving but one toll gate standing in I
the county, the Versailles pike being .
the only toll road remaining.
The two days record of Miller, one of
the riders in the six days bicycle con-
test in New York, is $50 miles, two
laps. This is within small fraction !
of Is miles an hour for every hour OF
the As.
Sam Crabtree, the Lawrence county !
convict sent up for house breaking, |
confesses that he murdered two OF his
cousins by pushing them off railroad
bridge 1t was supposed that they fell
off accidentally.
The new home for the feeble minded /,
children was completed Tuesday and
the keys were turned over TO Superin-
tendent HUFF. The children will be
moved from the Walcutt place, which :
they have been occupying since the
fire a year ago some time this month.
The postoffice department has ruled
against the so called missing letter"
and ''missing word" contests which are
being conducted by number of pub
fishers. All newspaper and periodi-
calls containing advertisements of this
character are forbidden transmission !
in the mails.
FARM HND TRADE.