Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1897-03-02

The betting on Corbett and Fitzsim-
mons continues, with the former favor
lite at 80 to IS.
An electric car was caught between
two trains at Chicago and four persons
were killed.
Toll gate raiders burned bridge in
Franklin county and cut all the tele-
phone wires.
Fire destroyed the immense cement
plant at Middlebranch, o., causing a
loss of 100000.
AT dance in Tancol, Mex, 10 peo-
pie were killed and ID seriously injured
in a general fight
Mrs. A. +. Stevenson was reelected
president of the Daughters of the
! American Revolution.
Miss Gertrude Lucas, of Fredonia,
this State, was struck by an l.. n.
train and fatal injured.
Jacob Wall, of Waterloo, o., commit
ted suicide because he had been robbed
of a large sum of money.
Fire broke out in mine at Zacate-
cas-. Mexico, and 115 miners are be-
lieved to have lost their lives.
Willie Boyer, an Indianapolis school
boy, ran into an express wagon while
coasting on his bicycle, and was kill
ed.
| William Wooster, aged 40, cashier of
the National Exchange Bank, of Hart
ford, Conn, committed suicide by hang
ing.
James b. ireland, of Hancock coun-
w. will celebrate his Tooth birthday in
June. He is still healthy and vigor-
Gus.
The flood Stacked quantity OF lime
| In a building at Cincinnati, and the
structure was destroyed by the fire
which resulted.
A mob tore down toll gate near Car
Isle Thursday night and threatened to
burn the gate-keeper's house If he coll
lected any more toll.
Clarence Austin, Rochester, n. Y,
school boy, is raving maniac as the
result of practical joke played on
him by his schoolmates.
The United States Building and Loan
Association, OF Louisville, assigned as
the result of internal dissensions which
caused heavy Withdrawals.
Capt. f. C. Barlow, Georgetown s
Oldest business man, dropped dead of
heart disease, aged 90. He had been
in the jewelry business for 40 years.
The river began to recede Sunday.
at Louisville. II succeeded in getting
higher than it had been since the great
flood OF February, 1884, reaching 30 feet
and four inches.
Masked men caught Albert Morgan,
OF Aberdeen, o., as he was returning
from hop and after robbing him they
tied him to a tree. He was nearly
frozen when found.
At Soddy, Tenn, race war Is threat
ened as the result Of the lynching OF
Charles Brown, Negro, who attempt
ed to assault white girl and who later
fatally shot an officer.
The Ohio at Cincinnati reached Oh
feet two inches and began TO recede.
In 1884 it reached Il feet and OF an
inch. The damage along the entire
river has been very great.
Judge w. w. Crump, the most noted
lawyer in Richmond, Va, is dead. He
defended President Davis in his trial
for treason and was assistant secretary
of the Confederate Treasury.
Mrs. Jane Dabbs, of Newberg, Tenn,
was given seven years for numbering
her two-year-old son. After crushing
the little things skull she set fire To
the house and the child was cremated.
A Nevada legislator has introduced
bill providing for an appropriation
for championship belt to be present.
ed with the compliments of the pocket
borough to the winner of the Corbett-
Fitzsimmons fight.
Seen. Lee is liar, an impostor and
rebel" said Gen. Palmerola, secreta-
nv of State for Cuba, when informed
that the American consul general was
authority for the statement that the
release of Charles Scott had been de-
manded because he had been arrested
and kept in prison in defiance of law.
The fight between the labor unions
and street car company at Louisville
has been declared Off, the street car
company agreeing to put conductors
on the main lines, to heat the cars next
winter, to charge only one fare to the
parks, and to make electricity the mo-
tive power on all the street car lines in
the city within Is months.