The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1898-01-14
GENERAL NEWS.

/ The farmers of Bath county report
the wheat prospect very fattering SC
| far.
| The Rothschilds will build a rail.
road into the Yukon country over the
Dalton trail.
Will Holiday, of Columbia, killed
an eagle that measured seven fee,
from tip to tip.
Great Britain has informed Caina
that she is willingstO find the money
asked as loan.
The large planning mill of j. A.
Shropshire & Sons, at Georgetown,
was destroyed by fire.
Col. William L. Harrington, one OF
the oldest AMI mDst prominent citi'
zens of Boyle county, is dead.
Dan Major, the negro who murdered
Patrolman Ed Byrne in Louisvil' e
July 4, 1895, was captured in Memphis,
Tenn.
The Queen of England reigns over
the continent, 100 eeninsulars, 500 pro-
monotories. 1000 lakes, 1900 rivers
and 10000 islands
There is glut of grain at Calves
ton and not enough vessels to move it.
All the elevators are filed and there
are 400 cars unloaded.
The House at Frankfort adopted a
resolution by Mr.. Charlton calling on
the United States Senate to reject the
Hawaiian annexation treaty.
The official report of the sinking of
the Telegraph, received at Washing
ton, censures Pilot Williams and sus-
ponds his license for ninety days.
The State Board of Health in a Pc
port says the plumbing at the Eastern
Kentucky Lunatic Asylum is not only
deficient, but absolutely worthless
from a sanitary point of view.
Edith, pretty fifteen-year-old
daughter of ]. d. Scott. of Pacolet. S.
c., was rocking vigorously in a rock
| lIS Chdh. WHICH, ~ ONCI OuE uCu, anu uCT
neck was broken.
The report received by the Controll.
err of the Currency of the sixtY-eight
national hanks in Kentucky outside o
Louisville shows these institutions to
be in a hearty condition.
The suit of Mrs. AL. Martin against
the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance
Company of Newark, to recover a S.
900 policy on the life of her father,
ex-Treasurer Dick Tate, was begun
at Frankfort Monday.
The Fleming county grand jury in
dicted turnpike company for setting
up a tollvgate in less than a mile of
Flemingsburg. The distance less than
mile was four feet by absolute
measure.
On account of an alleged case of
smallpox in the negro section at the
Cross ore Mines Cumberland Gap,
Tenn, the white miners have driven
all the negro employees away from the
works.
i Representative E.i.s, If Utah. whn
has been personally Investigating af-
fairs in Cuba, paints very dark pict.
ure of the condition of the reconcen.
trados, who, he says, are dying like
sheep in the streets OF Cuban towns.
Secretary Sherman has issued a
proclamation calling on the people OF
the United States to send money and
supplies to relieve the restitution and
suffering in Cuba Gov. Bradley has
issued proclamation to Kentuckians
o. the same subject.
There now seems little doubt of a
successful outcome of the project to
have May music festival in Louis
vile. Without any effort the com
mittee in charge has in one day re-
ceivei subscriptions pledging practic
ally one-half of the amount required
as guarantee.
The little daughter Of Will E. Har'
ris, of Harrisburg, N. c., swallowed q
imble, and for time her condition
was critical. The X-rays were used
and the thimble was located in the
lower part of the left lung. A sur
geon removed the obstruction and the
girl is now out of danger.
A cyclone which struck Morganfield
Sunday unroofed the old Methodist
church and the Parsons hotel, and de
molished the store of Hart 4 Co., the
city Jail, and Jeans produce store
Harve Sellers, the city marshal. wht
was in the Jail Office at the time o.
the storm, was instantly killed.
The comparative statement of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad