Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1898-05-20
BRIEF NEWS NOTATION,

bread mas made It's second rise OF
cent loaf at New York.
4 a Paducah firm received an order
from the government to make | 900 sets
OF harness.
/ Alonzo Hedges, Of Middetown, n.
/ V, read war news until he lost his
mind and be then hung himself.
/ Chester Massie killed Sam Stephens
because he walked with his sweetheart
/ from church, and then made his escape.
The Georgetown Street Railway was
sold publicly 10y order of the court and
was bought by J. d. Grover for Sos
600.
G. +. Muth. the rich Cincinnati bak-
er, killed himself on his farm in Indi-
aua 10 a fit OF dependency over i'll
health.
Frank Kelley. a ST. Louis gambler,
drank carboic acid and ended his life
when he lo-t all OF his money in a
game.
y Negro was caught at Fulton peep
lug at some ladies in an out house. and
was taken out and given l20 lashes on
the bare back.
Greensboro has passed the curfew law
aud hereafter all boys under Ii years
old must keep of the streets after 9
O'Clock at night.
Ed II. Bacon. the popular district
| passenger agent OF the Monon, was
elected president of the Louisville
! Commercial Club.
Robert Lacy shot himself through
the head while being pursued at Nor
ristown, Tenn, by policeman. He
was wanted for theft.
Capt. NJ. G.. Bauer, secret service
agent for Kentucky, dropped dead at
Fourth and Chestnut street, Louisville,
Of hemorrhage of the lungs.
y number Of tobacco plant beds have
been destroyed in Barren and Metcalfe
counties. The farmers are thinking of
organizing a lynching bee"
Charles Hugill, of Marietta, o., tried
70 end his life by eating vitriol from
the jar Of an electric battery. but
strange To say be is yet alive.
The State Board of Equalization,
when it completes its work, will make
a total raise of about $40. 600, 900 over
the assessment OF the county boards
and about s2,0O0,000 over last year 5 as
| sessments.
Edouard Remenyi, the violinist, who
enthralled audiences all over the world
fell dead at the Orpheum Theatre, San
Francisco, just after playing "Old
Glory "a an encore.
\ Scott county tree says the Times
that measured feet ) inches across the
stump, sawed six 10 foot cuts from the
body without "a limb; furnished over
5000 feet Of solid lumber and IL cords
Of wood
Eldridge Underwood, of Arkansas,
went 10 his old home at Irvine and met
his brother, Alex, for the first time in
80 years. Until few months ago
neither knew whether the other was
alive or dead.
Amos Riggs, who has killed eight |
men, was tried for the murder of two 1
of them at Maysville and sentenced to
death, but the tender hearted court of .
appeals found a loop hole by which to
give him a new trial.
Mayfeld has been thrown into a state /
of excitement over the capture OF Bob |
Blanks, the negro who brutally outrag-
ed Tennie Bailey, Il year-old white
girl in wash shed at that place last
January, and another iynching is ex-
pected.
The plant Of the Baltimore Biscuit |
Company was damaged 5000 by fire.
over 800 men had worked all day on
rush orders for the government, and |
this stock, as well as large quantity |
Of flour, was consumed, and the machin- !
cry ruined.
Near Amy, Tenn, Rube Phillips |
and Jerry West engaged in a pistol |
duel at the door Of a church and both |
were shot TO death. The girl whom |
West was escorting to church, was
MORALLY wounded. Both were suitors |
TO the girl.
a destructive tornado swept over the |
western part of Kingman county. Kan
sas, Wednesday. The town of Cum
uingham was almost swept away. Only |
FIVE houses are left standing in the |
track of the storm, which was POO yards |
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