Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1899-01-20
BRIEF NEWS NOTATION.

bHltf ktWS NUlAllUN.
There are 754,9i5 children attendin
the public schools OF Indiana.
Two worthless Negroes were shot L
death by mob at Lynchburg, Tenn.
Five school boys were drowned b.
breaking through the ice on pond a
South Gibson, Pa.
George Gemunder, one Of the mos
expert violin makers in the country, i
dead at Astoria, l.. /.
The Indiana House passed bill Civ
ing a bounty of one cent head on En-
glsh sparrows killed.
Mrs. Anna Schley, OF Baltimore, kill
ed herself with pistol. Worry ovel
her fathers death drove her mad.
Earnest McCoun, secretary of the
Kentucky Title Co., at Louisville, com
mitted suicide while suffering with the
grip.
A man and his wife who worked the
"badger" game at Cleveland were fined
$500 each and given six months in the
workhouse.
Jonse Hatfield was given life sen
tence 10 Floyd for killing two children
of Randolph Mccoy in a night attack
on his house.
! Inceudiaries burned Frank Carpen'
ter's tobacco barn near Owingsville
and set fire to the barn belonging to
Milton Stephens.
In seeking to escape from their burn
ing house at Cleveland, Mrs. Fred lis
del was killed and her husband proba-
bly, fatally hurt.
Floods are doing an immense amount
OF damage in the Ohio oil fields. In
many cases residents had to be rescued
from their houses in boats.
/ George Bierelien was given three
years Ia the penitentiary for stealing a
section of wire of OF the American Tel
ephone Co., poles at Vincennes. Ind.
3 Thieves blew open two safes In the
depot at Carlisle and secured 5000 In
cash besides valuables. The safe al
the postoffice was tried, but not opened
: While awaiting death on the gallows,
7 Micheal Ruminski. who strangled his
wife and burned the house to hide the
crime, strangled himself with bed
cord in the Jail at Pittsburg, Pa.
Rev. d. Hendrickson, aged 81, is
dead at Evansville, Wis, after fasting
As days. He was paralyzed Dec. l and
for several days was unable TO eat. He
soon recovered the use Of his muscles,
but positively refused to eat.
In Scott equity, Va, Joel and Chas.
Necessary. William Freeman and Sam
uel Duncan went to arrest VIM. Free
man, desperate, and succeeded in do
ing so. but his brother fired on them,
killing the first two and wounding the
others.
Grant G. Gillett. the Kansas cattle
plunger, will return to the United
States and face his creditors In Kansas
City on or before Feb. |, according to
a statement made Monday by Charles
f. Hunt, who came from chihuahua,
Mex several days ago.
In a fight in Samoa over the decision
of Chief Justice Chambers In favor OF
Malietoa Tanus, one OF the candidates
10 the throne, followers of the rival as
pirant, Mataafa, were victorious and
70 men we're killed or wounded in the
fight. Apia was looted and burned.
Near Piettsyille, Wis, the farm
house OF Fayette Meacham, was blown
to atoms by dynamite, killing Meach-
am aud fatally injuring his wife and
four children. Meacham had purchas-
ed it to use in blasting, but how the
dynamite became ignited is not known.
Two trunks belonging to the ladies
who sailed from New Orleans on the
pleasure yacht Paul Jones, supposed to
have gone down in the Gulf. were found
floating of Bird island, and this fact
almost destroys all hope that Col. Yo-
cum and his daughter and friends on
board the little vessel have not perish
ed.
During the calendar year 1898 the
exports Of merchandise OF all sorts from
the United States reached the enor-
nous total of l,25l.925, 1863. Imports
were s633. 66i. 1874. The excess OF ex-
ports over imports was 1921 ,26O, 535. an
increase OF 1894, li6.7l9 over the excess
for 1897 In only one year previous 10
1898 did the exports pass the billion
dollar mark. In 1896 they were VI ,OO5.-
537.
Morbidly brooding over the grew
some details OF the suicide OF Ernest
McCoun, and because one OF them had
been disappointed 10 not receiving q
letter from her lover, two ID year old
girls made an attempt at suicide Ia |
Louisville. One OF them. Miss Tammie |
Church, of Gsllatin, Tenn, was sue
cessful. The other, Miss Florence
johnson, her cousin, failed because she
Was discovered In time.