Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1899-12-08
BRIEF NEWS NOTATION.

+ At Buffalo and points In the East the
snow was so heavy as to stop street
cars.
a postotlce was established At Jane,
Harlan county, and +. NJ. Noleu was
appointed postmaster
The new public school building AZ
Augusta was destroyed by lire. Loss
10000: insurance, $4,000.
/ 10 fire In hosiery factory at Read
ing, Pa, two Of the 900 girls employed
were burned to death. aad many iuiur-
ed
samuel Gomper-, president OF the
American Federation " Labor. was
painfully hurt 10 collision with -
street car.
David Wingett, an iumate Of the
Soldiers Home, at Saudu-ky, o was
sentenced 10 be elcctrocuted May IL,
for murder.
During the past week the wages of
80, 200 operatives in Fall River, Lowell
and New Bedford have been advanced
10 per cent.
Fire destroyed a business block and
eight storerooms at Mayheld, causing
loss of over 100000, with only about
$4,000 insurance.
The National council Of the Grand |
Army Of the Republic decided that the
next reunion will be held during the
last week Of August, 1900. in Chicago. |
The American Book Company COM
pleted negotiations bv which the en-
tire publication Of the Harper Bros
college and high school text books Is
transferred
Heirs OF J. ). Chenoweth, Of Mason
county, discovered that he left sl,236
90 deposit in the Bank OF Kentucky,
Louisville. 30 years ago, and are suing
for 1t with interest.
At Nigan. 1t. Col. Parker. with a
handful OF footsore and sick men, re
PEELED an attack OF vastly superior
force Of Filipinos, killing 80 of them,
aud losing eight killed himself.
BY his promotion Gen. Wood will be
the second ranking officer in Cuba.
He Is promoted over seven brigadicrs
Sho were bis superiors. Jealous army
1iicers will fight his confirmation. 4
The Amoskeag cotton mills. OF Man ,
hester, will advance the wages OF 5000
operatives 10 per cent. Dec i. a
similar advance r. announced by other
New England mills, affecting 1900
employees.
Arrangements have been completed y
or disiuterri1g the bodies of the vic
inns Of the Maine explosion at Havana.
They will be conveyed by the Battle
hip Texas TO Washington aud renter
a at Arlington
Contractors have begun work on the
)hio Il Eastern railroad, which l. an
xtensiOn OF the Lexington u Eastern
rom jackson into the camel coal fields
{ Morgan county, and the work will
e rapidly pushed.
We have not come across more sig
iicaut fact in long time than this
ne: "Out Of POO BOYS and girls cared
,r by one of the Northwestern States
; incOrrigibles at reform schools not
ne was born on farm.
The Kurds have avenged the recent
icursion OF Russian Armenian- into
he Alashgerd district in Turkish Ar
enia by pillaging the Armenian viii
ge OF Kostur and massacreing thou
.nds of It's inhabitants.
y rear-end collision occurred between
20 passenger trains on the Denver ~
10 Grande, in which six persons
ere killed outright aud several others
ere severely injured. The accident
ippened six miles east Of Salida.
There is inquiry as 20 why Gen 1
lgan should desire to be restored to
: duties when he is receiving full pay (,
= doing nothing The general Is a
anguager," aud the brillancy Of his
ofanlty does not find adequate scope
private life. Besides Eagan il prob
ly tired Of being made horrible ex-
lple, when there are many men much
rise than be is. higher up in the at
RS of the government.
Latest adyices from the beleaguered '
les Of Lady aud Mafeking are 4
At the Beers are making more des-
rate efforts than ever 10 take both /.
ices They are using new big guns
u placed in commanding positions. =
d the bombardment is incessant +
e Beers are said TO be shooting with |
eat accuracy, and several big guns Of :
2 British A. Ladysmith have been c
altered. Q
AZ State Line. Miss. Edmund. the Q
a-year old son of DR.. w. n. Boykin, Q
II and instantly killed his brother, y
derrick, aged II, and severely wound -
in the right arm his brother, Tom, -
I'd ID. because they wouldn't give q
n plaything they bad At Dallas, o
Sas' Roy Morton; II years old, killed O
ra 81 Clair, II years old, by shoot o
her through the centre OF the fore y
I'd with a Winchester rifle, because -