Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1899-10-31
BRIEF NEWS NOTATION.

Ottmar Mergentnhlefi lnNcnVoV W 1
the linotype typesetting machine is
dead.
The bite Of a pet coon caused the
death OF a mother aud her daughter at
Toledo, o.
Fire destroyed part, OF the Pabst
brewing plant at Milwaukee, causing a
loss Of 800 900.
The ID. NJ. Osborne farm implement
plant at Philadelphia, burned, causing
a loss OF $4,000.
II. ". Tague. OF Trimble county.
drank alcohol out OF an old paint can
aud died In great agony.
Two families OF IL persons were
burned 70 death at Fairies, Ala, In a
fire which destroyed their homes.
Al Beattyville, Melvin Webb was
probably fatally shot by Yves Corne-
Illus. Politics caused the shooting.
II took Bob Fitzsimmons just one
minute to knock out Jen Thorne, OF
England, 10 Chicago Saturday night.
A hurricane swept over Santiago dc
Cuba Sunday, wreckiug number OF
houses. Fears are felt for the safety
OF overdue vessels.
Samuel watrous and Walter Ford,
murderers executed nj Austin and
Waco, Texas. announced that they
were going to heaven.
Baxter Powell, aged p, committed
suicide At LaGrange by shooting. Tae
deed was due TO dependency caused by
the recent death OF his niece.
pThe report OF the commissioner oil
the land Office shows total OF 92s, 3Os,
Oos acres OF uuappropriated and unre-
served public lands 10 the United
States.
Seven new cases OF yellow fever were
reported ut Miami, Fla. Sunday. Five
new cases were reported Saturday
night. There are two new eases a
Yey West.
Nearly $1,000 pension claims result
inc from the Spanish American war
have been fled at the war department
and they are still coming 10 at the rate
OF 90 day.
The Daughters OF the Confederacy
and camps OF Confederate veterans are
raising money In aid OF the widow OF
Stonewal! jackson, who Is said TO he IN
poor health and almost blind.
The Z. $. supreme court decides that
suicide does not invalidate a life insur-
ance policy unless IL can be proved that
the insurer contemplated suicide at the
time Of taking out the policy.
The commissioner of immigration
reports that 3il,7i5 Immigrants landed
in the United States during the year
ending June 30, 1899, an increase OF 80
per cent over the preceding year
Alex. Abbott, charged with the MUIR
der OF his wife In 1895, was acquitted
At Morehead. On three previous trials
he had been convicted, the court OF APP
peals reversing the case in every in
stance.
Brig. Gen. Guy V. Henry, U. 5. A.,
late military governor OF Porto Rico,
died In New York Of pneumonia. Ills
death leaves two vacancies In the rank
OF brigadier general in the regular
army.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee says the condl'
zion Of the Cuban people Is steadily i'm
proving; that life aud property are Sc
cure, the people are tractable ant
Quiet, aud the industrial situation Il
growing better.
Rev. G.. T. Morrison was hanged a
Vernon. Texas, for the murder OF hi
wife, the crime being remarkable To-
Its cold blooded fiendishpess. He pro
Tested his Innocence on the scaifold an'
his last words were 81 am in the hand
OF my Maker"
The assignment OF ID. A. Sayre Il Co
bankers. Lexington, has caused biI
sensation in financial circles. The In
stitution had IA denosits about $4,000
while lts capital stock is but S3l,OOC
making the concern liable for but twic
this amount.
A New Mexico man was tried Il
Albuquerque for murder, because he sc
spring gun In his tool house, viii
killed the thief woo entered IL, but th
Judge held that he was guilty OF NJ
crime, as a man has the right to pro
tect his own property.
The foot ball world was given ruo
shock Saturday when Columbia bea
Yale, when Cornell defeated Princeton
and when Chicago outplayed Pennsyl
vania at every stage OF the game. Tn
results leave foot ball supremacy 10
this year very much 10 doubt.
The torpedo boat, Shuorick, VIII b
launched at Richmond, Va, today an
the president and Mrs. Mckinley, Sec
retary aud Mrs. Gage, Secretary AM
Mrs. Hitchcock, Secretary and Mis-
Wilson, Secretary Long, Secretar
Root aud Secretary Hay will be pres
ent.
NAnnnW ESCAPE.