Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1899-06-06
POLITICIANS AND POLITICS.

n GOebel CLUB OF Loo was lOrneu az
Lexington.
There are Il candidates for the DEM
ocratic nomination for assessor in Mad
ison.
Diplomatic relations with Spain. sew
cred April 81, ls9s, were formally re-
sumed Saturday.
Gov. w. H. El.erbee, of South Caro-
lima. is dead. He had been i'll for a
long time of consumption.
The Hon. NJ. B. McSweeney took the
oath of office at ll:30 Saturday night as
governor of South Carolina.
Friends OF Congressman Henderson,
of Iowa, claim that he has enough
pledged votes TO elect him speaker.
Casey Allen was declared the demo-
cratic nominee for circuit clerk OF
Mercer to succeed his father, deceased.
The supreme court Of New Jersey
has rendered a decision upholding
trusts, the first decision OF the kind on
record.
The time for filing testimony has
been extended in the White-BoreinG
and Evans-Turner congressional con-
test cases.
Elisha Baxter, the 10th governor oil
Arkansas and one OF the notable figures
in the history OF that State, died al
Batesville.
Judge w. S. Stone, OF jamestown, Ii
spoken of for the democratic nomina'
tion for representative from Russell
and Casey counties.
Mai. |. n. Cardwell, former men,
Der of the Kentucky Legislature and
one OF the leading citizens of Clark
county, died at Winchester.
Congressman Vincent Boreing has
recommended Charles A. Blakely. OF
Williamsburg, for the vacant llth
district Annapolis cadetship.
At Marion John Moore, Taylor man,
and Joel Farmer. for Pratt. engaged in
difficulty at the convention Saturday
in which the latter was severely cut.
Mr.. Hardin writes Judge Mat Walton
that the report that he has promised
the stewardship of the Lexington Luz
nitic Asylum to Mayor Simrall IL
untrue.
Republicans OF Clay county held a
mass meeting and adopted resolutions
calling on State Senator JOAN Bennett,
OF Madison county, TO make the race
for Governor.
An agreement was found TO be i'm.
possible on all questions, and the con-
victior is growing more than ever that
the work of the peace commission al
Hague is doomed TO fail.
Judge Boreing says Attorney Gener-
al Taylor Is as certain 10 be elected
Governor as he is TO be nominated. A
statement which though parson him
self he does not believe.
How the mighty have fallen Elk
President Grover Cleveland was order
ed of the premises OF q farmer neal
Winstesd, Conn.,, for fishing in hi'
pond without his consent.
The monthly statement OF the public
debt shows that at the close OF business
May 81 the debt, less cash in the treas
ury. amounted 10 sl,l6s, s9l ,40I, a de
crease as compared with last month o
1866, s57.
The queen regent announced 10 The
Cortes that practically all OF Spain
remaining insular possessions had beer
ceded TO Germany. The cession EN-
braces the remainder of the Ladrones
! the Carolnas and the Palaos islands.
/ Out of the 27l members of the Con
federate Congress but Al are now ALIVE
five Of the number belonging 70 th'
Kentucky delegation. II. w. Bruce
and T. l.. Helm, OF Louisville, II. J
Breckenridge, Of Danyille, were mem
bers.
/ DR.. j. II. Souther, a Hardin man, wa
removed as chairman OF the Path legis
latiye district, Warren county, ant
Charles Cox, a GOebel man, WAS elect