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

Government bonds were quoteu nlgn
er last week than ever before.
Fire at Augusta, Ca, destroyed
property worth upward Of sl,0n0,0OO.
Henry Withrow, Louisville Neg ro
ate 30 eggs In five minutes and won 81
The dates fixed for the Confederate
reunion in Louisville are May 30 To
June 3
A switch engine ran over Fireman
John Savage in the c. 5 yards at Lex
ington and killed him.
c. Meredith simpson, at several
times in his life mi llionaire, died pen
niless 10 New York City.
Two employees were killed and about
80 others injured by fire in a hosiery
mill at Reading, Pa.
John Hundley, OF Norway. lnd.,
drank carbolic acid aud died because
he had to pay security debt.
Jay Buck, prominent in church and
Y. NJ. C. a, circles at Muncie, Ind,
plead guilty to embezzliug $500.
BY remaining at her loom in defa nee
of 500 strikers, one little girl prevented
tie-up in an Altoona, Pa. silk mill.
Sixteen lives were lost by the sink
ing of the steamer Niagara ou Lake
Erie. The ship foundered in storm.
a Negro murdered white merchant
at Pine Bluff Ark, in the presence of
the five-year-old daughter of the latter.
Joseph Green. OF Jackson, Tenn, az.
tended a party aud broke the record by
killing one man and shooting five 9th.
ers.
Harry Pulliam has closed deal with |
the Pittsburg baseball club and will |
get the pick of the Louisville club for
So, 200.
Gov. Bradley was presented with |
a handsome gold watch by his ad-
miring colored constituency 10 Lou
isville.
Anderson Buford, of Christian coun-
ty, drank embalming fluid by mistake
for whisky and didn't live to tell how il
tasted.
In BATH county as the result OF
family quarrel, j. a. Henderson shot
and fatally wounded his brother, Chas.
NJ. Henderson.
w. G.. Sparks was shot by Gus COul-
ter in Louisville, because the former
didn't cook his oysters brown enough.
Both are colored
John L. Carlisle, cousin OF John g.,
was given 10 years in the penitentiary
for killing professor in the Dallas
Texas, High School.
AT Hopkinsville, Mrs. X. A. Jones
fell dead in hack just as she left the
station after arriving from Windsor,
Ontario, TO visit her son.
Fifteen football players have been
killed on the gridiron since the pres
ent season opened and twice as many
more have been more or less disabled.
Mayor Johnson, OF Covington, bru-
ALLY assaulted Laurie J. Blakely, a
well-known editor, in a quarrel over
politics and he is in precarious coudi-
ion.
Louis Straus, OF the clothing firm of
=. * G. Straus, OF Lexington, and one
II the best known turfmen OF that coun- a
ry, died there from complication Of
diseases. He was So wears old and
caves family.
Clarence Williams, colored, was
lung at Paris yesterday for the murder
Il his sweetheart. He was anxious TO
AVE the job over and asked the sher- :
u TO "do him up" early as he wanted 7
o eat breakfast in hell. His neck was
'roken by the fall.
After the Negro Coleman had been
'urned To death by the fiendish mob at
Iaysville for rape and murder, boys
nd men fought for pieces Of his body.
li-year-old boy got an ear; Others got c
oes, fingers, teeth, &c, till hardly y
nough OF the poor creature was left To o
Jury. Those who could not get parts
4 the body contented themselves with
ieces Of rope, wire, chunks OF charred
abroad ties and everything that figur-
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