Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1899-03-07

Coffin aud cork leg combines are the
latest.
Admiral Monteio, who was cleaned
out by Dewey at Manila, has been
thrown into jail, pending his trial for
getting whipped.
Meningitis has made its appearance
at Pewee Valley. Lieut.. Albert G.
Jurey l. dead OF IL aud Mrs. Atwood
Martin isvery low.
The United States hospital ship Re-
lief with medical supplies enough To
last an army Of $1,000 men year, left
New York for Manila.
a cyclone struck the town OF Madi
sonville. Tenn, and wrecked II or II
houses, killing three people and iniur.
ing about dozen others.
William Fox, sent up from Kentou
for murder. was refused at the peniten-
tiary because he came from a county
infected with small poX.
Mrs. John Gilbert aud her four chill
dren we're found dead In their home
near Coffeyville. Kas. The husband is
suspected Of the murder.
J. Ed Caldwell committed suicide at
the Willard Hotel on account OF i'll
health. He was book keeper for the
Louisville Coffin Company.
BY vote OF li6 to Il, the House re-
fused to consider whether Gen. Wheel
err. Colson and others who joined the
army had forfeited their seats.
Eighteen insurance companies have
withdrawn from Franklin county rs a
result Of the grand jury's action. 9th
err companies, IL Is said. will follow
suit.
An old memorandum book has been
found at Hopkinsville, disclosing the
names Of the l0l heretofore unknown
Confederate dead who are buried In
that city.
Harry Price, who shot Capt. Carr, OF
the Legion, for treating him badly 10
the army. recently, shot and fatally !
wounded Jerry Monaghan, on a steam
boat. near Louisa.
A jury at Birmingham awarded the
wife Of Engineer White $4,000 dam
ages He was killed Ia the Cahaba
river bridge disaster, in which % peo-
pie lost their lives.
The Kentucky river rose 30 feet in
q hours at Beattyville. At Cynthi-
ana much damage has been done TO
property by the rapid rise IN the south
fork OF the Licking.
Il II. Ingram took the bankrupt law
1t Louisville, owing all the officers of
The l.. & n from President Smith
Town. His assets are three suits OF old
clothes aud els watch.
{ Gen. Gomez says the Cuban army has
3. 900 privates, 10000 non-commission-
ed officers and 5000 commissioned Of
ficers. United States army pay-mss
ters with 100000 will arrive in Ha-
vana next week.
Forty dead bodies have been recov-
cred from the ruins caused by the ex-
plosion OF powder magazine near
Toulon, France. IL Is believed that
many more were killed. Fifty thous-
and kilogrammes OF black powder ex.
ploded
The most frightful feature of the
terrible Madisouville, Tenn, tornado
was Jack Moser's fearful death. He
was hurled by the winds force from /
his house a distance OF 200 yards until
his progress was impeded by wire
fence. which completely severed his
head from the body.
The gross railroad earnings, as COM
piled by the Financial Chronicle. for
1898 show an aggregate for 10000
miles of l,ls0, 900. 900, compared with
sl.ll2,4l7, 300 in 1891 This is an IN.
crease OF per cent. over very large to-
tails for the previous year, and amounts
TO over $1,000 per mile.
The'business OF the past month is the
greatest ever known in February. The
house exchanges are about 81
900, 000, 900, against 1861, 553,sH last
year. aud 54.2 per cent. larger than In
1892. In all the years OF weekly com
mercial reporting there has been no
other week in which the reports have
been so good as last week. There were
,nly Isl failures in the U. 5. during the
week.