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

BRIEF NEWS NOTATION.
The G. Il o. has contracted With the
Pullman Co. for | 900 cars TO cost s3i1,
900.
Dowager Queen Kapioliani, widow oI
the late King Kalakul, died at Houolu
Ia June "a.
Mrs. John Redmou was killed by
leaping from a buggy In runaway
near Paris.
The rise in copper has made subsio'
larry Chinese coins worth more as metal
than money.
The l.. s. Ms report for the fiscal
year shows an increase Of sl,7OO,0O0 in
the earnings.
The total assessed value OF real aud
personal property subject to taxation In
New York City Is s3,I7s, 252, 0s9.
An enthusiastic Chinese merchant
at indianapolis celebrated the Fourth
by touching of 100, 900 drecrackers.
Besides the cost OF its own vessels,
the U. 5. has paid other vessels $780,
PTS for transporting troops to Manila.
During the fiscal year Just closed
10, l22 men enlisted iu the navy, Of
whom >, li3 enlisted for the war only.
The Scioto Valley, In Ohio, was Wis
tied by heavy frost Thursday night.
which badly damaged corn and potato
crops
Forty-four persons are said to have
been killed by the explosion ola dyna-
mite cartridge in coal mine near
Odessa.
At Wilbur, w. Va, Zane Ferguson
shot and killed his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Hester a. Davis, the result OF family
quarrel.
An order has been issued directing
the enlistment of 10 regiments of VOL
uuteer infantry, TO be numbered from
20 to IS.
The Kentucky National Bank fled
suit at Indianapolis, praying the ap-
pointment of receiver for the Monon
railroad.
At Winchester a little son Of Price
Osborn was bitten by a mad cat. When
the maidstone was applied 1t stuck sew
eral times.
Euglebert Waller, a prosperous Lou
isville merchant, jumped from the Big
bridge at Louisville yesterday and
was drowned.
The Cincinnati Saengerfest commit
tee has a deficit OF $4,000 on ITS hands
which will have to be paid by popular
subscriptions.
Il. L. Trimole, of Covington, won
the Kentucky State championship
shoot by making so straight kills-a
perfect score.
Four persons were killed and eight
injured by fire In paper plant at
Chicago. With one exception, the
victims were women.
At the beginning OF this year the
circulation of the National banks was
about s2li, 100000. 1t has since declin.
ed to about s205, 100000.
Not a single case of yellow fever in
the u. S. or Havana Is the report, but
there have been about 100 cases at
Santiago, % resulting fatally.
The loss OF life caused by the Hood 10
the Brazos valley of Texas is estimated
at from 100 to 300 and the property los
at from $1,000, 600 to sl9,000,O0O.
The receipts at the United States
patent Office for the fiscal year were
81 POS. 6ji, which leaves a balance 70
the credit OF the patent fund OF 80, 600.
The 4th was ushered in by magnif-
cent illumination on Pixies Peak, II.
900 feet above the sea. with LOO
pounds of red, white and blue powder.
Gov. Bushnell, OF Ohio, pardoned
w. j. Elliott, who was serving life
sentence for killing another editor in a
street fight in 1891. He is nearly
blind.
Pleasant Wynn and Catlett Tipton
we're hanged at Sevierville, Tenn.
Wednesday, for the whitecap murder
OF William Whsley and wife. Both
confessed.
The Cumberland Coal and Coke com
pany, organized to operate coal mines
mainly in Tennessee, has been incof-
poratei in New Jersey with a capital
of S2,000,O0O.
The Gayoso Hotel, one OF the land
marks of Memphis, was destroyed by
fire with several other buildings. One
life was lost and several tiremen ser
iously injured.
Pres. Sexton, who has been at large
since he killed Ed Cummings and Mrs.
Sarah Trumbo, in Bath county, two
years ago, has surrendered TO the au-
thorities at Owingsville.
Gov Bradley directs the adiutant
general to muster into the State Guard
the nine Louisville companies orgaoiz.
ed by Legion veterans under the aus:
pices OF the board OF trade.
Five thousand eight huud red men 10
the employ OF the Lehigh Valley Coal
no.anaav a.a IN a afpika nm aaeaunt ~