Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1899-05-30
BRIEF NEWS NOTATION.

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wife.
A man without arms is serv ing ty'
years sentence in South Carolina 10
forgery.
J.E. Moss killed his wife and three
children near Joplin, Mo, and the'
killed himself.
Ethel Talbot, a l0-year child, wa'
killed by being thrown from horse il
Bourbon county.
Jacob Solomons, his wife and seven
children burned to death in their home
at Vaudeville, ;. c.
The Western Union has substituted
the dynamo system for the old style
battery in the Louisville offices.
Prof. Arthur T. Hadley was elected
president Of Yale University, To succeed
Prof. Timothy Dwight, resigned.
1t required $4,000 in revenue stamps
for the new bonds and mortgages issued
by the Baltimore Il Ohio railroad.
William White, a Chicago Negro,
has been found to have five living
wives, all residing in the Windy City.
An automobile carriage arrived at
New York from Cleveland. O., having
made the trip in 1 days II hours and 10
minutes.
Simon Wesley, OF st. Louis, was kill
ed by train while going TO church;
the identical way his father met death
year ago.
A railroad trust is forming TO include
over 4O, 900 miles of road, 100000 en-
ployes and many hundreds Of millions
Of dollars.
Dr.. Emory Alfred Grant, for 4Oyears
a resident of Louisville,a widely known
instructor and a distinguished physi-
clan, is dead.
A Missouri couple who made fall
ure Of an attempt to elope, terminated
the affair by committing suicide. Love
always finds way.
The Automobile carriage, which Is
running TO Cleveland from New York
against time, made 20 miles in hve
hours and 30 minutes.
Nelson Bros, a great Glasgow steel
firm, failed for over million dollars.
The firm has lost sl,250,Oo0 within the
last year in bearing the market.
}. T. Lee, OF Clinton county, mas SIZED
]. c. Buck, q merchant at Maupin, for
s. 900 damages for having had him
arrested for raising 81 bill TO $50.
President NJ. II. Smiths new private
car, built by the l.. & n. shops, Is
attracting great attention in the East,
being one of the finest in the country.
A big fire at Coney Island, N. v,
destroyed seven blocks of frame build
ings, containing dance halls, saloons,
theatres, &c. Loss $4,000.
f. S. Harrison, United States spe-
cial agent and road expert, from Wash
inpton. is In Lexington arranging for
some model roads 10 the State College
grounds.
Robert Murray, OF Greenfield, ILL.,,
disheartened by misfortune and Ill
health took his life in the presence OF
his family after bidding each OF them
goodbye.
The ninth attempt To pull the big
American Line steamer Paris on the
rocks near Coverack, Cornwall, was
made without success and IL has been
given up as lost.
At the Cincinnati sub-tueasury was
received last week $50, 900 N halves and
quarters, $4,000 in dimes, $4,000 in
nickels and II kegs of cents weighing
4 .624 pounds and worth $4,000.
Charles Peterson and his six chill
dren were killed by cyclone which
did great damage at Bijou Hills, 5. ID.
Considerable property was also de-
stroyed in Iowa and Nebraska.
The Railway Age says there is every
indication that not less than 1900 miles
of new railway will be built in the
United States in 1899, representing an
investment OF about l50,OOO,OOO.
The "drys" won by four votes In the
loeal.option election at Henshaw' I'M
ion county. II -four irregular ballots
that were thrown out, had been count
ed the vote would have been a tie.
The comptroller of the currency has
the Southern National Bank
of Louisville 10 begin business with
capital of $4,000. w. j. Thomas Is
president aud J. w. Nichols cashier
Ina fight at sherman. Elmer Franks
son of Marion Franks, wealthy Grant
county farmer. was shot and killed by
james Tapp, aud two by-standers were
wounded by bullets from TappS pistol
The Bank Of Commerce, oil Loois-