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


cinnati.
More stamps we're issued In April
than ever before, i0l ,225, go, the value
being s7,5sl,9
Robert Franklin. OF Paducah, fell
from his buggy while asleep aud re
ceived probably fatal injuries.
Fourteen-year-old Rachael Mclean,
of Lexington, died from eating hem
lock root while gathering flowers.
A lion in John Robinson circus
sprung at man in Portsmouth, o., and
tore all of one side of his face of.
Hiram Harvey, of Austin, n. C., Is
gs wears old and has never smoked,
chewed. drank nor sworn an oath.
The famous asbestos mine at Sail
Mountain, White county, Georgia, was
sold to British engineers for s2oO'OOO.
Negroes stole copy OF the Elks
ritual from lodge at Cincinnati and
are organizing colored lodges right and
left.
The National debt less cash in the
treasury amounts to sl,l72,5S',2ji an
increase during the month Of April OF
81, 0sl, FOL.
The only death from the smallpox
so prevalent in the State Is reported
from Elizabethtowu, VIM. Bunnell' a
young mechanic.
Dewey Day, Nav l, has been made a
legal holiday in California. The day
was celebrated more or less largely all
over the country.
A sister of Henry Hicks, OF Clarks-
Vile, Tenn, dreamed she saw him iaiI
bet Seen cars and killed. The next day
he was killed identically In that way.
Mrs. Virginia Hassel, OF stockton,
Cal, shot Mrs. William Hickman to
death while the latter slept and then
used the weapon on herself with fatal
result.
During the year just ended, the col
lector at Louisville took in sl2,2OJ'-
pa. O6. internal revenue, an increase OF
about Al. DOC. 900 over the collections OF
last year.
Phil Chinu sued the Bell Telephone
Co. at Lexington for $4,000 because IL
shut him off, after the collector had
been to see him and found him out OF
the city.
\ State convention is 10 be called In
Caorgi, soon 10 discuss criminal assault
and lyuching. The object is to recon-
mend changes in the laws that will
facilitate justice.
In saw mill explosion near Hop
kinsville Barrett Mcknight and Efhe
Mcknight we're killed, John White
was mortally injured aud T. I. Nc
knight seriously hurt.
More than 100 families, aggregating
nearly 900 persons, in the Polish dis
trict in Chicago, we're left homeless by
fire. Eighteen buildings were burned
and three children persisted.
The point was raised in the case oil a
convict sent up for life on third coz
viction that the offenses must have
been in Kentucky and Gov. Worthing-
ton committed the sentence according
ly.
w. 5. Miller, father Of W. 5. Miller,
Jr., manager of the Willard Hotel'dled
in Louisville in the s4th year OF his
age. He was stricken with paralys
u hours before his death and never
rallied.
Fletcher Holmes, of Brownsville
Tenn. thought he heard a burglar On
his room and fired his pistol In the
darkness. He was Mortified TO find that
he had fatally wounded a younger
brother.
Henry B. Hyde, president OF the
Equitable Life Insurance Society OF the
United States, is dead at New York.
He hal devoted AZ years OF his lie to
the insurance business and his salary
was 100000.
The National bank note circulation
has increased slj, lOl.Ss this year, the
total now being s242, 7lI,333. During
April, 81, s9i, 475 in gold were coined
81. l59. 449 in silver and sl3,OI2 In one
cent bronze.
Miss Mabel Burke shot and fatally
wounded David Vile in Chicago when
she found he was p.arried and then sent
, bullet through her heart. VILE had
made love to her and the girl was
greatly infatuated.
Geo. Dining, who killed Jodie Conn
in Franklin county, when he went with
A mob TO run him off. is suing the
other members OF the mob for s5O,OoO
and the case is now on trial before the
U. S. Court of Louisville.
Mrs. Anna f. George has accepted
an offer to lecture in Pittsburg May y.
Her subject will be "Woman's Rights,
but in fact, history OF her experiences
in deserving her husband and children
for wealthy and gay Lothario.
The city council of Bowling Green,
by a vote of six to three, has decided
not TO issue license TO drug stores To
retail spirituous, vinus or malt liquors