Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1899-05-02

In n fight over the ownership OF
horse at Centreville, o., John Ragland
was fatally and Hal Johnston seriously
wounded.
Four men we're killed and others
hurt by the explosion OF powder press
at DuPont's powder works, Carney's
Point, N. j.
George T.. Sterrv, of New York,
received a live snake by mail and he
has engaged detectives to find out who
sent II to him.
Albert Funk and his wife were both
sentenced to life Imprisonment Tor
killing an old pensioner for his money
near Milwaukee.
Three brothers named Cubbage were
in the pillowry at the same time satur'
day at Dover, Del, and got 20 iashes
each for stealing.
The suicide OF James +. Jones, In
Christian county, is said to have been
due to his desire to escape the importu-
mites OF woman.
A Jury at Lexington awarded John
Savage $4,000 damages against the l..
& N, for the loss of his right hand
while coupling cars.
Francis T. Walton, the information
al turf plunger, has taken the bank
rup, law with liabilities of 100000 and
assets OF about 300.
Howard Stanton, a Cincinnati boy, Is
wanted for attempting TO poison Miss
Lucy Williams, who refused to accom-
pany him to the theatre.
AT Baltimore, patient swallowed
the thermometer which his tempera-
ture was being taken aud so Tar mas
felt no i'll effects from IL.
Cincinnati had big celebration on
the arrival of cannon taken from the
Spanish cruiser Oquendo, at Santiago.
1t will be placed in Eden Park.
The supreme court of South Carolina
has affirmed the validity OF the anti
lynch law, which makes counties re-
spousible and liable for damages.
Three persons were killed, a dozen
seriously hurt aud 80 scratched and
bruised in a wreck on the Rochester u
Lake Ontario railroad, near Rochester,
n. Y.
Miss Rosemary Sartoris, grand
daughter of President Grant, unveiled
the statue at Philadelphia and three
generations of the Grant family were
present.
The court OF appeals has affirmed the
decision of the Warren court giving
Mrs. Bittner s., 900 damages against j.
S. Morehead, who killed her husband
at Bowling Green.
At the Paris Exposition there has
been secured $500 feet in the VIM
cennes annex TO the exposition for the,
exhibition Of American machinery aud
electrical apparatus.
The Southern railway refused TO give
Gen. Castleman his trunk till he had
paid DC, excess weight charges, and he
sued the company for $50 damages and
$500 value OF the trunk.
In a street fight at Clarksburg, W.
Va. between Editors Horner and Nor
rison, the former knocked the latter
down and as he fell his head struck the
curbing fracturing his skull.
Sam Hall, father OF Hiram Hall,
hanged at Crossville. Tenn, April IL,
for wife murder, is dead. He spent his
all TO save his son. and, failing, grew
disconsolate and died through grief,
Tom Robinson, who was hanged at
Dallas, Texas Friday, sent an invita-
ton 10 the girl he assaulted TO attend
the execution. She didn't go, but her
mother did and wanted 10 pull the
rope.
James f. Caldwell & Co, OF Phiiadel-
phia. was yesterday awarded the con-
tract for furnishing the $4,000 silver
service for the battleship Kentucky.
Cant. C. NJ. Chester is TO command
the vessel.
A fire said TO have been caused by
the suns rays being focused by the
plate glass in show window on cell
luloid comb in the hair OF wax model,
DESTROYED a small amount OF property
at Indianapolis.
Louisville and numerous places In
Kentucky and Indiana contiguous felt
an earthquake Saturday night. In the
first named windows shook violently
and some were cracked, but no serious
damage was done.
A deaf mute printer named j. h.
Shaefer, fell dead at meeting oil u
lodge of the union at Lexington Sun
day. His only effects were SOC and
very loving letter signed Gertrude and
dated at Portsmouth.
The Globe Furniture Company's big
plant, the American Bell Foundry and
the electric-ligbt plant at Worthwhile,
Mich, and the Tyden Car Seat Facto-
ry at Hastings, Mich, were struck by
lightning Sunday and destroyed by the
fire which followed
An II II. V. on the &. x o. ran