Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1899-06-16
BRIEF NEWS NOTATION,


william Maggard was killed while
acting as peacemaker In Letcher coun-
ty.
The whisky product Of Kentucky
this year Is estimated at 100000 gall
Ions.
One OF the two Spanish field pieces
allotted to Kentucky will be located at
Frankfort.
IL is estimated that $4,000 American
tourists will spend sl5o,Ooo,Ooo in Eu-
rope this season.
Engineer John II. Dennis, who was
eau ght under his engine In wreck at
Guthrie, died of his injuries.
Near Marietta. o., 100 quarts OF nj
tro-glycerine exploded, killing two men
and wrecking several buildings.
VIM. Bingham shot and perhaps ia
tally wounded John Riddle In Bell
county over the possession OF house.
Eighty-two members OF the Goth New
York regiment, sued the L. * n. for an
aggregate of $4,000 damages for per-
sonal injuries.
The Mason county grand jury has
returned an indictment against 80 in-
surance companies and 10 agents doing
business at Maysville.
The court of appeals has reversed
the Judgment OF the Franklin circuit
court which indicted the insurance
companies for conspiracy.
Presley Augustus, OF Louisville, has
sued his brother for $4,000 damages
for striking him with an AK and dis
abling him for five weeks.
A young woman from Louisville
named Gertie Surrau, committed sui
eide at Covingtou by taking rough on
rats. There was a man in the case.
Fire at Taylorsville destroyed Hoge
& Ofutt's dry goods aud clothing store,
Chas. d. Porter's tinware store and j.
l.. Barrow's saloon. The loss Is be-
tween SIS 900 and $4,000.
At Dunnelon. Fla, two Negroes were
lynched Sunday night by a mob OF
their own color. The men lynched
were accused of drowning Negro who
shot an officer several weeks ago.
Mrs. w. C. Baird, wife of Postofice
Inspector w. G. Baird, formerly OF
Louisville, dropped dead at her home
on Lookout Mountain and rolled con-
siderable distance down its side.
Near Galloway's Mill, In Warren
county, 80 men went to the field where
f. A. Woolbright, a noted chicken
thief. was blowing, and took him TO a
tree and after tying him, gave him 30
lashes.
In Harlan county Tom Messer, one
of the worst desperadoes in the noun
tains, was shot and killed by memb Der
of the Taylor family, who were mixed
up in the Lee-Taylor feud, and anoth-
err war is In prospect.
Suits aggregating $4,000 have been
filed against the l.. & y. railroad at
Franklin by County Attorney Finn and
Commonwealth Attorney Byers. The
charge 10 discrimination In rates
against Franklin coal dealers.
Judge Parker, Of Lexington, refused
Mai. Thomas J. Carson a new trial In
the suit of f. w. Singleton against
him for SO, 900 in which the latter got
81 900. 1t will be remembered that
Carson shot Singleton, who is Lin
coin county man, over tri1ing affair.
The cyclone which swept over Wis
consin Monday night was one OF the
most destructive ever known in the
West. The town OF New Richmond
was almost wiped out OF existence and
over half Of the houses there were de-
stroyed. The loss OF life is estimated
all the way from 100 TO 400, scores OF
the victims being burned to death.
Many other points in the State suffer-
ed more or less seriously. Tuesday
night the village OF Herman, In Wash
ington county, Neb., was almost swept
away by cyclone, and reports say
that a hundred persons persisted there,
while almost every house In the place
was blown down.