Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1899-05-19
NEWS OF the VlCINkGt.

Dudley stephens bought the Russell
Springs Roller Mills for s2.5i2.
WIN. Hargis has been appointed /
postmaster at Hail, Pulaski county.
John futile has moved his stock OF
goods FROM Rollings to Junction CITY
WE are sorry to learn OF the serious
illness OF Mr. w. >. Hilton, OF Junction
City.
The Columbia fair directors have de
cided TO hold their exhibition four days
beginning Aug. -.
The Rockcastlr County Fair Associa-
ton has announced its fair to occur AT
Brodhead, Aug. 23-25
In Sinking Creek, this county, Root'
Caldwell caught a salmon ~ feet long,
weighing u pounds London Echo
G.. w. Patterson at Bac, Mercer
county. aud M. Il. Jones at Hedgeville,
Boyle county. have been appointed
postmasters.
The IL year old son OF John w. An.
derson. OF Adair, accidentally shot and
killed mis- brother, two years his senior
while hunting.
The Cincinnati southern has handled
In eight days over $50 car loads OF
strawberries, or an average OF about ~
carloads day.
worthington pardoned II. W. HAL,
OF Harlan, seat up for Il years FOR
murder, aud II. X. Merritt, OF Pulaski
convicted for life.
william Henry Burton, who resides
six miles from Columbia, Is alleged To
have committed criminal assault on
Cora Burton, a lI.year-old girl
The Madison county magistrates VIII
meet on the 18th to elect successor 10
the late County Judge +. IL. sullivan
There are already six candidates.
TX Vice Presideu, Adlai L. steven
con, has accepted an invitation 10 de-
liver an address before the Alumni AS
ISOLATION of Centre College June H.
The Monticello X Burnside Turnpike
Co. advertises for bids 10 close June 10
for the building of the entire unfinished
road, being about four miles or In sec
lions OF one mile.
Mrs. Thomas Dodson, OF Wayne, be-
came deranged and pouring oil ON her
clothes and those OF her four-year-old
child. set them ahre. The child 10
dead aud the mother will die.
The grand Jury at Williamsburg has
indicted q number of Louisville hrms
accused Of entering into u combine
whereby they would sell certain goods
az one and the same and only one ana
the same price.
Mrs. Wright, an aged woman oil
Washington county. hung herself with
n hank OF yarn from the rafters OF the
meat house. She had been Respondent
ever since the death of her husband
three years ago.
In Laurel farm lands and town lots
were each Increased per cent. The
former is valued at sssi,5O6 and the
latter at sls9, $50. In Mercer the assess
ment OF farm land At s2,so2,olo wa'
increased l per cent. and town lots, al
sg79, l75, allowed TO stand.
A train road OF Southern fruit, mostly
Strawberries, was wrecked on the C. >
near Cincinnati ana the luscious berries
were scattered and destroyed. Th'
loss Is heavy ~ IL was one OF the iarges
shipments ever made from the South
Chief OF Police j. ID. Feeney,oi kich
mond, was shot In the leg by A. ,
Harris. whom he had arrested Tor as
saulting a Jewish merchant. The oil
ficer is not dangerously hurt. harri'
is In Jail. Feeney Is brother-ln-la"
OF Joe $. Rice, OF Stanford.
The wife Of the Rev, Robt. Ambrose
pastor OF the Baptist church at sll'e
Creek, died suddenly. She nad oee'
busy all day about her household du
ties. In the evening she remarked u
her husband, 81 feel 40 queer flV'
minutes later she was dead.
During the meeting of the Confeder
ate veterans at Charleston, last week
Miss Kathleen Poyntz, eldest daughter
of Brig. Gen. j. M. Poyntz, OF klch
mond, fell through the hatchway oil I'M
u. 5. 5. Raleigh, which was anehore'
In the barbor, breaking her arm
Mai Cohen, OF Richmond, who wo'
the prize at the st. Louis Fair In 1873
for the best rider, received a messag
from Col. J. A. Maxwell, OF st. Louis
asking him to come 10 New Orleans
ride in the 81, 900 ring Napoleon, tn
great saddler, for which John 1
Hughes received sl,75o last year. bu
he declined.
NJ. w. Penn, postmaster al i'oiine
and a brother OF w. w. Penn marshs
of Junction City, was shot and seriousl
wounded by Logan Whitlock' IL seen
that Penn and his wife had parted an
whitlock had been going with her an
trying In every way to bring on u ain
Guilty with Penn.
In affirming the Judgment oil th
Laurel circuit court lining henr
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