She found to be beaten black and blue, flesh ripped off to the bones. She was the daughter of Col. John J. Hardin. Black Joseph Duncan hung twice for killing another black, John Hawkins. He had identified some of his assailants. Meeting held but few Kentuckians attended.
Movement is called respectable but no vitality in western Kentucky.
Campbell E Hurst, young lawyer and county clerk, murdered at Mt. Pleasant in Harlan Co., by John L. Jones while he was trying to prevent a breach of the peace by a party of carousing men - one of whom stabbed him 4 times. Robert Carson, age 71, brother of Kit Carson, died in Howard Co MO near Arrow Rock. Deputy city marshall William A Burton murdered in a drinking saloon at Paris by Edward and Matthew Current while he was arresting them for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Two reported deaths in Louisville from yellow fever, brought here from Memphis. Explosion caused by gas at the N. W. corner of the City hall.