The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1879-08-27

/ \ Saloon keeper in Arkansas, after selling
| the contents al a whisky barrel, found the re-
| mains of a child. The barrel was marked
! four-Ycar-Old.
Yellow FeNc:-j intcrmcntS and twenty
/ seven Now eases, rcpoucd AT Memphis, Aug.
| 3Uih.
TwenIy->iN new eases and six deaths are
! reported in Memphis, Aug. 2lSt. IhlcNlng Is
1 the order o1 the uay.
I7j deaths are reported from Havana for the
| month OF July-aii yellow lever.
Mrs. Virginia Clark, OF BerryVille, Carroll
/ CO., Ark, while attending camp meeting, was
/ l<IIIcd ny the falling of "a tree.
/ DR.. W. Ii. Clark, Il well-known physician oi
/ Marshall county, Ky, was arrested ON the
charge Ofripihg "a little daughter OF Mr. David
! Page.
! II. Il. Pearson, of Harrison CO., Miss, shot
and instantly killed John -. ConkcrIon, al
New Orleans. All about drink.
At Atlanta, Ga, Aug. ~, negro waiter of
a lirSt-ciaSs lee cream saloon, attempted To
outrage the person OF little slrl, but was
| frustrated by the screams oi the girl.
Shaker Village sustained $500 loss by fire
/ Oh the night nj the 10Th.
! Rev. Ii. j. Munson, the sclf-marred, Advent
/ preacher, was convicted of lewd and IaciNlou
] on the -ukli INST, NJ MISS.
! lie has taken AN appeal.
Mrs. =. W. Hardin presented her husband,
! the Attorney General elect, on the 2iSt inst,
! with another daughter, Mary Anderson ltar-
din, III honor oI Anderson county.
The steamship AbySinnia, from Liverpool,
! brought S2JO,OtU Ia gold bars.
Commodore Shufeldt writes from st. Helena
! that the sick of the TiconderOsa ara GONZALES
cling.
Henry l. Isres will be eandidate for the
SacnuSeitS.
New York banks paid into the Sub-Treas-
ury yesterday s1jO,tNJ legal tenders, ON ac-
count oI four per cent. bonds.
Chicago detectives have arrested James
/ johnson, a Swcde, who last Saturday night
killed James Gibson, Marshal of Barry coun-
| ", Mich, at Vaudeville, Micn. lie uc-
knowiedged his crime.
\ fire at Whitehall, Mich, yesterday morn
/ ing, destroyed ten buildings on Lake street,
/ including Il furniture store, several dwellings
and barns. Loss, SlO,OOO; Insurance S5,SOO.
The August crop report of the Illinois State
Board oi Agriculture shows Jhat lGi,ll9 acres
Of oats have been sown THIS year; average
/ Yield per acre thirty-three and "a nuif busneiS;
total yield, "a, 66l J6J; average price paid 10 the
producer twenty-five cents; total value, Si2,-
UjY,lG2
II. {. Alexander was the successful cs,ndi-
date Tor Cadet Midshipnlan from MckenzIes'
District
The postofiice AT East View, on the T.. Il p.
X. H., was entered and robbed of several
money packages ON the 2lst instant.
Boyto won the swimming match which
took place al Newport ON the 2lSt.
the 2ist. Rape was the crime.
oeorgc Clark was, ON the 2ist, shot and
killed by his step son, Hugh Mcclure.
On the I'D inst, reports were in circulation
that the yellow fever was again spreading in
New Orleans. Memphis reports q new cases
and II deaths.
Rev. Elijah Atherton, aged a. years, died at
Mt. Sherman, Laruc county, KY, ON the 10Th
inst.
Zachery Nance, IA fourteen Old boy was ar
rested at Stanford ON the I'D, charged with
raping the person of a three year old child of
W b. Hawkins. There is talk of dancing
him on nothing.
y lire Mt Farmer City, H., early Sunday
morning destroyed twenty-fOur buildings.
Total loss about SlOOOOO
Watt W. Shelby, farmers living near
near his residence, ON Sunday.
james Dobbins and Michal Burns, two
farmers living six miles west of Kansas City.
had desperate encounter, Friday evening ol
last week, in which both were killed.
4.Ol inches of rain fell in Louisville, sun
day aftern Don and evening.
WI Bell, Cashier of the American Ex-
press Company, of Kansas City is missing,
and so is $4,000 of the company's money.
Olinthus smith, of Shelbyvilie, died sun
day night at his mothers residence, from the
effect of an over dose of laudanum.
Two men named CormaclS and Dan Logan
were hanged by mob at Trinidad, Texas, for
raping little girls.
Fred Keisser, german farmer living near
Buckley, ILL.,, shot his wife with gun, carry
ing away her lower jaw. He then completed
the murder with an AK. Keisser escaped.
yellow fever is reported as spreading. There
having been several new cases and deaths,
among the deaths is that of the wife of Gen.
j. B. Hood.
W.T.. Lindsay, of Mason county, a promi-
neat farmer, committed suicide ON the 18th
inst. by cutting his throat with pocket knife.
During melee at Richmond, KY, on the
2ith, Geo. Mitchell shot at VIM. Pratt, but
killed "A man named Swecny.
VIM. Frey, a journcyman baker, killed
Jacob Jauch at the bakery of the latter, on
Buckeye street, Cincinnati, by repeated blows
upon the head with Il Ratchet. The cause of
the assault was the reservation of three dol
lars from Frey's wages to pay debt the latter
had incurred in neighboring grocery.
The upper powder mill of IL. y. Weldy 4
Co., at Tamaqua, Pa, exploded, killing the
fireman, Jos. Meifert, and seriously burning
two children.
Oriental Commandery, Knights Tempar,
of Cleveland, won the prize banner in the
competitive drill mt Lancaster, o., where the
Grand Commandery of Ohio is in session.
The naptha lamp of peddler ut Donielson-
vile, Conn, used TO light his stand, exploded
setting the clothes of three children ON fire.
One, Walter Bowman, is dead, and another,
NAMED Lucein, is not expected to live.
Samuel Lauer, member OF the Town
Council, was led,and John Hoffman Price,
Will Dauer. Harton Bell and man named
Bayer believed fatally injured, by the falling
of am arch which was being removed to make
repairs at the blast furnance ofthe Pottstown
PA Iron Company.