The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-02-03
GENERAL. NEWS.

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Twenty five.counties in Pennsylva-
MIA have instructed for Blaine.
U. S. Grant Jr.. has made a hnn-
bred thousand dollars in a recent New
York speculation.
WIN. H. Brewster, one of the pro.
prielors of the Boston Traveller, died
at Newburyport Tuesday night. He
had been in i'll healt., some time.
Worcester, Mass, Jan. 81 At |
the hospital for inrnrables to-day
Thomas Dwyer, lunatic, was killed |
by another named Warren Rice.
Providence. Penn. Jan. 27.-->t|
the Scranton Fire Works, this morn |
ing, large grindStone burst, killing
VIM, FAIRIES, and SCATTERING tho
building.
St. Paul, Jan. 26.-Rev. j. NJ. 1
Tower committed suicide at Fairbauh |
this morning by shooting. He leaves |
wife and six children in Wiunebago, |
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Albany,N. ", Jan. 27.-The Gov
ernor refused to commute the death
sentence of Orlando Greenfield, the
Oswego wife murderer, and he will be
hanged on Friday next.
:. Louisville. Jan. 29.-The one hun
dred and twenty-frst anniversary of
1.-the birth of Robert Burns was celc.
brsfed with banquet by the Scotch |
iicitisons of Louisville, this evening.
Rev. Chas. Fonda, agel 30 al
Methodist preacher sucided at New |
I Albany Iud 1, January % by hanging |
Cause insanity produced by religious
excitement in relation to specification.
NEWARK, N. J.,iJaGuary 26.--The
Factory Of the Western Electric Light
Company was damaged seriously by
hre early this morning. Many ma
chimes and patterns were destroyed.
Insured. . ..r.
+ Providence, Jan. ga party
OF boys playing on the ice on RsndolPs
pond near the North Providence line,
broke through, this afternoon, and
were drowned. Two bodies were re.
covered.
@. NJ. Splitter & Co., bankers, Of
Cleveland, Ohio, under the name OF
the, German American Bank, failed
yesterday. Liabilities, S25, 900 assets
small. Cause, stock speculation.
Several leading citizens of St. l. puis
have taken steps to organize a com.
pany to develop the silver mines OF
Montgomery county. Arkansas, which
are pronouced by mining experts to
be quite valuable.
The people of Pennsylvania vii
lage witnessed the name of T. s.
Grant, few days ago plainly writ
ten in the clouds banked up in the
West, So long as it is only in nub-
i6as the country is safe. wy
New Orleans, Jan. PA duel
took place this afternoon between Z,
y. Burke, Of the Democrat. aud II. :
J. HearSey, Of the States. The duel
was fought this afternoon on Metal
RE Ridge, near this city, with pistols,
at distance Of ten PAGES. After fir
ing two rounds each, friends inter-
posed and The difficulty was adjusted.
Old iron is even coming from Russia
to the United States. A Vessel left .
Odessa for New York on the Sd nit .
with large cargo Of obi railroad iron !
and rope, and it is stated that some :
twenty-five thousand tons more Of old :
iron were waiting to be shipped to this
country. 1t would appear that Amer
lean dealers are ransacking tie world
for old iron. sr-
Mr.. Philip II. Morgan, the new
Minister TO Mexico, comes of an old /
and eminent Louisiana family and was s
a Union man, who, after his State
ioined the Confederscy, went to Europe d
where he remained during the war
de is called one Of the ablest lawyers 4
n Louisiana, and is a master of the '
French and Spanish codes. After the q
var he was placed on the Supreme
Bench of the State. n
Little Rock, Jan. tS.--Last week |
n lsard county, two deputy sheriffs |
rom Franklin county with writs for &
Bupch and Allen the assassins Of N.
y, Sadler, came to Sheriff Landers o,
or assistance in arrostiug the two at pl
Squire Woods farm. A posse was '
uruished and they going to the place
md peering in the two men were sup ;!
,osed to 10 recognized. The posse v
vent to the door and demanded sur NJ
ender and ordered the occupants 10 "
'ome out. Two young men within. g
famed Wheat and Chambers, with 4
ut otherwise responding. went 10 the {
.oor, and the former fred two shots y
1.-THE sheriff's posse with a pistol. :
)ne OF the deputies returned the fire
and killed Whea: instantly.
Wheat was about twenty tour years n
f age and formerly lived in Douglass p
ounty, No., where his wife, from :
'hom he was separated, and children Z
We. He was anticipating arrest for