The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-11-08
GENERAL NEWS.
Evansville wants three-cent street

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Al Evansville wants thres-cent stree
+ cars.
Mrs. Garfield and children will
. spend the winter in Cleveland.
] Mrs. John Woods smcided in Mem
. phis by shooting.
Edge6cld, S, c., burned last week,
loss over 100000.
The Yorktown celebration sunk
$4,000.
4. Tom Belts. a negro murderer was
hung Friday at Jonesboro, Ga.
Snow foot deep fell in New YorE
Friday last.
The tax on circus exhibition il
: SAG, at Chattanooga, Tenn.
Peter Mcbride, miner, was killed
near Clinton, Ind, by train.
l The daughter Of the original "Ar.
kansaw Traveller" died last week.
Rufus Mcpherson ended spree a,
Atlanta, Ga, by blowing out his
brains.
4 M. @. Hellig was killed at Mil.
waukee by the cars and Jesse Rice
met like fate at Newark, Ohio.
Emma Bcckham hotel chamber
mad jumped from fourth story win
dow in Colombus, Ohio.
i A white man named Davis wa
brutally murdered by two negroes at
Brownsville. Tenn.
| Chas. James. col. attempted to
outrage white lady at Little Rock,
Ark, and was lyncled by mob.
Rev. G. NJ. Spargrove. demenled
minister, shielded at Murraysyillc,
Pa,
Scott. another carpei-bag governor
of South Carolina, is on trial Tor muir
der.
The Hon. Lionel Sackville West
the New British Minister has arrived
in Philadelphia. 4
! Jos Lewis, negro prisoner was
killed at Wheeling, w. Va, while
attempting to escape.
Smallpox has attacked the Medical
Students at Bellevue Hospital, New
| York, -
| A man named Cunningham fell
from an aprle tree at Waynesville,
Ill.,, and broke his neck. 81
| N. Perry and wife both died of
pneumonia at Newark, N. j., the same
day.
q. M. White, city recorder Of K nox :
vile, Tenn, has been in office contin-
uously Tor filty years.
Mrs. Ella Earbart, wife OF Cant.
Nat Earhart, Of the steamer Stockdale
suicided by hanging,at Cincinnati.
Henry Brown. col. was killed by
Tom Stuart, col. at Shelbyville, Tenn.
Stuart is in Jail.
| G. w. Payne, a brakeman, was
killed by the collision oil two freights
near Carlinville, Mo.
Miss Rosa Lee Boyd, had fit and
fell into the fire aud was burned to-
death at Mexico, Mo.
Theodore Francis, was found dead
in the woods and his pockets rided /,
near Colombia City, Ind,
The Steamer Jennie Gilchrist struck
a bridge near Rock Island, Ills, and
fifteen lives were lost and others mar
rowly escaped.
A woodman named Thos. Fultz,
was sleeping in tent in Carroll coun-
lily, Ark, when tree fell upon him
and killed him.
In row in a St. Louis saloon.
Allen Henderson, mortally wounded
two by-standers, shooting at another
man.
Baldwin, cashier Of the Mechanics
National Bank OF Newark, N. j. has
defaulted to the amount Of 1900, 900.
Isaac Smith, at one time the veal
thicst citizen Of Newberry county, sui
cided in the poor-house at Newberry,
S. U. last week The war ruined his
fortune Of $250,000. He had been a
pauper for ten years.
j 1t is reported that Jesse James
killed Ed Miller, one Of his gang,
in Southern Missouri. lew days
since. They quarreled about girl,
Miller and Jim Cummins. another one
Of the gang, being rivals for her han l..
Jesse james favored the latter, which
brought on the quarrel.
A sensational story has been going
the rounds thatan unsuccessful attem pit
was made to capture the james Boys
, in Logan county near Adairville, last
week. 1t is not at all probable tina
they were in the State.
!, A live toad was liberated from tn,
. hollow OF tree in Garrrad county tn,
other day, says the Hartford Herald
after having been confined for 9
years. i was 25 feet from the ground
1t was still alive and on exhibition a
last accounts.
General Drum, in his annual repor
n to the General Of the Army, says tn,
losses Of the army during the yea
were. Deaths, 249; discharges, G, 564
i assertions, 1851; total, 9 173. Mum
Der Of soldiers re-enlisted, 1864
total 5,769. This shows an increas
Of |, 260 discharges, 13 deaths an
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