The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1882-02-21
GENERAL NEWS.

Jno. P. Cravens suicidcd at Madi-
son, Ind.
There are 2,1G3 national banks in
the U. s.
The whipping post is to be abolished
in Virginia.
w. II. Wander bilt is the richest
man in America
Oscar Wilde will lecture in Cincin-
natl the 90 inst.
Alabama has 100 more colored than
white inhabitants.
There were LIS deaths in Chica-
go during January.
Geo. Jones Killed man named
Bats at Poplar Bluff, Mo.
WIN. johnson was found murdered
mar his home at Oakley, o,
Five trackmrn were Killed BY
train in tunnel. near Baltimore.
A man named Thomas was killed
by the cars at Montgomery, Ala.
Seven men were killed BY the explo-
sion Of boiler at Gainesville, Ga. 81
Col. IIernandey shot and killed
Domingo Aliana at Matamoras, Tex.
An excursion train will 80 from
Lynchburg. Va, to Guiteau'N hang
ing.
VIM. Smeal, col. was hing by
mob at Athens, ia, ior horsc-steal-
ing.
$4,000 in premiums will be given
at the st. Louis lair, watch besins
Oct. .,
Chas. S. Gone, Jr. was killed at
North Vernon, Ind, by railroad ac-
ciIeut.
A boiler explosion at Atlanta, kill
ed Dave Milcaell and injured eight
other men,
In the New York assembly, the
Tammany Democrats vote with the
Republicans.
Bob Beaned seducel Miss Stoune at
Tuscumbia, Ala, and her father shot
and killed him.
w. a. Stomce shot and killed Rob
ert Deene. at Mt. Hope, Tenn, for Sc
ducing his daughter.
Elijah Mutton was founl dead in a
gutter at New Albany. Ind whiskey
was the cause.
Thos. Morgan, hoollnm. was
shot AMI killed at Jacksonville, Ind,
by man named Munden,
Dan Stewart has been lodged in
Jail at Yazoo City, Miss, Tor the
murder Of his wife
Jno. G. New, an Indianapolis edi-
tor, has been appointed assistant Sec
rotary Of tine Treasury.
Jno. IIighwondcr, was killed by
having chloroiorm alminiSte red to
him by doctor at Marion, o.
Mrs. Blackburn shielded at Ro.
zcllr. Ala, last week. She was a
widow with five little children
Christian Sudemeycr killed his
brother Charles in Warren county,
Mo. Doth were prosperous farmers.
Sergeant Bush, of he U. S. Army,
suicided at Galveston rather than
suffer the disgrace Of imprisonment.
Jas. Allison was hung at Indiana,
Pa, last Friday, for the murder oil
his seventy-year-old father in June
1880.
VIM. Terdere shot two women in a
bagnio at Syracuse, N. Y, and then
killed himself. One of the women
will recover.
At Chicago Geo. Robertson, a hack
driver, shot Mary Ba,on,a ser, ant girl
and then suicijed because she would
not marry him.
A house was burned at Cog .ihs,
vile, Ca, while the family were away
and two children who were locked in
were crematel.
DIR. Silvcrce, sentenced to be hung
for the murder Of his wife, at Bakers
field, Cal, had his sentence committed
to imprisonment for life.
The Scientific American office,
which was burnt out in the recent
New York fire, has heen moved to
26l Broadway, and the paper will
appear rs usual.
A Miss Collins, Of West Virginia,
eloped with negro named Luckey.
Her father persued them and was kill
ell By the negro, who was in turn
hung by a mob
Near Summit, Miss, a peddler en-
tered farmers yard, after being
warned not TO do so, aud was Jumped
on by two vicious dogs that killed
him on the SPOT.
The White House clock was pres
ent from Bonaparte to Lafayette and
from the latter to Washington, who
left it to be handed down 10 his sue
cessors in Office
| Maggie Lanahan, murdered her
father Jno. Lanahan. at Rock Rapids,
Mich, because he would not allow her
to marry Hubert Birch. The mother
and sister OF the girl aided and abetted
the crime, and they have all been held