The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1883-08-21

Leslie Green, aged II years, was
drowned in Barren county mill,
pond.
The town of Wickliffe, in Ballard
county, was visited by a $4,000 fire
last week.
Mrs. Temperance Yarbrough, aged
Is years, dropped dead of apoplexy IN
Trigg county.
W. s. Ashby, of Russellville, was
killed by lightning at Briggsville,
Wednesday.
DR.. W. W. Rambo shot and killed
Jos. A. Sparks, at Sand Hill, opposite
Manchester, o.
Dick Furgerson was shot and NOR
tally wounded by man named Har-
per, at Munfordville.
a pile of lumber fell over on and
killed Il fivc-years-old child Of Chas.
April, at Augusta, KY,
Peter Pierce and John Harris, two
colorcd prisoners, escaped from the
Lancaster Jail last week.
Lylcs, a boiling Democrat, beat
Metcalfe. the nominee for the Lcgis-
lature, in Graves county.
Pearce Thompson, of Elizabeth
Town, was the successful applicant
for the naval cadetship in the Fourth
district.
Two Fitzpatrick brothers brutally
murdered Milton Bruston in Adair
county, and have been held without
bail on a charge of murder.
A Young man named Oliver was shot
and killed by an unknown assassin
while sitting in front of his store, in
Clinlon county.
A Young man named Waller has
been held under bond of $1,000 in
Todd county, charged with shooting
and killing a negro woman.
A destructive tornado visited Da-
yicss county last week doing great
damage to crops and dcmolishing
houses, fences, etc.
The Louisville fair viii begin Sept
Is and continue a week and that
week will be "Kcntucky week" at the
Exposition,
Schlegcl, the man who murdered
three men in camp at Point Burn
side. has been captured and is in jail
at Somerset. lie is bcardless boy OF
10 years.
Eli Spraguc shot his nephew Wiley
Sprague through the heart with a
rife ball, at Pine Knot, OH the c. 5.
railroad. The murder was unpro-
vokcd.
The Telephone says Mrs. Rhoda
Bland, an inmate of the Trigg county
poor house, is LII years old and is a
widow for the third time. She is
able TO walk about without assis-
lance.
Three negro preachers are in the
Henderson Jail charged with adult
terry, burglary and grand larceny, re-
spectivcly.
Hon. Jake Rice, who represented
Boyd and Lawrence counties in the
last Legislature, died last week at
his home in Louisa.
The vote in the Trigg Senatorial
District stood: Burnett, Ind. DEM,
!, 732; Wilcox, Ind. DEM, 936; Lar.
kins, Ind. Dem, 39l; Williams, Ind.
DEM, 297; Bingham, Rep, 1884.
DIR. StinsOn Lambert and Miss Nell
lie Hyser, both Of Millerstown, KY,
were married in "Gothic Avenue" in
Cave OH the Sth inst. This
is the seventh couple that has
been married at the same subterra-
mean altar.
Three detached freight cars run in
to car containing 400 kegs of blast
ing powder. at Winchester Friday.
Sparks ignited the powder and ter
rifle explosion followed, which killed
two men and seriously wounded five
others. Conductors Chas. McMitchael
and Randolph Martin were the men
killed.
AT Point Burnside, on the Cincin-
natti Southern road, three men nam
ed Jos. Claiborne,J and JOS. Randall
were sleeping in camp whenFrank
Schlegel and an accomDlice crept upon
them and cut off their heads and then
riddled their bodies with bullets.
They then threw the bodies of the
Randall brothers over cliff 100 feet
high. They were discovered before
Clalborne's body had been thrown
over and Schlegcl was captured the
,ext day. The object of the murder
rs was robbery.
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SCIPIo, n. Y, Dec, l, 1879.