Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-06-17
KENTUCKY KNOWLEDGE.


cutlery last week for $1,000.
Frank Dow, COL, lG-ycar-Old boy
/ accidentally killed himself while
fooling with a pistol, at Richmond.
Geo. Hughes, hotel clerk, was
probably fatally stabbed by VIM.
Doom, a drunken negro, at Barls-
town.
Jimmie, l2-ycar-old-son of S. l..
Claypool, was thrown from horse
and fatally injured, at Bowling
Green.
The Louisville City Council has
authorized the appointment of an as
siStant city attorney, at Il salary of
$500.
Col. Geo. NJ. Edgar, of Bowling
Green, has been elected president Of
the Fayetteville (Ark.) University at
a salary Of $4,000 per year.
The first Blaine club in Kentucky
was organized by the Danville Re-
, publicans with Gen. S. S. Fry Prcsi-
dent and j. w. Bate secretary.
Near Goshen, in Oldham county,
Lightning played along wire fence
for distance of $50 yards and killed
five head of cattle and two colts.
The workmcn in stave factory at
Wiliamsburgh have been notified
that they must work | | instead of 10
hours day at the old wages $l.25.
Henry Gilbert and Milo Clay. both
negroes, quarreled for the affections
of a colOrcd strumpct at Stanford
and Gilbcrtkilled Clay with knife.
The Louisville Republicans held
an enthusiastic Blaine and Logan
ratification meeting last Thursday
night. The name of Walter Evans
did not appear in the report, strange
as it may seem.
An old fued led to the killing OF
L Ike Ewing by Geo. Mill,r, at Lcb-
anon, last Tuesday. Miller fired up |
on him with a shotgun and wound, d
two other men with scattering Shot.
Ewing lived but short while.
The WILLIAMSBURG Times says It
waterspout struck the house o!
Francis Moore, near Williams S Il GIL
and demolished it, drownin his wii
and five small children, on the l0l
inst. Their torn and manglcd bodic'
were found several miles away.
The International Sunday sclIoO.
convention, at Louisville, last week.
was largely attended by delegates
from nearly every state i'll the Union
and several of the Territories. Cam
ada, England, France, India and New
Brunswick were represented.
4, Judge r. Scott Mayes, of the
Springfield police court, was assault
ed on the depot platform at Lebanon
by Doug. Brown, man whom hr
i h ID fined 50 for disordcrly conduct.
I Brown struck him with his fist and
then jumped on the train as il moved
, OF and escaped arrest.
The youngest petitioner fordivOrcc
ever appearing in court is John Tay-
lor, of Louisville, aged II, who seeks
to have the marriage tie dissolved
between him and his wife Josie,
whose age is given as 13. They were
married last fall and early this spring
a little stranger arrived which John,
very naturally decides is not his
> Hence the proceedings,-StanfOrd
Journal.
/, A young man named johnson, in
!, Harlan county, got drunk and
went to the house Of a man named
Howard and having some words shot
and killed him instantly, A boy
i, named Neal, who lived with How
ard, who had had some trouble be-
fore with Johnson, fearing for his
! life, secured his pistol and hid. john
son began to search for him and Neal
hearing him stepped out and fired
killing Johnson, Who pulled the trig-
: ger of his pistol as he fell and killed
f the boy.
. In Bath county, Mrs. HUMPHREYS,
whose head is frosted with the SHOWS
Of seventy winters, was cracking
e walnuts and joking with an old
o man named John Schofield, when
e suddenly the old lady waltzed around
the room to the mantelpiecc, where
she picked up pistol and playfully
= pointed il at the breast of Mr.. Scho-
field. The ball came out under his
' shoulderblade.
Dates for Kentucky fairs have been
4 fixed as follows: Danville, August
., 9Th, four days; Lexington, August
y Goth, five days; Petersburg, Ind,
September LIST, five days Bardstown,
September I'd, four days Paris, Sep
- TENDER I'd, five days Carmi, H., Sep
Il TENDER ID, five days Bowling Green,
# September Sd, four days; Boonvillc,
n Ind, September 23d, five days; Hart
~ ford, September 30th, five days; Hop
y kinsville, October LIST, four days; Un-
:, iontown, October LIST, four days;
Greensboro, October Slh, four days
Madisonville, October ODD, four days.
d There was brougl t into our Office
= this week by j. A. Peake (Jap), one
a ~