Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-09-26
KENTUCKY KNOWLEDGE.
Wash Fletcher will be hanged at
Paducah next Friday.

wash Fletcher will be hanged at
Paducah next Friday.
Conrad Eberling, aged II suicide
I'd at Louisville last Sunday.
Bowling Green saloons will here
after be closed on Sunday.
Old Dan Rice, the Snowman, lee
tured in Louisville last Sunday night.
Allen Coburn, an attendant at the
Anchorage Asylum, was killed by a
blow on the head by a patient.
Willis Combs shot and killed man
named Baker at Mt. Sterling. A
plea of self-defense is made.
The Auburn Monitor has changed
hands. r. w. Pence and j. A. Peake
have succeeded S. w. Crewdson, the
late editor and publisher.
Each Legislative district of Ken
lucky is entitled to send four pupils,
free of tuition, to the State College of
Kentucky.
The wholesale liquor house of the
Newcomb- buchanan CO., Louisville,
failed and made an assignment Sat
urlay.
Dr. r. L. Walford, of Green county,
accidentally killed himself by taking
an overdose of morphine, while
drunk.
Goodman Dawes shot and killed
VIM. Hardwick at IIecla coal mines
last Tuesday, in self-defense. Ills
examining trial resulted in an acquit-
tai. .l ..
VIM. Jackson, col, was killed in q
quarrel by two roughs, at Mt.
Sterling. The same day a man nam
ed Harlan Darrell committed suicide
In the same town.
Col. Barry South, the deposed
Warden of the penitentiary, refuses
to vacate the Warden's residence and
will contest the right OF the commits
sioners to remove him from office.
Sam Clay, heartless brute in
Bath county, stabbed his wife's niece
five times with knife because she
helped Mrs. Clay to prepare her son
to 90 off to school against Clay's
wishes. The young lady's name is
Sallic Oldham and at last reports she
was in a hopeless condition. Clay gave
himself up and is in Jail at Owings.
vile.
Rev. Chas. Cooper, a Methodist
preacher returning from theLouisville
Conference, was arrested at TaylOrs-
vile as suspected horse thief. Upon
showing his certificate to the sheriff
and being vOuched for by an ac-
quaintance he was released. His
brethren consider it capital joke
and he takes it in good part.
Pleuro-pneumOnia, the most fatally
contagious of all cattle-discases, has
broken out in Cynthiana Jersey
herd. There is no cure for the dis
case and killing of all animals affect
ed is the only way to stop the spread
of the disease. The cattle breeders
have decided TO have all such ap.
praised and killed and to ask the
Legislature to pay for them when il
meets.
The editor of the Lebanon juno
ton Times is probably the younges
journalist in the State, having jns
attained the ripe old aye of Is years
lie seems to be made of the prope
stuff, however. A few days az
some other little boy took exception
to something that appeared in tina
paper, when the young newspaper
ian whipped out his knife and pro
ceeded to carve him up. The nagis
trate before whom the embryo Frank
lin was tried, held that the cuttin;
was in a measure justified, and as
sessed fine of 81 and costs only.
don't do to come prancing aroun
Kentucky editors with your foolisl
ness, no matter how young they ar,
Bowling Green Times.
jacksonville Times The Editor
this paper, still being unable to eitl
er edit or supervise the business d.
partment of the same, is forced I
the painful necessity, for the time b.
ing, to suspend its publication. Dul
ing the trying ordeal through whic
we have been forced to pass Mr..
L. Hockersmith has ably edited til
paper, but being unfamiliar with on
books and unacquainted with on
people the revenues derived therl
from are hardly sufficient to carry o
tile paper properly. We deem it be-
at present to suspend for a shol
time until we can regain our strengtl
We intend soon TO resume the publ
cation of our paper in four or fiN
weeks at most. We hope the edit
shall have the kind indulgence of h
friends who have stood by him
nobly in the past, assuring them th
as soon as he shall have regained h
strength that the Times shall con
) forth as fresh and vigorous as ever.
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Mr.. Dan +. O'Sullivan, late man
ging editor Of the Courier-Journa