The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-05-06
STATE NEWS.


vile.
The Cynthiana 7imes has changed
To a semi-weekly.
Moses Cation will he hanged at Nor
garfield tomorrow for the murder IF
his wife.
The Greenhack Senatorial and Legis-
lative Conventions will he held Mt Nor
gantown, Monday, May the 18th.
Judge Simmons, proprietor Of the
Henderson Reporter, will move his
material, press, &c, TO Mississippi
The new suspension bridge at Hen
derson is about completed and trains
will be running over it i'm few days.
Mrs. Mollie Davenport, pensioner
who lived alone, WAS found dead in her
room in Louisville, after she had been
dead four days.
Col. Will 5. Hays has been appointed
general superintendent of Crab Orchard
Springs, and will conduct that resort
during the coming summer.
Mr.. John Lowell, prominent citi-
zen living near Franklin, died from an
overdose of morphine Thursday night.
He had been drinking hard for several
days.
The city council of Hopkinsville has
passed an ordinance forbidding any oh
struction on or across the sidewalk or
street, such as boxes, barrels, machin>
cry, signs, DC.
Mrs. Robinson, mother of Capt. John
A. Robinson, Superintendent of the
Green and Barren River Navigation
Company, died near Bowling Green,
one day last week.
At Chicago, KY, VIM. Ferrill, while
drunk and lying on the track, was run
over by passing train aud his body
horribly mangled. He was about
thirty years Of age.
The motion for new trial in the case
of Andy Wepler for the murder OF Har-
ry Clay, in Louisville, has been with
drawn. Wepler was sentenced to the
penitentiary for two years.
DIR. r. Pennington has Withdrawn
from the Senatorial contest in our sister
district. This leaves only one candi-
date, DIR. Warfield, Of Cloverport. The
convention will he held at Hardinsburg,
May the llth,
The Kentucky Baptist Publishing
Company, of Owensboro, have pur-
chased the press, engine, material &c,
of the defunct Henderson Sentinel.
Price, paid 81 200, which is considered
quite bargain.
Mr.. A. c. Glover, son of Walker
Glover, of Ranger, Texas, and nephew
of Mr.. X. II. Glover. of Calhoon, died
in the latter place on Wednesday, April
I'D, 1856. of Spinal Meningitis, in the
2Sd year of his age.
]. II. Griffith, Marshal of Owensboro,
and Rev. F. p. Purcell, editor of the
Kentucky Baptist, are at loggerheads
over an article published in that paper
rejecting on the city officers, in regard
to the enforcement of the Sunday law
in that city.
A young man at Shady Grove, Liv-
ingston county, while out in the woods
was attacked by three men, supposed to
be part of the convicts who escaped
at Dawson, sometime ago, who leveled
their weapons on him and Invested him
of every particle of clothing. He was
compelled to travel several miles with
only a lap-rug to hide his nakedness.
Mr.. Perry White, residing six miles
from Spring Lick, met with serious
accident in telling rail tree last Frs
day. When the tree started to fall a
limb broke off and struck White on the
leg between the knee and foot, break,
ing every bone in the leg. DIR. l.. T.
Cox was summoned and set the broken
bones, and at last accounts the patient
was resting easy.-Sn,bedm
One day last week Brack Duggins.
living in the Whitworth neighborhood,
found a dead wolf on his farm. For
some time before he had been missing
some of his sheep. II bothered him so
that he concluded to set u bait for the
intruder. Accordingly, he poisoned
piece of meat and put it out, and the
dead wolf was the result. John Whit
worth aud others of that neighbOrhOOd
saw the wolf, and can vouch for the
truthfulness of this statement.-Sm-
beam