The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-04-08
STATE NEWS

IN Mart county.
A superior quality of camel coal has
been found in Muhlenberg county.
John = jackson, of Calhoon In.
taken charge ofthe Butler county N,,cS.
John q. Baxter, Mayor of Louis
willie, died Monday at Hot Spring, Ark,
aged 80.
Manager Wight announces that the
next Louisville Exposition will open on
August Is and close October Is.
The GiCdHcy says "A Hopkins county
mare, twenty-four years old, has re-
Gently given birth To her seventeenth
colt.
Hon John Young Brown is acting ~
commonwealth Attorney in the
place Of Hon. j. Henry Powell down in
the Third District during the latter's
illness.
\ man while attempting to cross
Green river on Is raft httween Davies
aud Henderson, counties felt in the
river, hut was ,avcd from drowning 10y
large dog.
the Henderson, JOa,Udi dtvotes a
whole page 20 the trial aud CONVICTION
Of Muses. Cation, &r, in the Union
Circuit Court.
The office of Tie Eminence CoHstiiU-
Go9diiSf Was desIroy ed toy fire last Wed
nesdaj morning. Loss 5000, no in
surance. This falls pretty heavily on
Bro. Holland.
Ben Coilman, son of Frank Cofiman,
the old war horse, Siau2htersvIlle,
has been appointed by TO ngressman
lafiOon 10 tie cadetshi at the Annapo-
lis Naval Academy.
We learned yesterday of very bad
killing in the north end of Christian
county. Joe Knight ana sam Rhea
qusrreled about partnership farm, and
resulted in the death of the latter
John Taylor, colored, under indict-
tian county last October, was tried on
Thursday of last week at HopkinsviIle,
found guilty and awarded the death
penalty. Jno. Lee. indicted as an ac-
complete, was acquitted upon Taylor's
statement.
Col. Alexander, large, cattle dealer
of Christian county, com nited suicide
| Tuesday night. He WAS found in his
garden lying upon his back, with Il
double barreled shotgun between his
knees. His brains were blown out.
Financial embarrassment appears to
have produced insanity.
Three murderers escaped from the
Mt. Sterling Jail during Monday night
Their names were MOnteville Hatfield,
from Pike county, charged with killing
four men; Claude Williams of Wolfe
county, the murderer of Pate Strick
line, and VIM. t'askey, of Wolfe, the
murderer of James Luden.
Col Dick Palmer, the great collector
of this section, sometime gets on
double-quic pace and executes the law
in very rapid manner. To-day an ac-
count was handed him for collection
and he sued, got judgment collected the
money and paid it over, all within the
space of an hour Times GG-eette.
Charlie Gilmore, a sinking, low-down
scoundrel, by some slight -of,hand man
ner drumming his hands into other
peoples pockets, relieved Mr. L. J.
Trice, who lives near Sebree, of sll0 IN
Evansville last week. He was arrested
in Shawneeton and is now peeping be
hind the bars, awaiting trial - GtedRer.
Mrs. Judge p b. Muir, formerly of
Bardstown, was fatally buried at her
residence in Pewee Valley last Saturday
night. She had been sick aud was up
10y the fire taking medicine when her
clothing caught fire, and before the
flames could be extinguishei she was
burned 50 badly that death ensued the
next night.
Last Saturday the large tobacco barn
of Harrison Cam, two miles south of
Canmer. in Hart county, was burned to
the ground in broad daylight. The
building was filled with hay, oats, grain |
and farming utensils. Fifty sheep,
which were pasturing in the neighbor-
ing field, had been driven in the barn,
locked in, aud burned To death. This
shows conclusively that the fire was
the work of an incendiary.
lobe Cundiff, is colored man who |
works on the farm of a Mr.. Knowles in |
the upper part of the county. Mr.. |
Knowles has fine thorough bred bull |
on his place and it was part of Tobe's |
duties to attend to that animal. They |
fell out yesterday afternoon-Tobe and
the bull-and the former was thrown
over staked and ridered fence with
such force as to break his arm and give |
his ankle serious sprain. The worst
feature in the case is that the enraged |
animal tore down the fence and is
now at large, staving mad, as the re
porter's informant alleges, and the ter
ror of the whole neighborhood- Times
gazette.
Saturday afternoon coiOred man
working back of the National Rank |
of Lebanon noticed a hog with strange
object ia liz mouth. When the hog
was 60 rlpelled to drop its prize, it was
found to be the remains Off male infant,
apparently recently born. Tie head,
left arm, the lungs. part of the left
side and the right foot were gone.
The Coroner was notified, Jury
summoned and an inquest held. No
facts, however, were elicted throwing