Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-09-29
KENTUCKY KNOWLEDGE.

There were six weddings in the
Catholic Church at Lexington last
week.
Walter NJ. Young, late of the Clean
or, has associated himself with the
Henderson journal.
The Greensboro Inquirer has been
enlarged to an eight column tri-week-
ly, the largest in the State.
Martin Hill, awaiting trial in the
Bardstown Jail for the murder of his
wife, died of typhoid fever last week.
AT Ashland Friday Leonard Kram-
er a German, aged about GO, commit
ed suicide by hanging himself with
bed cord.
Thos. j. Nichols, who was hurt in
the late wreck on the Kentucky Cen
trail, near Lexington, died Friday
night from the effects of his injuries.
At Shelbyville, Simon Bryant has
been convicted of carnally knowing
his daughter and sentenced to the
penitentiarv for six years, the limit
of the law in such cases.
Mr.. w. w. Pigg is the sole owner
of the Richmond and Irvine turnpike
road, q miles. lie is supposed TO be
the only man in the State who owns
whole turnpike road,
Mrs. Mary Bell Tucker committed
suicide at her home in Robertson
county. She was recently acquitted
Of the murder of her husband, near
Mt. Orient, last February.
Hon. Peter Lyles, late Reprcscn-
tative from Graves county in the
Legislature, fell Friday in Sympsonia,
in that county, and received injuries
that will probably result in death.
In Jessamine county man by the
name of Wilson shot and instantly
killed James Armstrong. The weapon
used was a double barreled shotgun.
1t is said an old feud was the cause OF
the killing.
Jos. Smith, mail carrier between
Paducah and Benton, was found
hanging three miles west of Benton.
lie had cut his throat without fatal
effect, then climbed tree and tied a
grapevine around his neck, swinging
into eternity.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.-Kentuck-
ians were granted patents as follows
Tuesday: Geo. G. Minor, Cincinna-
ii, and j. ID. Sullivan, Covington,
feed wafer heater; Timothy j. Sulii-
van, Bowling Green, drier; Chas. A.
Thompson, Ilopkinsville, cartridge
loader.
Last Tuesday, w. w. Ezell was APP
pointed postmaster at Cave Hill, But
Ter county, vice j. b. Deal; VIM. Il.
Story, Little Cypress, Marshall coun-
ty, vice John S. Crowell; IL. +.
Chambers, Warsaw, Gallatin county,
vice L. Ii. Kirby; VIM. Greenwich,
st. Vincent, Union county, vice Ear
nest Llasback; G. ii. Phillips, Cairo,
Henderson county, vice j. II. Sabis-
ton; Augustus Brooks, Robards, Hen.
derson county, vice +. Nj. Eakins
John A. Nottingham, Sebrce, Web.
ster county, vice S. Il. llorner; II. c.
llollins, uadensville, Todd county,
vice w. e. Shelton.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. 26.-It is re-
ported here tonight that there is
much excitement at Frankfort and
Bagdad, Ky. yillage,near Frankfort,
and that there will probably be a
lynching before morning of several
attaches Of Doris circus who were
arrested here and taken to Frankfort
to-day charged with highway rob-
berry. A. V. Schofeld, A. Miles, j..
b. Weber and j. Is. Turner, four
young men of Bagdad, Ky, boarded
the circus train to go to see the show.
They paid their fare and SOON after
ward at the points of several pistols
which were lcveled at them, were
made to turn over all their valuables,
watches, rings, etc, and a small
amount of money. The robbers then
made them jump from the train,
which was running at rapid rate.
All were injured by the jump. Web
Der and Schofeld had both legs
broken, and the former will not be
able to walk again. Miles had leg
broken, and Turner escaped with
painful bruises. The men arrested
are Richard White, VIM. Carroll,
Paul McQuade, George Miller, John
Boyd and John Martin. 1t was re-
ported Oh the streets mere at s O'Clock
that all six of the men had been
hanged, but the rumor was unfound-
cd The prisoners were confined in
the Jail at Frankfort.