The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-06-10
STATE NEWS.

Harrodsburg has been visited by
another disastrous fire.
The State board Of equalization will
meet in Frankfort on June 10th.
The Union county fair will he held
four days, b, ginning October 9Th.
A fire at Henderson last Wednesday
destroyed the Governor Dixon Mansion
Hon. j. A Spalding il the Democratic
nominee for Representative In Union
county.
John jenkins was run over by a
train in Madisonville last week and
fatally injured.
The wife of Sam NJ. Gaines, Deputy
Clerk OF the Court of Appeals, died at
Frankfort last Thursday night.
VIM. Cox. for the burglary of the G.
n :. r railroad at Hillsboro, was SELL
fenced To the penitentiary for four
years.
Triplett's majority for Senator over
Johnson in the primary election in the
district composed Of Daviess and Me.
Lean is 1884
II is reported that an English com
pany has purchased camel coal prop.
erty near Cloverport, KY. which they
will develop.
A new paper has been started at
Glasgow, KY, called the Morning Star,
devoted to temperance and edited by
J. =. Brooks.
Fred Kraft and II. n. Turner have
been arrested at Hari odsburg, charged
with starting the fire in that place a
few days since which destroyed prop
erty valued at 100000.
Mr.. Il. F. Smith, Jr, "A prominent
young lawyer of Louisville, died sud-
denly at eminence on Tuesday. He
was son Of Hon. u. F. Smith, a former
Superintendent Of Public Instruction,
and was but twenty eight years Of age.
South Kentuckidn: There are several
patients in the Western Kentucky
lunatic asylum who have been there
since 1851 thirty-one Years. One OF
them was in the Lexington asylum is
years before he WAS brought here. He
has been in the asylums of the State
almost 30 years, and Is still enjoying
vigorous bodily health.
| The Messenger says, a change will go
into effect in the West Kentucky Col
lege, at South Carrollton, at the close
of the present term. Prof. w. Alex
ander. the president, and Prof II. NJ.
Rhoads will retire from the faculty to
take charge of Hartford College. and
the school will be conducted by Prof
f. b. Smith and Prof. +. Haag.
DIR. Thos. Sutton shot and killed
Charles Anderson, near Cairo, Hender-
son county, on Friday morning Of last
week. Anderson had been working for
Sutton and when his time was out they
differed AS To the number of days
worked. Anderson was a young man
and had only been married a few
months. Al last account DIR. Sutton
had not been arrested.
AT Spottsville, OH Monday Of last
week. George Thomas was cleaning
two pistols. He laid one of them, a
selfcocker, down aud while engaged
picked up the weapon and pointed il at
Thomas. The child knew nothing of
the pistols being loaded, but it was and
went off, the contents entering Thomas
cheek. He is now lying IN a very
critical condition.
Matters are still in an unsettled con-
dition i'm Knott county. There are
two opposing factions led by Talt Hall
and Clabe Jones, and each have twenty
or thirty followers. They have had
several fights aud five or six men have
been killed. 1t seems that the cause of
the difficulty Is the murder Of Frank
Saylers, rich farmer, by a band of
dtsperadoes. Hall and his men are for
titled in house and the end is not yet.
The grave of Joseph b. Knott. father
of Governor Proctor Knott, may he
seen at West Point, on the OHIO river,
few feet from the railroad in the COM
mons. unfeDced, with hardly stone to
mark the spot. The little head stone
with the name of Joseph b. Knott on
ii had fallen down, and lately section
hand on the road put it in place and
remarked that If the Governor didn't
have respect enough for his father to
see that the tombstone at his grave was
put in place he would. Central City
Argus. -t
AS Mrs. A. Oberst was driving in a
spring wagon, near the City Foundry,
Thursday morning, accompanied by
three children and her mother Mrs.
Paul Tennis, the horse, which il a
young one and of an ugly temper, ran
away. In turning corner short dis
lance below the foundry the wagon
was overturned and the occupants
thrown out. Mrs. Oberst, In falling,
struck the ground head first, and wss
taken up in an insensible condition and
carried to a neighboring house, where
she remained until conveyed TO hei
home, late in the afternoon. She has
remained in an unconscious state ever
since, and her condition is regarded by
the physicians as being very grave.
The other occupants of the wagon were
somew hat stunned and bruised, bit
sustained no serious injuries. - OWens-
bOro Inquirer.
The Breckenridge Netps says: One
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