The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1885-11-18
STATE NEWS.

Mt. Sterling Gazette: A few weeks
ago We gave an account of the murder
of John Douglass, q wealthy farmer of
Bennington township, Ohio. His son
Steve Douglass, and son-in-law JEFF. Bow
ling, one of the principal actors in the
late Rowan county unpleasantness, were
arrested for the crime. Bowling walked
out of court at the examining trial, and
has not been retaken. Last week Steve
Douglass confessed that Bowling MUIR
dered his father, and he was present and
witnessed the bloody deed.
Mt. Sterling Gazette: On last Thurs
day morning, on the Mt. Sterling and
Winchester pike, in Clark county, not
far from Thompson's Station, near the
residence of John Bartlett, tenant on
the farm of Capt Tracy, was found girl
baby about six months old. 1t was
warmly dressed and wrapped in a shawl,
with another under its head for pillow.
Mr.. Bartlett was the good Samaritan
who took it in. The child is bright and
playful, and when found looked up and
smiled.
-Flemingsburg Times: A few days
ago the Lee boys, living on the line of
new pike to johnson, found in their gar
den a pocket-book containing notes to
the amount of 500 executed in August,
1884, at Maysville, by a man named J.
Z. or John l. Rogers, payable to firm
in Memphis, Tenn, and also gold ring
with the initials -. H." 1t is thought
by some to have been lost by con-
Wet while they were camped there.
Lexington Observer: At Cincinnati
on Thursday George p. Merrick and Cora
Proctor, both of Bergin, on the Cincin-
natl Southern Railway, were married.
The groom is seventeen years old, and
the bride is but twelve years of age
They ran away from home, and were
married before their parents were aware
of their absence.
-Danyille is experiencing a great relig-
ious revival, business men closing their
houses to attend the services. While
the revival was begun under the auspices
of the Methodist Church, it is being
warmly entered into ny persons repre-
senting all other Protestant denomina-
| tions.
Mt. Sterling Gazette: James In
gram, who escaped from the Stanton
Jail last June, was arrested last week
near Aaron's Run by Deputy Marshal
Taul, and taken to Stanton, but was re-
turned TO this place for safe keeping.
Ingram is charged with bjgamy.
Mclaughlin, one of the circus men
who robbed some young men near
| Frankfort, has been sent 20 the peniten-
tiary for FIVE years. -Four Others are in
Jail at Frankfort awaiting trial at the
Spring term of circuit court. McLaugh-
lin has taken an appeal.
Bedford Leslie, formerly Insurance
Commissioner of Kentucky, has been ap-
pointed Assistant Surveyor OF the Port
of Louisville, and entered upcn the dis.
charge of his duties.
Louisa and Alex. Stephens, colesed
have entered suit against the K. c. Rail,
road in the sum ofSl5, GOO each for iniu.
mes sustained in the wreck on that road
nesr Lexington.
I, James Vandirer died in Mercer
county on the 18th inst, He claimed &c
be the man who shot Gen. Nathaniel
Lyon al Springfield, No., fight early II
the war.
Tom Hargis, a three year old son o.
u. I. Coons, at Winchester, fell into {
spring on the Sth inst, and came neal
being drowned.
Mrs. Geo. Owens tobacco barn was
totally destroyed by fire in Bourbon OF
the 9Th inst.
Hugh Embry, of Clark, was thrown
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