Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-03-24
KENTUCKY KNOWLEDGE

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cd in a recent revival at the Metho-
dist church in Catlettsburg.
Frank Noel, young man % years
old, dropped dead ofapoplexy in sa-
loon in Frankfort, Wednesday.
John Adams was shot and killed
in Elliott county by John Vansant,
who acted in his own self-defense.
The residence of D. w. Whitaker,
near Livermore, was burned last
week. Loss $1,000; insurance $500.
John Sexton, Knox county muir
dcrcr, will be hanged at Barbour
vile, Friday.
"Pap" Sievers, while drunk slept
out in the snow, in Graves county,
and took cold that caused his death.
lie was 6j wears old.
David Wall, an old gentleman of
Wallonia, Trigg county, dropped
dead from his chair last. Tuesday.
lie was about 20 years of age.
Deputy Sheriff Stewart Bumgard-
ner was shot and killed from ambush
near Morehead, by an unknown as
sassin.
Alex Oden, an old citizen of
Georgetown, is authority for the
statement that it has failed to rain
on Mar. 18th but once in 40years
Mr. Geo. B. Mcclellan, a young
Elkton lawyer, has bought an inter-
est in he Progress of that town and
will assist in the editorial work.
The Court of Appeals decides that
peddlcrs of wares and merchandise,
regardless of citizenship, must take
out q State license.
Ex-Governor David Merriwether,
who is So years old, is again can
dida'e for the Legislature from JEFF
ferson county.
Mrs, Jos Hedges swallowed a brass
pin that had been dropped into the
pan. cake batter, and died from the
effects, in Louisville, Friday.
The manager of the Bowling Green
Opera House has declined to give
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher a guaran-
tee of $3.50 and expenses, for a lecture
during his contemplated Southern
tour.
Miss Pattie Jones shot and wound
ed Robt Martin, in Madison county,
last Thursday. She charged him
with the paternity of her two-weeks-
old infant, and tried to kill him.
Martin was her cousin.
In Garrard county, many deaths
have been reported from the use of
foul water, the mortality being
alarming. In one house, that of the
Burdette family, five persons have
died in a few weeks from the use of
foul cistern water.
The Owensboro Inquirer is taking
bread out Gifts own mouth by run
ming free "wanted" column. Many
of the matters in the column are le-
gitimate advertisements, which
should be paid for.
The four weeks respite granted
VIM. Neal will end next Friday and
unless there is further executive in
reference the last of the Ashland
murderers will suffer the extreme
penalty of the law, at Grayson, Car
ter county.
jeff johnson, a negro, was shot and
killed by Henry Watson, a depot
Waterman, at Mt. Sterling Wednes-
day. Watson arrested Johnson's boy
for stealing coal. The old man
raised a hullabaloo about it and tried
to get the officer to release the
youth, when Watson drew revolver
and shot johnson through the heart.
The negro was unarmed, it is said.
The two fellows, Coleman and
Smith, sent TO the penitentiary from
Graves, have been detected in the
work of making counterfeit nickels
and passing them out of the prison.
Their work is said to have been very
fair. Dies and metal were found in
their possession and about $S worth
of nickels.- Courier.
Reliable information comes from
the home of Mr.. Alfred Blevins, who
lives few miles east Of Richmond,
that there was a great riot at his
house on last Sunday. Mrs. Blevins
presented him with four babies.
Mother and children are "doing as
well as could be expected" The
couple have been married five or six
years.-Richmond Register.
Since Deputy Sheriff Baumgard-
ner was assassinated from ambush,
Sheriff Humphreys has received sew
eral anonymous notes to leave the
county upon penalty of being killed
if he failed. Humphreys acted upon
the suggestion, and Rowan county is
now without an officer. Clerk of
Court Jackson has also been warned
to leave on pain of death. His Of
Tense is sympathy with the Martin
faction.
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A New York paper estimates that
100000 eggs are daily consumed
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