Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-11-10
KENTUCKY KNOWLEDGE.

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Mrs. NJ. Geissel, Louisville, fell
from step-ladder and was killed,
Tuesday.
Joe Bridges, brakeman, was kill
ed by the cars near Greensboro, We'd
nesday.
The Princeton Banner had dis
tribution of premiums last Saturday
to its subscribers.
Two hundred barrels of hickory
nuts are shipped daily by a Paducah
firm.
Gov. Knott has fixed Saturday Jan.
8, as the day for John Williams, COL,
to be hanged at Paris.
Annie Thomas, a mulatto girl of
Louisville, has confessed to charge
ofinfanticide.
DR.. John Mackoy, committed sui
eide at Covington by jumping from
the bridge over the Licking.
No country paper that comes to
this office is read with more interest
than the London Leader.
Lucy Ball has recovered a verdict
for $1,000 against d. 4. Chandler in q
damage suit for assault and battery.
Caldwell county is anxious to have
Fair association. Stock is being
subscribed to put the project through.
Geo. Fields, an old man of 70, was
killed by the falling of tree which
he had chopped downin Larue coun-
~.
Chas. Taylor stabbed and killed
Murch Twjg at Louisville. Both
were colored deck-hands on tie
steamer, Fashion.
Miss Katie Tibb caught her dress
on fire while kneelihg at prayer be-
fore CRATE i'll Louisville and wa'
perhaps fatally burned.
Hop. Smith, a dissipated young
lawyer of Louisville, who was arrest
ed charged with stealing a watch
was tried and acquitted.
James Norman was killed nea
Concordia, Ky. While unloading
f some heavy logs from a wagon on
of them slipped and rolled over him
crushing him horribly.
Sixteen colored men of Bowlin
: Green, haye organized the "Onl
Original Kentucky Colored Minstre
Company" which will shortly tax
: the road, headed by brass band.
At Daniels depot, on the Bard'
town branch road, VIM. Murph
5 was killed by Frank Walker, the Kill
: ing being the result ola quarrel Ovt
: a trivial matter,
; James Vandiveer died in Merc'
y Co., Wednesday. He claimed to hay
Il killed Gen. Nathaniel Lyon at Il
u battle of Springfield, Mo-, early
. the war. a'it 3pa
An old man named John Hardiso
4 so years old, was killed by the ca
k at Penrod, Muhlenberg county, viii
he was walking on the track, beir
4 too deaf to hear the whistle.
g Since our last three importa
g post-office appointments have BET
+, made, two of them in this distrit
is They are G. r. Rodman at Frankfol
J. r. E. Cook at Henderson and r.
s. Speed at jacksonville.
= A block of brick houses burned
. Adairville Thursday at loss
$4,000. V. P. Moore Il Co., DR.. ]
. P. Townsend, Jno. A. Creger, al
:. Moore e German were the princip
70 losers. Losses about half insured.
k ALI Little the Breathitt coun
e outlaw, has been convicted offorgel
e and pension frauds on twenty coun
Ie in the Federal Court at Louisvill
= The expense of his conviction W
le $4,000. He will get a long term
is the penitentiary.
u Mclaughlin, one of the circus mt
who robbed some young men ne
Frankfort, has been sent to the pei
OF Tertiary for five years. Four othe
I'd are in Jail at Frankfort awaiting trl
is at the Spring term of circuit cou
ID Mclaughlin has taken an appeal.
lie A great revival is in progress,
ne the Cumberland Presbyterian churt
" Princeton,in which all denominatio
81 are joining. Rev. r. G. Pearson
10 conducting the meeting. Busint
~ houses close up during the afternc
vi services and the town is stirred up
III it never was before.
as A collision in the Ohio river, nj
O. Lawrenceburg, Ind, occurred Frid
" at "a. NJ. between the steamers j
n w. Calf and Mountain Girl. I
ST. latter had on board a small sho
he run in the name of Holland u \
e. Mahon, a part of Jno. Robinson's c
Gus. Two circus men are missi
and ten horses and number
Ic- snakes were lost.
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