Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-09-28
KENTUCKY KNOWLEDGE.

The Lancaster News has been pur-
chased by B. G, Mullins.
EX-Judge Thos. II. Hines, of War
rem county, has gone to Europe.
Gran Ingram, COL, was killed by
falling from a ladder at Somerset.
The Sth Annual Colored Fair at
Lexington was held last week.
Messrs. Stone and Turner opened
their joint canvass at Mayfeld last
week.
Ed Ogden, aged u, fatally stabbed
Ed Tracy, aged II, in school-boy
quarrel at Ashland.
Eight men were sent to the peni-
Tertiary from Union county last
week.
Don Lane, a workman on the o. &
N. railroad, was found dead in bed
at Greensboro.
Prohibition has just carried in
Lincoln county by a vote of 1868 for
and ll64 againstit.
Daviess county, the liquor head
quarters in Western Kentucky, will
vote on Prohibition in November
Eleven thousand five hundred and
twenty-one hogshcads of tobacco
have been sold at Mayfield this season.
A white man and negro from
Union county have just been sent to
the penitentiary for violating the new
gambling law.
John Tribble, of Richmond, killed
himself by taking six grains ofstrych-
nine. Cause, financial embarrass-
ments.
David Hesse, of Elizabethtown,
made an unsuccessful attempt to elope
with Miss. Minnie Anderson, of Louis
vile, last week. The young lady's
parents followed them to Jefferson
vile and broke up the wedding be-
fore the knot could be tied.
w. S. (Buck) Gilbert, who was
sent TO the penitentiary one year
from Logan Co., for stealing a wagon
and team, was released not long ago
and forthwith proceeded to steal a
horse at Springfield, Tenn. Gilbert
is bad egg and is not unknown in
the criminal records of this county.
Lynn Boyd, of Paducah, a govern
ment gauger stationed at Henderson,
died very suddenly of paralysis OF
the heart, last Thursday. He was a
son of the famous Congressman Of
the same name and at one time wa:
prominent in the politics of the FRS
District.
The decomposed body of Ben T
? Stroud, who murdered Supt. New
bold in July, was found Saturday il
the woods in Logan county, the flesl
having been picked from the bone
. by buzzards. It is supposed that h
wandered fugitive from justice un
!, til he fell from exhaustion. The bod
4 was fully identified by papers foun
= on it.
e The Kentucky Grand Lodg
II knights of Pythias elected officers q
follows: Grand Chancellor w. L
Ruby, Maysville; Vice Chancello
= II. II. Alternately, of Hopkinsville
d Master-at-Arms, w. G. Windy, {
: Dayton; Prelate, j. w. Arthur, {
e Greensboro; Keeper of Records all
n Seal, Wade Shelton, of Louisville
o Master of Exchequer, &. w. Ment
o of Louisville; Inner Guard, Gus Was
Is enlander, Newport; Outer GuarC
{ Leonard Griggs, of Bellevue.
We understand that the properi
known as Grand Avenue Cave, s
n Glasgow Junction, has been purchase
C by Bowling Green, Louisville an
t New York parties, who have forme
It themselves into a company and wi
e Immediately begin improving tn
n property. We hear the first thin
II the syndicate will do, will be to ereC
!, large and handsome hotel immedi
ately over the entrance to the cave
and that the cave air will then b
v forced up by proper machinery, a.
d through the hotel, thus making it
v delightful summer resort. This
# one of the beneficial results accruin
!. from the building of the new Man
a moth Cave road.-Bowling Gree
Q Times.
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