Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-11-16
KENTUCKY KNOWLEDGE.

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hio county was 7S6.
Henry Speed, col, was found dead
! bed at Versailles.
Mrs. Eliza F. Allen dropped dead
f apoplexy near Flemingsburg.
An unknown tramp was found
lead in the woods near Clinton.
VIM. Robinson was killed while
getting out sawlogs above Hender-
son.
A twelve-year-old son of Walter
Adams was killed by runaway team
in Muhlenberg county.
DR.. Granville Richart and Miss
Ella Grant, of Louisville, eloped from
Sharpsburg and were married in
Jacksonville, Thursday.
The Republican postmasters at Rus
sellville and Cynthiana have been
notified that their commissions ex-
pire Dec. Is and 20 respectively.
Convicts at Greenwood mines made
break for liberty last week. One
ESCAPED and three were wounded by
the guards, one of them severely.
Soloman Abrams, a Cincinnati
drummer, was found dead in bed at
Rulers Hotel, Louisville, Saturday
morning. He died of heart disease.
Mrs. Nancy Isom, aged so, was
burned to death in her house which
was burned near Perryville. She
lived by herself and the particulars
are not known.
Judge DeIIaven has decided in the
Shelby Circuit Court that the Board
of Trustees of Shelbyville can legally
refuse to grant license to druggists to
sell liquor on a prescription.
In the Christian church at Clinton,
KY, to-day at high noon, there will
be a double wedding, the parties be-
ing Mr.. j. NJ. Samuels and Miss Jen-
ME P. Beeler, OF Clinton Mr.. Trevor
Wayne and Miss Mary j. Norman,
of Louisville.
Elijah Vernon, the twelve year
old boy who was adjudged a lunatic
by a jury in the circuit court yester-
day and sent to the asylum at Hop
kinsville, returned to-day, having
been sent back because those Of his
age were not admitted and also for
the reason that the asylum was full
anyhow. lie will probably be sent
to the asylum at Anchorage. His
insanity was caused from epilepsy
which he had been subject to almost
from his birth. During his trial yes
terday witnesses testified that the
boy had one hundred fits in SIX hours
when he was one year old, and that
astonishing evidence has become
matter of record of the court.-Bow-
ling Green Times.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Nov. l3.-Three
alarms at 8 o'clock tonight called out
all the fire engines in the city to sup
press fire which began in the mid.
die of handsome block of business
buildings in the rear of Robinson
Bros. wholesale hardware, and spread
rapidly to the surrounding building
on the North side of Main between
Sixth and Seventh streets. Tht
flames originated in defective flue
and had such Roadway that Robin
sons store and that of VIM. Cornwall
wholesale notions, were completely
Quilted before the fire was under con
troll. 1t was thought the Louisville
Hotel was on fire, and great Grove
gathered in time to see the large els
tern at Sixth and Main explode, am
tear up the street. This was cause
by foul gas. There was much excite
ment. Two fire engines were demol
ished by the explosion, and Jane
Cornell, engineer of No. l Company
was killed outright. Charles Obs
captain No. 9 Company, had thre
ribs and a leg broken, and Dem
Hamilton and Sam Scanlon, fremel
were painfully injured. The fire WI
! under control by9 o'clock, but nj
before it had spread also to the stor,
, of L. L. Warren, boots and shoes, al
Q Grammar & Shuttleworth, wholesa
: clothing. These buildings were on
: slightly damaged by fire, but Il
s stocks suffered by water. The 70
s lowing is the losses and insurance
o Robinson Bros, loss on stock al
it building, $4,000; insured $7OO(
= VIM. Cornwall, building and stoc
10000; insurance, $4,000. L.
Warren,loss on stock, $4,000 ;insur
# $4,000. The other losses will
# about $4,000, covered by insuran
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