Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-10-26
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united States last week.
DIR. A. b. Sloan committed suicide
at Greenville, Miss.
Geronimo and his band have start
cd from San Antonio for Florida.
A Bohemian killed two women
with an axe near Cedar Rapids, 10,
Hon. S. S. Cox, United States min
lister to Turkey, has resigned.
Fire destroyed the Chicago Glass
Manufacturing work at Chicago,
A man named Holmes and two
sons were drowned nearLeavenworth,
Kas.
Prince Napoleon and party arrived
at Chicago yesterday from San Fran
cisco.
Missouri Baptist General associa-
ton is holding its annual meeting at
Moberly.
A mob killed a negro named Will
liam Cooper in Howard county, Mis-
souri,.
Clinton, ILL.,, is laying pipes to util-
ize a recently discovered vein of nat
ural gas.
A meeting of eX-prisoners of war
will be held at Centralia, ILL.,, Octo-
Der y and 90.
Hon. Joseph D. Clark, prominent
citizen of Manchester, n. II, commit
ted suicide.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers will be in session two
weeks at New York.
Robert w. Aston, a clerk in the
sixth auditors office Washington,
committed suicide.
VIM. Davis and Enoch Gillian
were killed by a stroke of lightning
near Boonville, Mo.
AT Minneapolis the national con-
vention of the Woman's Christian
Temperance union is in session.
Mangus, the hostile Indian, and
his party have been captured and
brought into Fort Apache, Ariz.
A negro named Laflerty of Leaven-
worth Kas., poured coal oil on his
wife and burned her TO death.
Green Wilson, of Litchficld, ILL.,,
was knocked down, gagged and
robbed in the streets by highway
men.
A collision between two handcars
at Chatham, Ill.,, fatally injured two
men and several others less severely.
Miss Tillie Ernst and Miss Julia
Lynd of Vandalia, ILL.,, were serious
ly hurt in a runaway accident.
James G. Blaine delivered protcc-
ton speeches at Lewiston, Hunting
ton and Altoona, Pa.
A cage in one of the shafts of the
New York aqueduct fell distance of
fifty feet, killing one man and badly
injuring three others.
As result of Fridays earthquake
shocks seventy-fve chimneys will
have to be taken down at Summer
vile, n. c.
Secretary Lamar decides that the
marriage of woman who has made
a homestead entry does not defeat
her right to complete the title.
Lieut.. Schwatka has returned from
Alaska, and claims that his discovery
is the only original and genuine Jones
river.
Severe earthquake shocks were
felt Friday in South Carolina, North
Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Virgin
ia, at Washington and Cincinnati.
The agent of the American Ex-
press company at Vermontville, Mich,
was bound and gagged by robbers,
who secured $500 from the safe and
got away.
A sensational publication of secret
war history, in which the inside facts
regarding the Northwestern con-
spiracy" and the attempt to release
Southern prisoners in the North, will
be brought 10 light, is about to be
made at Louisville, Ky.
The President is fattening so rapid
ly that the buttons on his coat have
been "set up" three inches in the last
six months, and he las called in q
massage man to examine his waist.
Possibly frankie was SO busy reset
ting buttons that she didn't have
time to run down 10 Richmond
Louisville Times.
The Choctaw Council is in opera
ton at the new capital in the valley
of the Kiamitia. Press correspond
ents should telegraph long accounts
i of the session to the European news
papers. We might in this way get
some revenge for the names that
come to us ont of the Balkans
Louisville Commercial.