Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-21
KENTUCKY KNOWLEDGE.

Judge IL. j. breckenridge is can
didate for the Legislature in Boyle
county.
Mr.. NJ. T. Craft has sold the Lon
don Leader to Mr.. w. Ii. Martin, an
old newspaper man.
Mrs. Isabel Gentry, a six-months'
bride, Suicided at Louisville by TAX
ing laudanum.
In Hart county, Tom Moneypenny
fatally shot Bill Hawkins, and in turn
was shot by an unknown party.
John Wood and Miss Ella Stivers,
of Bourbon, eloped to Cincinnati and
married Thursday.
Oliver Patton, aged 10 years, killed
his brother Andrew, aged 10, with a
piece of scantling, in Clark county.
Skell Hague, the advance agent of
the Francis Bishop Combination,
dropped dead at Louisville.
The Kentucky State Grange held
its regular annual session at Lexing-
ton last week.
Greensboro has $50 citizens who
pay taxes on from $4,000 to $4,000
each. But four OF five 60 over $780,
900.
Two bus drivers named Hedge
craft and Beddow got into fight at
Somerset and Beddow fatally shot
IIedgecraft.
Judge f. w. Darby, of Caldwell,
and S. o. Mum, of Crittenden, are
candidates for the State Senate in the
district including those counties.
The Sun is the name of new pa
per that has made its appearance at
Morganfield, published by Frank
Baker and Chas. Hart.
The boiler of a saw-mill exploded
in Hopkins county one day last week
seriously injuring four men. Ellis,
the engineer, was probably fatally
hurt.
VIM. Heck, All engineer in a Louis
vile tanuery, was caught in the ma
chinery and crushed into shapeless
mass last Wednesday. lie was 90
years of age and left wife and child.
Miss Johnnie Morgan, daughter of
Gen. John H. Morgan, of Confeder-
ate fame, will be married this week
TO Rev. Jos. Caldwell, Presbyterian
preacher, at Danville, Ky.
John Wilder, a German butcher,
has been fined TO the amount of$l 900
for violating the local option law at
Madisonville. Committees have been
organized to see that Prohibition is
made to prohibit.
Albert Wymau, of Graves county,
was convicted of forgery, gave bond
and skipped the country. His wife's
reason was dethroned by the affair
and last week she was brought to
the asylum, a broken-hearted luna
tic.
The Madisonvillc postoffice was
entered by burglars Tuesday night
and the safe blown open. They got
$l5C in cash and 1915 in stamps.
The work was evidently done by
professionals. Two young men
slept above the Office, but were not
aroused by the explosion.
], Owensboro Messenger: Mclean
county will vote at special election
on January Sth on the prohibition
question. The following section
from the special act, which was pass
ed for Mclean county, shows that
even if the dry side wins" which is
a foregone conclusion, there will not
be prohibition in Mclean:
Sec. Z. The provisions of this act
shall not apply to any manufacturer
or wholesale dealer, who in good
faith or in the usual course of trade
sells by wholesale, nor to druggists
who sell for medicinal purposes
upon prescriptions signed by regu-
lar practicing physician; but no ply
stefan shall make or sign such pre-
scription except for a person who
is actually sick, and for whom such
liquor is needed as medicine.
Greensboro Messenger: About
2 :l5 O'Clock Friday morning flames
were discovered issuing from the
southwest corner of the bonded ware
house of the Welch Distilling Co.,
on the river above the city. by man
named Chamberlain, who is watch
man at the Millett disiillery. Wilt
Monarch, Tom Pryne and others soon
arrived, but they were powerfess to
fight the fire or rescue any of the
whisky stored in the warehouse. The
whole was lost, the contents of the
warehouse being 1903 barrels or
S2,695 gallons of Welch whisky. The
quick succession of distillery fires in
the past few months, first the Rock
Spring going, then the WEIGH and
then the Thixton, and now the
WEIGH again, all being within few
hundred yards Of each other, leaves
no ground for doubt that incendia-
ries of the most vicious character
have been at work in the commu-
nifty. The tax on the whisky burned
amounts to nearly $4,000. An effort
will be made at once to have the late
owners released from the payment of
it to the government.
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