Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-04-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.

race at GAINESVILLE, Mo-, beating the
American record.
James Forester, an Anchor Line
engineer, was fatally stabbed by All
Italian in New York street car.
A mob of 400 armed men hanged
Geo. E. Graham, a wife murderer, at
Springfield, Mo-, Tuesday.
Solomon T. Baker, who has been
ticket agent for the Little Miami Rail-
road since l849, died Monday.
The Daily Telegraph learns that
Count Herbert Bismarck is suffering
from Inflammation Of the lungs.
Street cars in New York are run
ming again, and the effects of the
strike are not as bad as was expected.
The Pacific mail steamer Hondu-
ras has been wrecked on the bar of
the river Tampa. The passengers and
crew were saved.
GeronImO's band killed fifteen per-
sons near Imuris, Mexico, and also
killed two off company of soldiers
sent in pursuit of them.
Sidney A. Whitney shot himself
twice through the heart Monday af-
ternoon at Memphis, OH account of
unhappy domestic relations.
The Beaver Falls Steel works, after
two and half years of idleness, re-
sumed work Tuesday. They give
employment 10 about los men.
Mrs. James Smith, of Red Bank,
N. j., attacked her four children with
an AK Oh Friday and took poison i'm
mediately afterward, dying on Tues
day.
County Treasurer lIollinsworth of
Vincennes, Ind, was arrested and
lodged In jail Monday night on a
charge of embezzlement. His short
age is about 5000.
Two brothers, John and Edward
Burke, fought at Galveston. Texas,
Monday. John cut Edwards throat
aud then blew out his own brains.
Edward will probably recover.
The information Of a supreme and
permanent court for the settlement
of fisheries disputes between Canada
and the United States is advocated
by the Pail Mall Gazette. ,
Big Bear, the great Indian chief,
and three of his head men who have
been In prison for nearly a year in
the Canadian Northwest for compile
ity In the Reil rebellion, have been
released. (
A herder named VIM. Mock, form
erly resident of Cleveland, o., was
murdered while asleep Monday night
by Mexican named Juan SALES, at
Big Springs, Texas. Sales escaped,
but will be lynched if captured.
The first big grain fleet of the sea-
SON from Lake Michigan ports arrived
at Buffalo Monday, and other vessels
are stringing along slowly. Up TO
noon 100000 bushels of grain had
been received. The elevators are busy
unloading vessels.
The great annual sale of yearlings
at Belle Mead near Nashville, Tenn,
occurred Tuesday in the presence Of
$500 visitors. The aggregate pro-
ceeds Of forty-eight colts and fillies
sold was sSS, l25, an average of $Sl2.
Three men got ON an Illinois Cen
trail passenger train while at the in
cline, bound south, Monday night,
and robbed two or three passengers.
One passenger was supposed to have
been shot by them. Two Of them
were arrested and identified by one
of the parties robbed.
A freight train on the Missouri Pa
cific was wrecked Monday morning
near Wyandotte. Spikes had been
removed from the rails on curve
and when the train approached, the
engine and four cars were thrown
down an embankment. Ben Harton
fireman, and Geo. Carlisle, brakeman
were killed, and engineer Fowler was
seriously injured.
A Especial from San Antonio, Tex.
says: I. A. Butram, just from the
West, says that the Missouri Pacific
encountered a severe hailstorm be.
tween here and Ell Paso on Saturday
afternoon. The hail was Of large
J size and covered the ground com
tpletely, making an ice field. Its force
was SO strong as to break headlight,
glass on the engine attached to the
{ pay-car. Alter getting through the
/ storm into apparently good weather
} for five miles the circuitous COURSE
of the storm again struck the train
and created similar havoc. The
main force of the storm was between
the stations Of Raymond and Ma
= rathon. G
The Rev. Benz. Deering, of st
Louis, has been for some days pas
/ holding a series Of temperance revi
3 val meetings at Benton, Mo-, which
r have been wonderfully successful
Monday night some one as yet un
, known placed in the pitcher of watel
, which the revivalist had placed upor
, the desk from which he was speak
ing, large quantity of croton oil
Seyaral neraona drank of tbo uata