Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-01-29
GENERAL NEWS.

Thos. Keen is improving and will
take the road again soon.
Mary Anderson is now delighting
Washington audiences.
Reports from Scotland say this is
the hardest winter she has ever ex-
pericnced.
The st. Louis Republican says The
ice gorge in the river is. the worst for
quarter of century.
Hugh Corners was roasted alive in
a burning fagman's shanty on the
Harlem railroad in New York city.
A bridge over the Mississippi at
Memphis is being talked of. Its
practicability is said to be assured,
and plans are being formed.
Cincinnati theatre managers agree
to close their houses on Sunday if
the law and order league succeed in
closing Sunday concert saloons.
John r. Moore, a farmer living
near Clifford, Mich, jumped head
first into a fire, while temporarily in
sane, and was dangerously burned.
One hundred and fifty negroes ar
rived at Memphis Monday on the
Memphis & Charleston railroad,
bound for different parts of Kansas.
George Witte, millionaire barber
of Sam Antonio, Tex, stole deed
some months ago from the county
clerks Office in The hope ofperfecting
his claim TO $500 worth Of land. He
was tried last Monday and sent to
the penitentiary for 3 years. He
didn't have enough.
An attempt was made Monday
night to destroy the house of police
man Geo. L. Corner, of Cleveland, o.,
by dynamite. The front door and
porch of the house were torn TO
pieces. 1t is supposed that fiends of
a notorious burglar whom Corner
had killed, planned the explosion.
When the report reached Vienna
that cholera had appeared at Trieste,
Nine. Patti broke an engagement
with manager to appear in opera at
that place. The manager claimed a
forfeit of 10000 francs when he
found there was no cholera in Trieste.
Proceedings were at once begun to re-
cover the forfeit and Nine. Patti lost
the suit.
Seven brothers, named Arnold,
living in Hickory county, Mo-, were
taken in body to an asylum for the
insane at Jacksonville, ILL.,, last Sat-
urday. They made the acquisition Of
money their only object in life, and
investing and losing their wealth in
a mythical silver mine in Nevada,
their minds soon went the way their
money did.
The Denver News Gunnison spe-
cial says that in the snow slide that
carried away the the cabin yesterday
in Poverty Gulch, near Crested
Butte, three miners named VIM. AL.
exander, John St. John and Mr.. Gost
were killed. A second slide carried
away cabin in Crystal Basin, occu'
pied by Robert Corey and Henry
Collins. Both were killed. Slides
are occurring daily. Great anxiety
is felt for the other miners camps mo-
yet heard from.
DIR. S. A. Richmond, manager Of
the DIR. S. A. Richmond Nervine Co.
of st. Joseph, Mo-, has been missing
ever since the 18th inst, and letters
written by him before his disappear
ance, lead to the beliefthat he commit
ted suicide. He gives as a reason thai
he was too heavily burdened will
the business connected with the man
ufacture of his medicine, and the wor,
ry Of the law suit of II. P. Hubbard
the advertising agent The last seer
of him was at the Francis st. depot
in st. Joseph, upon his arrival from
Chicago, and it is believed he drown
ed himself in the Missouri river.
T. j. Hennesy, the gold brick swim
dler, was arrested In Marietta, Ga.
by detective Page, who had been OF
his tracks for some time. He worked
his game on wealthy gentleman il
Nashville for $4,000, to which plac,
the detective lured him. He was un
able to give bail, and is now in jai
at that place. He is known by man!
different names, and has worked hi
little game in several States. He i
the same party who placed the "golt
bricks" in the woods few mile
from town some weeks ago an &C
count of which was given in thi
paper. a.
A terrible tragedy took place il
Walker county, Ca, near POM
Spring, last Saturday night, in whicl
two prominent citizens were fatal,
: injured. DR.. Sam Price, a prominen
physician, called at the house of VIM
Powell to collect a bill for services
Powell declined to pay and a quarre
ensued, and Powell ordered Pric
/ from his house. Price became infu
} rated at this, and jerking out a pts
toll shot Powell through the abdomen
: in his wife's presence. Powell CRAP
! pied with his antagonist, and Will
a..