Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-05-11
KENTUCKY KNOWLEDGE.

Ihe barren county jail is empty.
W. 4. IIanlcy, Mayor Of Mt. Ster-
ling, died Tuesday, aged 46 years.
Rhody Eisley, negro man, was
drowned near Louisville last week.
The commission mel yesterday 10
select site for the capital of Carlisle
county.
VIM Knox, a brakeman from
Louisville, was killed by the cars at
Kent, o.
The Boomerang is the novel name
of new paper just started at Fulton
by G. N. Walker.
The Big Sandy is on high and the
flood is doing great deal of damage
about Catlettsburg.
Sam Tucker and Miss Ella Clegg,
of Henderson, eloped to GAINESVILLE,
Tenn, and were married last week.
W. f. Duke aud Miss Maggie
Amyx, of Greenup, eloped to Aber-
deem, o., and were spliced last week.
The State Board of Health has Of
flcially declared that there is no long
er any pleuro-pneumonia in Ken
lucky.
VIM. j. Daviess, of HarrodsburG,
has undertaken the task of fasting 40
days, and is rapidly losing flesh and
strength.
The Common Sense Fertilizer Com
pany's establishment was burned in
Louisville Tuesday night, at loss
of $4,000. Partially insured.
A young man named Mark Sears,
l8 years old, accidentally shot and
killed himself with gun, at Nebo,
Hopkins county, May 3rd.
A fire at Vine Grove destroyed four
buildings--S. Il. Howsey's drugstore
B. S. Hills shoe shop, and two vacant
buildings adjoining. Origin un,
known.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jno. NJ. Boggs, OIL
Louisville, celebrated their golden
wedding last Tuesday. But one
guest who was at their wedding &C
years ago is now living.
The Three Forks Enterprise is pub
fishing list of the marriage licenses
in Lee county since 1870. For 1876
there were but 20 issued and in only
three cases were the certificates re.
turned.
| Weeden Bowden was thrown from
a horse and dragged 700 yards with
his foot hung in the stirrup, near Mt
Sterling. His nose was torn off and
he received other injuries that will
prove fatal.
Last week at Kirksville, Madison
county, Will Dundan, negro, wal
killed by young man named james
Coy in a difficulty arising out o.
some previous trouble. Coy is bu
eighteen years old.
| A young woman named Wilker
son, living near Fulton, Hickman
county, is reported to have heater
her step-mother to death with hoe
Friday afternoon, after which sh,
| fled, and escaped arrest.
At Harrodsburg, Foster Parker wa
! beating his woman" Hannah Hicks
when his half-brother, Geo. Burks
interfered. The men fought, an,
, Burks beat Parker's brains out wit
a club. The murdered man wa
. known as a desperate.
f Wiley Joseph, of Floyd, and inc
: M. Allen, OF Knott county, fugitiv
murderers from eastern Kentucky
: have just been captured in Texas an
brought back to Frankfort by Wn
Osborne, of Magofiin Co. Josep
has been sentenced to ten years J
the penitentiary.
The Democratic convention in til
Covington district nominated Wn
A. Arthur for Circuit Judge and "
w. Cleary for Commonwealth A
torney. Three of the counti'
4, bolted and nominated Lucius Desl
for judge and W. w. Clearly for a
y torney.
d Prof. w. G. Gaynor, of Hawesvill
, started to Arkansas and on the san
train Miss Bessie Ferguson, of Soul
: Carrollton started to Louisville. The
i went to Clarksville and were secret
married and resumed their respe
=, tive iourneys. but the clandentil