The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1888-07-18
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


DIR. Talmsge for $4,000 damages for
failure to assist July 8, and in open
ing The assembly as per contract.
E. H. Bryant, native of Lincoln
county, was murdered on his ranch
near Council Springs, New Mexico,
last week. He was a brother of J. c.
Brayant, druggist, Lexington.
Ed Sparks, sou of Senator Sparks,
shot Charles Myers at Nicholasville,
Sunday night. The shooting occurred
just outside the Courthouse, while
George o. Barnes was preaching inside.
The Governor has appointed the
State Board Of Equalization-Capt.
James. r. Rogers, of Cane Ridge,
Bourbon county, is the member for
the 1st district Judge J. w.
Green, of Owen, 2ud district; J. w.
ROwlet, Of Hart, 3rd district and n.
P Moss, of Hickman, 4th district.
The teachers had a pleasant and
profitable meeting at Mammoth Cave,
with 200 members or more present
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year; President, J. ].
Glenn, of Jacksonville Vice Presi-
dent, Judge VIM. Beckner, Of Win
chester; Secretary, r. II. CarOthsrs,
of Louisville; Treasurer, Hiram Rob-
erts, of LOuisYille; r. K. Secretary,
J. 4. Gaines, of Louisville. The next
annual meeting will be held at Win
chester, July 8, 4, and 6.
A large manufacturing establish
ment last week received letter from
a country merchant at Ewing's, Tenn,
which is of a somewhat unusual tenor.
The writer asks for information, and
desires to know what will be the cost
of sending an embalmer, with his tools
ETC., and a handsome coffin, by a GER
tain railroad, to that place. He very
minutely describes everything he de-
sires, aud concludes his letter by
saying that the coffin is intended for
his wife, who is very low with pneu-
mOnia. She is not dead yet" said
he, "but want to know what it will
cost To send the man and the coffin
by the -- railroad. Let me know
at once, as 1 want TO write to the Other
road and see if l can get cheaper
rate. 1 may want the coffin immedi.
ately but the doctor says a week will
perhaps be in time."-COurier-JUurnal.
At the coming term Of the Jackson,
Ky, Circuit Court, will be heard a
case which, were it to be tried in any
city court, would attract the widest
attention. But because the scene is
seventy-five miles from a railroad
and almost as FAR from a telegraph
station, it. has been hardly heard Of
The defendant, Lauvjlle Combs, is not
yet eleven years old, yet he has COM
mitted one of the most fiendish MUIR
ders in the history of Kentucky. Last
spring Lauville and his eigbt-year-oId
sister were standing by an open fire.
place in their home, their parents being
absent. Reaching back the boy picked
up "A hammer aud crushed his sisters
skull. He then threw the body in the
fire, and piled on the wood. The at
tempt to eremate the remains proving
abortive, the young fiend took them t.
the creek near by and threw the body
in the water. 1t being too shallow fol
his purpose, the murderer again move.
ed the body and buried 1t in the sand
On the return home of his parents
Lsuville told them that his sister hat
gone to a neighbours. He accounted
for the blood OF the floor BY saying b.
had killed a chicken. Next day b,
confessed TO killing his sister, and salt
/ that man who had boarded in thu
family during the winter, and who
had been turned of by his father be
cause of his attentions to the mother
had offered him pair Of boots anC
suspenders to kill his sister. The DO,
Is a regular tough, ehews and drinks
takes his arrest cOolly, and says wha
worries him is that his sister come
back at night and wont let him SLEEP
1t is generally thought that he viii b
sent to the penitentiary.