The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-27

ana the fTeSiuent VIII soon VISIT Atlanuc
City, N. j.
Ina prize fight at Fort Ham,
ilton, N. Y, Friday, Billy Dempsy, one OF
the cOmbatants, fell dead.
VIM. Price died at Girard,
Ohio, last week of starvation, and the corol
ner found 81 600 hid away in his hut.
Two tramps were struck bya
train on the Pennsylvania Railroad, near
Greensboro, Pa, and we're literally ground
to pieces.
Saturday night, at Lexing-
ton, KY, Henry Metcalfe was shot and In.
stantly killed by Tom o'Brien, treasurer at
Lell's variety theatre. te os. Eus
JAS. f. Nowlin, the boy muir
derer. was hanged at the Cambridge, Mass.,
Jail on Friday morning for the murder Of
George a. Goldman in 1887,
Charles Parkhurst has been
arrested at Sullivan, Indiana, charged with
the murder of Depot Agent Powers at Mar
shall, Illinois, some time ago.
The Republican League of
Ohio are making preparations for o grand
banquet to be given in Columbus on Lin
coins birthday, February 18th,
NearPeak's Mill, in Frank
lin county, KY, Thursday OF last week,
Roland Hill and Bob Marley were instantly
killed by the explosion Of a boiler.
Near Little Rock, Ark, two
farmers named Baker and Hit, became in-
volved in aquarrel over the division of some
land, aud stabbed each other with bowie
knives. Baker died.
Thieves entered st. Fidelio's
Roman Catholic Church at College Point, l..
l., broke open the tabernacle and stole two
silver chalices and some silver candlcsticks
aud other articles, valued in all at $500.
The Holyoke Mass. envel-
ope mill, the largest in the United States,
was burned Friday; loss 100000.
Z This win of course increase the price of
envelopes, but The HERALD continues 10
print at lowest living rates.
Count Bylandt- Rheydt, min
lister of war of the Austrian empire, is seri-
ously affected with hernia and confined 10
his bed.
Z Dose him with "sassafrac" tea aud apply
polk-root poultice TO the sore spot.
Sam Jones, revivalist, spoke
''to men only at Kansas City, Mo-, Sunday.
The attendance was six thousand, and the
collection for Jones'personal benefit amount
ed to $500. o
q The Courier.Journal thinks the crowd
mis.eok the dirt Ia his speech for real estate,
and thus accounts for its liberality.
w. f.. Jeter, of Conyers, Ga,
has received reliable information that
large estate in England, to which he is one
of the principal heirs, is about to be dstrib-
uted The estate has been in litigation since
1872, and has cost the claimants a consider.
able sum in establishing the justice Of their
claim. However, they have succeeded in
establishing their relationship, and It Is no
] longer question of trouble. The courts
have decided that the claim must be paid
The estate is enormously large, and ofigi-
nally belonged TO Rufus Jennings, of Biz
mingham, England. 1t is at present worth
SASS, 100000, and Jeters share amounts 10
81 600 900.
z We have tried to trace our relationship
with Mr.. j., but unfortunately, we are una
BILE to automatically assert that anY of our
grandpaps ever gave him "chav of ter.
hacker"
Philadelphia special to the
Cincinnati Enquirer states that Edward
Maui, the Nestor Of Delaware pilots, died
last week, leaving an estate valued at $2S.
600. The legal representatives Of the dead
man have found among his papers a letter
addressed to them, which throws curious
and romantic light upon his character and
habits. He Informed his family be had
accumulated a large box of gold coins, and
that this gIittering treasure would be found
buried beneath his house at Lewes, Delaware.
The communication explained that this
money had been collected from time TO tms
for forty years or more, and consisted Of
every foreign gold coin he had received for
his services as pilot. Explicit directions
were given as to where the strong box with
It's golden fortune could be found The old
pilot had never counted The coins, but bad
tossed them 10 from time 10 time. Upon
searching as directed, the heirs found tbs
box, aud upon breaking II open found IA
heaped up with gold pieces Of almost every
lation. Some OF them were old coins OF
much greater value as cariosities than for
their intrinsic worth. The smaliestcoin wsa
California twenty-five cent piece, and the