The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-06-28
THE COMMONWEALTH.

ton Mills by the explosion Of Champion
fire extinguisher. He was attempting to
put out an incipient blaze in the .'lapper-
ROOM" Richard Rice, another workman,
was bsdly burned by the acids. Monroe
was the main support Of his mother and his
two younger brothers.
WHILE blasting well at Cynthiana two
colored men were overcome by gas. Geo.
Harris will probably die, but Henry Colyer
Is safe.
J. NICK. LAYTON, aged twelve, was
drowned while bathing in the Ohio ut Con-
cord. The body was recovered.
WHILE Charles Orr was at work ON a
tobacco barn for Charles Ford, near YER
sailles, and was descending ladder to the
ground, heavy hatchet slipped, from
the grasp of a felIow-workmnn On the
roof, the blade striking him with terrific
force in the center of the head, inflicting an
ugly cash. The wound, while serious, is
not dangerous, though the escape was mar
row.
WHILE working with lot Of hands at
the railroad rock-crusher, near Hopkins
vile, late the other evening, Alexander
Trice was suddenly caught and dragged
beneath the ponderous machine, which
| struck and fatally injured him. But for
the presence of workman, who seized and
pulled him away, Trice would have been
instantly killed.
J. H. FRYER, farmer living thrcc miles
from Millersburg, seven weeks ago, while
down drinking out Of spring, swallowed
something slick. He supposed it to be a
tadpole, from the peculiar sensation in his
stomach. Three weeks ago he was taken
very i'll, and claimed that there wassome-
thing alive in his stomach. A few days
ago, during severe coughing spell, Id
vomited up small green live frog.
BY an explosion of powder in the wares
house Of a fertilizing company at Louis
vile, Henry Burkhardt and John johnson,
laborers, were dangerously burned. Burk-
hardt can not recover. John Willets was
severely burned. The powder was lying
loose ON the floor, where IA number Of
old cartridges had been opened.
MRS. SALLIE DoANE, at Pine Hill, near
Mount Vernon, in attempting to cross the
track in front of the L. and N. passenger
train that was moving at the rate of thirty
miles per hour, was struck and killed.
PRoF. E. d. WARFIELD, of Lexington,
was elected president Of the Miami Uni
versity.
REV. W. @. YOUNG, d. D., of Louisville,
has been elected president Of Center college,
Danville, to succeed Dr.O. Beatty, resigned.
THE most sensational and painfully aw-
full execution which ever took place in Ken
lucky occurred in the county Jail at Louis
vile ON the 22d. William Patterson, one
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slowly strangled to death, but not until he
gave expression to some articulated
thoughts while dangling in midair between
life and eternity. The trap was sprung at
eleven minutes past six o'clock, and in just
ten minutes afterward his struggles ceased,
the murderer was dead, and the majesty Of
the law vindicated. The death struggle
was a very distressing scene, however, fof
the victim was strangled to death. 1mmedi-
ately after the drop his legs commenced to
writhe and wriggle, and a loud Kissing
sound came from his mouth. He lifted his
body by his neck up and down many
times. The sight was terrible one, and
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