The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-27
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lage of 1890 souls in Travers county, Mime
sofa on the Dakota border. II is in the
region where casualties were greatest in the
blizzard reported in last weeks issue, aud
at st. Paul no reports have been received
directly from them for several days. Browns
Valley is on branch Of the Manitoba road,
running southwest from Morris forty-six
miles. No trains have run to Browns Val.
ley since Christmas, and telegraphic com.
munication is interrupted. Besides, the
country roads are banked full of snow to
the depth of four feet on level, and are
impossible everywhere. On sunday, Jan.
10, man walked across the country on
snow shoes from Browns Valley to Boards
ley, eight miles away and reported that
there was neither pound of coal nor
stick of frewood in the village, and that
the suffering Of the people could not be es-
timated. He said that after burning all
their own fuel they made n raid upon the
Manitoba round-house and confscated all
coal stored there. When this supply was
exhausted, the railroad buildings were torn
down and chopped into frewood. After
telling his story the man begged a sack of
coal, threw it across his shoulder and tramp
ed back to his family. Many car loads Of
fuel consigned to Browns Valley are block
AIDED at Morris, and large force OF men is
engaged in opening the line up, but trains
can not be got running for four or five days.
.....At st. Paul, Jan. 10, the weather report
showed the following conditions at the
points named; st. Paul, thermometer IS
degrees below, cloudy: st. Vincent, Mimi,
80 below, clear; Huron, Oak, 20 below, fair;
Yankton, OAK, IS below, fair; Bismark, 26
below, clear Helena, II below, snow; Gu
Appelle, N. w. T., "a below, clear; Garry,
SO below, clear.
A party numbering twenty,
headed by Frank Phillips, Deputy Sheriff
Of Pike county, are after the leaders of the
Hatfield gang who attacked the McCoys.
They have them located, but should they
fail to find them in their rendezvous will
scour the wilds of West Virginia but what
they get them. Excitement is still great
throughout that entire section, and every.
body is aroused. Stone Coal, w. Va, is in
terrible state, and has been ever since the
renewal of the HaifeldMcCoy feud on the
LIST inst, since which time three of the lat.
ter have been killed, while the Hatfield
gang has lost four by death, had two badly
wounded and six captured and lodged in
the Pike county Jail, charged with the MIR.
der of the Mccoy boys. Since their arrest
peace has reigned supremely between the
factions, Notwithstanding the Kentuckians
have organized and are securing the coun.
try IN search Of the Hatfelds, whom they
propose TO annihilate. The Jail at Pikeville
is strongly guarded day and night by eight
armed men, who stand guard for the double
purpose of preventing the escape of the
prisoners and to give the alarm should a
posse from West Virginia swoop down upon
them.
Ben Baker, Jr., a farmer liv-
ing about ten miles from Barbourville, in
the Sinking Creek neighborhood, and near
the Bell county line, was shot and Instantly
killed by Berry Hensley on Friday last. For
some months Hensley has been living in
Bakers house, Baker went to him the day
before, and told him he must give posses.
sion next day, threatening him in case he
did not, Hensley begged Baker, but he
said he would make good his pledge. He
shouldered his Winchester next morning.
and went to Bakers barn. Baker went to
the barn 10 feed, where Hensley, who was
concealed within, fred upon his unsuspeet-
ing victim. Hensley is still at large. This
is the third Of the Baker family killed In
less than year, his brother and father hav-
ing heen killed last winter by neighbor
named Ferguson in a quarrel about land.
In the McCracken (Ky.) cir
cult court, Thursday, Jan. 10th, Susie Rudd,
colored, was convicted Of killing her hus-
band, Charles Rudd, and sentenced for two
years. She shot Rudd on the previous Fri.
day night, and he died Sunday morning
She escaped after the shooting aud was cap
tured fifteen miles Ia the country Saturday.
Indictment was brought Tuesday, and six
days after the crime she was convicted.
Jim Taylor, a member Of
the Baptist church at Keene, KY, shot Lew
is WOolfOrk, another member, who reported
that Taylor was drinking too much tangle-
foot. Taylor laid for Woolfork and shot
him in the dark Thursday night Of last week.
Tayior's revolver only had one load ia IL,
and that did not penetrate dangerously.
Taylor was arrested. 1a',,
The whipping post, if it is to
be erected for wlie-beaters. should also be
put up for husband-beaters. There are