The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-07-19
THE COMMONWEALTH.

the principal of the school.
A REPORT from West Liberty states that
nearly all the inhabitants Of that little
village are III with the fux. More than
fifty persons are down with the disease,
and most of the cases are proving fatal.
They are attacked with vomiting, cramps,
bleeding from the nose and ears, and, af-
ter death, turn black.
INDIGNANT citizens Of Hopkinsville,
seized Elders s. s. Worthington and h. A.
Shipp, Mormon missionaries, while they
were attempting to preach, and gave them
a severe whipping.
ONE Of the largest business failures that
has happened in Newport for many years
was made the other night. Messrs. H. & i.
Boehme, the well-known contractors,
made an assignment to Edward Wendte
for the benefit Of their creditors. The La
bilities are $4,000, and the assets about
$40 OO0 The principal creditors are the
First National Bank of Newport and the
German National Benk of Newport. The
First National holds about $4,000 Of their
paper, while the German National holds
about $4,000. The banks are, however,
we'll secured, as the indorsers ON their pa
per are all good business men OF Newport.
The assignment was caused by the banks
crowding them.
THERE is every reason TO believe that
within avery short space OF time the ONO
Valley road will be extended from Marion
to Paducah, and that portion of the road
from Marion to Princeton disposed OF.
SURVEYS are being made for an exten-
sion Of the Newport News and Mississippi Z
Valley from Paducah west to Cairo, and II
is said that contracts will soon be let.
AN unusual tragedy occurred at Red
River, hamlet of Wolfe County. For
some time it has been understood that
Henry or Harvey Pike was to marry Mira
Haskins, the daughter Of a general store
keeper in the village. Some weeks ago
young man named Everhard, a timber
buyer supposed to be from Philadelphia,
has been about the place, and boarded at
Haskins He and Miss Haskins became
great friends, and spent much Of their time
together in the evenings. Pike became
exceedingly jealous of the stranger, though
there is nothing to indicate that the lady
was untrue to him. On Sunday night
Pike called at Haskins' residence, and
learned that his sweetheart and Everhard
We're out walking. He sat down for awhile,
chatting good humoredly with the family,
then saying he wouldn't wait any longer,
left, all supposed for his home. Instead,
whether by accident or design, be walked
out the road taken by the absent couple,
and found them a half-mile away. What
| passed between them will never be known,
| but when later searching party, alarmed
| at the long absence Of the two, reached the
| spot, they found all three dead. Ever
hard had been shot in the head. Miss Has
kins was fifty feet away, the back Of her
head crushed by bludgeon which had
| fallen by her side. Across her body Pike
lay, feebly gasping, with bullet hole in
the roof of his mouth, whence he had sent
bullet into his brain. He died inside of
an hour. The position Of the bodies indi-
| Gated that Pike had shot Everhard in the
head without warning. The girl started to
| run away, when Pike, pursuing her, struck
| her with the club, killing her instantly. He
| then probably laid down across her body,
| placed his pistol, large-sized Colt, in his
mouth and fred. When found, one hand
clasped tightly the right hand Of his sweet
| heart.
JOHN ScoUTEN and Miss Jennie Thomas,
Of Springvile, eloped and were married ut
Portsmouth, o., by Rev. r. e. Carney.
| The BRIDES father followed the couple, but
arrived too late.
GEO. P. JOHNSON was seriously injured
by runaway at Georgetown.
| MRS. JENNIE WALTON was burned to
death at Louisville the other night by the
explosion of coal-oil stove.
THE High Bridge camp-meeting is in
progress
FRED WooLsrER, an inmate Of The poor
house at Frankfort, hanged himself to
tree.
TIRE marble and stone works Of Peters
4 & Burghard, at Louisville, We're destroyed
by fire few days ago
THE training stables Of VIM. NJ. Rue, at
Danville, burned the other evening. There
| were forty-tw horses in the stables. OF
these ten only were rescued; seven Of these
belonged to Wilson Dunn, three only to
Rue. The thirty two burned would aver
age 5000 each. Among the valuable animals
lost were Alice and her mate, known as
fast trotters at all Kentucky fairs, the fine
saddle stallion Silver King, belonging to
John Farris, of Lancaster, trotting stallion
Glenview Chief, the property of Fox &
Lanier, of Danville. A big lot of buggies,
etc., also destroyed. On these there was
an insurance Of Il, roo; none ON the horses
or stable.
LAwvILLE COMBS, on trial at jackson for
the killing of his six-year-old sister with q
skillet handle, was sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for life, few days ago. He made
the same confession of his horrid crime to
the court as he made to his mother and
others Immediately after the murder, but
appeared somewhat repentant and declared
that he did not intend to kill his sister, and
that he only wished to put her out Of the
way until he could secure the reward, a
pair of shoes and suspenders, which he al
leges was promised him by the boarder.
Another horrible incident connected with
this family fratricide is that Lawville's
brother William, in Jail for numbering his
brother by splitting open the latter's head
, with an axe about six months ago, was
brought before the court and sentenced to
the penitentiary for life also, the sentence
! being rendered the same hour as that OF
Lawville's. William took his sentence
! quite indifferently, and seems not to regret
his fate.
Contracts have been let for building
eighty-one miles OF the Kentucky Union
railroad.
THE other night at Nicholasville, Ed
Sparks, son Of Senator E. r. Sparks, shot
Charley Myers, the ball entering the abdo-
men. The pistol shot interrupted sermon
which George o. Barnes wss preaching at
the time.
GEo. GurERMourH, Of Louisville, shot
himself in the mouth because Ida becker
decided that she was too young to marry
him.
LAnoRERs are hard at work bnilding
the extension OF the l.. and N, from
Pineville to Cumberland Gap, and the man
agement is greatly pl'nssd with me pre-
gress