Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-03-20

uIs SllbbAuhOOSh, NtTulth u
me $25 in favor Of the plaintiff Tn
re, suit was for $4,000.
T Edward S. Powell who married int,
NV one of the best families in Danville
~ Ky, was arrested and lodged in jai
az on a requisition from Texas charging
sII' himwith horse stealing. q.
Ike OF the twenty-nine boats that make
nd up the harbOr fleet of New. York two
ng are safe in port, having outridden the
storm, nine were wrecked and eigh.
teen which were out in the open sea
remain utterly unheard of.
ne Frank Kennedy, cook in Walnut.
~ street restaurant in Kansas City, shot
j. and MORALLY wounded Herman Dor
is kowitz, Russian employed as baker
L. in the place. The men had quarrelled
n over the possession Of Ratchet.
Is Mrs. Malinda Moore, a lady about
e seventy years old living in Licking
II ton, KY, attempted to cross the track
ahead of street-car, when the mules
knocked her down and fatally injured
her, No blame attaches to the driver.
There was about $50 tons of mail
= matter due in Pittsburgh March 18th,
from the East, and the postmaster
took all possible measures with the
limited capacity at his command to
handle it promptly when it arrived.
Col. I. T. Snelbakcr, proprietor of
the Nine-street Opera House in Gin
cinnati, and, at present, at the head
of variety company playing nightly |
at the Casino Theater, died suddenly |
March 10Th, at the Hotel Superior,
Chicago.
The Rev. Eugene Peck, pastor of
the Eastern PresbyteeEialR rm9hH" "by a T,
),oeSShno5tfye while walking on the rail-
road track on the outskirts ofthe city {
and instantly killed lie was 10 .
years ofage.
VI. c. Cheek, a prominent citizen
of Huntingdon, Tenn, engaged in the
manufacture of wooden goods at the
Shilo Mills, dropped dead in the street
Wednesday morning. He was an
old, highly respected, entcrprising
and useful citizen.
The snow storm at Pittsfield, Mass,
on the Nth, was the worst ever known
Sleighs could not pass on the roads,
and one passenger train coming into {
the city was stalled twelve miles out,
with seventy-fve passengers, who
suffered for want of food and fuel.
Gilbert Burrows, of Dayton Ohio, {
received an electrical shock over !
telephone wire that nearly proved
fatal. lie is still under the care of !
physicians, and is Frustrated. In
vestigation of the telephone showed
that the wire was crossed with the
large incandescent light wires.
While party ofmen were inspect
ing the ruins of burnt building at
Park Mills, in Frederick county,
Maryland, the wind blew down the
walls, killing William Medairy, a ,
farmer, aged about thirty five years,
and injuring Charles and Frederick
Kohlpause and Frand Buck and Jes-
SC Martin.
William Rogers, a section boss at
Greenwood, near Somerset, Ky, met
with a terrible fate at that place. lie
was returning from a drunken ca
rousal, when he fell by the wayside
and froze TO death. AT one time he
was highly respected, and was super
visor OF the Southern division of the
Central Southern.
a young man named Potts, known
among his acquaintance as Col.
Potts, was killed at Junction City,
near Danville, by being run over by
detached car from freight train
He was clerk III the office of the
l.. & N. railroad, and was engaged
in taking the numbers of freight cars
when the accident occurred. lie had
only been married four months.
In drunken row, at Lancaster KY,
in which the town marshal, r. g.
Hamilton, and negro named Small
wood were engaged, Jack Grimes,
who attempted TO separate the two,
was struck over the head with a
plank in the hands of Chas. White,
intlicting a probably fatal wound.
All parties were under the influence
of liquor. l
The Sultan of Morocco is reported
to be acting under the advice of the
Spanish envoy, and has decided to =
defy American authority and TO re-
fuse to release the American "pro.
tected" citizens now in prison. Con-
sui General Lewis is in very pre-
carious position, and has telegraphed a
to Washington that immediate and {
vigorous measures are necessary to r
meet the situation. n
Miss Maynie Thornton, a young Z
and highly esteemed lady at Denton :
Texas made serious mistake. She y
was suffering from severe cold and .
took what she thought TO be table :,
spoonful of cough medicine. She be- :,
came sick Immediately after, and it =
was discovered that it was belladonna :
that she had taken. Her attending
physician has little hopes of her re-
ccvery.
In The Muhlenburg County rail- {
road tax case Judge Barr has decided
that the writ should issue compelling
Judge Coleman to make the necessary
levy. Coleman had evaded all pro-
cess for some time, but finally was
caught by United States Deputy a
Marshal. The amount involved is \
nearly $4,000 The bonds are held
in many States from Tennessee to s.
Michigan, and the fight against their N
payment has been in progress for ten u u
years. 1t is believed a settlement by F
compromise will soon be reached. q
The celebrated suit of Mrs. Rosa 81
Vestner JefTreys, of Lexington, Ky,
against the Government for 100000 e,
worth of cotton seized and sold dur y
ing the war, has been brought into +
court with the declaration from the si
bench that the four judges to whom o.
the case had been submitted were 81
unable to agree, and an order was is 10
sued remandinU the case for re. ar0u- q,