The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1889-08-01
THE COMMONWEALTH.

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J. W. RoYsfEB and others were en-
/, gagged In placing . stone over the grave
Of MrS Nick Long, ID 1 Hopkins County
cemetery, the other evening. when the
stone broke. and. in falling. struck Mr..
Register, infsicting injuries OF which he
instantly died
A sIx-YEAR-OLD son Of Pat McDermott
laid down on the railroad at Paris, the
other afternoon, and q switch engine
came along and cut one foot Of, the
stub OF which had to be amputated-
JOIN PIKE. q young desperate. was
shot and probably fatally wounded by
his father at 0wensboro.
TIE will OF the late George w. Nor
ton was admitted to probate in the
County Court at Louisville, the other
morning. The will was made November
5. 1885. II directs that the estate be d.
vided into seven parts, and that his wife
and each Of his six children be given
one OF them. The estate is valued at
IS, 600. 600, the largest ever owned in the
State by an individual. Caldwell and
Ernst J. Norton, grandchildren. are
given SIS. 900 each. The permanent en-
dowment fund of the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary of Louisville gets
5000.
AT an early hour the other morning
mob appeared at the jail in Paris. and.
oyerpowering the jailer and his depu-
ties. took Jim Kelly, negro, from his
cell, and, proceeding n short distance
from town, hanged him to tree. Kelly
a short time ago ravished the wife of a
section boss Of the kentucky Central.
There was no doubt Of the Negroes guilt
The assaulted woman on the 25th was
in very critical condition. with
chances by no means favorable for her
recovery.
RICHARD SULLIVAN, young farmer
residing near Kirkamsville. was shot
and dangerously wounded by the father
of a roung lady to whom he was paying
attention.
UPoN petition signed by o5G citizens
Of Henderson and 2sI citizens of Heb
bdrdsyille. the Henderson County court
has submitted the proposition to vote
tax in those two precincts to the State
line railroad. The proposition has been
somewhat modified since Ii was formerly
submitted, and the railroad officials
claim that there has been such change
of public sentiment in its favor that Il
will now carry.
The young ladies of Hopkinsville, ac-
cording to the New Era, are wearing
fluffy white null dresses and dispensing
with corscts and bustlcs-
The following fourth-class postmas-
tiers were appointed on the sJth for
Kentucky: J. II. Everett Fairview,
Todd County. vice W. IL Brewer. re-
signed. J. W. East Newcastle, Henry
County, viceJ. c. Scable. removed.
THE Secretary Of the Treasury has APP
pointed the following store-keepcrs and
Henry V. Street, at Cincin-
natl. and James II. Murphy. at Ambrose.
PATENTS issued for Kentucky: John
+. orgo, automatic switch; Phil. liine.
to himself. w. C. Porter and J.
D. Davis. ironing board; JAS. c. Sight
and Z. II. Walker. furnace.
MANY BABRY, colored, aged ten, was
killed in horrible manner at Lexing-
ton the other evening. She was on a
box car in the kentucky Central yards,
when train backed down, knocking her
from the car on the track. The train
passed over her. cutting of one leg at
the ankle and at the thigh. and the 9TH
Pr at tho thigh, :he bones protFuding |
through and coming out at her abdomen
She died almost ms antly,
Mr. DAVID PANcE, well-known |
'armcr Of Fayette County. had his hand
mt of in threshing machine the other
lay by getting it tangled up in the ma
-hincry. He Is above seventy years OF
Ige.
MRs. MARY Z. CARTY and her son
Iohn Carly, died in Lexington few
lays ago, in the same house within six 4
hours OF each other, neither Of them
Of the others death. Mrs.
'arty died from quinsy and the son con
w. S. LYoS, patient from Eddyvillc.
lyon County. in the Lnnatic Asylum,
where he has been confined for twenty
Tears, has recently whitfield with pen
Inife out of bits of pine boards. highly
Ingenious and complicated mechanical
oy. The toy is a miniature stage. about
hree feet by two in dimensions. on
which twelve male and female manikins,
rom six to eight inches in height, per-
orm series OF lively and amusing
mites, in which they mimic the motions
{ their bigger prototypes with grotesque
nd comical precision. A manikin in the
enter turns large wheel by crank,
nd seems to keep his companions in
ioticn. A man and woman, the latter
Gliding babe on her lap. sit facing
ach other in rocking-chairs, and rock
ack and forth with tireless industry.
little Red Riding Hood and lady in
iikadO dress. on the left of the stage,
wo male dancers in the center, and two
odies on the right, keep up lively jig
ance to the silent music Of fiddler,
no saws away forever on voiceless
iolin- Several other manikins perform
ifferent antics
a coLoEED woman named Mack at
smpted suicide with morphine at Lex
igton-
Ross HATsELI- colored, was shot by
n unknown person at Lexington
A CONVICT named Booker Weaver, who
scaped from the Kentucky penitentiary,
as recaptured with the aid of blood
ounds.
Miss MARY GILDERs, young woman,
suicide at her home on the
CUMBERLAND river, near Wolf Creek, a
w days ago.
EVAN s. WARREy was shot and fatal,
wounded by Beatty MacklifT, at Dar-
lie.
AT Frankfort w. g. Montgomery w2s
ntenced to nineteen years in the peni-
ntiary for killing his sweetheart
me Kittson. The murder was COM