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


stud. has sold to II. G. Graves & Sons,
Sandwich, Ill, the bay stallion Sand
wich, four years old. by Lord Russell,
dam Rosabella, by belmont Price,
g., 900.
JOHN GILMAN, a shoemaker, Louis
vile, died the other morning from the
effects of dose ofnorphine taken with
suicidal intent Family trouble was tho
cause.
THE dead body of Hamilton Mitchell,
aged sixty-fsve, was found. the other
afternoon, near the car bridge on which
Jim Kelly was hung recently, near
Paris. The head was mangled horribly
by the cars. He was walking on the
track and unaware of an approaching
train. He was unmarried.
| WILLIS WRIGHT, colored barber, we'll
known at Danyille, was arrested there
the other night by Deputy United States
Marshal Logan and taken to Somerset
on charge Of passing counterfeit silver
coin.
SOUTHWESTERN Kentucky has an cpl
demic OF mad dogs.
A FIERCE quarrel has broken out be-
| tween the Smiths and Slushers, near
Pineville, over hog worth two dollars.
The Smiths home was attacked recent
ly by the Slushers and volley poured
| into the house. Smith retaliated by
putting guard armed with Winchesters
on Slushers' road to Flat Lick, the near
est village. Both sides are now we'll
armed and are watching for each other.
All travel along the road passing their
houses is cut of.
JIM COMBS, Jesse Barnett and Charles
Wall, under arrest at Mt. Sterling for
| the murder Of John A. Rose, of Powell
County, have confessed. They say
they were hired to do it by enemies of
Rose, who agreed to pay them $500
each.
HARRY FARRELL has been arrested
on the charge of being an accomplico
| in the murder Of John Rose, leader OF
one of the factions of the Powell County
feud.
GEORGE SITTER killed Rev. Samuel
Sharp at Lebanon, few days ago.
Both were colored. Sharp was living
with Siter's sister, claiming she was his
wife.
EDwARD SMITH, brakeman on the
Louisville and Nashville railroad, was
run over by freight train at Pembroke
the other night, and died in great ag-
ony. He was an unmarried man and his
home was in Chicago.
GAT marlborough contracts have been
signed for gas, water and electric light
works, and an ice factory, and plans
eli,
round-house, etc.
HORACE DUGAN, the colored youth,
who was tried in the Criminal Court,
Owensboro, for the murder of his BROTH
er, was acquitted on the 1st on the
grounds of self-defense. Dugan and
his brother last December. got into q
quarrel about the ownership OF a pair Of
socks. The quarrel resulted in fight,
which ended by Dugan killing his
brother.
THE Lexington Industrial Union has
elected the following officers to serve
during the ensuing year: Judge Mat
Walton, president J. II. Beauchamp.
vice president, and George c. Snider,
secretary.
Hon. GEo. w. McADAMs, one Of the
oldest and most respected citizens Of
Hancock County, died the other morn
ing of heart disease, at the residence OF
his son, S. l.. McAdams, in Hawesville.
aged seventy-three For a number OF
years he was very prominent in the
commercial affairs of the county, and q
leader in politics He was member of
the lower house of the Kentucky Legis-
lature during the session of 1S5o-s0. be-
ing elected by a large majority, and
serving with distinction He afterward
eagagcd in the tobacco business in
Louisville, conducting very extensive
business.
THE Acting Secretary of the Treasury
en- the goth appointed the following
kentucky Storekeepers and Gaugers:
Edward Gill, jr., at Salyisa; Patrick 5.
Reeves, at Lair.
The Twenty-fourth Annual Conven-
ycntion of the kentucky Sunday-school
Teachers will be held at Paducah August
20, II and q. Every school in the State
is invited to send at least one delegate.
Entertainment will be furnished by the
citizens Of Paducah. All who viii at
tend are asked to send their names to
Mr.. John ID. Smith, ir., at Paducah, not
la.er 'nan Auguss 10 -,
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