The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1890-05-21


Senate bill Incorporating the Breathitt City !
Bridge Company; incorporating the Williams [
burg Bridge Company; Senate bill Incorporating
the Southwestern News Company; incOrpora-
ting the town of Bromley in KcntOn County;
establishing o new voting place in the Fourth
Magisteral District in KentOn County. The
Governor vetoed the bill for the benefit Of
criminals under Is years OF age. The bill au-
thorizes the Governor to contract with the Of
fcers or managers Of some house OF refuge or
other charitable institution to receive criminals
under Is years OF age who hare been sentenced
TO serve a term in the penitentiary.
FRANKFORT May l3.-SENATE.-A number Of
local bills were passed in the Senate to-day In
order to comply with the law, both branches OF
the Legislature took ballot on o. S. Senator
at noon to-day. II was not indicative at all; in
fact it was something of farce. NJ mbers
voted for each other and for "McGinry " An
ME Rooney" and other imaginative persons.
HOUSE "A bill designed as a cure for the
lawlessncss Of the mountains was called up and
passed. il prov dcs that whore the local cOndi-
tons are such as to interfere with the admins
tTatiOn Of justice, parties under accusation may
be taken to an adjacent county for trial. Gov
ernor Buckner sent in his veto Of the bill to
charter the Altamount and Manchester railroad.
The following were among the new bills intro
duced: To amend the charter OF CovingtOn by
repeating much Of the act Of 1885 as author
ICES the school board to issue bonds for addi-
charter Of COvinCtOn so as TO regulate the COM
mon schools Of that city; declaring Licking riv-
er a lawful fence from the Ohio river TO Bank
lick creek, in Kenton County; Incorporating
the Cairo Hickman and Memphis Railroad
Company; Incorporating the Harrison County
bank; incorporating the Christian Church Of
Ludlow. Kenton County; incorporating the Big
Sandy Bridge Company.
FRANKFORT, May 4-Another useless ballot
was cast in joint session by the Legislature to-
day. At the precise moment that the far-away
whistle OF the Kentucky penitentiary rang
shrilly out, Indicating the noon hour, the fold
ing doors Of the hall Of Representatives were
thrown open, to disclose the massive form OF
Joe Reed, the dOor-keeper Of the Senate Ad
vancing up the aisle he salutcd Speaker Myers
and announced the presence OF the Senators
upon the floor stating that they had come 10
transact the business that the hour called for.
Speaker Myers surrendered his seat and gavci
TO Mr. Smith, who ordered the call OF the roll.
Il showed lis members present in person or BY
proxy Senator DickersOn, OF Grant, moved
that no formal nominations be made. and the
chair ordered call OF the members Each
member pursued the same tactics that marked
the gathering OF the day before, their votes be-
ing so badly scattered that the highest man on
the list, Colonel Ben Lee Hardin, Of Lexing-
ton, had but eight ballots recorded opposite his
name.
FRANKFORT May I5.-SENArE The follow
ing House bills we're passed; Incorporating the
Dean Fields Coal Mining and Coke Company;
Incorporating the the London Street Railway
Company; Incorporating the Beattyvile Street
Transit Company; Incorporating the Greenup
County Fair Association; Incorporating the
Citizens Bank Of Ashland; authorizing the
/ Kentucky Central Railway Company to enter
into contracts for purchase, sale or cOnsOlida-
ton with companies Of this State or other
States; Incorporating the Fordsville, Hartford
and Southwestern Railroad Company; prOvid-
ing for the construction OF any levee along the
water front OF the city Of Newport, and author
izing the usual of bonds TO pay for same; incor-
porating the Republican State League OF Ken
| lucky; Incorporating the Carrollton Electric
/ Light and Power Company.
HoUsE.-The House got into a sQuabble over
/ the unfinished business OF yesterday, and &C
/ eOmplished nothing except formal ballot, in
joint session, for United States Senator.
| FRANKFORT, May I6.-SENATE The follow
/ ing House bills were passed: Prescribing
/ the form of report made our by the stewards to
/ the superintendent OF charitable institutions:
/ chartering the Cumberland River Coal and Min
| ing Company; Incorporating the Peoples Saw
/ ings Bank of Maysyille; establishing the whip
ping-pOst for wife-beaters in Mclean County; in
/ cooperating the Augusta Electric Light and Gas
| Company I'm Bracken County; Incorporating the
Louisville, Somerset and JellicO Southern Rail-
road Company. The bill and substitute to re-
/ apportion the State Congressional Districts
came up for consideration, and occupied the re-
| mainder OF the session.
HoUsE-The House got into q hlibustering
humor early in the day and succeeded in doing
nothing very magn ncently. The usual formal
ballot for United States Senator was taken and
resulted in a victory for Captain Tod Hall, OF
Clarke County, he receiving u votes.
THE Doc tors Convention in their ses-
| sion at Henderson, elected the follow
ing officers for the ensuing year; Presi-
| dent DR.. George w. Beeler, Clinton,
senior vice president DR.. ]. NJ. POyntz,
Madison; junior vice president, DR.. APP.
Morgan Vance, Louisville; permanent
secretary. DIR. Steele Baily. Stanford;
assistant secretary, DR.. J. y. Oldham,
Lexington; treasurer, DIR. J. b. Kinnard,
Lancaster; librarian, DR.. I. b. Greenly,
West Point The following will consti-
tute the board of censOrs for another
year: II. Brown, chairman, HustOnville;
F. II. Clark, secretary, Lexington; W.
NJ. Hanna, Henderson; J. G. Brooks, Pa
ducah; W. d. Rodman, Hodgenville;
Samuel NJ. Willis, Pine Grove. Lexing-
ton was selected as the next place of
meeting.
Il
Vile the other day, by the finding of the
body of an infant in box, in vacant
lot, in the suburbs of the city.
Miss NELLIE DUDLEY was married at
Frankfort, to Amos Northcote, of Chica-
60, a son of Sir Stafford Northcote, Earl
of Iddesleigh.
]. B. STUcKY, a prominent physician
of Lexington, has been sent to the asy'
lum, victim of the cocaine habit.
THE one hundredth anniversary OF
Methodism in kentucky was celebrated
at Lexington on the 18th.
THE Prohibitionists of Kentucky have
nominated Mrs. Josephine X. Henry, Of
Versailles, for clerk of the court of ap
peals
THE other afternoon the dead body Of
Eli c. Reeves was found about three
miles from his home, near Moreland
with his neck broken and his face
bruised and mangled. Several partie:
are suspected. and County Attorney A
w. Young is Investigating the matter
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