The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1890-12-24
THE COMMONWEALTH

LEXINGTON enterprising business men
will erect a new chamber Of commerce.
PINGREE B9AssER was thrown from
his buggy by runaway horse and prob
ably fatally injured at Hopllinsville.
Mr. HENRY TALBOT, OF Paris, was
found dead upon his knees at the side Of
his bed.
FARSER's Alliance will open gener-
al store at Shelbyville during the fore
part of January.
NJ. J. KING, one Of Newport's promi-
nent and wealthy citizens and business
men, died a few nights ago, after a
short illness, in his sixty-ffth year. Mr..
King was largely interested in the
whisky business, and widely known
throughout the State.
MAYOR BERRY, of Newport, has APP
pointed new police force for the city,
with Colonel Thomas Cottingham as
chief, succeeding Captain Betz. The
force includes several of the members
who served under the previous admins
tration.
Mrs JULIA HIGBEE is in Jail at Louis
vile charged with having murdered her
four children. She poisoned them all.
CONVICTION is petitioning the United
States Government to turn over to it
the property which it has heretofore
held in that city at the mouth of the
Licking river, and which it is now about
to abandon. The city wants to use part
of it for Grand Army and State Guard
quarters and the rest for park.
AT Stamping Ground, Lollie, small
daughter of Claude Ewing, met with a
painful accident She was sitting in a
chair with pair of scissors in her hand,
when she fell from the chair to the
floor, running the scissors into her eye
and destroying the sight of it.
LITTLE GEO. HARDIN and the baby OF
Convict Mile Keel have been taken
out Of the Kentucky penitentiary by the
State Humane Society.
The handsome new tobacco exchange
of Hopkinsville was opened few days
ago.
THERE will be twelve days racing al
the Lexington spring race meeting,
which begins April IS next
ELvIRA and Charity Hilton, Of Louis.
vile, have been sued in behalf Of thei1
orphan nephew, JOS. L. Hilton, to re.
cover S159, OOO.- The specification is that
they fraudulently took from the child's
father, their brother, that amount in
/ bonds just before his death.
JAMES ROUTT and Clifton Searcy, OIL
Lawrenceburg, took rooms at the Enter
prise Hotel, Louisville, the other night
and upon retiring blew out the gas
When found Routt was dead and Searcy
can not recover.
j. W. CHESTNUT & Co, merchants al
Trenton, have made an assignment tC
L. II. Arnold for the benefit Of theil
creditors J. P. RUSSELL the company Of
the firm, and Mr. Chestnut both made
/ individual assignments.
3 LINDSAY and John Leavell, colored
brothers, became involved in a quarre,
about women near Hoplinsville, the
other evening, when the former was
stabbed in the neck and back, receiving
wounds, it is thought, that will result
fatally.
I THE funeral of Hon. Henry D. McHen
~ was held at Hartford the other after
noon in the presence of a host of sor
rowing friends and relatives.
A TEN-YEAR-OLD daughter Of Joh1
Griggs, living three miles east of Car
rOlltOn, was burned to death the Other
day. Her clothing caught at the fire
place in the absence of her parents from
( the room. She lived three hours.
/ AT Haddock's SchOol-house, Christian
County, Frank Stinson, killed a man
named Agee. He knocked Agee down
with a rock, and then Drained him with
an axe.
! The Census Bureau has completed the
population of all the cities The popu-
latiOn Of cities over ten thousand in this
State are given as follows: