The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1890-08-06
THE COMMONWEALTH.


COMMISSIONER WILSON'S report for
July shows that the condition Of Ken
lucky crops Is very unsatisfactory.
Wheat will yield about fifty-fye per
cent. Of the harvest of last year, with a
poor berry; corn has q condition of six
ty-five per cent; tobacco sixty per cent;
rye, having matured before the dIOuth,
was saved in good condition; oats, con-
ditiOn at harvest twenty per cent; hay
made a splendid crop; hemp shows a
condition Of sixty-six per cent; apples
forty per cent; peaches twonty-three
per cent; Irish potatoes twenty per
cent; sweet potatoes, fair condition but
needing rain badly; gardens generally
dried Cp and vegetables very scarce.
THE postmaster at Bowling Green has
filed an application at the POst-Ofiice De-
partment for the establishment Of the
free delivery system.
A HEAVY wind-stOrm the other after
noon did considerable damage to prop
erty in East Newport and Bellevue.
Several houses were blown down or I'M
rooted.
THE Swift rolling-mills, at Newport
have been sold to a Duluth syndicate for
SIS. 900.
FRED LEE worked with Pineville alb
stract company and learned the business
so we'll that he succeeded in abstracting
| sums Of money ranging from $50 TO
81, 600 from his trusting friends previous
to his unannounced and somewhat hur-
| ried departure from the town.
The celebrated trotting stallion Du-
quesne, 2:172<, died of collie at the stock
farm of Keller Thomas, near Paris,
where he had been making the season.
He was owned by Paul ii. IIacke, Of
Pittsburgh, and valued at $4,000.
The following fourth-class pOstmast-
er was commissioned the other day:
/ !. D. Skinner, CuspiO, Bullitt County,
vice 7. J. Ramsey.
HENRY FUGET, who, together with his
brothers, Buck and Jack, are charged
with having shot and killed two of
! posse of officers in Perry County, while
resisting arrest, a few weeks ago, has
been arrested on Juyan river, and plao-
ed in the Lincoln County jail. He is
| passing under an assumed name, but is
| believed to be the right party. Buck
| Is said to be now in the Perry County
jail, while Zach is hiding in Lincoln
| County. A posse of officers are scour-
ing the country for him. They have
the reputation Of being outlaws in the
mountain Businesses, and large price
/ is on their heads.
REV. J. D. LOCKErT, one OF the most
| prominent ministers of the Baptist
Church, in Southern Kentucky. died
suddenly the other morning at his home
/ in Trenton.
/ A DOUBLE shooting took place in the
eastern portion Of Louisville, the other
morning. Peter McCrary, until recent
| ly night Waterman at the St Louis Gem
etery, shot and mortality wounded Annie
| Stakin, pretty servant girl. McCrary,
/ IL seems, met the girl two years ago
/ when she was employed at the cemetery
IN some connection. She is handsome
( blonde and he was very devoted in his
] attentions to her, calling upon her fire.
/ quently and regularly. The other
morning, after few minutes converse
ton with the girl, he pulled a pistol
/ and shot her through the head. She is
still conscious, but it is thought can not
/ possibly live. After shooting her Nc
Crary attempted twice to take his own
/ life but failed
! ELIJAH BOVINE, a well-knOwn farmer
near Nicholasville, and father of fam
/ lily, attempted suicide at his home by
! hanging, but was discovered in time by
his son, who took him into town and
had him placed in Jail toprevent further
attempts on his life. -Four years ago
he placed a revolver to his head and
| fired, but the ball glanced and he final
/ " recovered. A letter from his daugh-
ter who is sick in the South, and a son
very low, accounts for his recent rash
act.
NEAR Hazard, two cousins named
COyhart, were found dead, with pistols
in their hands, from both of which shots
had been fred. Between them, on a
stone, was a pack Of cards lying as il
left by players. Ono man was shot in
the back, the other in the breast,
and it is believed they were shot while
at play and robbed.
a TELEGRAM from r. P Porter, Super
intendent of Census, says: "a rough
count of Lexington gives it population
OF %, s25." These figures are doubtless
correct, and indicate an increase Of fifty
per cent. in population in ten years.
THE iron viaduct over Marble creek,
on the Richmond, NichOlasville, Irvine
and Beattyville railroad, was completed
a few days ago. 1t is 211 feet high, and
commands a beautiful view for miles
along the Kentucky river. Track lay
ing, in the direction of Richmond, will
be resumed at once. As the bridge
across the Kentucky river is already
completed there will be no further inter
ruptiOn in this direction. The chief
engineer, J. II. Pearson, reports that he
will have the track finished from Mich
olasville to Versailles by August 10.
The company expects to run an excur-
sion to the NichOlasyille Fair, which
commences on August Is.
TYPHOID fever Of an uncomfortable
and very fatal type is raging in johnson
County. A number of deaths have al
ready occurred, and many cases are
hopeless
The Mt Sterling Waterworks Com
pany expects to have its works in oper-
alton this summer.
FRANKFORT is feeling good over the
prospect Of an electric street railway.
THE population Of Carlisle is given at
1,S62 by the Mercury.
g. w. VENTERs has been appointed
postmaster at Venters, Pike County,
vice J. Venters, resigned
THE House non-concurred in Senate
amendment increasing the amount In
the Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill for
military posts from $3.50. 600 to $500, 600.
This is temporary defeat for the plan
Of General Schofield to enlarge the bar
racks at Newport it being the wish of
the War Department to use the $3.50, 600
for this purpose.
There was another murder committed
at Lancaster the other night Gar
Leavcll and Lewis Gill, two colored
men, became involved in difficulty and
Gill was shot 10 death by LeavelL
Southern Editor Killed.