The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-05-08
OVER THE WORLD IN A WEEK.

Eng. While train of cars was crossing
bridge seven miles from London the
bridge collapsed and six coaches filed
with passengers fell into the shallow
stream below. Although the coaches
were smashed into smithereens and some
of the passengers injured, not a death
occurred from the accident.
Richard Barclay, residing at Church
Hill, Ohio, owner of General Garfield,
stated that he sold the trotting stallion
to w. S. Sly, of Cleveland, for $500,
conditioned that if the stallion shows
mile better than 2:20 the price shall be
doubled for every second the record falls.
Barclay claims the animal has trotted in
2:15, and will do so again.
AT West Union, Ohio, Miss Nora
Newman filled pan with corn meal and
playfully ran her hand through the con.
tents. She felt something on her finger,
and on drawing her hand out found a
fine gold ring, worth $40, encircling her
third finger. 1t is an elegant one, and
how it came in the meal is mystery.
During quarrel at White Pigeon,
Ind, Mrs. f. j. Brink fatally shot her
husband. Brink, in the course of the
quarrel had kicked her and held her in
a corner with his hand at her throat,
when she drew 44caliber revolver and
shot him through the throat, the ball
cutting the jugular.
old Hutch" the Chicago grain
broker, disappeared from his home sew
eral days ago so suddenly that great
alarm was felt for his safety, but he
turned up at Evansville, Ind, Friday, a
policeman taking him in. He was sub
sequently released on a telegram from
his son.
Mike Steiner, an Usage county mo
farmer, criminally assaulted his l3-year-
old step daughter and then beat her in a
fearful manner. He was arrested and
placed in Jail at Lynn, and mob was
organizing to lynch him.
Jacob M. Marsh, the oldest Demo
cratic voter in Indiana, died last week.
He was nearly SO years old, always voted
an unscratched Democratic ticket, and
never missed an election in his life.
Isaac Smith, murderer in the an
mex of the Ohio penitentiary under sem
tence of death, and who has been re-
prieved several times, was last week COM
muted to imprisonment for life.
Charles Lee Merrill, an inventor,
died at indianapolis, Ind, last week,
aged Sc. He labored thirty years on a
reciprocating veneer and box machine
before he made it a success.
In addition to the human beings
who have been victims to the grip all
over the country, the epidemic has at
tackled horses and many have died from
its effects.
The first official act of the newly
elected mayor of Chicago, Washburne,
was to order that all of the gambling
houses in the city be closed.
John J. Hooker fatally shot John b.
Derreseaux at Pine Bluff Ark, in
quarrel which began in the fencing up
of piece of land.
-Four highwaymen were arrested at
Antonio, New Mexico, charged with
robbing the mail carrier near Santa Fe,
on April %.
Albert II. Bolin, an insane prisoner
in the Newark (Ohio) Jail, tried to hang
himself with rope made of his clothing,
but failed.
The cornerstone of the San Fran
cisco Presbyterian theological seminary
was laid last week with appropriate cere-
monies.
Ed Davis, employed in the Kansas
City (Mo.) Creamery, was killed Friday
while putting carbons in an electric
light.
An explosion in dynamite factory
near Rome, Italy, killed five persons and
severely injured fifty others.
Cotton oil mills of Arkansas have
formed combination with a capital of
100000.
Authorities at Danville, ILL.,, have
arrested 26 men charged with chicken
stealing.
A Never Failing Remedy.
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