The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1891-05-08
KENTUCKY STATE NEWS
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McCRAcKEN county Is erecting fire.
proof vault for the protection of Its
records
ALBERT HoMMEL, travelling through
central Kentucky, for Curry, Tunis &:
Norwood, Lexington grocers, was seri-
ously kicked by horse during q run
away, near Danville.
The department headquarters @. A.
r., heretofore located in Louisville,
will, for the next year, be at Fearis,
Lewis county, the home OF the new
commander, S. @. Hills.
CAPT. GEORGE w. BRUCE, ST., a pi-
onecr OF Lewis, IN trimming corn on
one of his toes, a few weeks ago, cut
too deep. Blood-poisoning set in in the
course Of time, and his physicians were
finally compelled TO amputate his leg al
the knee. The operation proved fatal.
The receipts Of the Lexingtou street
I Inn; I;,sssSa 80 y 3; 3HllSS s;2es shs 49,
s22s day.
CHICKEN EATER" JACKSON and big
Bulldog Crabtree, two desperadoes Of
the Cumberland mountain region of
Kentucky, came together, and both are
dead, one shot through the heart nd
the other through the brain.
AT Paris Frank Closky, nine-year-old
son of Robert Closly, fell under car,
the other afternoon, and had his right
leg crushed 1t will have TO be ampu'
tated
JOHN p. STETsoN, q soldier belonging
TO the Fifth infantry, and stationed at
the Preside, San Francisco, has fallen
heir to $50, 900 by the death Of Thomas
Merchant of Woonsocket, r. l., an
uncle whom Stetson has never even
see>. Stetson is about thirty years OF
age, and a native of Maysville, this
state
JOHN CARROLL, . white man, has
been sentenced at Mayfield to life i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary for the
murder OF a negro in 1889. Carroll has
recently been discharged as cured from
the Western Kentucky insane asylum.
w. b. SNooKs, the bridegroom Of the
Louisville wedding. where several per-
sons were poisoned at the feast, died at
the Burnet House, Cincinnati Coroner
Bange has ordered post nortem.
AT Frankfort Robert Dawson was
caught and whirled around with a re-
volving shaft and dashed to pieces One
arm and both feet were torn off.
JONATHAN WooLFoRD shot and killed
Frank Francis near Pikeville. The
murderer's brother was engaged in a
fight with man FAMED Phillips. Fran.
els, who was friend of Phillips, inter
fered in the latter's behalf. and Wool
ford's brother shot him.
MAYFIELD had SIS, 900 fire.
FRANKFORT on the Goth, was in gala
attire, to do honor to the veterans OF
the late war. The delegates began ar
irving the evening before, and flags,
bunting and G. A. K. emblems became
the order OF the day on the streets.
Nearly all the business houses were
decorated and many private ones. The
! headquarters of the department were
established at the Capital hotel, where
| all arrivals were escorted from the dc
! pot Upon the arrival of the morning
trains from Lexington and Louisville
the delegates, one hundred and fifty
strong including many colored veter-
ans formed into procession and parad-
ed the streets, headed by the Frankfort
cornet band, after which the depart
ment held its business meeting at the
opera house. Following is list of the
officers elected: :. q. Hills, command
err; T. +. Livezey, vice-commander; AL
bert Scott, Junior vice-commander; DIR.
Porter (colored). medical director; Rev.
Thos Woods, chaplain.
BRACKEN county is about TO hold a
primary election for the first time under
law passed by the last legislature,
and applying TO the counties of Braclsen,
Kenton, Harrison, Bourbon and Camp
bell, extending to primary elections in
those counties all the provisions of the
laws against bribery and illegal voting
as applicable to regular elections. The
experiment will be watched with in
tcrcst The act is 4 very strict one. IL
provides: That IL shall be I'M
lawful for any one to vote at q
primary election who would not,
at the time of voting, be legal voter,
under the constitution and laws of the
state, for which the nomination is being
made, as IL the regular election was be-
ing held on that day; and in addition
thereto, he must possess the qualitica-
tions prescribed by the authority OF
those who called or ordered the primary
election to be held in the call thereof;
and any one violating the provisions of
this section, shall DC deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction,
fined sum not less than twenty-five
Ill aNnnnlinpr hnnlrAA dbl
lars"
A TERRIFIC storm passed over beda,
Ohio county, the other night The resi-
dence Of Henry Stuart, near that place,
was blown down, but no one was in
jured. The dwelling Of Matthew Bow
ers, seven miles from there, was demol-
ished, and two children received injuries
from falling timber which will prove
fatal Several barns near Beda were
destroyed and many unroofed. A great
deal Of damage was done to timber.
RICHARD p. HOARD, q prominent citi-
zen of Christian county, died suddenly
at his home near Fruit Hill, the other
evening, after brief illness OF pneu-
monia, aged fifty-five years.
BUTLER county is agitating the organ
ization of fair company.
THE famous Jones county calf case, "
which recently went off the docket Of a
western court long after the object of
litigation had rounded out the fullness
Of bovine life and died, has counter
part in the Walden VS.. Haycroft rye
case at Greensboro The Messenger
says il started several years ago over
eight dollars worth of rye, and the
costs now amount to hundreds of dol
lars, and no end in sight
Mr. WILLIAM TERRY, the fifth victim
of the poisoned wedding feast, at Lynn
don Station, died shortly after noon the
other day. lie had been lingering all
, the morning, suffering greatly from
convulsiohs and vomiting.
ARTHUR HADEN. desperate criminal,
and Tom Rhea, his negro accomplice in
crime, escaped from the Bowling Green
Jail, the other morning In n few hours
the negro was captured and returned 10
Jail, but Haden, at last report, was still
at large,
GEORGE LEE struck win Taylor in
the head with a stone, the other night
at Louisville, and killed him. Both
are coiored They quarreled over a