The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1891-10-02
KENTUCKY STATE NEWS

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claimed by the plaintiff, one John
.ouer. of Nebraska, under nm old pat
emit
CONTRACTS have been let for building
the first five miles Of the extension OF
the Ohio Valley railroad bstweon
Princeton and Hopkinsville.
THE constitutional convention pro-
vided that the new constitution shall 60
into effect Immediately upon the adj
journment of the convention
| The strike of the miners employed in
the mines at Providence ended a few
days ego. the operators having accorded
TO the demands of the strikers to use
the standard screen. Work In the
mines has been resumed
THE president has appointed Charles
W. Erimsn. of Kentucky, TO be United
States consul at Stockholm.
SmPsoS Bush. for the murder OF his
wife in Clay City. on June %, 1890, was
tried in the Powell circGit court snd
the the. jury; .sssS We Z! sJs s,.nsy !: e
murder in the first degree and. 1ksd p
punishment at death. Bush is twenty
four years old, and was raised in Wolf
county
The constitutional convention has
cut off the governor from any right of
reelection under the new formation Of
q political society. Mayors of cities,
sheriffs of counties and all other Of
ficers, state, county and municipal, are
expressly declared eligible for re-elec-
tion under the new order, even the
treasurer OF the state, by an express
provision, being given full new term,
with three months added without sub
mission TO the popular vote; but the
governor is cut off with three months,
or a sixteenth of a term, declared afte-
that He will hold under the old con-
stitution until August, 1895, and under
the new until November, 1895, and
then he must retire, the only citizen of
the state who can not be chosen for the
executive Office by the terms Of the
new organic act.
AT Stanford, Joe Henry and Frank
Barton, aged respectfully 10 and IL,
quarreled on their way to church over
an empty bottle from which they had
drank the whisky, and Barton plunged
his knife up TO the handle in Henry 3
side, producing a fatal wound. Both
belong to well-known families.
OwENsBoRo poker rooms have been
closed by the police.
FoURTH'cLass postmasters appointed
the other day for Kentucky: l. o. Dye,
Middleb burg, Casey county, vice p Will
son, resigned; 5. +. Sparks, Patsey,
Estell county, vice j. s. Sparks, resign
ed.
A TERRIBLE domestic tragedy is re-
ported from Lewis county, near Quincy,
on the Chesapeake and Ohio road.
Thomas Carr, farmer, cut the Threats
of his wife, his sister-in.law, his moth
er-in-law and himself Carr and his
sister-in-law died instantly, but the
other two, at last report, were still
alive, though desperately wounded.
Carr had quarreled with his wife, girl
of seventeen years.
A $50. 900 FIRE occurred at Sharps-
burg, twelve miles north of Mt Ster-
ling. w. II. Ratliff &c Sons grocery,
post Office building and residence of
Mrs Wood, postmistress, Joe II. Sharp's
drug store, Hays A. Vices livery stable
and Mrs. Henry's residence were all
destroyed. The fire originated in Rat
lift and Sons store. Cause not known.
Insurance small
The race between Allerton and
Nancy Hanks, the king and queen Of
the trotting turf, at the Lexington
meeting. October l2 to II. is now a GER
tainty, both Williams and Doble having
accepted the associations offer of eS.-
900, all TO first horse The contest will
cause more excitement than any race
ever trotted in kentucky, if not in
America, and will be trotted either Oc-
tober 10 or IA.
SOME of the young men OF Versailles
are strongly agitating the organization
of military company to be known as
the Versailles Home Guards"
Mrs SARAH TALBOT died near Clin-
tonvillc, Bourbon county, the other
morning, aged ninety years She lived
all her life and died within five miles
brothers and sisters all lived to up
wards of eighty-tive years old.
A POST OFFICE has been established
at Eliza, Breckenridge county, and
John T. Moore appointed postmaster.
c. Il. MASON, a wealthy farmer living
near Hopl<insville, was fatally injured
by being thrown from his horse. His
head was crushed Paralysis set in,
and he lived but few hours
GEORGE T. CLARK has been appointed
United States storekeeper at Lexing.
ton.
SIMPSON county is hereafter to have
an annual fair.
BOWLING GREENS young men are get |
ting up a social club.
DR.. w, T. GALBREATH, of Lexington,
has been offered $50 900 for his two |
year-old colt Ralph Wilkes, who trotted |
a mile the other day in 2;2iK,
THE new broadway Christian church |
at Lexington was dedicated few days |
ago with imposing ceremonies.
j. J. RIDER, of Hardin county, lost
about 1000 bushels of wheat by fire.
1t was ignited from the engine while
threshing
THE Elizabethtown canning factory
is putting up tomatoes at the rate OF
oVo buohOAS tay, ahu oSiiihs thSii ~
fast as they are put up.
THE Lyon county trouble over the
collection of railroad tax is about TO
break out afresh. All offers of com
promise have been withdrawn and an
attempt will be made TO collect the tax
by force
In the Christian circuit court Robert
Simms colored, charged with shooting
Joe West, of Hopkinsville with intent
to kill, was found guilty, and sentenced
to a term Of four years in the peniten'
tiary.
The Southern Kentucky fair begins
at Paducah. October a.
TnE farmers of Woodford seem TO be .
preparing for u larger acreage of wheat
than has been sown in many years.
DENNIS GLEASON, laborer, got drunk
at Lexington the other night and lay
across the track of the n. n. and NJ. V
railroad An engine struck him, cut
ting the right leg into sections. lie ra-
removed to the hospital, where his in
juries were attended to. lie will prob
ably die