The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-05-01
STATE SUNSHINE AND SHADOW.

VERSAILLES is soon to be lighted by
electricity.
THE people of Harrodsburg are to vote
on the proposition for water works for
that city.
THE Broadway Christian church at
Lexington will contain nine rooms, and
cost $4,000.
The grocery store of J. w. Smith, at
Owensboro, was destroyed by fire one
night last week.
H. T. HANFoRD, vice president of the
Louisville Board of Trade, died suddenly
of heart disease last Friday.
The Western Union telegraph Office at
Maysville was burglarized twice within
the past two weeks. No clew.
w. r. RADFoRD, postmaster at Long
view, has held that position continuously
since 1S47, period of A years.
AT Ashland the stock house of the
North iron works was damaged to the
extent of $4,000 by fire last week
Ice will be furnished the city build
ings of Covington by the Champion Ice
company at 10 cents per 100 pounds.
The fish and game club, with head
quarters at Louisville. offers a reward of
$40 for any person caught dynamiting
fish.
DENNIS CROW has been given two
years in the penitentiary for holding up
Robert Breeze and robbing him of $l.45
at Maysville.
WHILE attempting to stop runaway
mule John w. Locknane, of Lexington,
was run over and fatally hurt, his skull
being crushed.
A SOCIETY to be known as the Mutual
Aid Society for the benefit of old maids,
has been organized by the young ladies
of Versailles.
JOSEPH BRYAN shot and fatally in.
iured Sam McRae, at HOpkinsville, the
result of a quarrel over a woman. All
parties are colored.
THE A. & NJ. college at Lexington
will receive S5 per cent. of the amount
appropriated by the Government for
Kentucky colleges.
H. P. MELVIN, aged 81, an officer of
the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Ma
sons, died at Maysville last week of
softening of the brain.
AT Maysville gang of six white boys,
ranging from 10 to Is years old, were
arrested last week for stealing from the
merchants of that city.
THos. CoLLIvER, of Nicholas county,
was found in Hinkston creek one even
ing last week. He had left his home
about noon to 60 fishing. He was
bachelor, II years of age.
WHILE cleaning pistol, young ID. E.
Kelly, of Lexington, accidentally dis
charged the weapon and received the
ball in his left side, inhicting a painful,
though not necessarily dangerous wound.
WHILE being taken to the Frankfort
penitentiary to serve life sentence for
killing Marshal Voglesong of Falmouth,
Archie Downward jumped from a moving
train and was seriously, but not fatally
injured. He was taken to the pen hos
pital.
A YOUNG man named Fields, theo-
logical student from Lexington, jumped
from the fast express on the Cincinnati
Southern railroad as it neared the George
town depot, and fell upon pile of rocks,
cutting his face terribly but not seriously
injuring him.
PETITIONS from Winchester and Paris
asking the Governor to pardon Hume
Clay, the forger, who swindled the banks
of those towns out of 100000, have been
under consideration for several days.
The Governor declines to interfere prior
to a judicial investigation.
AT Winchester, Colonel II. p. Thomp-
son made an assignment last week to
f. s. Jouett. Jr. Liabilities from $780,
900 to 100000; assets not known, but
large. Col. Thompson is one of the most
prominent men in the State, being
member of the Democratic State Central
Committee, and one of the largest to-
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