The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-10-30
", KY, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 80, 1891.
STATE SUNSHINE AND SHADOW.

-Maude Cough, little girl Of Hen
derson, was fatally burned by striking a
match upon her dress.
Bell county has seventy lawyers.
There were nearly 1900 cases ON the
docket of the last Circuit court.
Citizens of Dixon, Webster county,
have warned all sellers Of whisky to leave
the town, and most of them have left.
The postmaster at Henderson has
been notified that the free delivery sys-
TEN will go into effect there November |.
In the Richmond Circuit court VIM.
Wilder was sent to the penitentiary for
six years for the murder of Daniel War
mouth.
A fight took place at Middlesborough
between George Woodruff and William
King, in which the latter was fatally
stabbed.
David Evans, while walking along
the road short distance from his home,
near Farmers, was shot from ambush and
seriously, If not fatally, wounded.
The average cost of the children in
the Masonic Home at Louisville is
$ll4.09 annually. The institution has
an endowment fund of Sic, 262.94.
Edward Barrow, a well known mar
ried drummer of Louisville, was publicly
cowhided in Armory, Miss, by woman
who claimed that he had insulted her.
The Richmond Waterworks compa.
ny have stocked their reservoir with
$500 young fish principally bass of vari-
Gus kinds, and in few years great fish.
ing is expected.
The law passed by the last legisla-
ture requiring the counties to pay $40 of
the $50 per annum allowed for each pau
per idiot is working large saving to the
State treasury,
Logan Murphy was taken to Mt.
Sterling Jail last week by J. w. Brown,
sheriff of Magoffin county, for safe keep
ing until January 8. 1892, the day set
for his execution.
Miss Fannie Robinson, of Pleasure.
vile, Henry county, has sued Luther q.
Stapleton, of Shelby county, for $40, 900
damages for breach of promise. She is
rs years of age, and he is so.
The grand jury of Mason county has
found five indictments against the Mays
vile Fair association and four against
the Germantown Fair association, one for
each day of the respective fairs, for allow
ing gambling on the grounds.
"A young man named Fitch commit
ted suicide by shooting himself at his
home in Lewis county. The sad affair
so preyed upon the mind of his mother,
Mrs. VIM. Fitch, that she became insane
and has been taken to an asylum.
Near Sebree, Christian county, a
gambling house was raided by white caps,
and three women and three men taken
out and beaten severely, after which
they were told TO travel. Notices were
then posted warning others to leave or
share the same fate.
The Court of Appeals recently de-
cided the case of the Commonwealth VS..
II. T., Scowden, charged with false swear
ing, and affirmed the decision of the
lower court. Scowden was indicted for
having sworn falsely while testifying be-
fore the grand jury in the celebrated
Louisville granite cases. The indictment
was thrown out on a decision of Judge
Jackson, of Louisville, who held that
the proceedings of grand jury room
were secret, and that a grand juror could
not testify against witness who swore
falsely in the grand jury room. From
this decision the Commonwealth appeal.
ed. The present decision affirms Judge
jackson and liberates Scowden from
prosecution. II was read by Justice
Holt.
The following would indicate that
there is still hope for the paralyzed.
Frank Cornelius, Purcell, Indian Ter,
saws: 81 induced Mr.. Pinson, whose wife
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