The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-05-08
STATE SUNSHINE AND SHADOW.

The Clark county fair offers 81, 500 in
premiums and purses this year.
For a murder committed in Virginia,
John Stevens was arrested at Irvine.
FARMERS in many counties are buying
corn for feeding at rs cents bushel.
ID. E. EDMIsToN has now no opposition
for Representative in Lincoln county
McCRACKEN county is erecting fire.
proof vault for the protection of its rec
ords.
BONDS to the amount of $685. will
be issued to complete Paducah's new
hotel.
GEO. AvANT, charged with the murder
of his wife, is OH trial at Clarksville,
Tenn.
DURING the month of April over 400
women were arrested in the city of Lou
isville.
Hon. A. ID. JAMES, of Muhlenberg,
declines to become a candidate for Rep
resentative.
RHEUMATISM of the heart caused Mrs.
Patrick o. Gurren, aged 60, to drop dead
at Maysville.
The Chief of Police of Louisville warns
the people of that city to be on the look
out for thieves.
JOSEPH B. TREsLER, grocer of Mays
vile, has assigned. Liabilities, 81, 200 /;
assets not stated.
DAVID SHELBY, colored, wanted in
Vicksburg, Miss, for an old murder, was
arrested at Paducah last week.
NICK GUENTHER, of Hartford, was
drowned in Kootanie river, Indiana,
while on business visit to that State.
THE outlook for wheat is better in this
State than for several years past, and the
same can be said for fruits of all kinds.
THE Masonic hall and school house at
Reynoldsville, Bath county, were des-
troyed by fire. Loss, 81, 500; uninsured.
THE trial of Sam Harrison, for the
murder of City Marshal Ed Thompson,
began at Hardinsburg Thursday OF this
week.
HOMER CAMPBELL, wanted in Gin
ton, Tenn, for the murder of Averill
Mcdonald, was arrested last week at
Winchester.
THE receipts of the Lexington street
railway have doubled since the electric
lines were put in, and are estimated at
1926 day.
w. S. BLACKWELL, who murdered
Burnie Bodard, at Clay City Sunday,
April 26, has been captured in Piatt
county, Ill.
IT is currently reported that the Amer
lean Tobacco company, the gigantic trust
owning all the big cigarette factories in
the East, is after the Louisville plug to-
bacco houses.
THE nine.year old son of Bob Closkey,
was playing near the K. @. railroad
track at Paris when the yard engine
came along. The suction drew him I'M
der and one leg was cut off
JOHN G. DRoEG, the candidate for the
Legislature from the First Covington
district. said he had $4,000 put up to win
the nomination Saturday over Hon. Har-
vey Movers, and that his friends had
$4,000 more.
JOHN CARROLL, a white man, has
been sentenced at Mayfeld to life i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary for the
murder of negro in 1889. Carroll has
recently been discharged as cured from
the Western Kentucky insane asylum.
A GIRL baby was left at the front gate
of Sam +. Martin, wealthy farmer liv-
ing a mile east of Millersburg, Friday
night. A note attached read: "Her
name is Eva. She was born on the 28th 4;
take good care of her. She will be heir
to $500 in year." The child was sent
TO the county farm.
JOHN f. STETsoN, soldier belonging
to the Fifth U. s. Infantry, and station
ed at San Francisco, has fallen heir TO
$4,000 by the death of Thomas Mer-
chant, of Woonsocket, r. l., an uncle
whom Stetson has never seen. Stetson
is about thirty years of age, and native
of Maysville, Ky. At one time Stetson,
who is well educated, was in the employ