The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-06-05
STATE SUNSHINE AND SHADOW.


indicted for having three living wives.
THE body of Caleb Waldron, who was
drowned at Maysville recently, was re-
covered at Charleston Bar.
DURING a thunder storm at Louisa
last week, John Mills, aged IS, was struck
by lightning and instantly killed.
JAMES NJ. LAYTON, a prominent trad
er of Lancaster, died of heart disease at
the age of 6S. He leaves two sons and
a daughter.
JOHN MARDIN, prominent citizen Of
Hartford, committed suicide by taking
morphine. A reverse in lawsuit is sup
posed to have been the cause.
THE monument to the late Gov. Luke
p. Blackburn was unveiled at Frankfort
last week. General Basil Duke, Judge
Beckner and others made addresses.
AT the second annual commencement
of the Winchester Female college, the
graduates were Misses Name Hunt, Eva
Talbot, Eva Donaldson and Kate Price.
AT Hopkinsville the libel suit of c. G..
Christian, of Todd county, against the
Louisville Courier-Journal company, re-
suited in a verdict giving Christian $1,000
damages.
BILL CARPENTER, who fatally knitted
Jack Tracy at Camp Nelson, gave himself
up at Nicholasville. He appeared to be
justifable, and was released on his own
recognizance.
CANOR ROBERTS, charged with the
murder of Joel Parks at Lowell, is under
arrest at Lancaster. Parks was killed
while attempting to arrest Dan Roberts
for grand larceny.
THE Cumberland Presbyterian General
Assembly, which has been in session at
Greensboro, adjourned last Thursday, and
decided to meet next year at Gainesville,
Texas, on the third Thursday In May.
THE old family residence of George
Lyme, situated one mile north of Nicho-
lasville, with its contents, was destroyed
by fire last week, supposed to have caught
from sparks from passing c. S. train.
THE Board of Directors of the schools
Of Winchester have elected Prof. A. G..
Fleshman, of Indiana, as principal, and
Misses Alice Ramsey, Fannie Grigsby,
Mary Clancy and Nora Wilkerson as
assistants.
AT Paducah recently, Charles Hong,
the celestial proprietor of laundry, and
Miss Lula Mathis, young white woman
of good repute and attractive face, were
united in marriage by Justice. The
wedding followed a clandestine court
ship.
AN attempt to burn the toll-gate on
the Hopkinsville and GAINESVILLE turn
pike was made one night last week.
Combustibles saturated in coal oil were
piled around the building and set fire to.
1t was with difficulty that the flames
were extinguished. 1t was the work of
incendiaries.
SOLOMON SPRATT, who lives a few
miles east of Owingsville, went to work
in his cornfeld the other day and hung
up his vast, pocket of which contained
$500 of the old mans hard-earned saw
ings. At noon, when he went to put on
his vest to go to dinner, he found the
pockets turned wrong side out and his
money gone. No clew to the thief.
ONE day last week Deputy Jailer Joel
Parke, of Madison county, went to Gar
rard county to serve warrant on man
named Roberts for stealing. Roberts
started to run. Parke shot at him, and
a brother of Roberts came out and shot
Parke. Roberts got behind a tree, and
Parke fired five shots into the tree. At
midnight Parke died.
In the United States court, at COving-
ton, Ike Crockett was sentenced 10 one
year in the penitentiary. He is the man
who for the past two years has been
swearing before United States Commits
sioners that certain parties sold whisky
without a license. When he appeared
in court he would swear just directly the
opposite, and the grand jury indicted
him with the above result.
BUFoRD HORN, of High Bridge, and
Miss Martha Wrinkle, of the same place,
were married at Nicholasvine last week.
Along with the Horn Wrinkle wedding