The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-10-23
HAZEL GREEN COUNTY,, Ky, FRIDAY OCTOBER 2s 1891
STATE SUNSHINE AND SHADOW.

role.
-Breckinridge county has just achicv-
ed its first three story house.
Near Gleanings, Larue county, Mary
Skaggs, aged ~, was burned TO death.
A crazy woman named Conner was
burned to death in her house near Waco.
Richmond can not find site for her
public building after it has been allowed
by Congress. #e
CLARK county has more mileage of
railroad in the State than any other in
proportion to it's area.
In the Circuit court at Glasgow Jas.
r. Stafford was given eight years in the
penitentiary for horse stealing.
DIR. S. NJ. Letcher, one of the best
known physicians in Central Kentucky,
died the other day at Richmond.
AT negro festival near sbelbyville,
the other day, Frank Ashby shot and
killed Jim Burley, both colored. Ashby
escaped.
While at work in saw mill in Scott
county, Tony Finn fell against NOV
ing saw and received serious, IL not fatal
injuries.
The Cumberland Coal company has
been incorporated TO develop 1888 acres
of coal land in Crittenden and Union
counties
Gov. Brown during the first month
of his administration pardoned l6 con-
victs, larger number than any preced'
ing Governor.
The Democrats Of Fayette county
have nominated Edward Frazier for
Sheriff and James c. Rogers for Clerk of
the Circuit court.
Mrs. A. v. Hall cut and hung over
one thousand sticks of tobacco and help
ed to house about six thousand sticks,
near Pleasureville.
"A fire started in the woods near
Grayson last week, and ragged furiously
for some time, burning fencing, hay and
timber TO the value of 5000.
There are perhaps forty cases of
diphtheria in Falmouth and vicinity, a
greater number of which are fortunately
of the milder type. Their school has been
compelled to "shut down."
w. B. Atkinson, an inventive genius
of Franklin, has lately completed the
model of an electrical signal by which
he claims railway collisions can be rem
derei absolute impossibilities.
David Fl. Black, one of the most
prominent citizens of Knox county, and
County Clerk for the past five years, died
one day last week, aged SS years. De-
ceased was Mason of high standing.
Maggie, eighteen.year-old daughter
of George Apologize, Bardstown, was
accidentally shot and killed. An old
musket. loaded with buckshot, fell to
the Hoor and was discharged, the con-
tents disemboweling the girl.
In Owen county, DIR. J. L. Massie,
a wealthy physician of Elmville, shot
down Jesse Hanover, who was unarmed
and walking along the public road. A
woman is said to he at the bottom Of the
affair that led to the assassination.
The Court Of Appeals has affirmed
the decision of the Green County court,
in assessing fine Of $500 against the l..
& N. railroad company for doing con-
struction work in that county on Sun
day. The court holds that, Ms no trains
were running, the work was not necessary
on that day.
"A fire at Mayfeld, the other day,
burned over nearly six acres of ground.
The Newport News and Mississippi Val
ley freight and passenger depots, the
Western tobacco company's warehouse
and 600 hogsheads Of tobacco and num-
Der of residences were destroyed. The
total loss is placed at 100000; insur-
ance light.
The shareholders Of the Middlesbor-
ough town company held a meeting in
London. England, recently, and voted
81 1850, 900 to continue the improvements
at Middlesborough. II Is thought that
there will be a change of management,
and that the designations OF President
A. A. Arthur and other officials had
been accepted, though there Is no definite