The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-03-27
STATE SUNSHINE AND SHADOW.

THE Farmers Alliance of the Ninth
Congressional district met at Vanceburg
last week and organized District Union
with j. $. Ball, of Fleming, President;
VIM. Luttrell, of Mason, Vice President,
and J. S. Moritz, of Lewis, as Secretary.
The action of the State Democratic EX-
ecutive Committee in calling mass meet
ings in the various counties, instead of
precinct meetings, to select delegates to
the coming State Convention, was de-
nounced. Resolutions were also adopted
demanding that the rolling stock of rail-
roads be made subject to execution for
damages for stock killed, and that the
State establish uniform system of text
books for schools, and furnish same at
cost. The members pledged themselves
to vote for no candidate for the Legisla-
ture who does not favor the demands of
the Alliance.
NEAR Cornishville, Mercer county,
Saturday afternoon, William Shines and
Al Woods, two lads, were hunting, Shines
asked his companion to lend him his
pipe, and Woods passed it to him, first
filling it with powder, over which few
crumbs of tobacco had been sprinkled.
After taking Whit or two at the pipe
the powder exploded, entirely binding
Shines in the left optic, besides seriously
impairing the vision of the right eye.
A LITTLE fve-year.old daughter of
John Nance, colored, lives with an aunt
near Fairview, Christian county, by
whom she was cruelty beaten one even
ing last week, and then turned out and
left in the bitter cold all night. When
found next morning the child was in a
dying condition. Her face, feet and
hands were frost-bitten, and her body
terribly SCARED from being whipped.
THE Duhmes, of Cincinnati, have pur-
chased 200 acres of beautiful blue grass
land just outside of Lexington, adjoining
the Cassius Goodloe farm, and is one of
the most beautiful locations in the State
for breeding farm. The Duhme outfit
at WOodlawn, near Glendale, Ohio, will |
be moved to the new farm and will be
further improved.
SENATOR CARLISLE was summoned on |
Friday last as a witness in the Kincaid |
murder trial at Washington. The At
torney General, however, notified Mr.
Carlisle that he would not be needed ex-
cept in rebuttal.
GEO. ROBERTS, who was recently killed
on the Kentucky Central railroad at
Covington, had only been in the employ
of the company about thirty minutes
when he met his death.
MATILDA CoYCE, a colored woman of
said to be 100 years old,
was run over by a freight train, receiving
injuries that will prove fatal. One leg
was cut off.
f. w. MERRITT, of Hopkinsvile, sued
for $4,000 for breach of promise by In
1ia Hays, has compromised by paying
$500 and an agreement to support the
child.
JOHN WIGGINToN, SR., implicated in
the Ferguson-Watts poisoning, was cap
Iured in Menefee county last week, and
safely lodged in Mt. Sterling Jail.
Ar Louisville, Theo. Schwartz & Co.,
private bankers, failed last week for
100000. The assignment carries to the
wall the Union Tobacco works.
A NEW trial was refused Evan Shelby
u Paducah, convicted of numbering and
robbing Mrs. Sallie Moore four years
since, and he goes up for life.
The post Office at Paris was burglar
zed one night last week, and money and
,ash and stamps amounting to between
500 and $500 taken.
NANCY SMELLING, of Montgomery |
county, sold $500 worth of household eff.
ects and eloped with Charles Stevison,
/ farm laborer.
Hon. JOHN w. WARRINGToN, of Gin
,innati, has been admitted to practice as
IN attorney before the Court of Appeals ,
# Kentucky.
JOHN BLEW has just been sent to the
Frankfort Pen TO serve a life sentence