The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-09-11
OVER THE WORLD IN A WEEK.

-Four persons who had taken refuge
from n storm in a cotton shed near Mag
nolia, Ark, were killed by lightning.
-Dalles, Ore, had fire last week
which destroyed eighteen business blocks,
three churches and upwards of 500 resi-
dences.
Near Grand Rapids. Mich, Mrs.
Lavender was tarred and feathered by
the wives of two men with whom she
had been too intimate.
A telephone line has been establish.
ed between London, Eng, and Paris,
France, distance of $50 miles. The
charges are 81 per minute for its use.
In the Choctaw District Court,
Jackson Fletcher full-fedged Choctaw,
has been sentenced to be shot on Septem-
Der 30. He killed another Choctaw last
winter.
During 1890 there were built in the
United States $500 churches; ministers
to the number of 1900 were ordained;
and membership, in all denominations,
l 100000.
AT Burton Station, ten miles from
Chardon, Ohio, in q row among Fins,
Isaac Mackey was stabbed in the should
er and in the left side two inches above
the heart. He can not live.
AT Maybee Station, near Monroe,
Mich, farmer and his wife were tortur-
ed and murdered by two tramps, bent
upon robbery. A posse found the muir.
derers and shot them to death.
The oldest jockey on the turf, and
still one of the best of them, is William
who rode Breakness in the ia
nous dead heat race for the Saratoga
cup 1875. He lives at Eatontown, n. J.
AS an evidence of the independence
If American girls it is reported that
within the last six months one hundred
md fifty young women have taken up
timber claims in the state of Washing
on.
The Senate of Georgia last week
passed the House bill disqualifying ply.
icians addicted to drink from the prac.
ice of their profession. 1t will be sign
d by Governor Northen as soon as it is
-Fifty-two well-to-do colored men,
Inder tie leadership of r. H. Waterford,
f Memphis, Tenn, left for Oklahoma,
where they will await the opening of the
indian lands, which will take effect on
september Is.
A double murder was discovered in |
Bloomfield, Conn, when the bodies of
ierman farmer and his wife were found
n well. 1t is supposed that they were
illed by Italian laborers, who have been
mployed in the vicinity of their home.
The champion absent-minded man
as been discovered in northern Connec-
cut in one George Bump, who headed
p barrel while his son held up the
cad from the inside and who then went
fl and left the child to nearly suffocate.
Near st. Louis, Edward Baker died,
pparently in destitute circumstances.
lis relatives in clearing up the house
iscovered an old trunk containing ST.
O0. The deceased left widow and three
hildren, none of whom suspected his
aving the money.
Dispatches from all parts of the cot
IN belt show that cold weather and
orms in Texas and the Mississippi Val
y States and excessive rains in the
Dutheastern States have been disastrous
} the cotton crop. The loss is placed
! the way from 10 TO 80 per cent.
The Executive Committee of the
ort Worth convention, through Chair
AN Hall, has called "A national conven
on of Alliance Industrial Unions, farm.
= and laborers of the United States, 10
eet in ~. Louis, September II. This
Idy opposes the subtreasury scheme, ,
nd the object of the proposed meeting
90 'emancipate the Alliance from the
'ntrol of scheming politicians and de-
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