The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1892-09-13
GENERAL NEWS.

AT Biddle, Scott county, the little
daughter of S. b. White fell into
tub of hot water and was scalded to
| death.
Eighteen prisoners, among them
three condemned murderors, escaped
from the Chattanooga, Tenn, Jail
Wednesday night.
In the Democatic convention in the
Ninth district Hon. Thomas III. Payn-
ter was nominated for Congress
without opposition.
Miss Lora Reynolds, a young lady
Of Ohio county, mysteriously disap-
peared from Owensboro. Nothing
can be heard of her, and her friends
fear foul play.
Bullitt county is up in arms against
large black bear which, it is said,
has its abode in the knobs, whence it
raids farms carrying off sheep and
hogs.
Tuesday afternoon at st. Louis, G.
w. Lewis, printer, after attempting
to shoot his wife, sister-in-law and
baby, committed suicide by blowing
out his brains.
A fatal disease. similar to typhoid
fever, has attacked 40 people and has
killed seven within three days at the
little town of Breaksville, Monroe
County, Tenn.
Secretary Foster, of the State de-
partment, has received dispatch
from the Uuited States Consul at
Tampico, Mexico, denying the exis-
tence of any yellow fever there.
The first bale of cotton of the crop
of 1929 was received at Memphis
Thursday, the date being nineteen
days later than the latest received
during eleven years past.
AT Henderson, Harcy Hill, promi-
nent young man, shot his wife
through the head, probably fatally
wounded her, Hill was arrested
He claimes the shooting was acciden-
tai.
Merritt Hargcr, formerly of Gin
cinnati, was fatally shot at Denver,
Colorado, Tuesday morning by G. w.
Prosser who charged Harger with
being criminally intimate with his
(Prosser's) daughter.
Friends of o. G. Bowles, one of the
unsuccessful candidates for the Con-
gressional nomination in the Tenth
district, are bathing his wounds with
soothing "meution" for Governor
Courier-Journal.
Tuesday on the road between
Kcokuk and Burlington, Ia, Miss
Aimee f. Johnson, of Columbus, O.,
who was riding on safety bycicle,
was run down by a farmer who
drove over her wheel and completely
wrecked it.
The substitute for the Stephenson
Bill passed the House at Frankfort,
on Wednesday. 1t provides that the
tax assessments for this year shall be
delayed two months in order to give
the Legislature time to frame a rev.
enue bill
The official count of votes in the
Ninth Judicial district primary was
made at West Point. Judge I. r.
McBerth, of Leitchfield, was declared
the nominee for Judge by majority
of SO, and w. S. Chief of Elizabeth
town, was the nominee for Common
wealth's Attorney, has plurality being
40.
. A number Of people in Carter and
Lewis county have been swindled by
man VINO pfetends 10 De selling an
encyclopaedia and collects small sums
in advance from purchasers. One
man who had given up 50 became sus-
picious and on investigation found
that the man was fraud. He got
his money back, after which the
swindler escaped.
Q In the Circuit Court at Georgetown
: Milt Kendall, Jr., charged with kill
ing John Jarvis, was acquitted.
Kendall was one of the principals in
the fight of August, 1891, between
the Jarvis brothers and old man Ken
dali and his four sons, in which John
Jarvis and G. j. Montgomery were
killed. 'Boots" Kendall, who escap-