The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-06-03
CURRENT News AND COMMENT.

CURRENT NEWS AND COMMENT.
THE Mississippi now is cutting chan
mel through the Arkansas bottoms oppo.
site Memphis, and threatens to leave the
city high and dry with a mile or more
Of sandbar between town and stream.
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THE Cleveland boom continues to
grow, and II is now intimated that David
Bennett Hill may withdraw. Suppose,
for the sake of harmony, that both Hill
and Cleveland withdraw and leave the
field 10 Carlisle.
some idea of the damage sustained by
floods in Louisiana, Arkansas, Illinois,
Missouri, Iowa and Kansas, may be gain.
ed from the estimate recently telegraph
ed Bradstreet's agency, which places the
loss at 49,, 100000.
A CYCLONE struck the town of Wei.
lington, Kansas, on Friday night of last
week and nearly one hundred persons
were either killed or severely injured,
while the property damage reaches into
thousands upon thousands of dollars.
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SENATOR QUAY, of Pennsylvania, said
in an interview last week, II think 700
delegates will present the name of James
q. Blaine to the Republican convention,
at Minneapolis, on June 7th," and Sena-
tor Quay Is certainly on the inside when
1t comes to pointers In Republican poll,
tics.
The Hebrew organization of Western
Pennsylvania has Information that Baron
Hirsch's scheme for the colonization of
Russian refugees in the Argentine Re
public Is gigantic failure, and that the
refugees are heading for the United
states, "the land of the free and the
home of the brave"
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LOUISVILLE was Saturday night again
the scene OF a murder, and, rs usual, a
!. woman was at the bottom of il, and
she an exceedingly frail and false female
at that. In Carrie Martins gilded pal
ace OF sin Billy Boiling shot to death
Harry Dent for alternating the woman's
affection from himself.
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COL JOHN P. SALYER got there, and
was elected one of the delegates to Chi.
cago from this district, upon which we
hasten to congratulate him. But while
we are proud Of his preferment, we are
also panied that he is so ardently anti.
Cleveland. Whoop 'em up for Carlisle,
John, and all may yet be we'll with us.
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AND Jim Clarkson, erswhile headsman
In the post-office department ut Washing.
ton, is for Blaine for President. Verify,
1t seems that Benny is being badly dealt
with by his former henchmen, and he
doubtless now realizes that there is much
truth In the saying, "if you warm a
snake into life il will turn upon and
bite YOU"
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Boss REED Is forninst the present adj.
ministration and recently remarked TO n
reporter: IL am in favor of any Repub-
lican who can beat Harrison for the nom.
ination. Why is Tom 30 csntankerous
that he is ready to jump on Harrison and
his followers with both feetY Did Ben.
ny fail to reward him for his "rulings "
in Congress-
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ADoLPH VoGHT, a German, recently
committed suicide in Cincinnati because
he was told to hunt another boarding
house, and 1t now transpires that he was
heir to an estate of $4,000 in Germany.
Some people are altogether too hasty.
Mr., Voght, only for this, might today be
the jolly landlord of boarding house
of his own
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DURING the boom days Middlesbor.
ough started out on metropolitan princi.
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