The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1892-08-26

November.
HENRY HARGRAvE, newspaper car
rier, was drowned in the river at Louis
Vile
THE Richmond Fair Co. cleared about
81 600 on their late meeting
JONI c. BUTLER, while blowing on
his farm near Point Pleasant, was bit
ten by a rattlcsnakc.
THOMAS YoUNG, who murdered his
wife last March at Owensboro. for what
he considered indiscreet conduc with
other men, has been sentenced to ninety
nine years in the pcnitentiary.
Ar Oakford a democratic club has
been organized.
Ar Greensboro, Albert Parker, a
young Negro, was arrested for robbing
bank.
WM. WAIKER, aged S, was kicked by
a horse at Hopkinsville, and his skull
crushed.
A c. & o. FREIGHT train was derailed
at Winchester by the tracks spreading.
-Four cars were wrecked.
j. L. HAYS, prominent citizen of
Whitcsidc, fell on the street As a result
Of heart disease.
THE switchmen Of all the roads enter
ing Louisville hut two have asked for
an increase Of wages. 1t is thought the
points at issue will be settled, however,
without strike.
JAMES liANDEB, farmer and tobacco
dealer living about fourteen miles west
of Cadiz, lost his tobacco factory by fire
between Il and l o'clock the other
night. The loss is about 81 200; insured
for $500. The fire is supposed to have
been the work of an incendiary.
Fig HTEEN out of thirty-fvc apple
cants for teachers certificates in Ohio
county failed to pass the examination,
and only three secured first.class certif-
Gates.
A FRACTIONAL fight in Lyons county
between the Payncs and Ilines-Thie-
mans, resulted in the death of two men.
ARTHUR NORRIS, a l4-year-old boy,
living at Ensor, was thrown from
mule and had his jaw fractured in two
places.
AT Deanfe!d, Steve Moore and
Thomas Mastin quarrcled over game
of craps Moore's face was terribly
bitten by Mastn.
As THE result Of bad feeling between
Stroude and Williams, two farmers, of
Dover, Williams was shot in the back
four times and killed instantly.
SOME colored employees were sitting
out in the capitol yard, Frankfort, the
other night, when a large, fine 'possum,
taking them to be harmless members of
the general assembly, came up To inves-
tigate and was captured. lie is now in
a barrel fattcning and awaiting the
first frost.
LEXINGTON has nearly five miles of
brick street
A NUMBER OF horses have been stolen
in the vicinity of Hopkinsville, lately,
the latest victim being Peyton Had
dock, q wealthy farmer, whose horse
was taken while he was at church at
Concord.
THE body Of an unknown man was
found buried four feet under the sand
In the canal at Louisville.
NINE men were more or less done up
in fight at barbecue at Paducah. \
girl was the cause.
TACK JACKSON and Ed Murray, COLI
orcd. engaged in quarrel at Pleasant
Ridge, during which jackson was Seri-
ously shot by Murray's father
BURGLARS effected an entrance into
the ticket Office of the +. l.. and H. ;.
depot at Mt Sterling, broke open tho
cash drawer and secured the contents,
t5s There is no clew to the thieves
Ar DYER and Lee Summers got into
fight at barbecue near Paducah and
both men were seriously injured with
knife wounds
\ PRorRACrED meeting AZ Bethlehem
church, near Winchester, conducted by
Elders McGarvcy and Spencer, closed
with 81 additions
Tnr Danyilc Democrat says that tho
ruts about that town are equally as eff
fectivc rs Chinese wall for sitting
enterprises of all kinds.
AMoNG the recent appointments ot
cadets 10 West Point il that of ChaS. A.
Pitman, Of Mt Sterling, with Clarence
Il. Day, of Bcattyyille, as alternate.
Hartford is troubled with fire
bug.
4 FouRrH-CLAss post office has been
established at Lost Fork, Whitley
county, and John HI. stephens APP
pointed postmaster.
REV RICHARD DEERING, Of Louisville,
and the oldest preacher in the Ken
lucky conference of the hcthodist
Episcopal church, south, died the other
morning ut Chattanooga, where I've had
gone on visit 20 his grandchildren