The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1892-11-18
KENTUCKY STATE NEWS.


cite county farm for which he paid s23.
800 cash. a few years ago he was
newsboy in Lexington, and later page
In the senate at 50 per day. He Is now
on the way TO riches, and all on account
Of his skill in guessing which horse viii
win.
GERTiE SToIL, of Augusta, hanged
herself with sheet in the lunatic asy'
lum at Lexington, where she was CON
fined.
ABE WILLIAMS and viii Watts, both
colored. are held at Lexington for the
murder of Jerry Downing.
THE official vote of Lewis Is as fol-
lows. Harrison electors, i,52o; Cleve-
land electors, l,Oi2; Weaver electors,
25l, Bidwell electors, A.. Judge Hollis
majority is sic.
ELLIOTT county gave the democratic
ticket G23 majority.
| ONE of the Cincinnati Southern loco
motives going south, carried a live game
rooster perched upon the tank OF tho
engine.
s'Gux AARREE" maple trees are being
'jsnSppslf firEn Richmond 70 Se~ ovleans.
WINCHESTER IS the sixth city IN the
state in number of registered voters
+. 7. RoBERTs, prominent druggist
of Oakland committed suicide by shcot'
| ing himself in the mouth. He leaves .
wife and no children.
THE precinct No. 4, Lincoln county.
voted eco ballots at the election The
polls closed at p. m. the result was
announced in front of the booth at 4:+l
p. m, and at $50 p. m. all reports were
in the hands of the county clerk, one
and one-half miles away.
THE Carter county criminal court
convened at Grayson. The docket 10
heavy, and long term is PROMISED.
Judge j. Il. Bolts was elected special
Judge, owing to the sickness Of Judge
J. NJ. Rice.
IN dispute over a game of cards, AZ
Frankfort, Sam Sanders shot Bee
Frazier in the shoulder, inHicting q
painful though not fatal wound. San
ders ran away, but returned and was
, held in $500 to answer to the grand
jury.
FRED MARTIN, a young man of Hen.
derson, committed suicide by taking
morphine. Martin was a tobacco twis.
ter in the Robards mandatory, and
leaves a young wife and one child. His
motive is uncertain. He made good
wages and had no family jars.
Mrs JULIA FURGrRsOy, of Gratz, was
accidentally shot in the face by her af-
, famed husband, John Hazlette.
THE republicans elected a sheriff in
Greenup county for the first time In
twenty years.
. Al WING, who killed his wife in q
bawdy house at Louisville, was captur-
. ed at New Orleans.
: REV. DR. JOSEPH J. BULLOCK, Of
a Washington. ID. c., a Presbyterian di-
/, vine, at one time chaplain of the United
!. States when breckenridge was vice.
president, died at Lexington.
7, Ar Mt. Zion while shocking corn,
: James Langdon and Pat Murphy quar-.
. relied over politics Langdon was stab
bed TO death.
ABE WILLIAMS and win Watts, two
, colored men, have been arrested on sus'
|. picion for the murder of James Down
, ing, at Lexington.
AT Harmon C. T. Southworth shot
, and killed Green Barr. An old feud has
existed between the parties.
The women of Louisville organized Q
, Woman's Columbian club, for the pur-
! pose OF furnishing parlor In the WON.
ans building at the Worlds fair
THE now famous No. Q revenue bill
became n law the other day without
. the signature of the governor. This
, fact will be Endorsed upon the docu-
| ment, which, as a law, goes into effect
at once. The blanks printed in accord.
ance with 1t are already in the hands Of
the assessors
SHERIFF JESSE DAVIS, of Carter coun.
~, has made his annual settlement with
the state in full for 1899, turning
t7,0l4.9o into the state treasury
PIKEvILLE is 10 have the best court.
house in eastern Kentucky.
Mrs. PENELOPE MCGUIRE, of Mt Eber.
born in l772, is dead. Her sband died
, fifty years ago,
. Gov. Brown has vetoed the corpora
ton bill passed during the extra session.
, his opinion being that the bill was not
properly passed.
MARTIN CANNON, aged about 35, was
found dead in John Sullivan's Vine
street saloon, Lexington, the other
morning. The man was drunk in the
afternoon, and on closing up his place
. sullivan locked Cannon in a small ante
room and left the place. On opening
| next morning Cannon was found dead
, and Coroner DELPHI held an inquest over
} the remains. The jury found the fol
) lowing verdict: I'VE find the body 10
, be that of Martin Cannon. and that he
, came to his death from hemorrhage and
. suffocation."
r BOURBON county gives the democratic
ticket 555 majority. In 1888 the county
went 81 republican.
INDICATIONS are that Franklin county
/. has gone democratic by rs votes, with
two precincts to hear from. Frankfort
goes 40 democratic the first time In
!, years Very heavy vote in city; light
!, in country. Peoples party polled abou,
!, 800 votes in the country.
CIEvELANps vote in Boyle county l, PAT
Harrison Lib, Weaver AZ; Cleveland
majority "A. Saufly Cdem.), for Circuit
&c Judge, has majority Of liz over Hern
y don. About seventy ballots were thrown
A. out in the county on account of i'm
N proper preparation or no preparation
&c all McCreary (dem. }, for congress, n
opposition.
Ar Mt. Sterling the electric Ugh
plant has been compelled to shut off tn
y lights early in the evening on accoun
v of the scarcity of water.
= FEW days ago a buzzard was seei
y crossing the farm of Mr., T. ID. Welsh
at New Carlisle, with a bell on it. Thu
II noise Of the bell could be heard for
mile or more They were all goins
west
d j II. BENNETT who recently shot ant
Ie killed Sylvester Adams at Willard, hai
I. been placed under a $4,000 bond, L
q await action Of the grand jury at Enter
e prise. His attorney, Hon Prater, t'
II whom he surrendered will get the s25C
offered for his arrest
IT requires about $3.50 900 month &c
=, pay the teachers Of kentucky thei'
!. salaries,
Ar Louisville John Woodward anc
= Jossnh Weaver quarreled about who