The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1893-09-01
KENTUCKY STATE NEWS.

while a young son OF Mrs.
Morgan was hurt so badly that he will
die
THE safe Of ]. w Ham & Bros,
at Scottsville, was blown open by
burglars and $4,000 in money and
SIS, 1000 of Allen county bonds stolen.
THOMAS RICHARDSON attempted TO
suicide at Hopkinsville by taking an
ounce of laudanum. An unhappy love
affair led to the deed. There Is no
hope of his recovery.
HUME CLAY, the 500, 600 forger from
Clark county, who is confined in the
penitentiary, has been notified that his
wife will apply for divorce.
LUKE TAAFFE brought suit at Lex
ington for t2O, 900 damages against the
Lexington Lumber Co. One of Tsaffe's
legs was broken In two places and his
body mashed while at work for the
| COMPANY .lnloading lumber.
Posi- 1Rk1cxs established in Ken
lucky: Alley, Menefee county. Thos.
z. Amburgey, postmaster; Ballard, An
derson county, Austin g. Caldwell,
postmaster; Singleton. Meade county,
VIM. II. Singleton, postmaster.
THE fifty-third annual convention OF
the Kentucky Christian Missionary So
ciety met at Frankfort, few days ago.
About 400 delegates from over the state
were present The report 1.-THE board
| OF managers was made, following the
presidents address 1t showed receipts
| for the year for state work Of $40, l46. 20,
and for missionary purposes Of all sorts
| eco, AZ 90 The report showed that in
evangelical work forty-four ministers
were employed in the field, who report
2,I3l additions: days Of work, o,l39;
number of sermons preached, 4,079;
churches aided, 5Sl; Sunday-schools or
ganized, fortytwo The treasurers re.
port showed a deficit OF about $500,
which was quickly made mp
JoHN G.. SCHULER in the coffee and
spice mill business in Covington, has
made an assignment for his creditors
benefit
PHIL DEvRREs, who shot and killed
Bruce Purdom, was tried at Liberty
and bound over TO the grand jury in the
sum of $500
AT Newcastle an Italian peddler was
assaulted by Negro named Leonard
Taylor, and terribly beaten. The cause
of the assault is not known.
PENSIONS were granted the other day
as follows: Original. Widows, etc
Minor Of Marion McClindon, Hender-
son county; Sarah Il. Williams, Scbree,
| Webster county; Lucinda Riley, Louis
| will, jefferson county; Mary Hide
brand, Dallam's creek, Logan county;
Ann Cox, Louisville, jefferson county.
THE Louisville board of aldermen
| the other evening adopted resolution
| requesting the mayor TO advertise for
| proposals and carry into effect the or.
dinance providing for the establish.
ment of police telegraph system.
NEAR Beaver, Ford county, William
Jones, son of Caleb Jones, the notori-
GUS feud leader, and Henry Bently
went to aged Morgan Turner's resi-
dence and put a rope around his neck
To make him tell where his money was
About the time he was drawn up a
young man named Martin, who was
living with Turner, appeared on the
scene with a Winchester rifle and shot
Jones through the body, killing him
| instantly. lie then shot Bently three
times, but not fatally Bently escaped.
T. Il. TIPPETT, of Rowan county, was
nominated by the democrats for repre-
sentative from the Bath-Rowan dis.
| tTicts
VIM h. MITCHELL, while coupling
cars in the Cincinnati Southern yards,
Lexington, was caught between two
lrawheads and terribly mashed in the
groins.
AT Camp Knox, while in fl of mel
ancholia, Mrs Martha McMahan poured
coal oil all over herself and lighted her
clothes with match, burning to
crisp.
Arthur WATSON, who murdered
Amanda Cain at Independence,
about year ago, was captured the
other night at Frankfort He escaped
from the Covington Jail about five
months ago and has been at large ever
since
WHILE drunk and gambling about
one mile from Park Hill Camp grounds,
James Payne, of Fleming, shot and
fatally wounded Mort Ferguson, of
Blue Lick Springs. Payne was terri
bly, cut in the head and breast by
knife in the hands of Ferguson. He
lies in critical condition. The camp
meeting was largely attended, about
:, 600 people passing the gates.
JIM BOOKER, colored, aged II, was
shot and killed at Sixth and Broadway,
Louisville, by Frank Smith, a white
boy, of about the same age.
WHILE stealing ride on the Ohio
Valley railroad, at Hopkinsville, Allen
Floyd, colored youth, fell under the
wheels and one of his legs was cut of
between the knee and thigh. He re-
ceived other serious, II not fatal inter
nal injuries,
AT Leatherwood John Wilkins, col.
ored, fatally cut his wife and escaped.
JAMES NJ. KISG, a wealthy farmer,
residing some four miles east of Adair'
| Vile, discharged o load of buckshot in
| 10 William Fuqua, a young man OF
Adairville Fuqua will probably re-
cover Disagreement about the rent OF
a farm. Of which King was the lessee,
was the cause of the trouble. King
had ordered Fuqua not to come on the
place.
Ar Mt Sterling John Samucls COM
mitted suicide by drowning. Financial
troubles and insanity.
SUIT for SlO,o damages has been
filed in the circuit court at Hopkins
willie against the Ohio Valley railroad
by J. Webber Davis, OF near Hopkins
VILE, for the killing of his son, Marion
Davis, brakeman in the employ of
the railroad, who was cremated in the
wreck at Morganfield last June.
DIR. w. +. LAssFoRp, the well known
veterinary surgeon and breeder, OF
Lexington, was thrown from a thor
oughbred colt and severely hurt His
nose was broken, and his face and head
badly bruised and cut.
/. h. PURpoM, a welltodo farmer OF
this county, was murdered by Phil De
vere at a picnic in Casey cOunty. hevere
WAS mad because Purdom would not
send his children 10 a school taught 10y
neyercs son. lie has killed three other
men.
DIR GEORGE II, WAILISo, OF Louis
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