The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1893-09-15
KENTUCKY STATE NEWS.

WYNN ne stated he would be n candI
4 uate Tor reelection 10 the nationa
house Of representatives
~ Princeton, a village twenty mile
! wet OF llopkinsville, Page Stokes wa
hlfd by Thos. Bobbitt In a salcol
row Bobbitt fred indiscriminatel,
intIa crowd. Stokes fell dead with
pui ffthrough his heart Bobbi,t le,
andhas not been captured.
APAssEssER and freight train Of Tn,
Louisville aud Nashville railroa,
coliped at Darlington, north of Hon
kinyiile, the other evening. Thre,
raiipad men were seriously II no
fatally Injured, and both trains wcr,
badly damaged.
ffsNk MONTGOMERY dangerously sho
heny Carpenter at Pmeville. Tn,
men Are brothcrs-in-law, and Carpen
ter. = alleged. had been paying M
tensions 70 = ssssss OF Montgomery
and lie objected.
ALTsosoH the election Of sever
judges n the court Of appeals unde
the RECENT act of the legislature will
not e,cur for more than year Their,
are apumber Of candidates already an
noun9d.
PRol J. H. FITzHuGH. aged 50, on,
of thd best known and most popular
educatrs Of southern Kentucky, died
suddenly Of his home in Christian coun
ty, ss.es brief illness.
1sAAdPoYSTER was tried in the cir
cult cottt at Richmond. the other day,
for killing Wright Arnold. at Pain,
Lick, In April, and was sentenced 70
nine year. in the peuitentiary. lie is
penniless hnd will not appeal. VIM
Mitchell hnd John Thompson, wit.
nesses In be ease, refused TO testify,
and were $nt To Jail by Judge Scott
There are half dozen other murder
cases on the docket
THE monthly report Of the state
crops issued N Commissioner Of Agri.
culture Mcdowell reports considerable
damage 10 crop, from constant drought.
Tobacco suffered also from wind and
hail storms; aveiage, 90 per cent. corn,
II per cent compared with last year at
"; oats, average yield, 2ijs bushels to
the acre; hemp, sIpeF cent. The aver
age quantity OF hogs TO be fed this fall
is % per cent; average quantity of two
year-old cattle, 10 per cent
THE drouth Is causing mu eh uneasi.
ness In the vicinity If Shelbyville
Stock are suffering, and in some in,
stances have TO he driven q long way
70 water. Drinking water Is very
scarce and the stock on hand is poor in
quality. Unless It rains soon much
suffering will ensue.
JAS Lowe, who with George Mears
was arrested for a murderous assault
upon Michael Doherty, OF Paducah, has
made full confession. lie admits
that he and Mears deliberately planned
the murder of Doherty for his money
When he struck the blow that felled
his victim, his companion was secreted
near by in the woods, and came out
and put on the finishing touches by
beating the unconscious man on the
head. Hopes are now entertained that
Doherty will recover. He has not been
able TO articulate a word since the as
sault
THE governor the other day refused
to pardon young Hal Cockerill. Of Estill
county, who has been sentenced to four
years in the pcnitentiary for man.
slaughter With his influential con.
nectionS there has been no effort spared
to secure his pardon, and that the inter. |
est OF the executive was awakened in !
his behalf is evidenced by the following !
unusual Endorsement written across
the back Of the petition: "ln this case
] have wavercd. My Sympathies have ]
been greatly aroused for Cockerill. but |
after mature consideration Of all the |
facts my duty requires me to decline /
to Interfere
AT Shelbyyille, George ID. Cardwell, !
a youth, took John Arnett for dog
the other night and shot him Arnctt
died in short time. At the inquest
the jury returned a verdict of acct.
dental killing
:. j. llUNT, one of the leading farm
ers Of Montgomery county, made an
assignment 10 DR. J. A. Sherley for the
benefit Of his creditors. His liabilities
ire about $500, 900; assets about s25, 900.
His oldest son, X. j. Hunt, was one OF
mis- ndorsers, and was forced to make
IN assignment X. j. Hunt and John
Hunt partners in farming, also as
,igned. The two latter assignments
we're TO John Morris.
Al Lexington Mrs Dallas Cooke
rarlcton has filed suit for divorce
against her husband, Charles Tarleton,
wealthy young farmer of Fayette
ouuty. Her petition is sensational.
he also sues her husband and his
Guardian, H. $. Muir, for $50, 900 dam
ges and all proper relief
ORGANIZED labor did itself proud in
louisville the other day, and the cele-
ration of Labor day was grand sue
ess There were over 10, 600 men in
he parade, IL being the largest demon
tration Of the kind ever held there.
here was monster picnic at National
ark.
w, Il. II. SOUTH, who ran for state
easurer before the democratic state
invention two years ago, but on his
feat went of with the populists, was
minated the other day for state sena-
+ by the peoples party. VIM. H.
'ldgeford was nominated for repre-
NATIVE by the same convention. l..
Cox and Judge Tom Hines, the demo.
attic candidates for nomination, spoke
large crowds at the courthouse.
TENSIONS granted the other day to
,ntuckians; Increase, Robert J. Huff,
lphnr Springs, Ohio county. Original ,
ldows, Caroline Simpson, Fairfield,
'lson county; Sarah Mounce, Mill
geville, Lincoln county; Ellen Clark,
rdstown, Nelson county.
RANDOLPH BLAIN, school board at ,,
-ney of Louisville, was in Frankfort, /.
other day, and entered an appeal :
I'm the injunction by Judge Edwards
ainst the distribution of free text i.
oks TO the public school pupils of =
uisville 1t is said that an effort =
II be made TO have the case advanced :,
the docket and heard at an early y
Y of this term OF the court
APT. +. Il. TURIN, the murderer of j
M. Carter, was released on bond at A
banon, after the jury in the case had h
ng, with eleven for conviction and 90
for acquittal Turpin is very a,
althy. \,
'HE Garrard county grand jury found A
indictments, SO of which are for "a
ling liquor unlawfully. Sc
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