Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1893-10-26
KENTUCKY STATE NEWS.

SHELBY WARD, a young carpenter
about 81 years of age, and William
Link, an old man. had difficulty near
Lexington, the other day. Ward struck
Link on the head with q buggy spoke,
fracturing the skull. IL Is believed he
will die. Ward is in Jail In default of
$1,000 bail.
NJ. L. IIENKs. after twenty-seven
years of waiting, has at last married
Miss Sallie Sesse. lie is from Macon,
Ga, and she from Waddy, this state.
They were betrothed during the war,
but circumstances drove them apart
until the other day, when Henry wrote
that he was coming to claim his bride.
AT Lexington, Jim Fields and Ham
Hathaway, two TRUSTEES ut the Jail,
broke away from Turnkey Cromwell
and escaped. Both had served all but
five months of five-year terms
CHIEF JUSTICE BENNETF, the other
day delievcred an opinion In the Ken
lucky court of appeals, reversing the
decision of the lower court i'm the case
of the commonwealth VS.. q. W. Muir
ply, 81 Lebanon. Murphy was indicted
for giving away liquor on election day
at night, and the circuit judge ordered
his acquittal Judge Bennett holds
that the law says Intoxicating liquors
must not be sold. loaned or given away
on election day, day tcing construed to
mean the whole twenty-four hours
Ar Louisville Judge Field failed to
follow Judge Toncy's action in dis
charging jury because it was not Sc
cured in accordance with the new law.
lie conceded that the present method
cordance with the new law, but held
that though the law went into effect
on October l, the state had not com
piled with its part by furnishing the
revolving drums necessary to hold such
drawings.
THE Jail at Bardwell is guarded to
prevent the lynching of q. NJ. Shelby,
who murdered Mrs. Sallie Moore N
Ballard county.
The republicans Of Richmond named
city ticket, with Robert Burnam for
mayor, J. Speed Smith for city judge.
and Reid Corneilsou and Claude Smith
for councilmen. The city is democratic
by zoo
JOHN MAnTIs, who killed Matte You,
at Gum Springs, was gwen only -four
years by the jury the other day. Thii
was one of the most cold-blooded muir
ders in the annals of Bell county, and
the citizens are indignant over the
light sentence.
THE Louisville jockey club has closed
a deal for the purchase of Churchill
Downs. where its track is located and
which it has heretofore only possessed
by lease. The old club will 60 into
liquidation the first of the year and a
new organization be effected. Col.
Clark will continue to be the moving
spirit and presiding judge.
JUDGE IRA JULIAN was nominated for
mayor of Frankfort, a few days ago, by
a ma jority of fifty-one votes. The in
dications are that Judge Thomas II.
Hines was chosen the nominee for
representative by still smaller mar
gin.
COMMISSIONER Mcdowell, Of the sta to
bureau of agriculture, horticulture and
statistics, the other day appointed Chas
S. Green, of Louisville, weigher of the
grain trade of that city.
PosTMAsrERs of the fourth-class were
appointed the other day as follows: H.
+. Wood, Bigbone, Boone county, vice
J. A. Wood, deceased; Mrs. Mettie Bar
row. Costelow, Logan county, vice s.
W. Barrow, resigned; Thoms Jenkins,
Hawthorne, Campbell county. vice J.
II. Rusk. resigned; +. NJ. Mcdonald,
Springdale. Mason county, vice w. j.
Tulley, deceased.
THE Mason & Foard Co. has accepted
the offer made by Treasurer Hale; as a
committee, for the shop plant in the
Frankfort prison, to be used as a chair
factory, and the transfer of the prop
erty to the state will be made at once
VANDALs shot the valuable trotting
mare Rfse ley burn, 2:2O, at the farm of
her owner, p. =. Parrish, in Woodford
county, The wound is in the shoulder.
1t was not discovered until the other
day. Inflammation has set in and the
mares recovery is doubtful She is
valued at a, 900.
AS Robert Carter, son of James W.
Carter, of Middleboro, and a companion
were exploring a cave near Tampico,
they found several skeletons, among
the rest that of a giant The head,
shoulders, arms and thigh bones were
complete. Several of the teeth also
remained in the jaws Most of
the bones are petrified, and are
hard as flint. The measurement
of the thighs and head indicate
that he must have been at least eight
feet tall. Considerable excitement pre-
walls in that community over the find.
Mr.. Carter will probably put it on ex-
hibition.
The case of Charles Morrow for the
killing of Fleming McNeal in Chris
tian county last August was called in
the Christian circuit court the other
day, and was continued until the spring
term of court. This is one of the noted
criminal cases now pending in court
there, and has attracted much attention
because of the brutal nature of the
deed.
JOHN BAKEk, aged sixty years,
dropped dead in the road just out of
Corbin, the other morning. He was on
his way to work. Heart trouble is the
supposed cause.
The 3-year-old child of Mr.. F. A.
Brady, of Lockport, was choked to
death the other evening by swallowing
a grain of green coffee.
REED RENsHAw. one of the oldest and
most prominent citizens of Christian
county, died at his home near Balm
bridge the other evening from a COM
plication of diseases incident to old
age, in the eighty.eighth year Of his
age.
Mrs. J. LEROY, an aged and promi.
ncnt lady of Lyon county, was at
tackled 0y a mad COW while crossing a
pasture, and gored to death.
DESTROYER, the twoyear-old bay colt
by Deceiver, dam Caroline by Ken.
lucky, died at the Kentucky association
course, Lexington, few days ago. He
was the property of W. ii. Laudeman,
and cost 81, 500 as a yearling.
FRANKFORT. along with other smaller
cities of the state, is making an effort
to get up a school-children's Worlds
fair excursion similar to the recent
successful venture of the Louisville
Times.
DR. j. f. BADER of jackson, who
was on trial at Lexington for the at
tempted assassination of John Hurst, q
groceryman, at Lexington, last spring,
vas sentenced to a term Of two wears
in the penitentiary.
WILL SIvERs, a young farmer living
near Sanders depot, Baidstown, was
tbro,vp from, n borSo tho oxbar afxa,