The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1893-11-03
KENTUCKY STATE NEWS.


signment few days ago. His liabili-
ties are about $751; 600 The Immediate
cause of the assignment was Mr.. War
ings inability to renew . note for $3.50
DRs, A. $ LEWIS and J. NJ. Williams
were the other day appointed members
of the pension examining board at
Greensburg
TnE body of an unknown white
woman was found in a smoldering fire
near Paducah- Crime suspected,
IL the kentucky court of appeals re-
Gently Judge llaselrigg handed down
an important decision in the railroad
tax cases lIy an act passed in 1854
and repealed in 1886 new railroads were
exempt from the payment OF taxes for
five years Litigation in the circuit
court resulted in favor Of the railroads,
but the appellate decision holds that
only four roads were entitled TO cxemp-
ton, and that twelve owe the state,
some In whole and some in part for the |
taxes sued for.
TnE secretary of the treasury has
made the following appointments In
the internal revenue service in Ken
lucky: Chas ID Ash and Harry Gard
ner, storekeepers. and John W. Gordon,
gauger, in the Fifth district; Jos Buzz
by. storekeeper, and Jas I. Robarts,
storekecper and gauger, in the Second
district
NEAR Hopkinsville while returning
from a hunt the other evening, Thomas
Munford was seriously wounded by the
accidental discharge of his gun, the
ball passing through his arm, shatter-
ing it and ranging upwards through
his mouth and check, inhicting serious,
II not fatal injuries. Amputation OF
the arm was necessary TO save his life.
THE body of Mrs ]. E Patterson,
who mysteriously disappeared from her
home in Louisville, was found in the
river, near Riverside, by the life-savers,
the other morning. There is little If
4 any doubt that she committed suicide
\ while slightly insane from illness OF
! long duration.
III AT Stanford the family of Tom Ken
ley went hickory-nut hunting, leaving
the 4-year- old daughter at home. When
4 they returned they found her burned
: to a crisp
The contract for carrying the mail
from Fords Ferry TO Marion, until
June So 1896, has been awarded to G.
i w. Arflaclx, of Marion.
D CHAs f. TURNER and Christopher @.
II Wright, both OF Louisville, were indict-
d ed at London for criminal negligence.
They were. respectively. conductor anc
engineer of freight train which col
v lided with passenger train near Haze
9. Patch several days ago, two mel
y being killed.
" PENSIONS issued the other day: In
W. creai e-Wm Short, Edenton, Madison
d. county. Original Widows, etc Han
IT. nah E G. Daniels, Covington, Kentol
county; Emeline Malone. Louisville
a jefferson county.
All THE following patents were grante'
ND the other day; Henry A. Briefly, as
INC signor to Leader Cash Register Co
Lexington, cash register; William II
. Haltenbaek, assignor of two-thirds I
* ID. G. Colson and f. Waggoner, Mic
dlesborough. stump winding machine
=. Robert J. osticl. Covington, butte
drilling machine; benjamin +. TatmaI
| Owensboro, heating apparatus.
PosrMAsTERs of the fourth-class wer
appointed the other day as follow
]. G. Mobley, Auglin, Carter count.
vice II. F. Irwin, resigned; C. \
Dolphen, Elktown. Breathitt count.
vice Sarah f. Bullock, resigned; j.
Nevins, Nevins Anderson county, viz
A. II. Nevins, resigned; 4. W. 0Do
NELL South Park, jefferson county, VII
\ Mamie 0'Donnell, deceased.
As JAMES CoFFEY, Casey coun
stockman, was driving a number
cattle down Main street, Mckinney, |
unruly COW broke away from the dro
and rushed into the office of the '
randa Hotel, turned and crowded hi
self behind the counter and pressed
= TO the registration desk The usual
polite clerk, W. j. Duncan, beata has
G retreat and the animal meeting wi
such cool reception, jumped throul
the large plate-glass window, shaft
ing everything before her, and escaP
TO the street
THE first suit IL the United Stat
court under the separate coach bill b
been filed at louisville. The co
plainant is the Industrial Home a
( Land association, and the defendal
are the receivers OF the Louisvi
Southern railroad Plaintiffs allie
that their association established a c
ored settlement at Centralia, on
Louisville Southern, the road agreed
that the population of the settlem'
should always have the same privilel
on the railroad as they then receiv
Now they claim that the railroad
violation of its contract, conducts
separate coach system, by which I
elimination is shown against colo
4 people, who comprise the residents
the town. An injunction Is asked :
( AT Louisville Abraham Sales, {
m ceryman, was stuck in the hand b.
catfish fin, and his arm became so
famed that II is feared blood poison
will set in and that the arm will h
to be amputated.
. GEo. MAHLER brother and acc
- 4 pllCC VI bOo Who AhiOa
Mary Boiling ON Belt Line train,
-, given a life sentence by the jury
other day at Middlesboro.
JESSE COOPER shot and dangerol
- wounded his young wife, at Rugs
ten miles south OF Vanceburg. A q
A rel over the attentions Cooper was
IL ing another woman preceded the sh
ing. Cooper escaped
- FIRE at Clinton destroyed Moss b
ENv livery stable, the Davis Hotel, j.
. Moss grocery Johnson's dry g
IRE house. lIarpoI's hardware store,
ST Winters drug store. The loss is
mated at $4,000, with tl025O In
" ance The FIRE is supposed to
----- been of ineendiary origin.
\ A BOLD thief grabbed $50 from