The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1894-08-03
NEWS ITEMS.

Thomas Doran, New York letter
carrier, fell dead from sunstroke.
Fire destroyed the Waterman opera
house at Waterloo, Ind. Loss $1,000
Col. Henderson was renominated by
the republicans Of the Dubuque Qa.J
district.
Crist Lunkenheimer, jr., went inil
well near Evansville, Ind, and was
killed by foul gas.
The state auditor has blaeklisted sew
eral insurance companies for not com
plying with Indiana laws.
W. 7. Harris, an inventor, has been
arrested, charged with causing the
Knox fire in Washington City.
VIM. &. Smith, an old citizen Of
Huntington, Ind, died from dropsy.
He weighed 500 pounds at time of death.
A man has been arrested in Milwau-
kee for forging United States express
money orders. He has secured ON them
81, 900.
Frank Ulrich, of Rockport, o., was
saving spolles, when one flew back and
hit him in the stomach, causing hi
death.
The abandonment OF the Hooking
canal is alleged to be the cause of the
drying up Of many wells at Laneas-
ter, o.
The C. & o. baggage-masters all
along the line, who were released from
duty about two months ago, are to be
re-instated.
AT Covington, Ind, Hon, W. Brook
shire, of Charlottesville, was nominated
for congress by the democrats OF the
Eighth district
James E. Campbell, ex-governor OF
Ohio, will represent Gen. Ezeta, now
ON the bennington, when his case
comes up for trial
X. E. Taylor, OF Colorado Springs,
who was deputy marshal during the
strike and shot a barkeeper, is held un'
der bond of $4,000
Newsum, the murderer, was not
hanged at jackson, Mo-, as stay OF
execution was granted pending his ap'
peal to the supreme court.
Joseph Miller and Frank Nicholson,
two drunken militiamen, came near be,
ing lynched at Canal and Randolph
streets, Chicago, for insulting two
girls
At Columbus, o., Wednesday, Dewitt
C. Jones, ex-postmaster, in defending q
n client, challenged the testimony oi
Officer Heyl, who now threatens to dc
Jones up.
Near Gallipolis, o., John Wood caught
a mud cat fish weighing $50 pounds and
about six feet long. This is, per
haps, the largest fish ever taken from
the Ohio river
Greggsville, H., had 100000 fire
Thursday afternoon. The principai
loser is Joseph Lescm, of Hannibal
who was the owner of the largest gen.
eral store in town.
Sheriff Alexander, of Carlxsburg, W.
Va, killed Pittsburgh Dan" noted
criminal of the Pennsylvania coal re
gions, when the latter attempted I,
escape after arrest.
In Lafayette, Ind, Henry Niehus
aged Is, Wednesday fell between tn
cars Of rapidly moving freight trail
on the Monon railway, and his bod
was ground to a pulp.
Rev. Francis A. Hoffman, aged 8
years, the oldest preacher in the Evan
gelical church in the United states
died at Reading, Pa. He was an activ
minister for over sixty years.
The wheat yield in Morgan county
Ind, is the largest for many years
often making thirty-five to forty bush
els an acre. The drought in Morgan
county will shorten the corn crop,
| While X. p. Baliss was ascending
ladder to the top of two-story house
near Newcastle, KY, the step near tn
top broke, Baliss fell to the ground
His neck was broken, and he died in
stantly.
Jimmy Rowan, a well-known light
weight pugilist of Steubenville, o.
was sentenced to the penitentiary TO
two years for shooting with intent +
kill Geo. Landmesser, Wheeling, W
va, sport
John DIVA and his young son ar
supposed to have been drowned be
tween bayfield, and Prosque Island
Wis. DIVA was in the employ OF tn
Ashland Brown Stone Co. lie leaves
wife ana several children.
Senator White Thursday introduced
bill reenaeting the statute which pre-
vides for the adoption OF the revised IL
ternational regulations for preventin
collisions at sea, so far as the articl
relates to lights for hshing vessels
The friends of otto G. Kirschbaum,
merchant ana real estate dealer OF .
Louis, are considerably alarmed owe
his mysterious disappearance. MI
kirschoaum IS 80 years old, married
and lived nj 1914 Vandeventer avenue
AT the democratic convention
Grand Forks, N. H., the roll call n
suited 81 for straight ticket, 1866 fc
fusion in part Judge Templeton wa
nominated for the supreme court FC
congress, Budd Reeve was nominate'
Much excitement was occasioned {
: Frankfort, Ind. Wednesday by tl
discovery that William Wood, ex-coui
ty recorder, and a prominent farme
was forgcr in the sum of sewers
Thousand dollars. and had left n