The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1894-09-21
KENTUCKY STATE NEWS,

fheria st Frankfort, the other DAY, ana
several new cases, necessitating the
suspension of public schools. The sani-
aary condition OF the city is being Inn
proved
TIM next national encampment of
the grand army of the republic will be
held in Louisville.
LATE the other afternoon as Holt
Witherspoon, an aged Negro who had
been in Lawrenceburg all day selling
load of watermelons, was returning
70 his home on the Frankfort pike, his
mule became frightened, pitched HIM
out ON the road and broke his neck.
Death was instantaneous.
CHALEs H. MosELEY, Bowling
Green saloonist who had been on trhal
for assaultihg a young girl, attacked
Prosecuting Attorney Porter in the
courtroom with heavy walking stick.
lie was fined s27O and sent To Jail for
GO days.
For presenting illegal claims against
the government, ]. V. Jones, Of Gray
son, Carter county, and United States
commissioner there, has been removed
by Judge Barr, of the federal court.
Jones is 60 years old and is prominent
lawyer of that section.
THE residence of w, II. Cook, Of
Lawrenceburg, was destroyed by fire
the other afternoon while Mr. Cook
and wife were visiting about five miles
in the country. Neighbors discovered
the fire in time TO rescue Mrs. Doke,
who had been left at home, and saved a
portion of the furniture. Mr.. Cook car
ried policy of 5000 in the Home Of
New York on his residence, and one OF
$500 on his furniture in the same com
pany.
ABOUT sixteen ministers were adj
mitted to deacon orders, six to the
third year class, four to the fourth
year class; and three to elders orders,
at the Kentucky NJ. f. conference at
Frankfort. There are now about one
hundred and fifty ministers in attend
ance.
THE public schools of Frankfort are
all closed on account OF the distressing
epidemic of diphtheria.
IT is thought the vein Of natural gas
struck on the farm of DR., Adam Hart
hill, near Paramount, will prove ten
strike.
HENRY SMITH. charged with the murder
of his wife at Henderson, has been cap
tured in Illinois and will be returned
to Kentucky for trial.
AT Paducah, the jury in the Mount
murder case returned verdict acquit-
ing the defendant. Mount was charged
with numbering Charley Burns, a
painter, on December IL, 1855.
KENNER TAYLOR. son of Hon. H.
Taylor, jr., the Frankfort distiller,
cowhided Pythian Saffell, son of Ex'
Postmaster NJ Saffeil, on Main street.
Family troubles.
1t was reported over the state that
DIR. J. b. Cottrell, the well known
Methodist divine, had dropped dead al
Russellville. This turns out to be un
true The doctor had spell of vir
tigo, to which he is subject, and fell OF
the depot platform just as he wal
boarding train for greensboro liz
recovered in a little while and went Oh
his journey.
| Ar Stanton o. c. Law made an as
signment to his wife OF all his prop
lerty Liabilities, 81 1900; assets, stocl
Of goods, notes ard accounts, about
5000
TIE Louisville conference of The
Methodist church will meet at Owens
boro, September 90. Bishop w. w
Duncan, of North Carolina, will pre-
side.
BEVERLY ADAMS, Negro 90 years o
age, was hung in Hopkinsville at s:lt
o'clock, the other morning, for tn,
murder of OFT Campbell, anothei
Negro. The crime was committed nea
lIopkinsville, on the night of May
last Adams was arrested and at hi
trial in June the death penalty wa
decided upon. The execution tool
place in an inclosure in the Jail var,
and was witnessed by fifty people
ated his statement that the killing o
Campbell was an accident. Adams wa
. pronounced dead in twelve minutes
after the trap was sprung.
A TREMENDOUS black bear was seer
in the woods in Proctors Hollow, nea
Enterprise.
JOHN A. DICKINSON, manager of tn,
chair plant in the penitentiary, wa
stricken with paralysis. He may re
cover
The well recently bored on the farm
of DIR. Adam llarthill. near Paramount
continues an undiminished flow of il
; Illuminating gas, and evidences OF it
persistency that true vein in gas
bearing rock has been pierced. II
were merely pocket that had bee
broken into 1t would have long sine
exhausted itself or blown out, while i
this the combustion is as regular a
when first ignited II is not an inodol
! GUS gas, and as its presence is know
by the attendant odor II can be re
garded as safe. The boring of thi
D well has made known the presence @
I gas-bearing rock in heretofore une1
: plored field, and one which may prov
: of value.
y COMMISSIONER MCDOWELL reports tina
= tobacco and corn in Kentucky hav
/ been greatly improved by the rains Z
the past month.
= OF five members of one family
Marshall county the oldest Is 9s an
the youngest 81.
The post Office at Haynesville, Obi
county, will be discontinued aftt
September IS
REV FRED d. HALF, the well-know
Baptist minister, Of Greensboro, has
church membership of Ills and 500
the Sunday
CoLLEcToRG. Il. ROBES, of the Eight
Kentucky internal revenue district. r