The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1894-07-04
KENTUCKY STATE NEWS.

taken the first of the year showed as
sets $4,000 and liabilitie. $4,000.
The firm claim the liabilities have
since been reduced. The creditors are
mainly eastern merchants.
The republicans of the Fourth con-
gressionaI district nominated for con
gress Hon. John w. Lewis, of Spring
field
Posi- OFFICES established Kentucky
a few days ago: Critic, Knott county
Wn. Barnsbury; Jamaica. Adair couu-
ty, VIM. b. Bell; Phillipsburg, Marion
county, Nicodemus Rice.
AMONG the patents granted the other
day were the following: Frank ). Gray.
Trenton, gate; and Isaac Smith. Lex
ington, combined harrow and scraper.
THE Commercial club has secured
the Roger Wheel Co. to locate at Leba-
non.
TIE committee on public buildings
and grounds the other day reported to
the house. with a favorable recommen-
dation, the bin introduced by Gov. Me
Creary to appropriate Se5,O00 for the
enlargement Of the public building at
Richmond.
ALVIN COTTRELL was arrested at Lex
ington on the charge of passing bogus
checks.
Is wreck on the Louisville and
Nashville road, near Yarnalltown,
Adam Gore, Louisville man, lost his
life.
The feeling between the Catholics
and the members of the American Pro-
tective association is becoming very
bitter at Lexington.
a. vs.. Johnson, dagman in the en-
ploy OF the Louisville and Nashville
railroad, was instantly killed at Hop
llinsville by train.
The executive committee of the State
Democratic league met at Lexington
the other night and decided To hold
the state convention in Lexington in
September
THE state board Of education con-
vened at Frankfort. the other day. and
began the annual examination Of appi-
cants for certificates rs teachers in the
common schools. The board is com
posed of superintendent of Public In
structiOn Thompson, eX-officio member;
Prof. James II. Fuqua Of RusSellville,
and Prof Charles NJ. Albert, Of Lex
ington.
NH. WOLF, Of Louisville. suspecting
his wife of infdelity. put on set of
false whisllers and after doing some
detective work found her riding with
another man. just rs Wolf was about
TO make a scene. the wind blew his
false beard off and he was arrested for
Disgusting himself
DURING "a hailstorm at Henderson.
the other day. chunks of ice continued
falling during the fifteen minutes,
many of the stones being nearly as
large as mans fist and weighing
more than quarter of a pound.
ADAM GoHEE. "A brakeman. was killed
IN the wreck of a freight train on the
/. * y, near Frankfort, the other
morning.
A CORRESPONDENT of She Green River
Republican sends that paper a story of
a horrible death suffered by Ruth Mar
sin. an s-year-old girl. A hen had
made nest in hollow log on the
edge Of the woods adjoining the gar
den, and the little girl erawled in to
! getIh EGGS. She was heard scream
ing. and her mother ran to her assist
auce. The child was wedged in the
log and said the hen was picking her
face. The mother ran to a neighbor's
for help. On their return the log was
chopped open. when it was found that
the -'heu" that did the peeking was a
large rattlesnal1e. 1t had 70 or IA rat
ties, and had been eating the eggs.
. The child's face had been stung in a
/ score of places. She was unconscious
when released. and died later in the
/ day in awful agony.
NEWS comes from the Athens pre-
( cinct that during the rainstorm the
/ other day lizards and fish fell in pro-
/ fusion. An old Negro named Wilson
Jameson claims that he fried and ate
/ some of the FISH and in consequence is
/ endowed with supernatural powers.
! This is the formula necessary To make
/ a hoodoo doctor. and Jameson now
/ claims 10 be able TO drive witchesaway
/ from the afflicted.
At Paintsville. for some months,
/ Henry Wilcox. well-known young
/ man. had been clandestinelv meeting
/ Miss Helen Witler. the seventeen-year-
/ old daughter of Col. William Witler. a
: wealthy farmer The lovers deter
mined 30 marry, and on Col. Witler
/ learning of their plans Miss Witler was
( locked in her room. The other night
was the time decided on for them to
elope An older sister of Miss Witler
was placed in her room in orGcr TO pre-
vent her escaping during the night
/ Young Wilcox obtained a bottle OF
! chloroform and when his inamorata
polled her head from a second-story
window he sent it up. attached TO a
cord She let down. Miss Witler soon
bad her sister under the influence of
/ the drug. She then entered her par
ents' room and successfully applied the
auodyne to both the colonel and her
mother Then the daring girl joined
her lover, and they mounted horses
| and escaped while they were uneon-
sciOus-
/ Pensions were issued the other day
as follows: Supplemental, Jack King,
! CorydOn, Henderson; increase, samuel
Webster, Dayton, Campbell county;
Israel Van Fleet, Bonneville, Hart.
Original widows, etc, Elizabeth Rose,
Jenkinsville, Washington county.
AN unknown man fell from Louis
Vile and Nashville passenger train.
near Hoplzinsville. the other night, and
sustained fatal injuries He was steal
ing a ride and had been put off the
train twice before falling from it.
THE eighth annual meeting of the
Hart County Fair association win take
place at Horse Cave. September IS, 10
20 and q. A fine list Of premiums Is
offered. and as the fair has always beer
well attended the meeting is sure to bt
successful
ANOTHER death was caused ia Louis
vile the other day by the overhead
wires Ed O'Donnelly, a l.nem.n, being
ihe victim.
Two hunters in the California Sierras
were returning home after a days hunt,
when their dog scared up a panther
that took refuge in tree Each
hunter had four shots left, and the first
hunter succeeded in breaking the pan
TIERS hind leg, but failed to dislodge
It. The other man. then fired his com
plenent, with the result of only infiict-
Ing a flesh wound With ammunition
exhausted. and the panther still lash
ing its tail in defiance. the hunters held
4 a consultation, and finally hit upon a
plan. Making a running moose in a