The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1895-07-05
KENTUCKY STATE NEWS.


1T has been settled that Bowling
Green Is 10 have an electric street-car
line. The contract has been closed for
the boilers and engines, and all the
electrical apparatus and ground for
the power and car houses have been
bought, and the contract viii be let iu
a day or two for their construction.
The capital invested in the enterprise
is partly local, but for the most part
foreign. II is expected 70 begin opera
tions at once, and the cars will be run
ming within sixty days
AT Mckinney. during a frightful
rain and wind storm, late the other
afternoon, John Grenning's barn was
struck by lightning and burned 1t
contained a quantity Of corn and hay,
and several sets Of harness The wind
did great damage TO trees in Houston
Vile, and 70 fences and growing crops
Corn land is badly damaged by being
washed out
AN ordinance has been introduced In
the Pineville city council 10 revoke
the licenses of the saloon-keepers on
account of their repeated violation OF
the law.
IN the vicinity Of Indian Fields,
Clark county, within radius OF five
miles there are now living Is persons
whose ages aggregate ,2ss years, max
ing an average of almost Sc years
KENTUCKY postmasters commission
cd: A. S Kelly, Bailey, Harlan county.
vice 7, ]. Creech, resigned; c. II. Hin
kle, Barlow City, Ballard county, vice
R IL Tanner, jr., remoyedi T. j. Lille.
Raceton, Muhlenberg county, vice r
W. Sharboer, resigned; J. X Beard,
Shady Grove, vice D. j. Hubbard re
moved, and W. II Binkley, View, vice
r W. Winsted, resigned-both In Crit
tenden county.
BIsnoP HAYGOop will preside over
the next annual session Of the Ken
lucky conference of the NJ. +, church,
south, 70 be held az Winchester, sep
TENDER Il
THE Crockett brothers, who killed
Dan Kidd, In Casey county are still at
large News reached Mckinney the
other morning that the father of the
dead man has offered 81, 600 reward for
their arrest and delivery TO the jailer
of Casey county.
FIRE destroyed three stables at La
tonia the other morning, occupied by
Talbot Bros Two flyers, Ned Braze
and Dickson, two-year-olds, were
burned. Loss, $4,000 The fire was
the result of stable boys cigarette.
Dr. d K. PEARSON, of Chicago, has
pledged Berea college $4,000 on condi'
ton Of three times that sum being Sc
cured from other sources
A BARN at Rochester, belonging TO
Newton Long. was struck by lightning
about o'clock the other morning and
burned with its contents There was
two valuable mules in the barn besides
several hundred dollars worth of feed
and farming implements. The barn
was worth about $500 or 500 No in
surance.
WILLIAM 0vERToN, one of the muir
derers Of Peddler Loeb, and wife IN
Harlan county, who was shot while
trying to escape from the jailer's posse
has died of his wound. The two other,
implicated have been captured and ar,
In Jail
JoHS A. LEE, the only remaining
Mexican soldier in Bracken county
has canister ball which he picked W
on the field OF Buena Vista few hour
after the battle in February, lsi7. The
ball Is Of copper and weighs about one
fourth of q pound, and was fred by
the Mexicans at the United State.
troops
PARISH OWENS, Of Abigail, Robertson
county. was riding an unruly hors,
last November, which ran against Z
tree and mashed the riders leg TO
pulp below the knee. The injury wa
compound comminuted fracture, anC
after trying for several months TO say,
the limb 1t was amputated few day.
ago, nine doctors assisting He sur
viyed and is getting we'll
A TEN-YEAR-oLD son Of William Ma
lone, of Trigg county, had gone il
bathing, the other day, at Canton, or
the Cumberland river, with party o.
friends, when, getting beyond his
depth, he was swept AWAY and wa:
drowned His body was discovered
miles lower down the river
AT Winchester Charles Devine, 4
barkeeper, aged Ga years, died Of hear
disease while sitting in a chair at hi.
place Of business the other morning.
PENSIONS issued the other day-orig
inal: Harrison Copeley, Calf creek
Martin county; Henry Luzaden, New
port, Campbell Additional: JOSEPH
Mccain, Louisville; George W. Barn
hill, Williamsburg, Whitley; Isom Wash
ington, Lovelaceville, Ballard; Noal
Fields Broadwell, Harrison; John MOI
10th, Covington; Oliver p Eubanks
Estesburgh, Pulaski; James T With
ers, Columbia, Adair. Original widows
etc: Minors of George T. Clark, Nor
NAL, Boyd
A SEVERE windstorm did consider
able damage to crops and fencing siI
miles east Of owensboro the othe
afternoon. A dozen telegraph pole
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