The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1895-01-11
KENTUCKY STATE NEWS.


IS estimated at sl50OOJ and consists Of
real estate, bank stock, personal prop
erty and live stock
THE authorities at Henderson have
forwarded TO Coatsyillc, Pa, the neccs-
ary remittance for two bloodhounds
A CALL has been issued for a meeting
( the citizens Of Whitney county. to
Jrganize an immigration bureau
OrHEH police judges do not hold with
Judge Thompson that the BARRIERS
Sunday closing law IS unconstitutional
All arrested at Coyinp son the other
Sunday were fined.
A GRAND Army post viii be 7rgan-
lied by the Union soldiers in CIarG
county
Patients were granted the other day
as follows Phillip Hires, assignor OF
tvo-thirds to Z. L. Tpnneyant and 6
w Bury, Clinton, kitchen cabinet
JoHS FoGARTY q farmer, died near
uanyille from informal injuries caused
by talfs kick
THERE are thirty prisoners In the
Henderson Jail, four Of whom are held
FOR murder.
MRs. MARY y. SnIrI. one Of the most
widely known pioneer ladies OF south
ern Kentucky. died suddenly at her
home near Ilopkinsyille. aged 90 years.
She remembered we'll the days when
there were Indians all through that
section.
SHERIFF BELL, Of Louisville, the
other day took fourteen prisoners to
the state pcnitentiary at Frankfort,
The fact was developed that ont Of the
fourteen consigned to the walls seven
Of them were entering for the third
time
PApucAn is overrun with trampsa and
they continue to come in so rapidly
that Mayor Yeiscr contemplates rent
ing a vacant house in the suburbs in
which TO shelter the vagrants
Or the fifteen precincts in Trigg
county which voted on the question of
prohibition, fourteen went dry. Ceru-
lean Springs alone remained wet
Ar the Meadows, near Providence,
VIM, Pate, a miner, was nearly killed
by falling slate
Ar lIopkinsvillc Barret L. Mcknight,
a prominent farmer. was served with
notice to answer a suit filed against
him for ssO0OO. The action was insti-
tutcd by Col Bowles on behalf of mis-
daughter Euniee The allegation is
breach Of promise.
TnE police force Of lIopkinsyillc
made 063 arrests during the year 1891
Five hundred and thirty-seven were
Negroes and 1876 were whites. The
fines and costs assessed in the police
court amounted to S7,slu.l0
THE penalty for killing quail and
phcasants now is fine of from s.
to S25.
A New YoER syndicate has com
menced developing the canucl coal beds
of Morgan county This is said to he
the largest continuous area of camel
coal known.
IL Scott county during the year 1891,
fourteen old citizens died. whose com
bined ages were lib years, or an aver
age OF about 81 years OF the number
William Mcfarland was the Youngest,
being 75 and Benz, Woollcn was the
oldest, being JOG years old
THE county clerk of Graves county
issued 2l7 licenses 10 marry during
1894
FoUR children OF Daniel White, col
! .v.1 IyfYgr ,t NHF.11s.-.. g.
near Anchorage, were burned to death
by fire that destroyed their house.
White and his wife barely escaped
WM BURNETT was run over and in
stantly killed at Russcllville by n
freight train, while switching in the
yards.
JCDGE RETnsHAREs, Of Paducuh.
states that McCrackcn county has
enough money in its treasury to pay
all her floating debt
THERE was so much business on the
Daviess county circuit court docket
THAT Judge Owens had to extend the
session a week.
BENAED county roads are blocked
with snow
SAN JoNEs has agreed to go back to
OwenSboro in the spring
0wENsHoRo complains that Evans
vile is dumping her tramps on that
city.
WILLIE SHAW. the L. X n. agent at
Duckar station, in Woodford county,
advertised for wife An Alabama
woman answered and thoy were mar
ried
MARTIN b OWENS, one OF the oldest
citizens Of Clinton county, died few
days ago lie was the father of four
teen children and had nearly lOOgrand-
children
CHAs, DAVIS, a painter, living near
Russcllvillc, accidentally shot his left
hand of while hunting. He is in a
critical condition.
OwENSBoRo is now connected with
Nashville and the south by long.dis-
tance telephone In short time, il is
said, the line will be- extended to
| Louisville.
TuE post office at Jay, Russell county,
will be discontinued after January Is.
BIr1 GREGORY, the Louisville strong
man, will meet Sandow Sando, San
dove, Sampson, or any other strong
man.
AN unknown Negro was found froz-
en- to death about three miles from
Emiuencc, the other morning. He is
supposed To have been intoxicated and
fallen 10y the wayside.
An least seventeen men in Ken
tucly will conclude that the income
tax is fine thing The collection Of
the tax will require the appointment
of large number Of deputy collectors
of internal revenue, and seventeen Of
them will be in Kentucky, five falling
TO Louisville and thcremainder being
distributed among the other four coll
lection districts
TINS county clerk Of Christian county
issued twenty-eight licenses to marry
Christmas week This, it is stated,
breaks the record in that county.
lluGH MluoLLANp is still in Jail at
Paducah, being unable as yet to give
bond
PENSIONS were granted the other day
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