Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-08-13
KENTUCKY STATE NEWS.


heat.
G.. w. BOYD was the other day APP
pointed postmaster at Wallonia, Trigg |
county, vice T. X. Dye, resigned.
ANTHONY ALCoRN, the Stanford Ne |
gro who was to have been hanged at |
Stand -Ord the other day for the muir
der of his father, has been granted a |
respite of 80 days
TnE monthly statement of the Ken
lucky state treasurer shows 81, 351, 1885,
o. of outstanding warrants and S22l,- |
1870 cash ON hand.
MUCH damage has been caused in
Wolfe county by floods. One life was
lost.
GREEN EDMoNsON, a cOlOred man,
employed at the rock quarry at Ben
son, five miles west of Frankfort, was
crushed and killed by construction
train.
ALEX. FURROw, a former resident of
Meade county, was found dead on the
side of road near Birds Point, Mo-, a
few days ago.
4. j. AENETT, ex-member of the Ken
lucky legislature, and J. Frank Atche-
son, chairman of tn republican county
committee, had a difficulty at Saylers-
vile, resulting in fight, in which Ar
nett was struck over the head with a
rock and Atcheson was cut in several
places. They disputed over the money
question, both being somewhat under
the influence of liquor. Neither is dan
gerously wounded.
CITY CLERK GARLAND's mortality re-
port shows 81 deaths in Lexington dur
ing July-ls white females. Ii white
males, l6 colored females and Is col
ored males. Three murders are il
cludcd.
ROBERT PoLLocK. the l4-year-Old step
son of Ed Davis, while working in the
saw pit of the Central City planning
mill, Central City, got too near the saw
and had his left arm sawed off just be-
| low the elbow.
REPORTS from all over Christian and
| adjoining counties are to the effect
| that the tobacco worms are destroying
| the weed to an alarming extent. La
| Dor can not be obtained even at fancy
| figures, and it now looks as if fully
Onc-half of the growing crop will be
| lost. In Trigg county about forty per
cent. of the crop has already been
| abandoned.
A BIG crowd gathered at Stanford to
see, as best they could from places of
| elevation, the expected execution of
| Anthony AIcorn, and when it became
known that respite had been granted
| there were many expressions of disap-
| prevail, though some commended the
/ governors action.
Is point of attendance the camp
| meeting now in progress at Parsons
| Grove, near Eussellville, is a failure.
Never before in the history of the
| grounds were a. few people present at
| the meetings. Hard times, millions of
tobacco worms, and oppressivcly hot
weather are responsible Tor the small
| crowds.
TuF barn of Walter Richardson
| Smith. of Green river, near Munford-
| Vile, was destroyed by fire. Ii was a
large building and contained hay and
| oats and nearly 200 bushels of wheat, a
buggy. wagon and lot of farm i'm
| plcments.
| IIENEY GLOVER has been elected
president Of the new Louisville Tobac-
co Warehouse Co.
RUssELLvH.LE is to Eave a new bank
with $780, 600 capital.
! RAYMOND CAMPIoS, the son of Robert
+. Campion, so Fast Kentucky street,
Louisville, was drowned in salt river
the other afternoon.
PRoF. LANDoS c. METCALFE, who oc-
cupicd the chair of physiology and
mathematics at the Louisville Manual
Training high school, was drowned the
other day while bathing in the Big
Sandy river. in Pike county. Prof
Mctcllfe had been in camp in the
mountains with young Speed Mcnifee.
Tom HALL and Terry James, farmers,
quarrclcd in discussing meeting at
Greer field. James was stabbed five
times and died the other morning
Hall is cut in seven different places
and can not live.
FoUE cases Of smallpox arc reported
near Faducah.
AUDITOR STONE is said to have con-
| WINGED himself that the banks of the
state have not been paying taxes on
all the surplus subject to taxation.
SoUNp-NoNEY democrats of Hopkins
vile have formed a sound-money
Democratic le1gu'.
Ar the meeting just closed at La,
tonia the largest winner was Mr.. VI. +.
nwycr. His colt Ben Brush won Sl3.-
300. First Mate came next with 81, OO5.
Schcrrcr heads the list OF Jockeys wi. h
81 mounts to his credit, Charley Thorp,
coming next with 81.
1nE Postal Telegraph Co. will beg al
preparations To enter Padueah as so5n
as the Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwest t.
ern railroad is formally transferred to
the Illinois Central
\ LETTER passed through the Dam
vile post office, the other day, adj
dressed to party at ''Junktian Siday.-
1t was forwarded to junction City
THORNTON Cox, who disappeared
from Lexington 80 years ago and who
was thought 20 be dead, turns up alive
and well, and is said to be the richest
man in North Carolina.
c. z. DTLEY, aged 20 years, and one
of the best citizen of Fleming county.
is dead at TiIton.
The Red river is higher than it has
! SoNh '4AtNS 100 NAStiH III lhC DptLoul
land are all destroyed and fences
washed away. Thousands of dollars
damage has been donc.
j. Hunt MCNIURTY, superintendent
of public schools, of Lancaster, held a
colored institute, which was largely at
tended by both white and colOred. 1t
was in session all week.
FATHER Ton MAJOR, an ex-confcder-
ate soldier, in his sermon at Sacred
Heart church, Frankfort, criticized the
Franklin county silver men fur carry
ing cross of gold through the streets
lie urged Catholics to take no part in
a parade where such things were done
The campaign was opened in Edmon-
son county by a joint debate between
free silver republican and sound
money democrat.
NEAR Clay, eight miles west of Prov
idcnce, Tom Brown, an insane hus-
band, terribly butehered his family at
midnight. Mother-in-law, wife and
baby were cut and beaten with an AK
and will probably die. Brown went to
neighbor after the deed and asked to
be shot He is in custody.