Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-04-16
KENTUCKY STATE NEWS.

The state board of prison managers
held a meeting the other morning and
finally notified the contractors for the
penitentiary chair factory output of
their refusal to accept deprecated state
warrants in lieu of the monthly dues of
the contractors. The latter announced
they would adhere to their original
tender of the warrants, whereupon the
board gave them a short time To name
some sort of terms for AMIGA BILE adjust
ment of the contract. Unless the con-
tractors back down over 700 convicts
will be left idle.
BUD BRoADDUs, of Mullins, has in
vented buggy trip, for lowering bug
gy tops from the inside of the buggy
without getting out. Mr.. Broaddus
will apply for patent
JOHN HAMBRICK, the head millwright
at Ashors sawmills, at Ford, was
caught in the main shaft of the mill
and killed.
burned in Simpson county with a large
lot of feedstuff and farming imple-
ments. The fire is thought TO have
been incendiary.
PENSIONS have been issued to Ken
tuckians as follows: Original-Edwin
Jones, Normal, Boyd; VIM. l.. Neyman,
Newport; Especial, March 81 Daniel
White, Paducah. Additional-Frank
Burrell, Dover, Mason Supplemental
-Luima Douglas, Elizabethtown, Har.
din. Renewal and reissue-Thomas
Stevens, Louisville. Increase-Martin
V. Joyce, Gold Pond, Trigg. Reissue
Leroy Wickliffe, Bardstown, Nelson.
Original widows-(Special, March 81
Isabella Starks, Fulton.
ELI W. Brown filed suit in the circuit
court at Bardstown against VIM. b.
Greer, well-known farmer, for $40.
900 damages for SANDER. Brown al
leges in his petition that Greer said in
presence and hearing of divers and
sundry persons that plaintiff Brown
had sworn a Lie in lawsuit.
CHILDREN of the Newport schools
have donated SIT so in pennies toward
buying a silver service for the new bat
tleship Kentucky.
The oil well which was being sunk at
Blaine had to be abandoned before
reaching a depth uf 800 feet because of
getting into thick vein of quicksand.
The operators were unable to control
it, and after considerable effort gave it
up, and are now putting down a new
well in the same neighberhood.
The other night a tax levy was set
by the city council of Lexington at
si.25 for the coming year, a reduction
of Is cents on the 500.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to build a
town hall at Greensburg.
A MASONIC hall is to be built at La
grange.
GEO. W. DARRAH, a grocer at Carroll
ton, made an assignment.
LINCOLN county officers are hunting
Win Evans colored, who is now known
to have robbed Dank's jewelry store at
Stafford of $500 worth of goods. A
brother of Evans has been arrested.
Mrs. SUSIE STEELE, widow and ad-
ministratrix of Richard Steele, has filed
suit in the circuit court at Winchester
against the c. & q. railroad for $40, 900
damages for the loss of her husband
About six weeks ago John and Richard
Steele, brothers, and very prominent
farmers, were killed while crossing the
c. & o. railroad in a buggy, near
Tebb's Station.
Tom b. PELI. of Lewisport, has re-
Gently invented and copyrighted a new
game of cards which he calls Mathesis.
1t is an rithmetical game.
THE l3-year-old daughter of VIM.
Pulsey. of Rocky Hill Station, was
burned to death by her clothing catch
ing fire while alone in the house. She
became frightened and ran out of the
building, and undertook to go to a
neighbours house near by, but was so
suffocated she fell on her way, and be-
fore assistance reached her all her
clothing was burned off. She lived
only few hours.
A SON of Charlie McClain, near Lynn
vile, Graves county, was killed few
days ago. He was riding a horse, and
the animal stumbled and threw him,
killing him instantly. His dead body
was found few moments afterward.
WILL c. C. CLARK, an asylum patient,
committed suicide at Hopkinsville by
hanging. He made a rope out of a
sheet and fastened it to a ventilator in
the wall. He was preacher from PEN
rod, Muhlenberg county, so years old,
and had been in the asylum IL years
JOHN A. VICE, of Sherburne, who is
"a years old, has cut four front teeth.
7. C. RARGLAND, of Cogswell, is the
owner of a lamb that has only two
feet. 1t is living and doing well.
HERMAN CoTTINGHAM is the champion
high kicker at Licking. He can raise
his No. IL just eight feet high.
The Racket store, small concern al
Cynthiana, made an assignment
WESLEY NAPIER, a miner, while boat.
ing at Aberdeen, was drowned in Green
river.
MRS. ii. DIEHL, aged 80, wife of a
well-known shoe merchant at Paducah
died a few days ago.
CIRCUIT COURT is in session at Liber
ty, Casey county, with one of the larg-
est dockets for years.
The smoke-house of Dave McComss
burned at London. 1t contained over
5000 worth of meat.
TWENTY-FIVE of the students of Beth
ell college, at Russellville, have organ
lied military company, which is call
ed the Bethel cadets
Mrs. CHARLOTTE GAMBLE, of Madison
county, is q brick and stone mason and
gets plenty OF work to do.
WN. :. BROCK was held over BY
Squire U. $. Coyle at Berca under
bond of $500, charged with the mali
cious shooting and wounding of Rober,
Lacks, few days ago. The wounded
man is on the road to recovery.