Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-07-09
STATE NEWS.

Luther Clark, aged II, was
killed by lightning in Barren coun-
ty.
"A rain and windstorm did
much damage to crops in Harrison
county.
The Commercial Hotel at Har-
rodsburg burned, causing a loss of
$4,000.
WIN. johnson was killed by
lightning while hoeing potatoes,
near Harrodsburg.
-Hailstones hit and crippled
two work hands on T. ID. Chenault's
farm in Madison county.
Ben II. Ridgely, of Louisville,
Consul to Geneva, Switzerland, is
seriously i'll with indigestion.
Sam Roberts, a young school,
teacher, was drowned in Trouble
some Creek, Breathitt county.
Edward Wood in a fight will
his farm hand John Price shot and
killed Price, in Fayette county.
AT Hyden, John w. Pace got
a fifteen-year sentence for compile.
ity in the killing of Allen Lewis.
-Ex-Judge John C. Chenault
has bought the Richmond Climax
and will run it as a silverite organ
Vicious hogs attacked and Sc
riously injured Ed Wayne's little
girl and her young brother In Ma
rion county.
The Republicans will hold {
big ratification meeting at Lexing.
ton July %. Several big guns vii
shoot off their mouths.
AT Edmonton, Metcalf county,
Nick Ray, horseman, shot and kill.
ed Albert Scott, lawyer, over a law
suit in regard to boundary line
of a town lot.
The members of the Ky. Press
Association who went on the South.
ern tour had a great time. Next
years meeting will be held at Mid
dlesborough.
Geo. o. Barnes will preach a,
Russellville for a while. He has q
fancy now that the Anglo Saxon
race is composed of the "Lost
Tribes of Israel"
Rev. Tinsley, State evangelist,
will begin a meeting at the Chris
tian church Tuesday night, to con-
tinue ten or twelve days.-Bar-
bourville Experiment.
james Robinson, of Bourbon
county, found in Stoner Creek a
pearl that is perfectly round, is of
a yellowish tinge, weighs 25 grains,
and is valued by him at $500.
On Wilson Creek, Carter coun.
ty, in pursuance of a feud John
Martin, Sam Kouns and Bud An.
geler attacked the Conleys anG
dangerously shot James and slight.
ly wounded Abner Conley.
Major King, of Fayette coun.
ty, became enraged at the mule he
was driving in a pillow and pulled
out its tongue by the roots, killing
it. It Is said to be the third mule
he has killed in that way.
Lexington, the storm center Of
sensations, is having a carnival Of
burglary and counterfeit silver
com. Good imitation silver dollars
are abundant, and six burglaries
were committed in seven days.
| j. v. Schiller, Secretary of tn,
Grand Central Building & Loar
Association, of Covington, disap
peared, having failed to account
for $4,000 of the company's as
sets. In consequence tho concern
assigned.
| Roswell P. Horn and famous
"Coin" Harvey debated silver a
the Lexington Chautauqua the
Fourth. "Coin" offended the womer
by saying the silver question was
so simple the women and children
could understand it.
Rev. Leon Penrod celebrated
the Fourth by tanking up and
threatening to cut the heart out OF
VIM. Carver, near Vanceburg. Car
yer knocked Penrod down, where
upon Penrod cut Carver's throat
but, luckily, not fatally.
james Holt was shot and killed
by Albert Dyer, in the Plummer's
Landing neighborhood, Fleming
county. Dyer is the principal
witness in the case of the Crawford
party charged with killing Charles
Niece, and the killing is thought to
have grown out of that affair.
The Mt. Sterling Gazette has
been sold to L. T. Wood & Co., and
the Office moved to the Journal
building. The Gazette will con-
tinue to be Republican paper and
will be edited as formerly by John
c. Wood, while the Journal will
continue to be a strictly society
paper aud will in future appear on
Saturday.-Mt. Sterling Journal.
-Fayette Brooks, aged 81, shot
and killed Gus Mckenzie, son of
County Judge Oscar Mckenzie, at
West Liberty. The killing took
place Monday and by the follow
ing Saturday night Brooks had
been tried, convicted and sentenced
to be hanged. 1t is the quickest
instance of legal conviction for
a capital crime known in this Sec
ton.
Sheriff Gross, of Fayette coun-
ty, will bring Arthur w. Platt
from Oxford, England, if he is ad-
vised by the British Government
that Plat will be eXtradited. Platt
while an attendant at the Lcxing-