Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-04-23


ham Eifron, of Winchester, was
choked to death by a collar button
she had gotten into her throat.
Three young Lexington boys
playing Indian set fire to a four
year-old girls dress and burned
her severely. They were arrested.
The Standard Co. is preparing
to lay petroleum pipe line in
Wayne Co., and big prices are be-
ing paid for oil rights in that ter
ritory.
Mrs. Alex Abbott, of near
Bangor, was insanely jealous of
her husband he says, without
cause) and killed herself with
strychnine.
In Harrison county, James
Daugherty shot a small bird which
fell near an old tomato can. Strange
to say, the can contained four gold
watches, all running.
DIR. Godfrey Hunter exulted
little after the State Rep. Con. by
saying that if he had been elected
Senator Bradley would have had a
solid delegation to st. Louis.
Paul Goetz, a Lexington baker,
attempted to hang himself. He
was arrested later and heavily
fined, imprisoned, and put under a
peace bond, on charge of beating
his wife.
The over ninety cases of meas
les among the Frankfort conyicts
are improving. The chair-factOry
output was diminished in conse-
quence of the sickness of the con-
Wet wOrkmen.
AT Greenup, Lieutenant Gov
ernor WOrthington and Hon. B. f.
Bennett had a spat in court over a
law case and the former was bare
ly prevented from striking the
latter with an inkstand.
The Bowling Green postoffiee
was robbed Of 1,1429S's worth OF
and l cent postage stamps March
3lst. They were taken out of the
safe during preparations for the
removal of the postoffice.
The finding of the body OF
Mrs. Orpha Stanley's infant in a
spring caused the mothers arrest
for its murder, near Louisa. She
was tried and sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary.
In Letcher county, a newcomer
named McCreary, of North Caro-
lima, had his head shot all to
pieces by James Britain. The lat
ter with his brother William al
legged something McCreary had
said about them, which he refused
to retract.
The tria! of the suit of Wm.
r. Gordon against w. S. Burns
for $4,000 damages for the alleged
seduction of GordOn's daughter
Louella ended at Greenup in a
failure of the jury to agree. The
Commonwealth has also twice pros
ecuted the case.
"A sensational divorce suit is
that of Mrs. Yirgie Graves, daugh-
ter of Ambrose Portwood and wife
of Ollie Graves, the Nicholusvill,
horseman. She brought suit al
Lawrenceburg, alleging abandon
ment, cruel and inhuman behavior
on her husbands part, and asks fol
the custody of their only child
Marie.
On Jennie's Creek, johnson
county, Mrs. Geo. n. Walter,
clothing caught fire at a drying
kiln. She ran by barn contain
ing 200 barrels of corn and i
caught fire and burned down. Sin,
Jumped into the creek and wa
taken out nearly dead. Her four
year-old daughter also caught fir
and was badly burned.
The attorneys prosecuting
Jackson and Walling at Newpor
in the Pearl Bryan affair give GU
the statement that they will prov,
that those two men were seen to
gether on the Covington suspension
bridge soon after the murder ant
we're seen throwing the head int
the Ohio river. The jackson tria
comes up April 21st; Walling's
May 9Th.
james E. Pepper, the note,
Lexington distiller, conveyed al
his property by deed of trust t.
the Safety Trust and Vault Com
pany, of that city, for the purpos
of paying and satisfying his in
debtedness. His liabilities ar,
100000; assets about $4,000
The depression in the whisky bus
mess was the cause of the convey
ance. Col. Pepper will continue
his distilling and racing business
Thieves stole about 1000 lbs
of leaf tobacco from the barn of j
I. Day, of Hazel Green. He re
marked in a joke that as the thieves
had got their part he wanted tn,
honest people to get the rest. AnC
they got it. Thirty-seven women
we're at the barn at one time, ant
among hands soon cleaned out the
tobacco. Three women came or
horseback from Breathitt county
but got in too late. The tobacco
treat cost Mr.. Day about $500.