Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-10-22
KENTUCKY STATE NEWS.

cltttcu lem. y. W nittcmOrr mayor To
fill the uncXpircd term of his father,
Col G. j. Nhittcmore, who died in of.
ice. lie is well known over the state
a. travelling salesman and every body
is his friend.
WHILE hunting at Stanford the other
day, Gr"r"" Craig, aged Is, accidental
ly shot himself in the breast with a
doublc-hdrrvlcd shotgun. lie died an
hour later.
Mrs. EIIZAEETu STILL died at her
home, near Laaycttc, Christian cuuu-
". She was considerably more than
one hundred years old, but could not
remember her age. She said she wa,
married and had child two year. oil.
when her husband. Greed Stlll, jpiucI
the American amy during the war 81
lSI2.
THE republicans of the Seventh dis.
trict have formally indorscd W. c. L.
breckenridge for congress and will put
his name under their party device on
the ballot.
PADuCAu this year registered I,5as
democrats, l,G33 republicans and 3I3
non committal, an increase of 500 over
last year.
TmE other night at . o'clock at the
residence of cN-Cov. John Young
Brown in Louisville, his daughter, Eir-
ginia Singleton, was married to Maj.
Charles Alfred Booth, United States
army Miss Brown is n beautiful
young woman of the blonde type, IA
great belle in Louisville society and
leader of Frankfort society during
her fathers administration.
WARD u. LINN, eX-dcputy sheriff OF
Graves county, and four years deputy
warden at the Eddyville penitentiary.
died at Mayfcld. few DAYS ago, of
typhoid fever Mr. Linn left a wife
and child, both of whom are seriously
i'll, the mother not expected to re-
cover.
j. BARNES Caldwell and wife ccle-
bratcd the ti.ticth anniversary of their
wedding few days ago, by a family
reunion at their home, five miles from
Dlnville. 1 hey have seven living chill
dren.
TIE famous Glcnagncs stud. the
property of the late Nicholas Finser,
Louisville. was sold at auction the
other day. Imp. Eothen, the sire of
Eequital. was sold to J. J. Douglass
for So 900. A sucking of Imp. Eothen
out of Imp. Maori was bought by Milt
Young, of Lexington, for 81, 900.
REV. JONI WESLEY LYLE, n promi.
rent Methodist minister, died at his
ZONE near Fruit Hill, aged 90 years.
le had been in the active ministry 40
wears.
SHERMAN NEAL. colorcd, was killed
by Eugene Pitkin and Joe Mamie, also
colored, near Mt. Herman, eight miles
from Tompkinsville. Cause, an old
grudge.
The Kentucky Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows adjourned TO meet next year
at Greensboro.
THOMAS Z. WATTS, of Louisville, has
been elected vice.president of the
Southern League of Western Plumb
ers.
TIE plant of the Barnhill-Baller
Stockyard company, which was de-
stroyed by fire some weeks ago, at Pa
| iucah, is to be rebuilt on the former
site.
The Southern Presbyterian Synod
Of Kentucky, met a. Bowling Green
the other night with 81 delegates pres
ant. The retiring moderator, Rev. ".
l.. Cave, of Paducah, opened the scs-
sion with an able sermon. Rev. w. +.
Eellar, of Bardstown, was elected mod
orator for the present year and Rev. l..
D. Spencer, of Princeton. secretary.
Two young men of Paris have made
a novel bet, az follows: II Mckinley
is elected the democrat is to walk up
and down Main street attired in n suit
made of newspapers and sing a re-
publican campaign song. If Bryan be
the fortunate man, the republican is to
stick an oak board. IL feet long and
three feet wide, full of pins, the pins
| to be placed in an equal distance apart.
| These pins are to be taken out again,
counted and replaced again in the
same spot in given time.
ID. L. COULTER, the missing Mayfield
man, has been found at Charleston,
| Mo. lie was traced to Blandville and
Columbus, where it was found that he
crossed the river, saying that he was
going into Missouri to shoot squirrels.
The searchers found him at Charles
ton. His mind is completely shattered,
as had been feared by his friends.
BUFoRD OvERToN, the young fcur-
derer, was hanged at Harlan, c. H..
the other afternoon. Reports have
been afloat that n mob of Overton's
| friends had organized to rescue him,
but the Harlan county authorities
swore in large number of deputies.
| The county seat-was crowded with
mountaineers, who came to attend the
hanging. Butord Overton assisted in
the murder of an old peddler and his
wife. With his brother and John Scott
he waylaid the couple and shot them
| from ambush. Scott is doing life
term.
The store of john ]. Combs & Co.,
Stanton, burned the other night: loss,
S., 900; partly Insured.
The state pcnitentiary came near
going the way of the institution for
predetermined children. Few people
at Frankfort know of it, as the officials
keep the matter very quiet, but an in
cendiary fire, started by eonspiring
convicts in the most infiammable por-
ton of the building, was prevented
from doing its work only by the faith
fulness of a ''trusty," who discovered
the blaze and sounded the alarm.
| News has been received in Hopkins
vile from Kenney, Tex, in regard to
the death of Rev. T.. w. Dabney, a
pr ointment minister of the Christian
church, who formerly resided in Hop
kinsville, where he was born. He was
76 years OF age, and had resided in
Texas nearly forty years.