Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-10-29
KENTUCKY STATE NEWS.

coo,VoV III opiuS TOT SCHOOL purposes
will not be placed ON the ballots to be
voted for by the people at the coming
election. President Mark Coils, in be-
half of the board, has asked Judge
Bullock To set aside H. separate voting
places, one in each precinct, To be used
for voting for board of education can
didatcs. The board agrees to- pay the
extra expense attached. IL this is don,
the women will not have to take then
chances with the men as they did ON
registration day.
COMPROMISE has been effected be-
tween the city of Lexington and, for
mcr Collector \. G.. Sharp, by which
the city will get sl7, 900 of the SCI ,OOC
which the collector is said to owe the
city. The trout ls'was brought about
by clerk in the collectors office be-
ing charged with Incorporating the
money.
TnE OtIay stove works, Middles-
borough, employing - skilled mcchan-
les, ceascdtuperations n few days ago
No reasons are given, but the shut
down is supposed to be because of the
company's inability to foreshadow the
outcome of the election. G.. II. Holt
day, the manager, states that he may
rcorganize the company in a few
weeks.
SAN SoUrn, young man of Frank
fort, while out hunting the other af-
tcrnoon, had one eve destroyed and Ihe
other SO badly lacerated that he may
lose the sight of it, by the accidental
discharge of a gun.
THE authorities are after the tollgate
raiders. While their Investigations
are not made public, indictments, it is
probable, will follow. Owing to the
prominence of some of the parties, an
attempt will be made to quiet the mat
ter.
On account of the prevalence of diph-
liberia in llopkinsvillc. the Virginia
street public school has suspended for
two weeks. The school in the main
building on Clay street, attended by
the larger children, has not been inter
fered with. The disease is not of a
malignant type, only two deaths hav-
ing occurred thus far, but several cases
are reported.
Mrs. PEorLEs, the Louisville woman
imprisoned for criminal practice, par
doned by Gov. Brown on condition that
she leave the state, wants to return &c
Louisville. a petition presented tC
Gov. bradley has been refused.
THE remains % Henry Pennington, 9
noted mountain desperadO, of Leslie
county, who disappeared three years
ago. were found near lIyden. a bullet
hole in the skull shovel that he had
been murdered.
The city officials will drill an artc,
sian well in the middle of the square
at Lancaster ut once
BREATnITT county is ovcrrun with
squirrels. In places large cornfields
have been almost destroyed.
Ar the Mcridth schoolhouse, near
Bee Spring, gold and silver clubs were
formed Levi Davis, n farmer, was adj
dressing the silver club when he was
seized by two men and thrown from
the building. The silver men retail
ated at n gold meeting by shooting out
the lights.
WILL SETTLE, cashier of the United
States building and Loan association,
of Louisville, is a defaultcr for $, 200.
lie used two sets of bank books tC
cover up his populations, which have
been going on for several years. III
has not been arrested.
GEORGE GRIZZLY called Eph HELLER
out of the church at Centcrtown, OhiC
county, and accused him of circulating
slanderous story. lie demanded {
rctraction. iIeblcr refused. Grizzly
drew long-bladcd knife an,
plunged it six times into tn,
left SHE of IIeblcr. who fel
mortally wounded Grizzly mounted
horse which he had in wait
ing and gallopcd out of the village
lie was captured by sherilr's possC
after an exciting chase lie was lodgcc
in the county Jail.
ID. +. LITTEEELL and jeff McKane
two farmers of Eimondsou county
quarrcled at n baptist church, fv,
miles from Brownsville, during which
Littcrcll was stabbed in the back by
McKane. and will die. ] he troubl,
grew out of a political discussion.
THE trial of Otto and Miles Newton
and Ira Hughes, charged with conspir
acy to kill Ed Smith, ut Cadiz, recently
resulted in the discharge of Miles New
ton and Hughes and the holding o
Otto Newton for trial in the circui
court.
MoSEY from the sheriffs of the state
representing the revenue for this year
is fast coming in to the auditors Office
PApUCAu COW owners held a mas
meeting and adopted resolutions de
handing the repeal of the ordinanc,
against cattle running at large.
L. l.. CREEKMoRE was appointed post
master at Strunkc, Whitley county.
MARSHALL county has one of tn,
most cnterprising thieves ON record
He stole n flock of - geese, carrie,
them to Paducah and sold them
Wickliffe has a good match for him il
the person of one George Hallum, wh'
is charged with stealing a feather be,
and selling it to satisfy his craving TO
liquor.
N ciFtlAls iIOIu IilHuHldp a-
5000 gallon tank of oil was hred OF
Beaver creek. 1t was On the proper y
of the New Dominion Oil Co. Escaping
gas near the tank caught from a mattel
in a work hand.
The silver democratic county com
mittcc met at Stanford. the other DAY
and decided not to nominate any can
didatcs for county offices until Septem
Der. 1897
The Episcopal convocation began al
Grace church, Paducah, the other day
and proved one of the most significant
ecclesiastical events of the year
There were present about thirty dele
gates representing twenty-six countie,
and about eighteen churches.
ALL the county clerks of the state
except two in Harlan and Elliott hav,
acknowledged the receipt of the secre
tary of state certificate of electors who
go on the official ballot.
GEN. Il. Il. CRITTENDEN, consul gen