Owingsville outlook., 1896-12-31

Joe Martin fell from the TOP
of n tree forty feet over prcci.
pice at Valley View, Madison Co.
and died of his injuries.
Frank Harris and Herman
Medley fought at Eagle Station
Carroll Co, last week. Medley
Is dead and Harris badly shot.
Somebody broke into the Wolfe
county Circuit Clerks office, at
Campton, and stole all the indict-
ments returned by the late grand
jury.
johnson Howe, colored, shot
Charles Lacey, special policeman,
at Cynthiana. Howe was removed
to the Paris Jail to save him from
lynching.
A lot of the Frankfort con-
victs wanted a pardon from Gov.
Bradley in order to go and fight
for the freedom Of the Cubans, but
their plan failed.
Charles Herndon, of Flat Lick,
Knox CO., shot his wife to death.
They had been separated and SEEM
ingly had just made up, on Jellico
Creek, Whitley Co.
In Rockcastle county, n fight
took place between two parties Of
men in which Jack Rigsby and
Armp Rowland were killed and
Greeley Lear wounded.
Ion b. Nall, editor of the Lou
isville Farmers Home journal, sold
his one-third interest to his asso-
Gates, NJ. w. Neal and John w.
Vreeland, and retired from the
newspaper business.
"A well-posted authority says
DIR. Hunter has over 40 caucus
votes promised him and can easily
get the Republican Senatorial nom
ination. The election is another
matter, however, as some Republi-
can Legislators will hardly support
him.
Lewis George Clark, the old
Lexington darkey who claims to be
the original of Geo. Harris of "Un-
Gle Toms Cabin" has engaged with
troupe playing that drama, to
appear Independently as an attrac-
ton.
The following silver Democrats
have announced for the nomination
for Clerk of the Court of Appeals:
Gus Richardson, of Meade county;
Sam Shackleford, OF Owensboro,
and John b. Gaines, of Bowling
Green.
Some talk at Frankfort of
mastering out the Hopkinsville and
Henderson militia companies and
mastering in a company each at
Owensboro and Morgantown. 9th
er changes are limited at in the Sd
Regiment.
I "A. j. Carroll, the Louisville
Iattorney, says the refusal of Treas
urer Long to pay old warrants rem
ders him and his sureties liable for
damages for violating the law,
which says that warrants shall be
paid when presented if there is
money to pay them with.
-Jo A. Parker, Populist Chair
man of Kentucky, expresses the
opinion that his party will have a
candidate in every legislative dis
trict in 1897 and expects to elect
at least 90 members of the General
Assembly; that there will be no
fusion for legislative offices, but
may be for county offices.
Richard Brooks, a Madison
county convict out on parole on
condition that he stayed out of the
State, went TO see Gov. Bradley to
secure full pardon. He is alleged
to have threatened the life of W. b.
Smith, his former attorney, and the
only Bryan elector chosen in Ken
lucky. Gov. Bradley had Brooks
put back in prison for violating
his parole.
j. S. R. Wedding, of the 4th
district, and III. S. Hawes, Of the
9th, Republican electoral nominees,
have contested the election of w.
B. Smith, of the Sth, he being the
only Ky. Bryan elector having
more votes than Wedding and
Hawes, who were tied in the vote.
The notice of contest alleges fraud
in the 1st, I'd, Sd, 4th, 7th, 9th and
10th districts.
AT Owensboro, on Friday
night, a mob took Albert Holt, col
ored, from Jail and lynched him.
Hollis trial for the murder of Po-
liceman White was in progress then
in Circuit Court. Circuit Judge
w. T. Owen said that never in the
history of the State had so great
an outrage been perpetrated upon
any Court, nor had the law been
so outraged. Holt had been de-
MED a change of venue, because 81
of the best citizens testified their
belief that he would get fair and
impartial trial, and his trial had
been conducted without any un-
necessary delay; then when the
\ trial was more than half finished
Dthe prisoner was lynched.
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