Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-07-02
KENTUCKY STATE NEWS.

ANOTHER EFFORT Will be made W
save DIR. Massie, the Owen county mur<
derer. from the penitentiary. This
time Gov. Bradley will be asked to par
don him.
THERE will be no argument docket of
the court of appeals published here
after, and lawyers viii be notified
through the mails when cases will be
during the present term.
OHIO QUARLEs, the two-year-old
child of Jake Quarles, of Churchill,
Christian county, fell into an open els
tern and was. drowned.
TIE blackburn club, of Lexington,
met the other night and adopted a neat
silver gray uniform to be worn to Chi
cago by the 100 members who will at
tend the democratic convention.
CAPT. NOEL GAINES. of the McCreary
guards, of Frankfort, received notice
the other day that his application for
appointment as second lieutenant in
the United States army had been ia
vOrably considered by the president,
and he was requested to prepare for
his examination.
THE following fourth-class postmas-
tiers were commissioned in Kentucky a
few days since: w. Z. Watson, Beth
any, Owen county; J. f. Barger, Esto,
Russell county; V. Ross, Morning Glory,
Nicholas county; W. A. Hinton, MUSES.
Mills, Fleming county; WV. Ellington,
Smithsonville, Harrison county.
THE store OF John Grafton, nine miles
west of Lewisburg, was burglarized.
All the money and several hundred dol
lars worth of goods were taken.
A FARMER named Marion was thrown
from a mule he was riding, near Lewis
burg. He is not expected to recover.
JAMES II. PIERCE, a well-known to-
bacco grower of Montgomery county,
dropped dead the other morning of
heart disease.
THOMAS III. CLAY, of Lexington, has
positively declined to accept the repub
lican nomination for congress in the
Seventh district.
Miss Rosa CAUDTLL, daughter of Hon.
w. J. Caudill, of Barbourville, was
locked in a vault as joke by a young
man and narrowly escaped suffocation.
The large library of DIR. Stephen
Yerlxes. deceased. father of Hon. John
w. Yerlxes, has, in accordance with his
wishes, been trrned over to Center coll
lege to form the nucleus of college
library.
ELLA GARNETT, colored, attempted
police station, Louisville, by hanging
herself with her stockings.
THE populists of Owen county are
called to meet at Owen county, Satur-
day, July IL, for the purpose of select
ing delegates to the state convention at
Paducah, July 20.
The Kentucky Millers' association,
which met at Lexington the other day,
elected the following officers for the en-.
suing year: President, Joe Lecompte
Lexington; vice president, s. p. Kerr
Winchester; secretary and treasurer
John |. Logan, Shelbyville. On com
pairing notes the millers found thai
Kentucky will produce only half a croI
of wheat this year, but that the quality
will be good.
BEFORE adjourning the court of ap
peals made an order that no argument.
would be heard next term. 1t is said
that practically all the cases that will
be decided during the term have al
ready been argued. The court is at
tempting to catch up with the argu
ments which are under the present ar
rangement prehistoric when the cases
are reached.
AT Il meeting of the bondholders OF
the Southern Land Improvement com
pany held in Louisville few days age
a plan for reorganization was adopted
having for its object the purchase Of
the Pineville property at the foreclos
ure sale ordered by the United States
circuit court for August next. The
plan agreed upon calls for an assess
ment of 5 per cent. upon the principal
of the bond held by the subscribers.
THE county committee OF the popu.
lists of Ohio county will hold a meet
ing at Huff's Creek church July 4.
The Lexington roller mills put on an
extra force a few nights ago, and will
run day and night till fall.
THE court of appeals, in an opinion
by Judge Hazelrigg, decided the case
of Mayor Todd, OF Louisville, affirming
the decision of the court below and
holding that as he is filing an unex
pired term, that his successor must be
elected this fall and not in November
1897, as contcnded by Mayor Todd
This also applies 70 Judge Landes, who
was appointed by Gov. Bradley to sue
eeed the late Judge Grace.
Gov. BRADLEY has granted permits
sion to the following companies of thu
Second regiment to drill at Lexington
July 4: Frankfort, Carlisle, Winchester
and Lexington companies. New uni
forms have been received for the entip~
Second and Third regiments, and viii
be disbursed from the adjutant gener
ais office shortly.
AT Lancaster Henderson, Jones shot
VIM. Cumley in the abdomen. fatally
wounding him. The trouble occurred
about six miles from town, and began
over Jones telling neighbor that Cum.
ley had aeeusee him 1.-THE neighbour OF
milking his cows. Cumley denied say
ing it and JoneSshot him. The sheriff
is in search OF Jones.
In thc 5rNf-dressing contest at Eos
ter siapgutrr-house, Lexington. Chas
s'heT1H, who was defeated in Cinciu
No. Gently. came off victorious in nv,
min scs and eighteen seconds Hi:
competitor, Hugh Ellison, dressed hi:
beef in six minutes and one second.
PLAN to fire the prison and escape
devised by three Louisville convicts
Charles Brown, Henry Gardner and
Jack Horewell, was discovered and
frustrated by the officials at the Frank
fort penitentiary.
The supervising architect of the
treasury has confirmed the sale of the
old Louisville custom house to Mr.. w
N. Haldeman.
AT Bowling Green; the Association OF
Kentucky Baptists adjourned the Other
night. The next meeting will be held
at Georgetown some time in June next
The attendance was between five and
six hundred.
JAMES MARSHALL, aged AZ years, OF
Hopkinsville, swallowed q poisonous
bug while eating blackberries from the
vines. He was seized with spasms and
died within few minutes.
CIRCUIT court convened at Irvine a
few DAYS ago. There are on the docket
122 chancery, 81 common law, IL Grim
inal and l49 misdemeanor cases In
cluded are two murder cases.
IN roxx ut ,,ian;o -. n,,-l~;, $3.50,