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

Inc Otner OfflcerS were re-etecteu-
They are Mr.. Ii. Il. Huntoon, secretary
and superintendent; w. S. Parker,
treasurer, and DIR. w. Bailey, physi-
clan.
Mrs. F. NJ. TRABUE, a clerk at s720 in
the United States pension agency,
Louisville, has resigned.
FRANK Ely, of Benton, Marshall
county, is the cattle king of Jackson's
Purchase. lie has been buying and
selling cattle for a quarter of a CEN
| tury.
The colored women at Richmond
have organized baseball club.
| JAMES BAKER. a pioneer resident of
Galloway county, died near Harris
Grove.
| Mrs. ELIZABETH SHELBY KINKEAD, of
Lexington, has written a history of
Kentucky, which will soon be pub
lished.
T. c. WILLIAMS, formerly of Barcfs-
town, has been nominated for district
Judge in the Thirty-fifth judicial dis
trict of Texas.
Mrs. HARVEY WILSON, of Pamela, is
only 80 years old, but she is the mother
of IA children.
In Madison county a bald eagle
swooped down on dog and made an
unsuccessful effort to carry off the
| canine.
W. c. WATTS, of Smithland, is writ
ing n book entitled CHRONICLES of a
Kentucky Settlement" which will give
a history of the famous old town of
Salem, in Livingston county. Salem
was the birthplace and early home of
many prominent Kentuckiars of the
present day.
JOHN SPURLOCK, of jackson, found an
old Spanish coin in his horse lot. The
coin is of about twelve cents value, and
was coined 1913 years ago, when Charles
Ill was king of Spain and India. 1t is
of high degree of fineness
AT Munfordville the jury in the
Steinberger case, after an hours de-
liberation, returned a verdict of guilty,
and fixed his punishment at confine-
ment in the penitentiary for life. The
defendant received the announcement
of the verdict with the same stolid I'M
concern that he has shown all during
the trial. The verdict is Endorsed by
everyone.
LEON BALDAUF, of Henderson, who
is a student of the College of Pharmacy
at Philadelphia, in a class of iSl, has
been awarded the Alumni carrying
with it a handsome prize medal This
is the highest honor conferred by the
faculty. Baldauf is the youngest men,
Der of his class and is only is years of
age.
GUTHRIE will take a vote June IL on
the local option question.
WILLIAM SMATHERs, a wealthy farm
er of Sharpsburg, has made an assign
ment.
JAMES E. WIcHELEN, Edward O.
Leigh and Clint Il. Leigh have incor-
porated the Register Newspaper Co. at
Paducah, with a capital of $4,000.
The Register will begin publication as
a morning daily about May l.
COL QUINTUs c. SHANKs, of Hart
ford, celebrated his eighty-fifth birth
day recently. Though he is totally
blind, he is in excellent health, and his
mind and recollection is as good as
ever. Col. Shanks went to Hartford in
the year 1888, and for fifty years has
been prominent in the history of the
county.
CHAs. NJ. RICE, of the firm of Paul &
Rice, Eminence contracting painters,
fell from a scaffold 20 feet high to the
pavement the other day. Besides break
ing his hip and two fingers, he is seri-
ously hurt internally.
PENSIONS were issued the other day
as follows: Renewal-Wm. f. Felker,
Shady Grove, Crittenden county. In
crease-James III. Moore, Peach Grove,
Pendleton; James Lowder, Morning
View, Kenton. Original Widows, Etc.
Joanna ID. Avendick, Covington;
Sarah A. Babb, Enon, Caldwell.
DR. JOHN F. MCKENZIE, of Christian
county, died the other night at lie
Roy, Ill, whittier he had gone few
weeks ago for medical treatment. He
was brother of Hon. James A. Nc
Kenzie.
JUDGE PERKINS, of the Kenton coun-
ty (Covington) circuit court, has grant
ed the request of Commonwealth At
torney Cleary for special grand jury
to investigate the pool-rooms that
are operating in West Covington. The
special grand jury will convene May 5.
AT Lancaster Shelby Mum, who is
under sentence for 81 years for the
his cell and tried to escape through
the hall of the Jail floor, but he was Sc
cured.
Mrs. SARAH SIMPSON, of Rollings, has
died, aged 90, probably the oldest per-
son on the pension rolls in Kentucky.
She was born the FIRST day of the
week, the first day of the month, and
the first day of the year of this CEN
fury.
| In Madison county "a persons dined
off one mammoth sweet potato.
The populists of Webster county will
hold their convention at Dixon, April
25, to select delegates to the state con-
vention.
PADUcAH is to have some new streets,
while few of the older ones are to be
improved. The highways and byways
of Mechanicsburg, previously anony-
nous, are to be named and graveled
and perhaps broadened.
News has reached Middlesborough
from London that new company has
been capitalized to take charge of the
South Boston iron works; that money
has been raised to liquidate all indebt-
edness, and that steps will at once be
taken to put it in operation. 1t will
run as a tool and implement factory.
j. S. GRIssoM. of Turk, captured a rat
that was Is inches long from tip of
nose to tail.
PosT OFFICES established in Kentucky
the other day: Acorn, Pulaski county,
Mary ii. May postmistress; Coffee,
Ohio county, Isaac A. Hicks, postmas-
| ter.
| r. B. HUrcHCRAFT, the coal man, has
now under contemplation the building
of six-mile railroad spur from Flat
Lick station on the l.. and N. road, to
a valuable tract of camel coal land in
Knox county. He was one of the orig
inal coal operators in Jellico.
THE Ford lumber mills have a fine