Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-08-20
KENTUCKY STATE NEWS.

MEN L jJh OI y L Ia NE w -. |
TUE post office at Donansburg, Green |
county, will be discontinued after Au-
gust II.
THE receipts for the Louisville post !
office for the month of July were ST., |
500, as against Sa3,C for the same !
month of last year.
GIN. la Rue THOMAS was nominated
for congress ON the cighty-fifth ballot
by the Ninth district democratic con-
vention.
DUEING a storm at Lcwisburg the
other evening, John Lehman and two
sons were knocked senseless by light
ming.
Dr.. CUEEAS c. SMITH, one of the best
known physicians of Richmond, died
the other day as a result of prostra-
ton from heat. lie was a brother OF
ten. Green Clay Smith and Hon. j.
Speed Smith clerk of the Kentucky
house Of representatives. and was the
oldest s1u # Col. John Speed Smith.
IIGHTSING struck the side of
storchousc m Lewisburg the other day.
making hole through the wall 10 feet
long, and at the same time struck Il
Negroes house hundred yards away,
tearing out the walls separating the
rooms.
J. II. HAMPTON, an aged TcnSi ncr, was
robbed Of between so al SO by two
c"lOrrd youths, John No.aEd and La
fIycttc GENTRY at Richmond. They
were arrested later
The other night Ii of the prisoners
confined in the county ill ut Bowling
Green made their escape 10y saving the
large iron bars of a window. Five of
this number returned t" Jail and the
officers are in hot pursuit of thc 9th
ers.
Il. H. CLINT was app ointed postmaster
at PIls@rovc, Franklin county, vice Il.
c. llarrod, resigned
THE republicans Of the Sixth district
the other morning dominated Hon.
Richard +. Earnst, of C0vington. for
congress.
DAVE BAKER and a man named Beec..
shot each other near CulliHgswOrth. At
last accounts both were still living An
old fcud was the cause.
rTSMIE DUNCAN. farmer living near
CnT.nth, returned to his home from =
nearby field and found hi, young wife
lying dead in the yard before the door.
/ hc coroner was summoned and de-
Cidcd that she had met death from taxi
ing cedar oil to prevent approaching
maternity. DIR. Robinson said she
took at least an ounce Of the drug and
I a. 81
Wilson's. Her forehead was bruised
and scalp cut. evidently from having
fallen out of the doorway into the
yard
TIE grand lodge CT the X. of T.. of
kentucky will hold its annual session
at the Hcnni.on hotel, Cincinnati, Sep
TENDER lj-lI.
HERBERT SALT, aged -, Il former
river engineer. died at his ho.=c on
Fifth street. Newport, the other morn
ing. salt was for many years ON
the steamer Guiding Star. which
sank in the Miss:ssiI pi river over year
ago.
The other afternoon Detective Gaif-
n"v, of Covington. arrested Charles
Eolingcr, j. ID. Cowan. Henry Eo-cn
and VI. u. Cavanaugh, employees of ST.
monton's Second street Iool-room. and
| brought them before County Ju ige
| Stephens They were placed under
| $1,000 bonds for their appearance.
| Mark Simonton and Collector DaveZGc
| signed the bonds.
5. T. AND II. ID. VANCE, lawyers, filed
| suit against Henderson for $500 dam
| ages for alleged carc'rssncss of the
city agents in not cxtinguishing the
recent Pythidn building fire, which
burned the office and law library of
the plaintiffs.
There were ten cases of smallpox in
the cruptive hospital, Padueah, the
other day.
ANOTHER murder occurred in Nagof-
fin county, whisky being the cause.
VIM. |. Patrick was stabbed in the
head by benjamin Eisncr, from which
wound lie will probably die. Tom IIiE-
gins, deputy sheriff, went to aires:
Eisncr, when he resisted, striking liig-
! gins with a club. Either Tom Higgins
or Charley Arnctt, who was Summoned
TO assist in the arrest, fired Our scots
at Risncr, killing him instantly.
A LETTER received at Frankfort by
! state officers announces Judge Willis
Reeves, Lebanon; ". Il. Hayward and
John ID. Wickliffc, Bardstown. as cleo
tors on the national democratic ticket
| from that district.
LoUIs RICHAED, OF Scottsvillc, Allen
| county, was arrested at Nashville,
Tenn, the other night, on n charge o.
forgery, and was brought back home.
II is charged that the prisoners father
gave him a check for S.3. payable -
q. W. Ellis, of Karen county, Ky. and
| told him To mail it to Ellis. This oc-
curred several nights ago. Instead Of
| mailing it. he went to Gallatin, where
he had the check ca-,hed, being idcnti-
fled rs Ellis and signing Ellis name.
EX-Gov. john YoUSG Brown has sig
nifcd his willingness to accept the
nomination of the free silver democrats
for congress from the Louisville district
SISTER EyISGToS. one of the lowell
est characters of the Society of Shaix-
ers, of Pleasant Hill, died th9re n few
days ago of typhoid fever, and was
buried in their cemetery there, She
was native of Louisville, and had
many friends and aequaintanees She
joined the shakers in 1919 and had
since lived with them and faithfully
practiccd her belief in their tenets, shs.
her death is greatly lamented by the
fraternity.
Mrs. E.GossETT, the venerable moth
err of cx-Chief Justice w. u. Holt, OF
Frankfort, died there the other morn
ing, aged %. The remains were taken
to Mt. Sterling for burial
Two men were killed. aud. three
others were badly hurt by the over
turning af a hand-ear GU the licking
ton X Eastern railroad, pear Torrent.
The mon We're thrown from a trestle
fifty feet high.
ENOCU E. LYON a horse dealer of