Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-04-02
KENTUCKY STATE NEWS.


THE Shakers will rebuild their brick
storeroom, burned at South Union some
time ago.
MIDDLEsBoRoUGH is looking up. A
stove foundery has located there, a
steel range mandatory and IA carriage
factory will follow, and a representa-
tive of the Studeballer wagon works is
there looking for a location.
| WM GoUGH, aged SO years, died re-
Gently at his home, five miles east of
Owensboro, of pneumonia.
| AT Louisa "A four-year-old son of G.
L. Ross fell in an open fire place and
was SO badly burned he will die.
| AT Bellevue a two-ycar-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Helle scaldcd herself
to death by overturning a tub of hot
water.
JOHN GILBERT, a sawyer working for
the Hixon-Hodburn Lumber Co., More
head, slipped and fell against a circular
saw in operation, cutting off his right
| hand.
| HENRY HARMON, who broke tail at
Incz two years ago, charged with muir
der, was safely landed in Jail at Inez a
| few days ago by Detective Bevens, who
received the reward for his capture.
JEFF AND Al HARP, cousins, had a
| difficulty on the farm of DIR. johnson,
near Adairville. JEFF was seriously cut.
| ALT is in Jail at Russellville.
AT Constance, Boone county, thieves
broke into the house of John Hawkins
and robbed him of 5000. the accumula-
ton of several years hard work and
| frugal living.
JonS J.. PERKINS has been jailed at
| Salyersville without bail on charge
of murder. He beat boy named How
ard to death with a stick and threw
the body in creek.
TuE poultry and produce business in
Kentucky is still booming. A party at
poultry to New York since February /.
One firm doing business in Benton
shipped 10000 dozen eggs to Chicago
during the past month.
ROBERT MAYO, jr. is mysteriously
missing from his home ON Maiden lane
| Springfield. lie was sent on an errand
and failed to return.
HEzEKIAH Il. MCCOY, two miles from
Stamping Ground, Scott county, COM
mitted suicide by taking morphine. lie
had had some family trouble and had
been drinking considerably.
The Greensboro wooden Mills will go
into liquidation. This was decided at a
meeting of the stockholders, and steps
were at once taken to carry it into eff
feet on April "a. This move grows out
of disagreement among the stock
holders.
THERE is a movement on foot by some
of the most influential citizens of Paris
to build a public monument to the
memory of the late Hon. q. C. Lock-
hart, and in this way express apprecia-
ton for the worth of the deceased.
A VEIN of camel coal five feet thick
has been found on the farm of Mrs. Nc
Creary, near Manchester.
Mrs. MALINDA DULANEY died at the
Warren county poor house the other
day She was % years of age. After
her death $50 was found secreted on her
person.
Col. ALBERT f. BOONE, of Knoxville,
president of the Black Diamond rail-
road, is preparing corps of surveyors
to work in kentucky. They will first
run a line through the state from Jel-
leo. 1t is proposed to touch along the
route in Kentucky such places as
Cumbcrla Falls, Stanford, Danville,
I Frankfort and other
HARDY IsLLE, Hart county His to have
a Union CHURCH.
LIEUT.. Gbv. WoRTHINGroN the other
day issued a call for special elections in
the senatorial districts represented in
the legislature by Senators James and
Walton. who were unseated in the SEN
atorial contest, and also in the district
represented by Senator Landes, who
resigned to become Judge of the court
of appeals. The elections are called
for April 81. In view of the early date
of the elections this is taken as another
strong indication of an extra session OF
the legislature, at which an attempt
would be made to elect Senator Black
burns successor.
WILLIAM DAY, of Morehead, went to
sleep on the end of tie on the C. & o.
railroad, near the depot, and the $3.50
express struck him, knocking him of
and seriously, if not fatally, injuring
him.
LIEUT.. Gov. WoRTHINGToN, while act.
ing governor the other day, pardoned
Phil Doolan, of Casey county, sent uI
for three years for manslaughter. Doc
Ian was a constable at the time of the
killing.
In the United States circuit court al
Louisville, the Louisville, st. Louis &
Texas railroad was ordered sold to
satisfy mortgages for S., S57 ,666. 66, held
by the Central Trust company, of New
Yord. The road is in the hands of re
ceivers.
A WHITE oak tree in Allen county
was worked up into twelve and hall
cords of wood and six hundred two-foo,
boards.
JOHN MAY found large stone in the
heart of an oak tree at Wakefield
There was no opening on the surface OF
the tree.
A GARRARD county man owns a COW
that gives eleven gallons of milk daily
J A BARBER at Locust Ridge claims t.
have given his father the first shave the
old man ever had.
A COMMITTEE from the chamber Of
commerce at Lexington the other af
ternoon made arrangements to secure
. hall in which to hold the proposed
convention of tobacco men and to write
delegates that they will be welcome
The time set for the convention /,
April 10.
S. Z. SMITH, an Owensboro Negro, i.
candidate for delegate for the state
at-large to the national convention
and is out in a circular announcing hi:
, candidacy.
CovINGToN ladies have organized 4
: Civic league. The object of the organi
zation is to promote and maintain the
health. beauty and welfare of the city
JOHN CLARK, an employee in a flour
, ing mill at Marion, was caught by somt
. betting and his skull crushed. He dieo
~, a out fxvn hnurs