Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-10-01
KENTUCKY STATE NEWS.

and killed Newton Lynch, also cOlOred,
in Lexington, and the other day Boner
was sentenced TO eight years in the
pcnitcntiary.
A WIND storm of fearful force wreck.
ed large number of houses at Sar.
gent and did great damage to crops.
new Presby terrain church was de-
molishCd.
CARRIE JENNINGS, OF louisville, who
put bullet in her brain, still lives. is
Il puzzle to the doctors The bullet is
still in her brain, a part of which oOzed
from the wound. There is every indi-
cation now that she will recover.
The court of appeals affirmed the
case of the l.. & n. Railway Co. VS..
Commonwealth. The l.. * n. vas
fined 500 for failing to maintain
proper toilet room at its Walton,
station.
CHAS ). WHTTEMoRE, many years n
deputy in the CLERKS office at Mayficld,
died the other night after long illness
of consumption.
THE town of Hardin, Marshall coun-
| ty, wants to be Incorporated as n city
of the sixth class. A petition has been
presented to the circuit court. The
| petition AYERS that there are 50 voters
and a population of s7l within the de-
scribed district; and that it is for the
mutual benefit of all that the said dis
trict be incorporated.
THE iron mines at Olympia, Bath
county, are exhausted They have
| been worked at intervals since the
early settlement of Kentucky. The
company has pulled stakes and moved
their works over into the Knob Lick
ncighbOrhOod.
NEAR Caseyville Walter Davie, de-
spondcnt because of i'll health, com
mittcd suicide by shooting
TYPHOID fever is raging in several
sections of Lctcher county, caused by
the using of impure and stagnant
water Floyd Hall, n promising young
man, died the other day at Baker, and
there are more than twenty-five dan
gerous cases in the immediate neigh
borhOOd.
] PoSTMASTERS appointed in Kentucky
the other day: a. Datson, Coleman,
Pike county, vice K l.. Iionacker, re-
signed, and i. q Hamilton, Sloan's
Valley, Pulaski county, vice l. +. File
gle, resigned
The state gained n victory in its suit
for SIS, 900 against :. a. Norman aud
other old contractors, who bid for the
output of the pcnitcntiary, in which
Norman Chair Co. fled an answer,
pleading as 4 counter claim damages
for S9O.OOO for the annulling of the
contract by the commissioners Judge
Cantrcll sustained the demurrer of the
state, throwing the chair company out
of court The commonwealth alleged
as its ground for annulling the Nor
man contract that the company at
tempted to pay in state warrants in-
stead of cash. The chair company will
go to the court of appeals.
The death sentence of William Me-
Claim (colored) who was to have been
hanged at Louisville, was committed to
life Imprisonment.
For having intcrfered with a citizen
in the election of 1894, Sergeant Ed
IIcfrcrman. of the Louisville police
force was fined $50. =
In the circuit court at Camp:on
James Lewis was convicted of the muir
der of Henderson Spencer and received
life sentence.
Ar Lrwisburg, Seth Greene. aged so
years, married Margaret Bcasley, aged
- years. 1t was Grccne's second ven
ture, and the third for his blushinS
bride, whose second husband died -four
months ago.
a srECIAL from Greensburg, says: The
annual reunion of the Kentucky Veter-
ans of the Mexican war is being held
here. The attendance is large.
WHILE drawing n bucket of water
near Sturgis, Mrs. VIII Gregg fell into
the well and was drowned.
GEORGE DENNY says he is in the con-
gresSional race To stay and will not
withdraw for anybody.
The free turnpike mob destroyed
five tollgatcS near Springfield, the
other night, and three the night be.
fore. These two raid only leave five
gates standing in Washington county
the raiders having destroyed q in all.
The other night the mob rode up to
the Tick Creek pike gate, while il was
guarded by Il men. The leader of the
mob was ordered to take his men away
or go to Jail. The mob then leveled
shotguns at the guards and forced
them to surrender. The mob forced
the guard to cut the gate down and
drove them back to town. Two of the
raiders. Joe Settles and Charles Miller
were in court next day on the charge
of destroying toll gates, but nothing
could be proved against them and they
were discharged.
SOME few of the sheIiffs have re
ported to the auditor that they have
not collected the state taxes, and may
be indicted for negligence. Auditor
Stone has sent out letter advising
them of the law, and will take no nc
ton until they are heard from further
a LAW AND ORDER league is being
formed at Lexington for the purpos,
) of closing up lIoIloway's poolroon
and several crap games and of shut
ting saloons on Sunday. The GRAZ
games and poolrooms have been paying
n regular assessed fine to the circui
court for some months and running a
n large profit besides.
TON l.. WILSON and John Akin
of New York, have been in More
head for several DAYS prospecting
for oil. They think they hav,
found it. and will put well down il
50 days. The well will be located neal
Morchead.
THE state board fixed the franchise
of the Louisville street Railway Co. al
Sass ,655, nearly double last year,
figure. The franchise of the Louis
vile Gas Co. is valued at s., 81, SIl.
Jos. WILLARD, n highly respected
farmer, living near Saylersville, at
tempted suicide by shooting himself
through the left side with revolver
lie will die.
i. CHARLES T. WHITE, owner of the
Richmond Register, the oldest demo
cratic journal in central Kentucky
died suddenly the other morning.
lie left large estate.
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