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

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The gold reserve is lowering just
above the hundred-million mark.
The North Carolina State Dem.
Con. went for silverism by SIS to
81.
The Wisconsin State Dem. Con.
went for the gold standard by PIT
to 12S.
Gov. Mckinley was congratu-
lated by 5000 women in a body
last Friday.
About 100 miners lost their lives
by the caying-in of mine at Pitts
ton, Pennsylvania, last Sunday.
Bishop Turner, of the A. NJ. E.
Church, says Liberia Is the only
refuge and hope for the colored
race in America.
A conference of Democratic sill
verite delegates will be held at Chi
eago this week to discuss nomina-
tons and platform.
The Texas silverites and gold
men each held a Democratic State
convention and declared for silver
and gold respectively.
Senator German will not attend
the Chicago convention. Whitney,
Hill, Villas and Dickinson will
probably lead the sound-money
forces.
The marriage engagement of
Miss Kitty Reed, daughter of
Speaker Reed, and Congressman
Chas. G. Bennett, of Brooklyn, is
reported.
1 In pouring out a caldron of soap
fhe bones of the ee-year-old
schild of Charles Carpenter, of Port
land, Ark, were found. The chil5
hadn't been missed. -
NThe U. S. Geological Survey re-
ports that the u. S. mineral pro-
ducts in 1895 were worth $6l1,795,-
800, an increase of $4,000, 900 over
the product of 1894.
The noted Judge Holt will case
at Washington City was decided
against the alleged will and in IA
vor of the heirs-at-law. The estate
is worth about $ls0,OO0.
Gen. Gustavus ". Smith, a Con-
federate Major General, born in
Kentucky in 1921, and graduated
at West Point in 1912, died at
New York City last week.
Tom Sharkey, a man-of-war's
pugil;-., came very near whipping
the great Corbett in q four-round
bout at San Francisco. They will
fight again, for stake of $4,000.
The Illinois Dem. State Con. de-
clared for silverism by $40 to 34s !;
the Ohio, by 542 to 1871; the Indi-
ana, by bowling down the gold men /;
the New York, for gold without a
struggle.
The gossips have it that Anna
Gould's husband, Count de Castel-
lane, can use money faster than he
gets it and has sent over man to
see if Brother George won't open
the purse a little wider. 80
Z The National Turner's Society
ht Louisville last week declared
lagainst admitting women to
fbership; SO the girls will noS>>
the pleasure of learning to "sSA.
the cat" on the Turner'S horizontal
bars. -
MA silverite play named "The Sill
yer Lining" will be played at the
Chicago Grand Opera-house for the
delectation of the National Dem.
Con. A play of "Killing the Goose
that Lays the Golden Egg" would
be a better and more pertinent
drama.
"a gratuitous and malicious
fGlsehood" is what Secretary Car
Isle calls the statement of H. III.
Smith, ex-Journal Clerk of the
House, that Carlisle told Smith he
would support Mckinley if the
Chicago convention declared for
free silver.
Gen. Lyman Trumbull, ex-Sena-
tor from Illinois, aged SO years,
died at Chicago. He was a promi-
nent Abolitionist, statesman, Fed
eral officer and Republican from
from the formation of the Republi-
can party down to 1872, when he
joined the Liberal Republican move
ment.
Lansing Rowan, a California ac-
tress, has challenged Corbett to
fight her a scientific sparring con-
test. Jerome Rowan, a rich banker
and father of the woman, shot him.
self through the heart in New York
and by his body was copy of
containing his daugh-
ter's challenge to Corbett. -
Walter S. Lieber, a Hebrew, and
Miss Boutine Butler, Quakeress,
both of Philadelphia, were welded
at Chicago, the ceremony being
chanted by thirty bridesmaids
clothed in pure white on a penin-
sula in the Washington Park La
COON. A magistrate afterward per-
formed the legal ceremony. -
> Gen. d. II. Bristow, born at Elk
ton, Todd county, KY, died in New
York City last week. Gen. Bristow