Owingsville outlook., 1896-12-31

claIS 10 see mat prompt punishment Is
mctcd out To the offenders. Gov. Brad
ley says there is no law covering such
cases, but intimatcs that he will offer
a reward if requested by the circuit
judge.
News from Letcher county states
that bloody battle was fought at a
dance at the home of David Williams.
One hundred shots were fired and
Charley llogg, a prominent mountain
teacher, was mortally wounded. Hogg's
friends swear vengeance.
Ar Henderson suit was filed with
the circuit clerk by c. X. Elliott
against the l., & n. railroad for dam
ages in the sum of $40, 900 for injuries
claimed to have been received by the
plaintiff by being pushed off a freight
car on April ., 1890, in Nelson county.
SOME unknown person broke into
the circuit clerks office at Campton
and stole all of the indictments that
were returned by the grand jury at
the last term of the Wolfe circuit
court.
THE total valuation of city property
in Lexington, according to the books
of the city assessor, just completed, is
sl4, ,2O3, ,513 7s.
A COMPANY of Cuban volunteers has
been organized among the convicts in
the Frankfort penitentiary.
JOSEPH J. FISHER, president of the
German Insurance bank. of Louisville,
is dead from heart trouble, brought on
by excessive smoking.
The C. w. Quinn Dry Plate company
has been Incorporated at Henderson.
Its object is to conduct the manufac-
ture and sale of dry plates, sensitive
films and sensitive papers for photo
graphic uses. The capital stock is $780,
600
ALLEN GREER, aged 35 years; Mrs.
Bud Owens, aged 50, and her daughter
Mary, aged l2, were drowned in Clark's
river six miles from PadueIh- They
attempted TO cross the river in a slSiff
which overturned. The bodies were
not recovered Greer made heroic
attempt to save the women but lost his
life in the effort.
THE report of DIR. j. P. HUH, super
intendsAt of the Kentucky Feeble
minded institute, has been issued by the
public printer. The superintendent
says the past year, but for the fire, which
destroyed the buildings, would have
been one of the most prosperous in the
historyof the institution The follow
ing statistics are CLEANED from the re-
port: According to the report of my
predecessor there were ia children in
the institute at the close of the fiscal
year, ending September 50, 1895. There
have been admitted during the year 80
children, is boys and IL girls; 13 have
been dismissed during the year, 10 boys
and girls. and boy died December
l6, 1S95). still l find that there were on
the rolls at the close of the present
fiscal year. ending September 80. 1896,
only 123 children, which shows a dis
crepancy, as there should have been a
net gain of Is, but as nearly all the
records OF the institute were destroyed
by fire / am unable to find where the
discrepancy comes in"
THE famous portrait of DIR. Horace
Holly, once president of the Transyl-
vania university, was found in Sec
ond hand store in Lexington.
FRED DURHAM, of Caneys Fork, is
six; he weighs 1874 pounds, and he is
gaining flesh rapidly.
LEXINGTON will have IS councilmen.
The Central Labor union of Louis
VILE adopted a resolution expressing
sympathy for Cuba.
Gov BRADLEY is receiving hundreds
of letters asking him to pardon Scott
To
AT Louisville there has been a one
cent cut in coal. with further reduc-
tion to follow
TIE mother Of Robert Laughlin, the
wife-murderer, is dying of grief.
MARTIN r. RICE, of Paintsville, has
one of the oldest clocks in Kentucky.
1t was handed down from his grand
father. 1t was made in l79S. and has
been in Mr.. Rice's family for SO years
in the county.
IT is authoritatively stated that Dr.
A. NJ. Peters examination of the stom-
ach of James ii. Montague, the Scott
county man who was supposed to be
poisoned by persons who wished to
secure the insurance money on his
life, resulted in finding no poison.
A LOUISVILLE job printing company
filed suit at Frankfort against State
Treasurer Long, asking for mandamus
to compel him to pay warrants to the
amount of $4,000.
The town of Corbin, in Whitley
county, is only six years old, but it has
a population OF 1000 and is growing
rapidly. About fifty new houses are
now under construction.
SAMUEL i. PUTNAM. the free think
er. whose tragic death, in connection
with that of Miss May Collins, at Bos-
ton, has been written up at great
length, was not entirely unknown in
kentucky. About four years ago Put
nam had four days debate with Dr.
Hall, minister, at Golden Pond, Trigg
county.
TIE courts are after the Louisville
| poolrooms. A secret meeting was held
to raise funds to carry on a legal bat
tie for the poolrooms.
AT Middlesboro Uncle Isaac Gamble,
1O2 is dead. He claimed to have been
a companion of Boone.
The mob which hanged and killed
the Proctors at Russellville the other
night, if reports are true, are deter
mined to rid the county of a number
of worthless and dangerous charact-
ers. 1t is said that at least 20 persons
in different parts of the county have
been notified to leave the county with
in Is days, and that several are max
ing preparations to go.
DEPUTY COLLECTOR B. w. CARR and
ii. 7. Wemack, of West Liberty, in
comp any with eight others DESTROYED
seven Illicit stills in Lawrence county.
While Judge Wemaek was gone his
barn was burned. No insurance.