Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1897-03-04

The Christian county Repub-
lican primary election caused IL
deal of soreness and charges of
fraud. The custodians of the poll
books burned the books "for the
sake of party harmony" and caus-
ed II sensation.
Mrs. Thomas Merrill was fined
$50 at Lexington for whipping
Mrs. Frank Corbin. The husband
or the latter is prominent con-
tractor. The whipping resulted
from his wifc's jealousy of Mrs.
Merrill, SO it is alleged.
-Jailer Matney offered $50 re-
ward for the recapture of the four
prisoners who escaped from the
Pikeville Jail: Henry Mccoy, grand
larceny; James Kelley, murder
Zach Walters, house breaking, and
Henry Ford, shooting with intent
to kill.
Milton B. Smith, City Treas
urer of Georgetown, disappeared,
leaving note stating that he would
never return. His wife and two
children were left behind. His ac-
counts appear to be straight and
the cause of his departure is not
definitely knoYn.
"A squabble is promised over
the reward offered by the State for
the murderer of Pearl Bryan. Sher-
iff julie Plummer has applied for it.
Poock, the shoe man, who first dis
covered the clue, wants it, as does
the Greencastle Ind. teleyrapher
who tipped the officers and lost his
position in consequence.
The Federal authorities are
making it extremely warm for those
implicated in the wrecking of the
German National Bank at Louis
vile. The municipal authorities
are piling up indictments and trou-
bic for the corrupt officials. Alto
gether the way of some of the Lou
isville transgressors is as hard as
nails.
-Toll-g gate raiders broke out
again in Lincoln county last week
and destroyed three gates. The
grand jury had been instructed by
Judge Sauffley with particular and
severe reference to the toll-gate
raiders. The Fiscal Court has
bought some of the roads and is
trying to buy all of them, conse-
quently the good people are indig-
nant at the raiders.
Rev. J. A. Lee, of Covington,
bore an alleged confession of Alon-
20 Walling to Greencastle, Ind, to
present it to the family of Pearl
Bryan and try to induce them to
interced@ in Walling's behalf for
eXecu ;, ,lamency. A b-othe O.:
the dead girl deter-nd Lee jyom
seeing the family. 4 is thougnj
that Wal.ig viii fnally make pub
lie all he k..5ws o. ,!ie affair.
Gov. Bradley having been in
formed that the chances are against
the seating of Senatorial appoin-
tee, it is said, will be guided by the
party authorities at Washington
and call together the General As
sembly to attempt the election of a
Senator, leaving the responsibility
on the Steering Committee and
Chairman Marcus A. Hanna.
Some one had been writing
obscene letters to Miss Allen, a
highly respectable young lady of
Hays, Warren Co. Postmaster
Calvin German was requested to
detect the sender if he could. He
expressed the belief, it Is said. that
the lady's uncle, DR.. w. III. Swear
ingen, was the sender of the letters.
Swearingen sued German in the
Bowling Green Circuit Court for
$1,000 damages on account of it..
Lloyd Jett, white boy aged
about fifteen years; Lon Scott, col
ored, aged seventeen, and a white
boy named Lawrence Mitchell were
hauling fodder on the farm of DIR.
j. w. Powell near NewtOwn, Scott
Co. The boys chased mouse that
ran out of a fodder-shock. Jett
had a pocket-knife in his hand.
Scott jerked Jett by the wrist to-
ward him and the blade of the knife
penetrated Scott's heart, killing
him in short time.
The Ky. Midland r. R. was
reorganized by its new owners un-
der the name of the Frankfort &
Cincinnati Railway Co. The in
corporators are the principal cred
itors of the old Midland. for whom
the road was recently bought by
A.illa Cox. They are II. p. Ma
son, 1. b. Mason, w. +. cambridge,
John King, Chas. E. Hoge, Thomas
Rodman and B. G. Milan, who are
either banker creditors or members
of the construction company.
Arthur F. Curran, of Dover,
formerly a member of the Mason
county Democratic Committee, ex-
Postmaster and ex- Mayor of Dover,
ex-editor of the News, eX-Govern-
ment clerk at Washington by
Clevelsnd's appointment, ETC., an
nounces that he will accept the
Republican nomination for Asses
sor of Mason county. He was a
candidate for the Democratic nom-
ination for the same office when he
made his sudden change of politics.
Arthur w. Platt was brought
back from England on the charge
of numbering Jessie Tyree, an in
mate of the Lexington z. X. Asy-
lum while Platt was an attendant
there in 1885. He has served a