Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1897-04-01
KENTUCKY STATE NEWS.
LegIsIatIye Proceedings.

passed two bills MONDAY the first to get
through at this session One is Mr.. Catrons
bill legalizing the duplication OF lost treasury
warrants. and the other bill amending the
law in regard to obtaining money oy faise
pretenses. IL makes the giving Of checks upon
a bank OF other institution, where the signing
party has no money to his credit, a ieionY'
The house took up Mr. Towards bill proyid-
ing a new system OF taxing distilleries. but
did not reach a vote on It The bill In eHeet
provides that the distiilery shall be taxed up
on its registered capacity. and its opponents
claim wouli amount pTactic lily to conhsoa-
tion Of all distllery property In the state II II
should become law
FRASKFoRr. Ky. March a5.-The senate
did nothing Wednesday but receive the fol-
lowing bis: by Mr.. McCOrd. senate bill Il
Act to amend the law providing for the erea-
tion and regulation Of private corporations
ReQuires trust companies 70 gi'e bond Wheh
acting in "a hducIary capacity. BY Mr. Hays
senate bill s4--Aet providing for the payment
Of interest on warrants issued by the state
auditor by MIR Ellison. sensto bill 2o--Act
10 amend sections 81 and ~ article ., chapter
Is, relating TO elections. PROVIDES that the
ballots shall not be destroyed by the
election officers fter being eOuntedl By Mr.
Brown 7, solutiou--Providing for expenses
Of committee that attended SEN
ator Salyer's funeral In the house the Din
ring bill to reduce the pay OF county SUPER
NisOrs from - per CAV TO u pdSStu yeas
-. nays. IL The L -ons bill. making Harlan.
| IN Campbell county a city of tie sixth class
was passed. J. IL Rice's b II to increase the
! jurisdiction of quarterly courts from s2OO 10
COCO was sent to the Judiciary COMMITTEES with
Instructions to report Friday
| FRANKFORT. Ky, March .Z-SENATE-The
senate spent the day in discussing the A and
NJ college bill ami vote was not reached
| MIR Jones offered amendment providing
that the interest on the sl65 900 be divided
with the colored normal school At Frankfort
| The Dill and amendments viii be voted go
Saturday.
HousE-Friday a resolution was adopted re-
| ouesting the assistant adjutant general to re-
port how many DAYS he has been IN the actual
| service Of the state during the past year. This
| ONCE is a snecure. and as Walter Forester.
| the present incumbent. is an anti-HunteT
| man. the Hunter people are prodding him A
resolution OF regret was adopted on the death
| OF VIM A. Pepper. of Braeken county, for
mer member of the house. The following new
| bulls we're introduced: To abolish the custom
| of printing Of posters by fiscal courts an
bouacing bond sales. ana requiring such an
| nouncements TO he made in the
| ncwSpapers; to reduce the salary
OF the assistant adult ant general to 81 per
year to abolish the offics OF register Of lands:
TO legalizs the borrowing OF money by the
| several asylums: TO increase tbs license OF
| tavern and saloon keepers to a scale ranging
| from s25 to 1900. giving magistrates. quarterly
| and police courts jurisdiction in cases where
the penalty may be fine OF 1870 and imprts-
| onment for IL moaths. was passed. The
present law gives jurisdiction to such courts
/ in cases OF so fines and 20 days Imprisoa-
| ment
| FHASKFoRr, Ky. March 80 SENATE The
I senate spent Saturday in committee of the
whole, listening TO an address by Prof Jos
| Il Patterson. of Lexington. in behalf OF the
| and NJ. college bill which Is still under
| consideration Superintendent OF Public In
struetion Davidson has been asked TO ad-
| dress the senate on the same subject Mon
| dIy.
| HoUsE-The house started on Saturd y
| with a resolution of inquiry about the peni'
| tentiary smallpox scare MIR Stigiiiz o.
Louisville. fathered the resolution. There wa:
| no scramble among the members to get ap
| pointments on the smallpox investigating
committee, but the speaker appointet
| on il DR. Chambers. OF kenton; Dr. Daugh
| erty Of Grant. and Mr.. Cninn. of Mercer
The committee made the investlga
ton rs directed. and Will repor
that the epidemic raging in the penitentiarl
| Is measles, and that there are no cuses o
smallpox. An amendment to the divorce Law
| created considerable debate. but was finally
killed by being refused its third reading
| Mr. Grecr's bill requiring salaries o
pro. TEN. circuit judges to be paid out OF thu
salaries OF the regular judges WAS passed
| The bill for the relief of the court of appeal.
by providing the judges with stenosraphers
was discussed at length. but a vote was MOI
| reached A motion to rscommit 1t to the CON-
mittee was defeated
| TIE Kentucky sIouse passed Mr..
Morgan's bill to prevent egg-throwing
and other disturbances at public meet.
ings-
FURNITURE factory is to be built al
Harlan.
JoHN G. ROBINSON, of Warsaw, has
applied for a patent ON an automatic
wagon brake.
THREE travelling men had themselves
weighed at Danville and aggregated
l,Oj9 pounds One weighed 4i2, an.
other $50 and :1ird 267.
DIR Ross, once pardoned from the
penitentiary on condition that he leave
the state, returned from Ohio and was
Immediately sent back to his old quar-
tiers
AT Paducah, J. Frank Potts and W.
+. Harris quarrelcd over girl. and
Harris was fatally stabbed.
| For failing to testify before the
grand jury at Irvine, Bud Moore. col
ored, was sent to Jail by Judge Red
| wine.
". J. DEBoE, of Marion, is an appli-
cant for the Owensb oro collectorship.
| THREE persons were drowned at AL.
lensville while boat riding.
RICHMOND is suffering from an cpl
demic of measles. The three-year-old
son of VIM. Smith died of the disea SC
the other morning.
lT WAS estimated that 100 OF those
who attended the Moody revival meet.
ing at Louisville, the other night, were
robbed by pickpockets.
SrEING lambs are selling at SIS IS a
head at Lancaster.
Ar Danville strawberry suppers are
becoming popular.
MANY tobacco beds were washed out
by the rains at Falmouth.
A NEW newspaper, the Kentucky Col
onel, is published by Z. L. Smith at
Lexington.
GABE ELKIS will sue Stanford for
s2J, 900 damages for being placed in Jail
/ without cause.
THE Kentucky State Medical society
| Will Hoiu us s@u dunudl meeting at
Greensboro May ).
iiIGH license for saloons was defeat
ed by the Greensboro council by vote
| of To 5.
JAMES GEE, of IIerndon neighbor-
hood, cut locust tree on his premises
from which he made 80 posts lie sold
the lot for $40, and got several loads of
| wood from the limbs.
| THE extension of the Ohio and Big
Sandy railroad to White House, is
about completed, and trains will soon
be running. The camel coal mines at
the end of the line will be opened
about April 1.
a NEW coal mining company is about
| TO be formed at Owensboro. The mines
are located on piece of property 100
acras in extent near HaweSyille in