Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1897-07-08
KENTUCKY STATE NEWS.

Formerly au dcIor'
COUNTY JttjeE RosE. of Williams
burg, refused to try Dan Curry, who
killed Drummer John Corley, on the
ground that the prisoner had already
been tried by the coroner.
Mn JoHN w. YERKEs, one of Sena-
ator Deboe's slate candidates, was NOM
mated to be collector of internal rev.
enue for the Eighth Kentucky dis
trict.
The livery men Of Lexington met
the other afternoon and reduced the |
rate OF funeral carriage hire from 81
to 81 30. This was occasioned by n cut |
in the rates by Ii. Il. Wilson.
TIE Louisville post office was trans
ferred to- DIR. I. II. Baker the other
afternoon
MRs PAULINE WIDNER and her
daughter committed suicide at Owens
boro by drinking carbolic acid.
A MASKED robber looted a toll house
near Nicholasville, intimidating the
keepers wife with a drawn revolver
while he robbed the place.
THE Meade County Deposit bank will
90 into liquidation All creditors of
the bank will be paid.
The Three Rivers FIGURING mills at
Paducab, idle for many months, will
resume operations shortly.
ONE of the most remarkable gather
ings of old people occurred the other
day at the Swango-Trimble reunion at
an old homestead near Hazel Green.
the Trimble family consists OF nine
brothers and sisters, whose aggregate
ages foot up COL years, the youngest
being Frank Trimble, of Memphis,
Tenn, who is 50 years old, and the
eldest Mrs. Evaline McGuire, of Beat
tyville, aged 81. The Swango family
consists of seven brothers and sisters,
whose aggregate ages is 81 years
| Harrison Swango, the eldest, is 81
years old, and has never taken a dose
of medicine in his life. Both the
| fathers of these two remarkable fam
lilies lived to be centenarians.
THE other morning about ) o'clock,
as Mrs VIM. Patrick, of Old Clay City,
was getting breakfast for her husband,
little son pulled a kettle of hot wa
ter off the stove onto himself. The
child was scalded SO badly that it died
in an hour.
CENTRAL CITY is to have bottling
esta blishment
A VANcEBURG woman has just found
a gold charm which she lost at a picnic
in 1862
ONE hundred men are out of employ
ment by reason of the burning of the
Memphis Coal Co s fan house at Be-
vier.
A SPECIAL from Middlesboro says:
John Wilson, the wealthiest citizen in
Clay county, was shot and killed from
ambush the other morning. He had
once been tried for murder and ac-
quilted. 1t is thought friends OF the
murdered man believed Wilson guilty
and killed him.
THE Woodford fiscal court has pur-
chased the last turnpike in the county
and roads are now free.
PIERCE G. WINSTON, member of .
prominent family, has been myster-
iously missing from Carrollton He
left his horse and buggy at Worthwhile,
saying that he would return neat day
from Louisville. The theory of foul
play is generally accepted
THE Fayette county fiscal court has
about decided to replace the court
house, which was so badly damaged
by fire recently. with an entirely new
building, at a cost OF about SIS, O0l. %
o. Il. HAIRY has withdrawn from
the race for the May field post Office
and l. W. Keys will probably be APP
po
1uRipIKE raiders buried several
. bridges on the Berea and Kingston
and Richmond and Big Hill pike. The
outbreak was not expected, as the
county is buying the pixies as fast as
possible. The committee appointed
= by the fiscal court to buy the pixies
was in session tie other day, and it is
I probable that several places will be
, purchased.
The oldest wooden mill west of the
' Allegheny mountains was knocked
down at auction a few days ago when
the establishment of Loud & Bros on
the corner of Water street and Ayres
alley, Lexington, was sold by master
commissioner to A. NJ Spotswood for
SO, 600. The mill had been in operation
20 years.
,. PROMINENT Lexington capitalists
! have been sued for back taxes
| WILEY HUBBARD, colored, was shot
at Central City by an unknown tramp
WHoRroN & DAYS big sawmill Al
I Valley View has closed down for an in
definite period.
LOUISVILLE police are at sea over 81,
murders which occurred in that city
within four days.
SAMUEL j. SAYLER was nominated fol
, circuit Judge by the democrats of tn,
, cath district.
n W. l.. GEIGER, of Ashland, left 500,
300 to the American Tract society in
. his will Relatives will contest.
The new Peoples bank. of Bards
r town, will be really for business OF
July 1.
!, KELLEY Bros, grocers and saloon
{ ists, made an assignment at New Gas
a tie few days ago.
Miss JENNIE ID. PATTERSON is a re
|, publican candida for school superin
, tendent IN Hancock county.
y Miss SARAH CECIL, the insane heir
ess who has been starving herself al
n the Phoenix hotel in Lexington, ha:
been taken to the home of her sister al
Georgetown.
: REPORTS from the wheat crop are al
T most uniformly favorable.
G ABOUT two and a half miles north
I west of st. Charles is the site of tn,
;. oldest house of worship within Tho
!. lines of what is now Hopkins count,
e Ii was established about the year ISIS
: and was known as the Cane Run
!. church, taking the name from a small
e branch running near by, which still
: bears the name of Cane Run. Tn,
e building has long since disappeared
!. and nothing now remains, save /;
/, mound formed by the fallen chimney
c to mark the spot.
A NEW masonic lodge has been insti
tuted at Burgin.
p j. c. LYON, prominent farmer whc
4 lived Mt Keel, was throw from a load
. of hay and instantly killed lie leave:
a widow and family.
/. AT Florence station lightning strucl
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