Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1897-03-11


by the acquittal of John Beard, eX-
Chief of Police and ex- City Collec-
tor, of a charge of misusing the
funds of the town OF Nicholasville.
-Ex- Cashier VIM. NJ. Shipp, of
the defunct Midway Deposit Bank,
was sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary on the trial of one of
the cases against him, at Versailles.
j. A. Peak, of Auburn, in the
Green river country, an old printer
and known to local fame as a hu-
morist-writer over the pen-name
Jap" killed himself with NOR
phine.
The Hopkinsville Tor Western
Insane Asylum trouble is in process
of regulation. DR.. Ben Letcher,
Superintendent, sent in his resig-
nation, and it was accepted by
Gov. Bradley.
Ben Bradley's wife Dora died,
at Millersburg, it is alleged, of
strychnine on an apple given her
by her husband. Threats of lynch
ing caused Bradley to be taken to
the Paris Jail. The Bradleys are
colOred.
AT Jackson, the following
young men were sentenced to the
penitentiary for terms of from six
to ten months on charges of ku-
kluxing: Vol and Stephen Craw-
ford, Andy Hayes, Lum and Wal
ter Dale.
The Big Sandy steamboat Fa-
vorite, bound for Pikeville and
heavily loaded with passengers and
freight, struck log and sank in
deep water near the mouth of
Georges Creek. The people on
board were saved with difficulty.
The boat and cargo are total loss.
The old Lexington darkey Lew
is George Clark, on the strength
of his claim to being the original
of George Harris in Mrs. Stoves
"Uncle Toms Cabin" was given n
benefit in New Zealand, which net
ted 1928. He received J. remittance
for that sum recently,'and is cor
respondingly happy, for he was al
most suffering for the necessaries
of life.
Owing to quarrels between the
city and the county jailer at New
port and the scandals over at
tempts to get confessions from
jackson and Walling, Judge Helm
has had the condemned murderers
of Pearl Bryan removed to the Jail
at Alexandria, the county-seat of
Campbell county. Rev. j. A. Lee,
a regularly ordained Baptist min
lister, is charged by the Commercial
Tribune with offering to sell that
paper an alleged confession Of
jackson, and a big row is the re-
suit. Rev. Lees congregation sus-
tains him and adopted resolutions
denouncing the Commercial Trib-
une in the most severe terms.
The men who have been arrest
ed by the Federal officers for inter
ferring with the election at Lex
ington last November are the fol-
lowing: z. T. Gross, Sheriff; John
McElroy, Chief of Police; John
jackson, Lieutenant of Police;
VIM. Jenkins, John Hafey, Bernard
McChristal, Michael Savage, Dan
iel Henry, James Grant, j. j. Sui
livan, Michael Murphy and RADON
Baker, patrolmen; Jerome b. Fra
zier and Dudley Wilkerson, private
policemen; Luke Doyle, Constable;
Edward Mcnamara, City Weigher;
John Jenkins bricklayer; "Dink-
ey" Doyle, railroad employee; JEFF
Merrill, plasterer; j. S. Lawrence,
feather renovater; AL Kiser, paint
err; AL jenkins, carpenter; James
jenkins, brakeman; Dan Reagan,
brakeman; "Bal" Haley, carpenter;
Lee Armstrong, carpenter; Louis
Travis, laborer; Joseph Stevens,
laborer; William King, carpenter;
Harry Lowe, carpenter; William
Wilder, bricklayer, and "Simmie"
Quinn, laborer.