Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1897-02-04
KENTUCKY STATE NEWS.


his neck broken.
TnEEuoHETFE four below zero the
other day. John brown. living on
Martins branch, near MiddlesbOro,
was found frozen in his cabin.
TUE city of Dayton is preparing suit
against the First national bank of
Newport and the directors individually
for the recovery of SIS, 900 city deposits
placed in the bank under special agree
mcnt
GEoF"E DrNSING, the Negro who
killed Jnrl Conn in Simpson county,
has been removed from bowling Green
tn Louisville To save the expense of
hiring guards To protect him from n
mob. Dinning's house in Allen county
has been burned
a DISEASE known as black tongued
crysipclas has caused several deaths in
Adair county.
TuE animal which has been fright
cniug people in Anderson county has
been killed 1t was "a large gray fox.
MITCHELL PATTON, aged - years,
driver of the stage between Paris and
Little Rock, fell from his wagon and
was killed
TIM dead body of Ben Dulin. an aged
farmer. was found frozen stifr in the
road near Crofton, the other morning.
lie had left home To walk to Crofton,
several miles distant the night be.
fore.
GENNNY WnITE. colorcd, said To be
l2I years old, died near Clay's Ferry,
Madison county She belonged origin
ally to John White. one of kentucky's
pioneers, and is said To have had dis
tinct recollection of the Old fort at
EOonsburough.
TWENTY degrees below zero was reg
istcrcd ut Wright few days ago, the
coolest weather IN ten wears Ice ~
inches thick has formed in the North
fork of the Kentucky river. ~
PRESIDENT Il r. King. L. q. Breuer
and J. +. Leatherman, members of the
board of aldermen of Louisville, were
indicted by the grand jury the other
afternoon. King is charged with
bribery and Leatherman and Breuer
with attempting to secure money for
thcif votes in the board.
Arthur PLATT. held at London for
the murder at the Lexington insane
| asylum in lSSI uf "A patient. admits
| killing man 10y accident. but says he
did not commit murder. lie was again
| rcmandcd.
| JOHN Brown froze to death i'm a cab
in on Martins branch. Bell county.
THE Union county papers announce
the death of Taylor Oliver at his home
at Sturgis n few days since. Mr.. OIL
liver was the father of Abbie Oliver
Delaney, the young woman whose
tragic death and the accompanyin ing
sensational circumstances. few years
ago. are we'll remembered by newspa-
| per readers
JouN Ross, road supervisor. has is
sued this pgonunciamento in Gallatin
county: Il will prosecute to the extent
of the law any one tearing up culvcrts
or the masonry on bridges for rabbits,
or any other destruction of the public
highway, for the county can not
afford to pay four or five dollars
for repairing work destroyed for the
sake of an eight-ccnt rabbit"
SoME workmen at Burkholder's mill,
near l'aducah. found in the center of a
large tree. hole in which a peg Ind
been tightly driven. On the end of the
peg was a bunch of the hair of a
negro. Inquiry among negroes at the
mill revcnled the fact that this pro
ceeding was considered n sure cure for
phthisic. a count of the rings on the
tree showed that the peg had been
driven in the tree forty-five years ago.
Ar Dundee, seven miles north, OF
Hartford City, Joseph Boxwell, 2;
shot Miss Ora Brotherton, Il
years old, in the temple, then fired q
bullet into his own head, killing him
self instantly. The bullet fred at Mis-
Brotherton passed through her head.
a GIRL named Amanda Jenkins and
her babe, which was born in the wood.
of Orange county, are said to have
been dcvoured by hogs.
THERE have been more than twenty
deaths of persons over sixty years o
age in Adair county since the begin
ming of the winter.
COUNTY JUDGE J. b. KARS has or
dercd local ontion election to be held
in the entire county of Daviess. includ
ing Greensboro, on February 10
REV. J. J. SMITH. who gained consid,
cradle reputation in the mountain:
last year as an evangelist, is now il
Cum berland county with his two SON
mining for silver.
CHARLES CHAPMAN was fatally sho
at n row in n resort in Ashland.
LEXINGToN's back taxes are a million
So is the city's debt.
TEN per cent cut in wages at tn,
Hermann Dimensions mill. Ashland
THE Manchester bank will be moveI
to Corbin.
WILL HELM was the other day nom
mated by the president for postmaster
ut Newport.
ACCORDING to the city directory fol
1897 the population of Louisville il
2I5, SO2, which, with the population o
the county, would entitle that Circuit
court district to two more judges.
AT Frank ort Judge Cantrill the 9th
er day ovcrrulcd the motion for n new
trial for Charles Taylor, the murderer
of Nellie Stepp. Taylor's attorney:
will carry the case to the court of ap
pcals.
THE following fourth-class post
masters were appointed the other day
Ballersport, Hopkins county. Jonal
Walker; Zig Greek, Clay county, liar
Ian Brewer; Cunningham, Carlisle
county, y &. Gooic; Terrill. Madison
county, j. 4. Linvillc; White Mills
Hardin county, VI. I. Richardson.
, Louis LAGER was found dead in bee
at Owensboro, the other morning, o
heart failure.
Polly FEITSER, whose mysterious
I disappearance from her home in Lesli,
county almost led to the lynching of ;
Negro suspected of numbering her. ha.
been found in Perry county, where sh,
: has leased farm. donned masculin
, dress and gone to work.
Mrs. LIZZIE FISHER, of Salem. ha
been driving some bargains in horse
flesh among dealers at Danville. Sh,
has astonished them. for she is the frs
E woman horsetrader TO strike tina
town.
WoosLTY & MURPHY, dry goods mer
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