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

get her a new dress.
W. G. SANDRIDGE died of lock jaw ut
Elizabethtown, supcrinduced by run
ming nail into his foot
Ar lIopkinsuille, Robert Coleman
was given a life sentence for the muir
der of Edwin Long in a quarrel.
JAMES NJ. GIII, for several years
deputy circuit clerk at Lexington. re
signed that position To go To Washing
ton a. the private secretary of Hon.
Evan Settle, congressman f'um the
Seventh district
JouN \. MIDDLETON, who was re-
nominated for representative on the
fusion ticket of republicans aud ma
ti"nal democrats in Shelby county. has
declined the nomination
Miss lpA WEHH committed suicide at
Glcnvilic by taking strychnine. She
was To have been married in few
days.
As TnE result of an old grudge ChaS.
Drew was shot To death by Frank
Lakes in jackson county.
The men arrested at Lexington
charged with intimidating voters at
the late election will be defended by
Senator Black burn. Congressman
elect Settle, State senator Bronston
and Hon. T.. T. Farrell.
TnE pipe line from Somerset to
Slickiord has been surveyed and work
will begin at once.
HAwESvILLE will build water works
and a stock company a theater.
Ar Louisville, Frederick, Goetz's fam
lily horse strangled itself to death by
pulling ON the halter in its stall The
horse was to have been sold the next
day, the bargain having been closed in
the presence of the animal Mr. Goetz
thinks the horse committed suicide in
preference to becoming the property of
another man
AL CARGILL, n hardware drummer
living at Maytield, came near ending
his life by drinking a lamp full of alco-
hol while on n spree
STOCKHOLDERS of the First National
bank of Newport are in dismay over an
| assessment on stock of 100 per cent.
payable in quarterly installments
THE annual declamatory and orator.
ical contest between the representa-
tives of colored schools in Central Ken
lucky will be held in Richmond April
| 20
EX-CAsHIER w. NJ. SHIP. of the Mid
way Deposit bank, was found guilty of
making fraudulent entries on the
books, and given two years in the
Frankfort penitentiary.
| MIKE kEoUGH, the veteran tollgate
keeper on the old Cane Ridge pike
near Paris, has gone to ST. Louis to
spend the remainder of his life with
relatives lie was known To every
resident of the blue grass region.
The retail clerks of Paducah have a
| flourishing secret society.
| HENRY CAssIS has served - years as
| deputy clerk of the United States
court at Louisville
THE appointment OF A. T. Wood, Mt.
Sterling, as rnided States senator
from Kentucky, to succeed J. C. s.
Blackburn, has been made by Gov.
Bradley.
THE Severn Valley Baptist church of
Elizabethtown is said by the mem bers
Of the congregation to be the oldest
church in the United States west of
the Allegheny mountains.
FORREST Ross, a child of Pat Ross,
who lives near Paducah, was burned
to death. The boy was playing near
the fire when his clothing caught.
| RICHARD WATKINS, the Negro want
ed by the federal officers, Tucker and
Phythian, who escaped from the work
! house at Lexington, ON learning that
h, tyr L. haI .
for him, has been recaptured and re-
turned to the workhouse.
Ben BRADLEY, colored, accused of
poisoning his wife at Millersburg, had
to be removed To Paris to save him
from Infatuated acgrocs who wanted
to lynch him.
THE crow shooting match between
Coyle and Dodge, for 500 a side, to
have taken place at Lexington the
other afternoon, was postponed on ac-
count of the failure of the crow catch
ers to provide 200 of the birds.
JAMES RUSSELL, lodged in jail at
Princeton the other day for completely
in the Howton mob, was transferred
to the Christian county Jail the other
night, but more on the crowded condi.
ton of the Jail than fear of mob vio-
lence.
MONTICELLO people are talking about
water-works. On a mountain near the
town there is a spring go feet above
the level.
WM. NEWTON LANE cried with joy
when he was acquitted of the murder
Of Henry c. Rodenbsugh.
The store of A. A. Winfrey, dealer
in general merchandise at Casey, was
destroyed by fire the other evening
with all its contents. Several other
buildings, including the post office,
burned. The fire originated from a
defective fue. Total loss about SI3, 900,
with $1,000 insurance.
THE county committee of the ma
solved to accept no overtures from the
silverites for fusion or compromise.
| MILE CAMPBELL, n servant girl, of
Middlesboro has established her claim
to her grandfather's estate, valued at
SIS, 600
DILLARD RAISEY has been sentenced
to hang May Is at Winchester.
. WHOoPING cough is raging in Brack-
en- county.
CARoN's directory OF Louisville for
1897 was issued n few days ago, 1t
contains many valuable and interest
ing facts concerning the development,
health and street arrangements of the
city, and figures the population to he
2l5,57
| NINE persons have been arrested at
Lexington under indictments returned
by the federal grand jury for conspir.
acy to intimidate voters at the Novem-
Der election. Other warrants are yet
to be served.
THE town of Corbin, 50 miles south
of Berea, has increased over 200 in
population in six months and is boom
ing.
DIR. Ben f. LETCHER has written a
letter to Gov. bradley, positively re-
fusing to resign as superintendent OF
the Western Kentucky lunatic asylum.
THE three-year-old daughter of Mrs.
Mary Brooks, residing near Hopkins
vile, was burned to death the other
, morning by her clothes catching fire