The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1898-07-01
! GENERAL NEWS.

The betting privileges for the Octo-
Der trots at Lexington have been let
Last year $500, 900 was played into the
box. 1t is figured the betting this
year will amount to 500, 0J0.
S ate Treasurer Long announces
that he hopes to run through July and
Aug Il It this year without suspending
payment until fall taxes come in Sep
mber. Last years Suspension began
April TO-
Sc. tn ink D.Witt's Witch Hazel Salye
is the finest preparation on the market
for piles" SO writes John c Dunn, OF
Whe Ing, w. Va. Try it and you will
think the same. 1t also cures eczema
and all skin diseases S.ormes Drug
Store. I'm
Gen. joan S. Williams, widely
known as ''Cerro Gordo" Williams, is
dangerously i'll at his home in Mont
gomery county and his life is despair
ed Of General Williams is a veteran
of two wars.
judy Barr has decided that Adolph
Segal, of Philadelphia, must pay for
the Richmond. Nicholasville, Irvine &
Bsattyville Railroad by Tuesday, or
forfeit his rights. He has paid S25, 900
on 80, 900 the purchase price.
The Danville city council and the
n ltional banks of that place h we
C IN promised their differences concern
in. taxes. Ten thousand five hun.
drei dollars h Is e IN accepted in lieu
Of about $4,000 claimed.
sc Dol Old Granny Metcalfe," who
has been made famous in the news
papers and on bulletin boards by a
Paducah patent medicine firm, is dead.
She died at Sturgis Monday. She was
bora in Wood ford county, and was 50
years old.
The Snead architectural iron works,
occupying buildings extending from
Main to Market street, between Eighth
aud Ninth streets, We're entirely de-
s:royed by fire Thursday night. The
lost is estimated at Sa75, OOO; insurance
$4,000.
The court of appeals has affirmed the
judgment of the Frankfort circuit
court in the prison commission case,
sustaining the election of the new
board. Judge Burnam dissented as to
the whole opinion and Judge Durelle
in part The attorneys will file a
petition for rehearing.
James Moore. mail carrier between
TT. Estill and Kingston shot and killed
John Harris, at Fort Estill, three
miles south of Richmond on Saturday
aftesnoon. Harris married Moore's
sister and had been mistreating her
which caused bad feeling between the
two Moore had attempted to per-
suade his sister to leave Harris.
Saturday Midnight a m ID took Geo.
Scott, colored, from the county Jail at
Russellville, and hanged him to tree
in the southern suburbs of town. The
gallows-tree was the same from which
Dink and Arch Proctor were hanged
about IS months ago. The Negro was
charged with attempt at criminal as
sault The mob was composed of boys
and drunken youths.
State Treasurer long has received
notice from the secretary of the treas
ury of the United States that the state
would not be required to put the
stamp on checks, issued to pay the
current expenses of the state. Under
section II of the act recently passed
by congress the state is exempt from
this tax
A newspaper correspondent offers
this personal description of Maria
Christine. Regent of Spain: A pale,
austere face, cold and changeless as
marble; features of the Austria type,
with full lips and projecting mouth;
blonde hair, with no tinge of warmth,
what the French call asher blonde;
pale steel-blue eyes, with sparse lashes,
and unlighted with soft or tender