The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-01-11

for the office It Is The
opinion chat T. s. Scan
lon, of Huntington, who made such
a splendid face for the office last fall
will be put in nomination by the Dem
ocgats. and that The Republicans Will
nominate William Carol, of Lincoln
bounty.
HI
sherman Maynard and Andrew Fry
were made happy Monday Of last
week by securing ti,eir release from
custody so that they could spend
Christmas with their families The
mel had been convicted of felonious
assault upon one another and had
been fined $50 and costs and SEN
fenced to Jail for 60 days. 1t seems
that The evidence was not sufficient
to sustain the charge. although the
Jury rendered a verdict Of guilty,
and pardon was asked on this ground.
Lack Fork Mine Camps was the
scene of a shooting affair on last
Sunday In which one man lost his
lllt. w III hllkul was
and looking for trouble. Shortly be-
fore he was killed he had a fiiht,
but this did not seem to satisfy him
and coming across John Williams he
attacked him with a knife. Williams,
il Ii said, retreated for quite dis
lance but his antagonist kept fol-
lowing him and he turned and fired
With a 3S-calibre revolver. The ball
entered the left sid OF Wright and
passed entirely through his body.
Wright was taken 10 the Miners
Hospital at WEIGH, but Inc physicians
pronounced the wound fatal one
Williams was given preliminary
hearing and bound over TO answer "a
ar indictment.
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! Huntington. w Va. January s. =
Percy Martin. of Atlanta, Ga, was ar.
rested here tonight by Chief OF Po-
lice Dawson, OF this city. charged
win being one OF the bandits who
held up a Seaboard Air Line train
50 miles south of Richmond on New
Years Eve. Martin, an hour aftel
HIS diItNAt ionltoHE1 anu utlANNA u
To the officer a $500 diamond ring
which had been taken from one Of
the passengers, and told where mos
Of the money can be found Martir
says that he and hh pal, now IN ia!
in Richmond. planned the robber!
while In Washington. ID. c.
After the robbery aud the shoot
ing of the conductor they stoppeI
the train They walked all the wa!
10 Norfolk, Va, part Of the wa
through thickets and woodlands
Martin came here about tire
years ago from Atlanta and began run
ming on the Chesapeake and Obi
Pathway as news butch" II,
Is married. and Il Is rumored ina
his wife, who is now en- route 20 s.
Louis. has about $500 OF the sioiei
money He will be held here pend
.ng the arrival Of Virginia officials
There was reward of 5000 for III
eanture Of the bandits.
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, 4 murder OF auocious eharacte
&c, rred a "a ort time before
oar - Third syanne ana sevant
/, str.et IN H,ntington whom 81
, Ita,;an whose real name has mo
, We, haan learned on, the throat !
..prIiv, sbv man well know
| ahom town wbosa death enene
within thirty minutes after III
/ wound was inflicted The weapo
used Il, tho comnniqs nm ~ fha Ia,
| was 4, ,azor and tha stroke vas We
/ aimsd severjng the ingnlar vein an
> ranstI inc ~ larynx
IN W. Shv the victim ~ IN
+, iI,aIisn'. haired was a married. ma,
r who's. samilv rasidss nn Fonr Pol,
a, ~ sontbarn evtrsmitv ~ Elebt
: street Ne was IN years ~ Az
ami was well known abont HnntIn,
A Sn,, naving sneat Ma .nsira ne /
o the yirmity. His assailant. who wa
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