The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-05-10
PERT PARAGRAPHS
Picked Up At Pike, Paint and
Prestonsburg.

Evelyn j. Gibson has been appoint
ed post master at Ore Knob, Pike
county.
Roscoe vanover, of Pike county,
has been mentioned as a receptive
candidate for the Republican nomi-
ration for Attorney General
Capt. John Davis, who killed DR..
Mccoy at South Point, O., was
native OF Paintsyille.
John NJ. Williams, formerly of Flat
Gap, Johnson county, has been APP
pointed postmaster at Normal Boyd
county.
Capt Jack Rittenhouse will move
from River, johnson county, to his
mineral springs at Swango, Wolfe
county
A little son of Charley Gullett, of
Paintsyille, died of measles, Friday.
The entire family is stricken with
measles. Two have died.
The indications are that Charles At
hnson, of salyersville. will receive the
Republican nomination for Represen-
tatiye in the Magoffin- -Breathitt- Lee
district.
Notwithstanding a wild-eyed Ashlan
correspondent has been busily en-
gagged shooting Henry Montgomery
and running him into caves on Tick
Lick creek, Magoffin county, that
gentleman continues at large and
unhurt. That Ashland correspond.
ent should form a partnership with
the penny liner at Sargent, Letch.
er county -Paintsville Herald.
F. T. Mays. one of the most prom.
; inent business men OF Prestonsburg
died at his home Tuesday OF pneu
monia. He was we'll known in thii
city, where he often came on bust
ness. Mr.. Mays dealt largely ii
timber and had just purchased
large tract of land for which h,
paid $4,000 and could he have liveC
to dispose of It he would probabl!
have cleared large sum.
Inez. KY. May 3.-Enemies from
the day five years ago when the!
learned that both loved the sam,
man. Mrs. Laura McCloud and Mrs
> Elizabeth Williams, the latter tn,
j winner of the adored ones heart
met today for the first time in tina
period Tonight Mrs. McCloud !
. dying at her home ON Buck Greek
Her skull is fractured, and Mrs
Williams is accused of having strucl
the blow with a hammer.
When the women met this morning
1t was in front of the home of Mrs
McCloud. 1t is said that Mrs. Nc
Cloud invited Mrs. Williams into he
home to talk things over and shak
A hands" At any rate, after shak
ing hands, Mrs. McCloud turned (
. attend to some duty in the room
= when she was struck a fearful bio,
on rhe back of the mead, falling un
conscious. She was found som
hours later by her husband.
j, Mrs. Williams has not been founC
. 1t is said that she ran three mile
], to the Tug River. leaped into a boa
and rowed to the opposite shore.
: J. Harlan May. of Salyersville, Ma
i. coffin county, died April "a a
/ the Good Samaritan Hospital in Lex
iugton from hemorrhage of the nos,
. He was taken to the hospital nearl
two weeks ago and an operation per
n formed for an Obstruction in hi
/, nasal passages. Tie operation wa
! not considered dangerous on
and seemed to be entirely success
: m. However. it was found ina
the patient was suffering from tn
novel condition Of the blood know
as hacmalhilla in which the bloc
n refuses TO coagulate, and It bein
impossible to stop the flow OF bloc
after the operation the patient slow
rs hlod to death
Mr. May was prominent farme
Of Magoiiin county ana forty-tw
years Of axe, lie was the son c
d ex-Judge William May and was
j brothor-in-law OF Capt. Jeff Pratt
+ er. who had charge of the cavalr
: that came down from the mountain
II during the Spanish-American Wa
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