The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-01-25

Perry Minor and June w. Gayle
own the premium pair of mules IN
Kentucky. They are a big pair Of
black mare mules, four years old
next Spring. They were raised by
Thos. Dunlap, OF Woodford ounty
and stand 16 hands and three inches
high. and weigh 1925 pounds each
They are well broken and have taken
first premium In all the big fairs
! Kentucky and Tennessee this
year and last Messrs Gayle and
Minor paid $500 cash for them at
the sale at Lexington last week,
brying them from Thompson and
Graves They win use them In
their transfer wagon between Owen
ton and Sparta this winter.
Torrent, KY, January l7.-owing
to the heavy and protracted rains
prevailing in this section Passenger
Train No. 3. west-bound, on the Lex
ington and Eastern Railroad, was
wrecked this afternoon at wash
out near this town.
The engine and combination bag
gage and mail car slid down an en-
bankment IS feet high and turned
completely over at the bottomg.
Jackson, Ky, January II. John
Smith left here to-day to return TO
MS Eome in Perry county under the
protection OF an armed guard.
lac was brought here from Perry
county last night by Harve Riley, a
citizen of Perry county, who had
been directed by Jess Spicer, one Of
Smiths bondsmen in tie Marcum
case TO arrest him. While Smith
was in town to-day, Judge Hargis
caused process for Smiths arrest
on the bond in the Cox case to be
placed in the hands Of Deputy Sher-
if Berry Turner, who had come
from Perry county with Smith and Ri
ley. turner later refused to make
the arrest and Riley also refused TO
turn the prisoner over to the Tailor
of Breathitt county.
Smith was permitted late this al
ternoon to ride out of town sur
rounded by his friends. 1t Is sup
posed that he has gone back home
Judge Hargis made a second at
tempt 10 secure his arrest and be
release as his bondsmen, by procur-
ing copy of Smiths bond in the
Marcum case from Lee county and
placing 1t In the hands OF Deputy
Sheriff Fugate, but Fugate would not
make the arrest, giving as his rea-
son that Smith was in the hands Of
another officer After Smith had
left town, however, Fugate offered
to go and arrest him. IL Judge Har
gis so desired.
II Is estimated that at least III
teen thousand people are homeless OF
account of the flooding Of the lower
of Cincinnati and the cities
on the Kentucky side OF the Ohio
at that point Fully three thousand
have been driven from their homes
in Cincinnati, nearly five thousand
residents of Newport has been ccm-
PEELED to vacate their homes and all
the other cities within ten miles Of
report thousands more sufferers.
At least sixteen people were crush
ed or burned to death Sunday in
a collision at Fowler. Ind, between
a passenger train and a freight on
he Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago
and St Louis railroad. Ten persons
we're seriously injured. The col
ision was caused by the passenger
train running by a signal in dense
log
James Hargis lost at all points be-
'nre the Court OF Appeals, which
handed down two opinions Friday in
.asos in which he is involved. The
In Fayette county, charg-
nP the Cockrell murder. was held
o be good. The court also directed
'pecial Judge Carnes to draw a jury
o try the Cox case from the jury
Wheel ana further directed him in 7
he trial OF the case, although re-
volipg me writ of prohibition direct
ID against him.
Seven persons dropped three tories
when the elevator cable broke In
be Phoenix Hotel in Lexington, but
10 one was injured, although all
we're jumbled together when the
ar stopped.
Official records show that John
Williams. of Jay county, Ind,
as the last Union soldier killed
/ tie Civil War. He was killed
/ a skirmish near Browns, lille.
er May 10. 1865. almost a