The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-09-06

MANY desirable Swiss. immigrants
probably will come to Kentucky du-
ring the coming winter. according
10 letter from the States repre-
sentative. who is now in Switzerland
trying to induce the proper families
to take up their residence in this
country. He writes that recent laws
ir that country have handicapped him
considerably
A Nicholas county man is the owner
OF pig which has two perfectly de-
veloped tails
owingsville. Ky. August 30. The
three year old child OF A. B. Nc Kin
ney burned to death here today
The parents had Internationally left
matches too close to the child's bed
and the toddIer lighted them. setting
fire to his clothing. The child burned
t. crisp when the parents found it.
Lexington, Ky August 30. The mon
ument in memory of the late Cover
nor William Goebel is almost compile
ed. and will probably be ready for I'M
yelling within so days The monument
will cost $4,000.
Carter county's votes. which were
carried to MaSsyille convention by
one delegate who missed nine trains
and was in a wreck before he finally
landed at his destination, enabled the
Holmes delegations in the Sixth APP
peHate district Republican convention
to tie up the convention and prevent
a nomination until the forty-third bal
lot. At one time the chairman OF the
convention. w d. Cochran. could have
been the nominee by reclamation, but
he refused to accept or allow his nams
to be used II,
The largest mule in the world was
sold last week at the National Stock
yards in East St Louis, Ill for 500.
by the Joseph Maxwell Mule Company
70 a firm in Pittsburg The animal
is a native of Culver. Mo. weighs l.
$50 pounds, and stands more than
eight feet high with his head up
There is not a blemish on him, and
besides he is said by experts to he the
most perfectly formed large mule n
the world.
Three thousand persons gathered
at Bridgeville. Robertson county. {
witness the baptizing of sixty-fOuI
young men and women who had
united with the Thompson Christian
Church in a protracted meeting which
had been in progress for two weeks
Frankfort. Ky. Aug. IS The docket
for the September term of the Ken
lucky Court of Appeals. which clos
ed today, contains the largest appear
ance docket Of several years. reach
ing a total Of AS cases The tota
number Of cases on the docket Il
IS. The docket is made up as follows
Commonwealth cases,5S; appearance
and continued cases. i25; oral argu
ment cases, IA; cases pending on pc
tition FOR rehearing. extensions o
opinion and modification of opinion
So
A recent bulletin issued by the Tn
tied States Geological Survey gives
very full and comprehensive state
ment Of the coal area Of Kentucky
with a brief history OF its develop
ment and its steady growth in pro
duction- Promising, il says what
not generally known. that Kentnek
is the only one OF the cOal-prOducin
States which embraces part Of W.
great coal fields. Its eastern eOuntie
are underlaid by the coal beds
tne Apl-AdCAau S-SNchs
tend entirely across the eastern pOr
ton OF the State. being part o. N
same iieIL which eariches Pennsylvs
MIA. West Virginia. Tennessee and A
ALBANIA. while the more northern eOur
ties in the western portion Of III
State are embraced in the central
western field. which also underli'
portions Of Indiana, Illinois and Mici
gan. The total area underlaid BY co'
in the eastern counties OF Kentuck
Is given as 1l1S0 square miles. an
that in the western portion as -
square miles. making total Of is-s'
square miles This is more bv seve
al hundred square miles than has BE-
generally accorded to the State, b
is entitled to credit from the fact III
the Government Bureau is in char
o. the typographical survey Of u
States.
Mt Sterling. Ky. Aug 81 lol
Breckenridge. a scion Of one OF he
hospital al Ely. New. He is son
tucky's Oldest families. is dying
the late John c. Breckenridge. Re
ncky's noted orator and s,atesm'
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