The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1909-02-09
In NEIGHBORING COUNTIES.

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George Ellis, Of the Ellisburg section
Of Casey, is dead aged 66.
Evan Rogers, prominent business
man of Springfield, died suddenly Of
acute indigestion.
The Richmond Water & Light Co. has
contracted with Mason g. Hanger Co.
for large reservoir.
ID. s. Edwards has been appointed
postmaster at Bent, Pulaski county; W.
T.. Gastineau, resigned.
The site of the Veranda Hotel at
Lebanon has been selected for the Gov
eminent building there.
The Central University basket ball
team defeated State University by a
score of 81 to 20 at Danville.
Mrs. Ed Porch, OF Somerset, was se-
verely injured by the water heating ap-
paratus on her cooking stove.
Tom Yeager a former citizen of
Danville, but now of Canton, Mo-, is in
the city minglng with friends. -Advo-
cate.
Riley Durham, a farmer. aged 55,
dropped dead at his home at Hedge
vile. He moved to Boyle county from
Lexington recently.
Gen. Addison White, an aged and
prominent citizen of Huntsville, Ala,
is dead in that city. Gen. White rep
resented this district in Congress in
1852
Charles Bassett. formerly general
foreman of the car department of the
Queen & Crescent route, had his arm
crushed at Oakdale. He was carried
to the hospital at Somerset by special
train.
Mrs. Martha G.. Thompson, wife of
Rev. G. W. Thompson, died at her
home in Garrard county, aged ~ wears.
after an illness of several weeks, due
to paralysis. She leaves a husband,
one son and a number of grandchildren.
William Douglass, the three-year-old
son of w. NJ. Douglass, of Mill Springs,
Wayne county. fell and two of his front
teeth were knocked out. Death en-
sued from exhaustion caused by bleed
ing which the physicians were unable
to stop.
Berry Simpson. Reuben West and
George Stanley, who were indicted by
the Federal grand jury at Richmond in
with the miners riot at
Stearns. Whitley county, Chistmas day,
surrendered to United States. Marshal
At Oneida, Tenn, and were taken to
Jail at Covington.
Sam Barnes. aged about II years and
4 son of Rev. James Barnes, died Sat- |
Irday as the result of a pistol wound |
inflicted at his own hands. |
He was STOPPING over to get drink,
when As colts revolver fell from his
pocket and was discharged, the ball en-
tering the lower part of the bowel, pass
ing through the body and lodged against
the spinal column. He lived about "a
hours. Mt. Vernon Signal.
A Middlesboro dispatch says: A deal
has just been consummated whereby
the controlling interest in the Pinnacle
Printery. publishers of the Mddlesboro
News, which was owned by Dortch
passed into the possession of
Mayor +. S. Helburn, C. p. Cunning
ham and Postmaster w. II. Turner.
The Middlesboro Record will be consol-
idated with the Middlesboro News as
the News-Record. and will be published
weekly.
A Pineville special says: Richard
Blanton. farmer, was waylaid at Lay
man. east of here. Twelve shots were
fired from ambush. two charges pass
ing through Blanton's body. His horse
was shot from under him and he walk
ed long distance to his home before
Officers declare that the
trouble is an outgrowth of the bloody
battle which was engaged in last Au-
gust over the school election at Lay
man, and in which Richard Blanton,
Sherman Blanton and the Taylors be-
came engaged in a general shooting af-
frav. Rev. John Blanton was shot to
death at that time and three bystand-
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