The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-12-06
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William BarEo, on trial for the
murder of James Lester, several
onths ago. was convicted of man
Slaughter at Pineville, the penalty
b.iEg from two to twenty-one years
in the penitentiary.
Burdine Bennett, a. farmer, forty
five years old, met with a series of
mishaps while cranking his auto at
Elk Creek. Not only was his jaw
bone fractured, but the machine it.
self was badly burned.
1t is said that Judge NJ. J. Moss,
of Pineville, and the Lewis Bros,
Frazier & Hogg, of Whitesburg,
have leased the coal rights on the
late Joe Craft farm at Sergent, ON
the Lexington and Eastern railroad,
and will shortly begin developments.
They will put in first-class plant,
l- A L.. Ferguson and J, e. Clarke
spoke at the court house at Carroll
ton in the interest of the ten-year
tobacco pool. AS no sympathy for
the project was shown, a vote was
taken instead on the proposition to
convert the Burley Societys ware
house into a loose-leaf sales ware
house. This was carried by a large
majority.
Lee Tobin. the negro who jerked
Mrs. Mary Davidson, young white
woman, from her horse in the street
at Burkesville and robbed her of
SIS, which she had in a handbag,
has been tried and sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary. The ne
gro pleaded guilty and put himself
upon the mercy of the court at Mar
rowbone.
There were SS3,95O pounds of
loose leaf tobacco sold at the Lex
ington warehouses last week. at an
average price of S7.91 hundred.
In addition, there were sold in hogs
heads 14S,15O pounds of pooled to-
bacco of the crops of 19O9-1O. The
total sales for the season up to De-
cember ! were 1,15O,965 pounds,
the average of the loose leaf being
STAG.
Henry HUH, aged thirty-six years
was killed near Cumberland river in
Letcher county, while driving a
team of mules attached to a wagon.
HUFF was riding one of the mules
and shot off his revolver, frighten-
ing his team. 1t started to run at
breakneck speed. He was thrown
off in front of the mules, which
passed over him, killing him almost
instantly.
The Rev. w. G. Lang, pastor of
the Steinway Dutch Reformed
church at Long Island, N. j., has &C
cepted a call for six months to the
pastorate of the Kentucky-avenue
Presbyterian church, at Paducah,
and is expected to preach his first
sermon on the first Sunday in jan
uary. He is a young man and is
said to be a brilliant speaker. He
is a graduate OF the Union Theo-
logical Seminary, of New York.
Justice James T. Clay, at Carlisle,
has set the examining trial of John
Scott, Hoard Scott and Joe Scott, of
Nicholas county, and John Bettus.
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Bourbon county, for Thursday, De-
cember 7. All are prominent farm
ers against whom Mrs. Mary Hon
aker and w. H. Sonny Scott, swore
out warrant charging that the de-
PENDANTS on the night Of October 2S
banded themselves together and
whipped and injured them.
A new wrinkle in Joy rides was
revealed at Lexington, when it was
found that someone had taken an
engine from the Cincinnati Southern
railroad roundhouse for a dash
down the track. When the engine
was wanted for use in the yards It
could not be located in the round
house, whore 1t had been placed the
night before, and the yardmaster
and other employees we're astounded
when. some time later, the engine
was found on -sidetrack in the ex-
IRENE south end of the city. half. a
mile from the roundhouse.