The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1913-04-11

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divided politically as follows Re-
publican 10, "Bull Moose s and
Democrats 2. All these are official
Nv announced candidates. and It is
said, there are Others who may
yet toss their hats in the ring" for
this office, which seems TO be the
best in Whitley county.
On Thursday last the thriving
town OF Tolleboro, Lewis-co., was
nearly wiped off the map by fire.
What drummer says of More
head:
A town of most exceptional pref
ty girls whose tastes for culture, re-,
finement, choice in literature and
pure classical music, place them
above the average mountain town.
Sam Moore, of Grapevine, Perry
county, one of the most important
witnesses for the Commonwealth in
the trials of d. F. Deaton, Dock
Smith and Andrew johnson for con-
spiracy to murder Ed Callahan, and
Govan Smith, one of the brothers
who confessed, to scheme to es-
tablish alibis and the plan to kill
Callahan. were assaulted in the
Winchester jail Tuesday night and
badly beaten by other defendants.
Whitesburg. KY. April 5.--The
taking of evidence in the contested
election case Of John F. Butler. Re-
publican, and ]. M. Robertson, DEM
ocrat. of Pikeville. for Circuit Judge
of the new Thirty-fifth judicial dis
trict. has been begun here and will
occupy several weeks. There Is
much interest manifest in the pro-
Already an error of fif-
teen votes has been found in the
Upper Rockhouse precinct OF the
county.
All is not lovely In the Republi-
can party in Greenup county and
strenuous efforts are being made by
some of the .. o. D. leaders to In
fuse with the Republican, remnant
for the county officers. Thomas F.
Pugh is The first Republican to sum
mon up enough nerve to become n
for the nomination for
Representative in the Legislature.
He admits in his announcements
that the ship of State would not
be driven on the breakers" IL he
was not sent to the Legislature.
Winchester, KY, April Straps
ped under the heavy beam of the
Hampton stock scales on the Mt.
Sterling pike, about a mile from
Harry Faulkner, the 12-
year-old stepson OF Sam Wright, of
Clay-st., this city met a horrible
death Fridaya afternoon and his
body was not found until an early
hour Saturday morning
The heavy beam under the plat
form OF the scales caught the boy
across his neck and he was grad
ualiy choked, death coming, ii Is es-
timated, not sooner than fifteen or
twenty minutes.
Winchester, KY. April 5.--M. G.
Smith, the first alibi witness in the
Callahan conspiracy to be tried for
perjury, was convicted by jury in
the Circuit Court here at eleven
thirty o'clock this morning. follow
ing Commonwealth Attorney Crutch-
er's speech, which was one OF the
strongest, arguments ever heard in
the local court house.
The jury was out about ten min
utes. There are eleven other cases
to be tried. The penalty Is from
one to five years in the peniten-
larry.
The Log Mountain Coal company,
1t Chonoa, Bell-co., is possibly the
,nly mining company in the State !
having in its employ a miner, who
b totally blind, and the remarkable |
part of it Is that the blind man is
,ne of the best coal diggers in the |
employ of the company. His name |
s Hays Mattingly, 35 years OF age.
and he has been totally blind for |
seventeen years. He works in his |
room" in the mine alone. shoots
his coal, loads It and places his |
propswith all the precision of man
blessed with sight. Mr.. Mattingly's
,oal comes from the mine free Of
slate and dirt. He also goes from
ais home to his work without as
His wages average with
he best miners. He is a native
If Jackson county.
winchester, KY, April 1.-Two
negroes were killed, two more were
BADLY wounded. two white men are
osf and another has n broken arm