Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-02-23
IN OFT KENTUCKY


! at Nicholasville realized Sal, and was
awarded to Mrs. E. Switzerland.
/ James D. Burton, died at his home
near Buckeye, in Garrard asst week.
He was a brother of esquire" Bur-
tton. and an uncle of w. B. Burton and
R. /: Burton, Of Garrard.
The will of Japes c. Pates of Yer
sailles, bequeath a large estate to
three nieees, Misses Florence, and Sal
lie Roberts, and Mrs. Eudora Seay.
| A posse Of citizens hunted down
and killed mad dog WHICH bit z
year-old child on the Lloyd Nicolas
son farm, and number of dogs and
cows in Boone county.
The bridge across the old-mill-race,
at Clay City dropped more than a
foot and a force Of men has been put
to work by town authorities to pre-
vent threatened collapse.
Todd Pearl. prominent coal operator
of Laurel county was acquitted in
Laurel Circuit Court on charge of
killing his brother at the home of
their parents Christmas Day.
Flying pieces of iron struck and
seriously injured a servant at the
home of Mr.. C. NJ. Woodbury., in
Miadlesboro when he built fire in a
range in which the boiler had frozen
Gold amounting to $12O and $3.50
grcenbacks hidden in an organ at his
home, life savings of Jim Anderson,
aged Graves county negro, were
stolen by thief who left no clue.
J. w. Wilson, of Ohio county has
received letter from health au-
thorities at Delphine, Okla, stating
that his daughters, Misses Myrl and
Winnie Wilson, both teachers, are i'll
with smallpox.
| A watch bought with fund p1ade
up by Harrodsburg church men was
presented as a token of esteem to the.
Rev. E. B. ,Bourland, who goes to
Lancaster to be pastor of the Chris
tian church.
The burial of Miss Pauline Carter
student at the Bowling Green normal
school, who died from pneumonia g
few hours before her parents reached
her bedside, took place in the family
! lot at Louisa.
II. d. Wilson, a c. & O. operator at
Cli[fside, has made wooden leg for
a cat he picked up on the track af-
ter tram had an1putated a. rear
member, and the feline is making
good progress learning to use it.
The most notable case to come be-
| fore the current session of circuit
at Bowling Green is thef suit ipfs the
Board of Education against the city
demanding the sale of 100000 school
bonds which the city, attorney con-
tends were Illegally voted. ~
| A golden eagle, weighing about Is
pounds and measuring seven feet
from tip to tip was killed by Mr..
Golf of Indiana Field in Clark coun-
ty. The bird had killed and carried
off three sheep. Mr.. Golf Asent the
eagle to Cincinnati to be mounted
T. l.. Evans automobile WIS de-
stroyed by fire on Mt. Carmel pike in
Mason county when J. G. Trumbo, his
nephew, dropped match with which
he had lighted cigarette into gaso-
tlinesaturated waste. Trumbo's cloth
ing was burned land he narrowly es-
caped with his life. -
Nineteen cows making up the dairy
herd of J. Witterwer, of Oldham ,coun-
ty were destroyed by forder of the
state after an Inspectors, test had
shown the presence of tuberculosis,
and he will be reimbursed three
lfourths of the appraised value of the
lcattle. sss1
Miss Louise Cox, 10 of Taylor coun-
ty had all of her fingers and part of
both thumbs amputated as the re
suit of burns suffered while cleaning
gloves with gasoline. Her mother
Mrs. Ernest Cox, submitted to an
operation by which two pieces of
skin, 6x9 inches, were transferred to
h the child's left limb.
Transylvania- College has received
another library, the gift of DIR. A.
Buck, of New York, who has present
ed about ESQ volumes of medical
books, including the ancients, as well