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From: Rita Stanifer Maggard <>
Subject: LaurelCoKY-November 1896-Part 8
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 07:13:01 -0500


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EXCERPTS from the MOUNTAIN ECHO

November 1896
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Reprinted with permission of the Laurel County Historical Society
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(Ed. note...The following items definitely fall into the

GOOD NEWS/BAD NEWS Categories!!!)

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November 27, 1896

Decker PERKENS killed John TUCKER Saturday, down in Pulaski county, with
an ax.

Geo. W. FERRIS, the inventor and builder of the great Ferris wheel, so
familiar to all who attended the World's Fair, is dead.

W. F. HART was sentenced to the penetentiary at Mayfield, Ky., for bigamy
for a period of seven years. He had been married eight times and three of
his wives were present at the trial and testified against him.
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Mrs. L.J. ROWLAND, the wife of a poor painter at Richmond, Ky., while
assisting her father overhaul the room of his mother who died near
Versailles last February, discovered concealed in a featherbed a bag
containing $ 1,779 in cash and a note directing the finder to divide the
money equally between her two granddaughters, one of whom was Mrs. ROWLAND.
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And how has your week been???

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Laurel County Kentucky Genealogy Resources on the Internet

KYGenWeb page
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/2060

Laurel County Historical Society
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/2060/main.htm

LaurelCoKY Mail List
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