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From: Larry&Laura wright <>
Subject: [Newspaper] NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE-Kentucky 1897
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 00:13:59 -0700


STATE NEWS
Taken from
THE ADAIR COUNTY NEWS
DECEMBER 22 1897 EDITION
Submitted By Laura Frost Wright

Princeton has a large Bryan Glee Club.
The foundry at Middlesboro is working full time
Three toll-gates were raided in Montgomery County
All the drummer"s out of Louisville report good trade
There are 817 patients in Eastern Lunatic Asylum at Lexington
In Harlan County WILLIAM OSBORNE shot and killed JOS. MESSER
Fifteen burglaries have occurred in Loagan county in the past few days
P.K. SPRAWLS, of Monroe County was killed in a swa mill in Texas
A good road club has been organised by the farmers of the bluegrass
ED PHELPS of Albany Landing swears he has the best bloodhounds in the
State.
Mrs. BURRELL LAWLAS died at her home near Glasgow, last week in her 87th
year
HIRAM SHAW, who was one of the most prominent men of Lexington is dead.
Dr. C.H. TODD has been elected President of the Owensboro Confederate
Association.
The Truxton mines and coke ovens at Pineville were bought by Hobb & Co,
. of Middlesboro.
Electric lights are a sure go for LaGrange. The plant will be operated
by MELLVANE BROS.
Col. JACK CHINN'S kennel of fox hounds has been increased by the
addition of three noted hound dogs
WM. DRAKE was killed and SAM GORDON badly injured by the explosion of a
boiler at Lexington.
A bill will be pushed in the coming Legislature to establish a negro
normal school at Russellville.
Danville holders of real estate at Superior Wis are jubilant over the
big boom now on in that region.
For the January term of the grayson circuit court only nine case have
been brought, and six of them are divorce.
At Versailles the Woolford Republicans ask for the absolute repeal of
the civil service law immediately if not sooner.
The Republicans are holding mass meetings in different county seats
passing resolutions condeming civil service reform.
Sufficient stock has been subscribed to extend the Elizabethtown &
Boston telephone line to new haven and work will begin at once.
Over 5,000 rabbits have been shipped from Oldham county this season.
Most of them were snared by means of a string, sapling and apple
SARAH WILLIAMS, Elizabethtown, a colored woman, caught fire and her life
was only saved by her clothin being stripped from her by her husband.
People living in the priceville and Cub run neighborhood, Hart county
have been greatly annoyed by the cattle thieves the last few months.
WILLIAM THARP, near Etna Furnace, Hart County, had his barn burned a few
nights ago. He lost all his corn, wheat and working utensils. No
insurance
Mr. T. H. McCOMAS an old and highly respected citizen of Cumberland
county, died last week, of lung trouble. He was a very old man and his
death was not unexpected.

The will of the late R.A. ROBINSON was admitted to probate in the
Jefferson county court last week. After making bequests to his
sister-in-law and niece, he willed the residue of his estate to his
seven sons, share and share alike. The estate is worth $600,000


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REBECCA WRIGHT-b-abt. 1850
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