Newspapers, Adair County KY: The Adair County News  22-Dec-1897

Submitted By: Laura Frost Wright <lsllwright@fuse.net>
Submission Date: 11-July-2000

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 saw 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 & Company
      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, WI 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
      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 (of) Elizabethtown, a colored woman, caught fire and her life
      was only saved by her clothing 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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