Newspapers, Adair County KY:  The Adair County News  19-Jan-1898

Submitted By: Laura Frost Wright <lsllwright@hotmail.com>
Submission Date: 10-Oct-2000

John SHELTON is being tried for the murder of Butler OVERTON at Pineville.
The Stevenson Block at Russellville KY, occupied by T.L. STOVALL as a dry
   goods store, was burned Friday morning. George G. COLLINS, a carpenter,
   was killed by a falling wall. The property loss is between $12,000 and
   $15,000, partly covered by insurance.
Two tollgates were destroyed in Garrard County last week.
Work has begun on the new telephone line from Danville to Harrodsburg.
A fine residence in Shelby County owned by Davis OFFUTT was destroyed
   by fire.
Robert LEE, a prominent young farmer of Butler County, was killed by a
   falling tree.
Chas. JOHNSON, a negro, stabbed to death Harry MORDECAI, another negro
   at Frankfort.
It is said an attempt to blow up the new Odd Fellow's building at Owensboro
   was frustrated.
A tornado struck Morganfield blowing down several houses and killing
   City Marshall SELLERS.
Tandy ELLIS, seven year convict from Christian County, was pardoned because
   he was dying.
J.B. WALL and Miss Julia WATKINS, stepbrother and stepsister, were married
   near Princeton.
Carrie JOHNSON of Clark County accidently shot herself with a pistol.
   The wound may prove fatal.
Dan DUNGAN was arrested and taken to Catlettsburg on the charge of
   committing a murder in 1891.
Columbus BATES was accidently shot and mortally wounded by the discharge
   of his own pistol at Monticello.
In a fight in a saloon at Manchester, Bob PHILPOT was shot and killed and
   Geo. BUND mortally wounded.
Just 174 marriage licenses were issued to white persons and thirty-seven
   to colored people by the County Clerk at Glasgow in 1897.
Senator LINDSEY is opposed to Senator DEBOE's bill making a new Federal
   District in Kentucky and will probaly defeat it in committee.
At a conference held by the Mormons in Barren County, forty elders attended
   and a plan for evangelizing the South agreed upon.
Jim DAVIS, the negro who broke jail at Munfordville some time ago, was
   captured at Elizabethtown and returned to Munfordville.
Lee STEVENSON, a prisoner in the county jail at Greenup, is thought to have
   hydrophobia. He bit a fellow prisoner while being tied by the jailor.
Dr. Isham H. HARRINGTON, a Louisville dentist, was arrested on a serious
   charge. Miss Dulcie CRENSHAW alleges that he made a criminal assault
   upon her.
J.H. ELY, the negro Democrat and preacher elected Assistant Cloakroom Keeper
   at Frankfort, was arrested for alleged embezzlement of Mulenberg County
   County school funds.
The heirs of Jesse POTTS, deceased, will undertake to break his will, which
   leaves an estate of $70,000 to his wife. The deceased was Vice-President
   of the LaGrange deposit bank.
At a party near Vine Grove, Hardin County, Jesse KNOTT, aged seventeen,
   stabbed and killed Thurman PADGETT, aged fifteen. Bad feeling brought
   about by PADGETT testifying against KNOTT in court was the cause of the
   tragedy.
Will HAY was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary at Bowling Green on
   the charge of shooting and wounding Will HAGAN some time ago. HAY belongs
   to one of the most prominent families in Warren county. He will probably
   get a new hearing.
W.T. WRIGHT of Smith's Grove has filed another suit for slander against
   Geo. W. MOON. This is the second suit against MOON and in his petition he
   alleges that the defendant circulated the report that the plaintiff was
   guilty of house burning. WRIGHT prays for damages in the sum of $5,000.

Miss Pauline HARDING of Covington was nominated by the joint caucus at
   Frankfort for Librarian on the twentieth ballot. Mrs. J.B. MARTIN of
   Glasgow received the highest vote next to her and will be a candidate
   for the position two years hence.
One of Louisville's new enterprises for 1898 will be an establishment for
   the manufacture of horseless carriages.

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