KY-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest 11 Oct 2000 Volume 00 : Issue 283 From: Laura Wright Subject: NEWS: News from around the state, Jan. 19, 1898, Adair Co., KY Date: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 12:54 AM NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE OF KY Taken from The ADAIR COUNTY NEWS COLUMBIA KY, JANUARY 19, 1898 EDITION Typed as published and submitted By Laura Frost Wright 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 armer 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 thirtyseven 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 Cloak-room keeper at Frankfort , was arrested for alleged embezzlement of Mulenberg 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 probaly 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 plantiff 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. End of ky-footsteps-digest V00 #283 ********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. **********************************************************************