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Subject: [KYLAUREL-L] Excerpts from the Mt. Echo 1901 (13)
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 02:49:35 EDT
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Reprinted with permission of the Laurel County Historical Society
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January 25, 1901
Miss Pearl Landram, of Bath county and Miss Ollie Landram, of Oakley, this
county, were visiting in London during the week.
The editor was taken quite ill early on Thursday of last week with cold and
indgestion and was confined to his room until Wednesday evening of this week.
Judge Young has been getting after several of our young fellows so closely
for gambling recently that one of them came up missing from the town
yesterday morning.
Mr. David Johnson has been very low with pneumonia during the week, but our
last report from her is that she is much better, and there is now strong
hopes of her recovery.
Mr. W. H. Taylor, who recently purchased the stock of goods belonging to Mr.
J. M. Hurley, has taken charge and will be represented in the columns of the
The Echo next week by an adv.
DIED-At her home in the eastern portion of this county, Tuesday night, of
general debility, Mrs. Patsey Johnson, wife of Hiram Johnson, better know as
"Greasy" High. The bereaved family has our deepest sympathy.
The terrible state of affairs existing at Corbin at the time of our last
issue was suppressed by the sending of the Lexington State Guards, commanded
by Col. Roger Williams, accompained by a Gattling gun. The killed were James
Shotwell, Sutton Faris and Susan Cox, the last two were killed by wild
bullets during the fusillade. The wounded were Hadley Bradley, Percy Cooper,
and an unknown traveling man, all of who were wounded by stray shots. The
troops arrived at Corbin about nidnight Thursday night, and after remaining
about twenty four hours, all, except a small detail and the Gattling gun,
which were sent to Williamsburg at the request of Judge Morrow, returned
home, John, James and Charles Shotwell, sons of the murdered man; their
cousin, Paris Shotwell, Willis Chochran, Wes and James Mc Hargue, and John
Bryant and Clay Kincaid, the last two colored, were arrested and taken to
Williamsburg, charged with complicity in the riot that followed the shooting
of Shotwell. Rolla White who shot Shotwell, was also arrested and taken to
Williamsburg jail.
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