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Subject: [KYLAUREL-L] Excerpts from the Mt. Echo 1901 (15)
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 00:22:39 EDT
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Reprinted with permission of the Laurel County Historical Society
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February 1, 1901
NEWS NOTES
During a storm a few days since a tree was blown down on the house of John
Williams, near Middlesboro, killing Williams, his wife and baby.
At McFarland, Tenn., a train plunged through a bridge killing two men and
fatally injuring two others.
Louis Meyer, the Virginia fugitive, who is wanted for murder in three states,
the rewards for whose arrest aggregate $2,500, is reported to have eluded the
officers just across the Tennessee line, near Middlesboro, Tuesday night,
after they had him completely surrounded. It is claimed that he has killed
five persons, a woman and two revenue officers in Virginia, a Deputy Sheriff
in North Carolina, and a Sheriff in Unico county, Tenn.
Eleven of the Shotwells and their friends have been indicted in the Whitley
Circuit Court for conspiracy in blowing up the storehouse of Roach White at
Corbin with dynamite. Their trial was called Wednesday, both parties
announcing ready. The trial was entered into with the exception of the
McHargue boys, who demanded and obtained a separate trial.
BURNING SPRINGS, CLAY COUNTY, KY., January 4, 1901. We are sorry to announce
the death of Susan Smith, wife of A. L. Smith, of this place, of that dreaded
disease consumption. Mrs. Smith was a kind hearted and faithful Christian
woman, and made friends of all her associates and acquaintances. She was
fifty-two years of age, and leaves a husband and thirteen children. With
best respects to the bereaved husband and children I remain.
Very Sincerely,
Jesse Maggard
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