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Subject: [KYLAUREL-L] Excerpts from the Mt. Echo 1901 (18)
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 23:44:37 EDT
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Reprinted with permission of the Laurel County Historical Society
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February 1, 1901
Mr. H. M. Mitchell and family now occupy the residence recently vacated by
Mr. J. M. Hurley, just across the street from this office.
Little Lucy Russell, who has been suffering with an attack of typhoid fever
for the past two weeks, is convalescent and will be out again in a few days.
Mr. C. H. Brown, of Boreing, this county caught a very large gray eagle a few
days ago in a steel trap. It had been catching the neighbors chickens and
ducks, so after catching the the first chicken for Mr. Brown, he set a trap
for him and picked him up the first pass. He has him in a coup.
Joe Ellis, an old colored man of Altamont, this county, was mistaken for
another man, while passing through a tunnel in Bell county a few days ago and
was set upon by murderer and robber, carrying a mask and a dark lantern, and
had his throat cut from ear to ear, the knife barely missing the arteries of
his neck.
While sitting before an open grate about six o'clock last Wednesday evening,
little Blanche, the eight year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Hogan, had
her clothing to catch fire and before it could be extinguished she was very
painfully burned about the neck and face. Mr. Hogan's hands were also pretty
badly burned in extinguishing the flames.
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