Miscellaneous newspaper articles about Breckinridge County Kentucky

June 12, 1885
The Daily Gazette, Fort Wayne Indiana

Attempts to Lynch a Murderer
Louisville, Ky., June 11-Joe Gray, a negro, who killed Miss Emma Gray, with a rock by horribly beating her on the head at Hardinsburg, Ky., Sunday last, was brought there for safe keeping this morning. Breckinridge county is much excited over the brutal murder. Two unsuccessful attempts were made to lynch. Gray, who was hidden, was hurried away by the officers.

August 29, 1904
The Newark Advocate, Newark Ohio

PLACED IN JAIL
Cloverport, Ky., Aug. 29-W.W. Conley is in jail at Hardinsburg awaiting trial on charges preferred by Mrs. Lilly Fagen, proprietor of the Kentucky Tar Springs, a health resort three miles south of this city. Conley was arrested on warrants which charged him with using abusive and insulting language to Mrs. Fagen, with threatening to destroy her property and threatening violence to Oceola Vanarsdale, Mrs. Fagen's brother.

May 14, 1913
The Newark Advocate, Newark Ohio

FIRE DESTROYS LARGE BAKERY
Hardinsburg, Ky., May 14-Fire that started in a bakery here early today destroyed fourteen business buildings. The estimated loss is $123,000.

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