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    1. LOCAL NEWS - JULY 20, 1900 - PART 2
    2. Diana S Flynn
    3. BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1900 Deputy Marshall HOLMES Saturday arrested Dr. LIVINGSTONE, an old man who lives in the north part of town, for practicing medicine and surgery without a license. He was taken before Judge STEPHENSON and his trail set for July 30th. A three months old child of Mrs. McCLELLAND, widow of Chas. McCLELLAND, died at Oolitic, Monday evening, of cholera infantum. Undertaker Perry BLACKBURN brought the remains to this city Tuesday and they were taken to Campbellsburg on the early train for interment. If there is honor in politics or the right of suffrage, it surely will be a bright spot in one's memory in after years to know that they voted for Hon. P. R. WADSWORTH, for Congressman from the Second District. He's a true gentleman if measured by a true standard and will be the next Representative in the National Congress from this District as sure as the election day arrives. Washington, Ind., July 19. – It comes from a reliable source that as soon as the work of reconstructing the roadbed between Cincinnati and St. Louis is completed the Baltimore and Ohio South western will remove the freight division now maintained at Seymour to this city, where the company's shops and division officers are now located. This change will increase Washington's population nearly 1,000. Sheriff DOBBINS called at the Reformatory yesterday to see Oliver THOMASSON, the alleged slayer of Frank LANTZ, who is there for safe keeping. THOMASSON, who has not retained a lawyer, informed the Sheriff that he would waive preliminary examination. His case will be investigated by the Lawrence County Grand Jury in September. – Jeffersonville Cor. Courier-Journal. Mace HITCHCOCK and Homer DILLMAN got into a difficulty Monday night and had things pretty lively on the street until some one went after City Marshal RUSSELL, and he placed HITCHCOCK in jail. According to accounts the fight occurred about midnight and the two night police were unable to arrest HITCHCOCK, who seemed to be the aggressor, and they went out and woke up Chief RUSSELL, who got up out of bed and promptly arrested him and took him to jail. The honey producing industry of Evansville, Ind., has reached such magnitude that the city council is considering an ordinance declaring the bees a nuisance and requiring the owners of hives to move outside the city limits. It is said that seventy-five persons have colonies of bees in the city, and the bees produce $10,000 worth of honey a year. Persons who want the bees taken out ask that it be done by Sept. 1. The bee owners have engaged a lawyer, who has represented to the city council there is not a city in the State that forbids people to have beehives. $15.50 to Atlantic City on Aug. 2nd via B. & O. S. W.

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