Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1895 — LATEST FROM KENTUCKY. [ARTICLE]

LATEST FROM KENTUCKY.

Repntation of “Ye Dark and Bloody Ground" Sustained. At Covington, Ky.. April 11, State Senator Goebel, a'personal friend of Secretary Carlisle, fatally shot John Sanford, President of tlie Traders’ Bank. There was an Did feud between them,but the immediate jause of the encounter was a road law, pushed through the Legislature by Goebel reducing tolls on turnpikes. Sanford was President and owner of several of the highways affected by the law and abused Goebel for his action in the Assembly.