During the heavy thunderstorm of last Saturday, Richard Hoke, a farmer of Jefferstown, fifteen miles from Lousville, was struck by lightning just as he was enter- ing the door of his home and in- stantly killed. Deceased was thirty years old and leaves a wife and one child. He was a brother of Mr. A. W. Hoke, the well- known tonsorial artist, of Bloom- field.

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