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ESTABLISHED 1»87. THE ROME TRIBUNE, ROME. GA.. WEDNESDAY, JULY ‘-9, 1896 PRICE FIVE CENTS.
TRIAL FOR BIS LIFE
Charles Thompson’s Fate Hangs in
the Balance.
THE CASE CONSUMED YESTERDAY
The Evidence Being Submitted,
Arguments Began.
IT WILL BE CONCLUDED TODAf
Thompson in Hi, Statement Ignored the
Confessions That He Had Previously Made
i and He Claimed That His Mind Was a
Blank For Ten Days Alter He Was Lodged
In Jail.
At 8:30 o’clock yesterday morning
■ the case of the state against Charles
Thompson charged with the murder
F of Mrs. Anne Tudor, was resumed,
k There was a large Crowd assembled
’ , ita the court room, Revs. S. R. Belk
r and C. W. Hunnicutt, pastors of the
First and Second Methodist churches
i, occupying seats inside the bar near
the prisoner.
The jury was soon secured consist
ing of D. F. Blackwelder. J. T. Mc-
R. H. West, George W. Russell,
”*Fletcher Smith, A. J. Crawford, T. J.
Wallace, E. R. Minhinnett, N. C.
Brand, John C. Miller. E. F. Huffard,
James A. Beach.
The prisoner appeared fresh and
L self-possessed and was accompanied
J by his counsel Messrs. J. B. F. Lump
kin and Wright Willingham,
Mr. Travis Morrison appeared as
prosecutor and Solicitor General
Nunnally and R. L. Chamblee for the
state.
Mr. Chapman, the man on whose
plane Thompson lived was the first
witness introduced, and he told of
how he went to where Thoimison was
milking, on Sunday mornmg, after
hearing of the woman’s disappearance
and asking if it was true, Thompson
replying that she’ was gone and he
supposed she had gone to her mother’s
home in Chattooga county.
He then told about the searching of
premises, the woods adjacent and
the wells on his own, his sons and
Thompson’s premises and finally of
the discovery of the body in the old
anused well on the side of John’s
[ mountain.
~ He then recalled the searching for
I and finding of a card and strips of
r cloth at house corres
| ponding with those tied around the
I woman’s feet and legs.
S Then he told of Thompson’s con
| session, but the line of the defense
1 tended to charge the confession to
Thompson's fear of the lynching of
himself and his son.
h Dr. D. T, McCall took the stand and
detailed his connection with the
Fcase, his examination of the body
giving it as his opinion that the
woman died from strangulation, and
that she had only about six weeks
before her death become in a delicate
L condition. He also testified as to the
statement made by Thompson.
Jack Selman, who was a member of
the coroner’s jury, explained how the
body was found. There were two
rocks, one nearly fifty pounds in
weight, between the limbs of the
corpse above the knees, confined by a
stout cord bound tightly above the
knees outside her skirts holding the
, nock in place, and a smaller one rest-
I ing against the limbs in front, below
L the knees, confined by another cord
[ band about the ankles.
| Witness stated that the woman was
8* small and weakly body, weighing
about ninety-five pounds and that he
.did not believe that she could have
fixed herself in that condition and
got into the well unaided.
He told how Thompson had denied
knowing anything about the disap
pearance of the woman until he ap
peared before the jury the last time
when he broke down and said,
“For God’s sake release my boy.
He knows nothing about it. Nobody
Jrtiowß but me. Release him
and I will tell the whole truth. I want
you all to pray for me!”
The tears were flowing down Thom
pson s cheeks and the coroners jury was al
most melted to tears as Thompson told his
tragic tale.
There was a mark of a large rope
around the neck of the corpse and it ap
peared as if the rope had been a little
slack and the knuckle of a human hand
had made a bruise under her chin as if it
had been inserted under the knot of the
, rope, to give it a wrench to tighten it as
fit did its deadly work.
The left hand was raised above the
head as if reaching up for help and the
•bone was almost broken.in an attempt to
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straighten it after if it had been removed.
He thought that Thompson might easily
have carried the woman because of her
small size.
Thompson's Statement.
The prisoner then took the stand and
made his statement. He told of how his
wife had died two years ago and that he
employed the woman to keep house for
him.
Skipping the crime and all its details,
he said that on Sunday night when
they had him under arrest he overheard a
remark that Craws Moore said that he
was going to bring a crowd to protect
him from lynching.
He said that while he was lying there
several people came to him and told him
that his children had been sent to jail
and that he would never live to get there.
After thinking over his trouble for
awhile his mind became blank and he
kuew nothing more until he had been in
jail for eight or ten days. He asserted
his ipnocence of the enme in the most
emphatic manner and left the stand.
The Case Closed.
Both sides announcing that they had
closed the testimony, Mr. Willing
ham opened the argument in a strong
appeal in behalf of the prisoner.
Mr. Willingham is a young man, but
proved his ability as an orator, and made
a strong plea for the defendant.
R. L. Chamblee opened for the state in
a clear cut and excellent speech. He,
too, ha?been but recently admitted to the
bar. His argument was one that did him
credit, and his speech was well delivered.
Court adjourned after this speech.
This morning Solicitor General Nun
nally will speak, and then Mr. J. B.
F. Lumpkin, for the defense, will
close.
RATE WAR STOPPED.
Simonton Will Not Allow Railroads to
Make an Eighty Per Cent Reduction.
Spartanburg, S. 0., July 28.—Col
onel A. T. Smythe of Charleston ap
peared before Judge Simonton, United
States judge, at Flat Rock, N. C., in
chambers, for an injunction to stop the
rate war between the Southern ra 1-
way and the Seaboard Air Line.
Colonel Symthe came in behalf of J.
H. Averill, receiver of the Port Royal
and Augusta railroad. Judge Simonton
ordered that the defendants, the South
ern railway and the Georgia, Carolina
and Northern, appear before him at
Greenville, S. 0., Aug. 15, to show
cause why the injunction should not be
permanent. Z
It is further provided that until the
hearing above provided for and until
the filiug of any order which the court
may see fit to make upon or after such
hearing, the Georgia, Carolina and
Northern, the Seaboard Air Line and
R. 0. Hoffman, president; E. St. John,
vice president, and V. E. Mcßee, gen
eral superintendent, be restrained and
enjoined from continuing in force or
further operation the reduction nut into
effect July 17, 1896, in the rates for
freight and passenger traffic at that
time or the reduction announced on
July 12, 1896, and afterwards with
drawn, or from making any further or
other cut whatever in rates for either
passenger or freight traffic, or from
making any change whatever, or from
operating either alone or in combina
tion with other transportation lines
other or different rates from those in
effect July 12, 1896.
It is further ordered that the defend
ants, the Southern railway; the South
Carolina railway and Georgia railway;
John B. Cleveland, receiver of the Port
Royal and Western Carolina; the Wil
mington, Columbia and Augusta rail
way; John Gill, receiver of the Cape
Fear and Yadkin Valley railway; the
Southbound; the Georgia railway and
T. K. Scott, manager; the Central of
Georgia; the Oceau Steamship company
and H. M. Comer, president, are en
enjoined and forbidden, collectively or
individually, from carrying into effect
the reduction of 80 per cent from the
rate in effect July 12, 1896.
H. S. Haines, commissioner of the
Southern States Freight association, is
enjoined from making any reduction
whatever in rates. Copies of this in
junction will be served on all the de
fendants at once.
Dade Convict Camp Broken Up.
Atlanta, July 28. —The decree of
Governor Atkinson, ordering that the
convict camps at Cole City, Rising
Fawn and Bartow be broken up because
of the failure of Julius L. Brown, the
president of penitentiary camp No 1,
to pay the fine of $750 imposed upon
him for mismanagement, has been car
ried out. A special train brought 400
convicts who have been working in
these mines to Fulton county Monday.
The greater part of the convicts got off
at Bolton and were marched across the
country to the Chattahoochee brick
yards. About 60 came to Atlanta and
were sent on a night train to the lum
ber camp of Mr. George W. Parrott, on
the Georgia Southern and Florida rail
road. Fifty-three moved on to Mr. T.
J. James’ camp, at Adrian, Ga., on the
■‘Central railroad, Tuesday morning.
Cretan Insurgents Defeat Turks.
Athens, July 28.—A large body of
Mussulmans, supported by Turkish
troops, engaged in pillaging the Asomati
district in the island of Crete, has been
attacked by a force of 1,500 insurgents.
The latter drove the Mussulmans and
Turkish troops out of the district re
ferred to and inflicted serious loss upon
them.
MR. BRYAN IS SILENT
Declines to Discuss the SI. Louis
Convention.
WILL ACT WITH DELIBERATION
Stream of Visitors is ’on the
increase
MANY TELEGRAMS ARE RECEIVED
Confident That a Wise Solution of the Per
plexing Conditions Will Be Reached.
Democracy’s Nominee Is Still Receiving
Rabbits’ Feet and Four Leaf Clover*.
Wisconsin Silver Men Issue an Address.
Lincoln, Neb., July 28.—The stream
of visitors to the Bryan home is on the
increase. Two of the delegates from
Nevada to the St. Louis si ver conven
tion, Messrs. Nixon and Davis, enroute
home, stopped off here to consult with
Mr. Bryan, doubtless upon his probable
course in relation to the Populist nomi
nation.
Mr. Bryan has received a number of
telegrams containing suggestions in re
gard to the action of the Populist con
vention, and to all of them he replied in
effect that he will act with deliberation
and that nothing will be done which
can be justly criticised by any of the
elements who are sincerely interested
in the success of the cause of bimetal
lism. In his replies to these expressions
he earnesly advises all friends of the
cause in all parties to refrain from harsh
criticism of those who, however widely
they may differ, otherwise occupy com
mon ground in bettering the cause of
free silver. They express the utmost
confidence that a wise and gratifying
solution of the perplexing conditions
will be presented and adopted. Further
than this Mr. Bryan declined to talk on
the situation. Every entreating inquiry
calculated to fathom his plans or pur
poses met with the simple response:
“I must decline to be interviewed
concerning the St. Louis convention or
its results. ’ ’
However, his loquacity in other di
rections was not so circumscribed, and
he found plenty of material for au en
tertaining discourse.
“I received,” he said, “another rab
bit’s foot. It was sent to me by a tele
graph operator in Montana. That makes
the sixth foot, besides a great
many four leaf clovers and a horseshoe.
I wrote the donor of the last rabbit’s
foot that while I am not at all supersti
tious, under the circumstances I cannot
but feel that every condition and neces
sity to insure my triumphant election
has been secured, except the vptes.”
On his return from the Populist con
vention, Governor Holcomb brought to
Lincoln a cage containing two very
pretty birds of the variety denominated
love birds. They were sent by the
Kansas delegation. They were christ
ened Kansas and Nebraska.
Candidate Tom Watson Talks.
New York, July 28. —Thomas E. Wat
son, candidate for vice president on the
Populist ticket, in a telegram from
Thomson, Ga., to The Herald, says:
“Our executive committee must de
cide the question of dividing electors.
If Mr. Bryan accepts our nomination
and Mr. Sewall should retire, Texas
Populists- would probably be content
with Bryan and Watson, even though
Bryan did not indorse all the platform.
“I was absolutely sincere when I said
I would not accept either place on the
Populist national ticket. I thought our
party would have no difficulty in nam
ing a straightout Populist ticket, and I
did not desire either place.
“I stayed away from the convention
particularly to avoid prominence and
the Georgia delegation had positive in- |
structions to avoid the use of my name.
After the convention met and the fu
sion strength developed, it seemed that
our party would be swallowed up by
the Bryan forces, and to have gone
into the preiderttial campaign with no
Populist on the national ticket meant
death to the People’s party.
“The Georgia delegation then tele
graphed me, urging me to allow the use
of my name to harmonize the factions
and save the party. I consented and I
will abide the consequences. When I
said I would not accept I did not dream
that such a crisis could possibly come
upon our party.”
* Silver Men Inane an Address.
Milwaukee, July 28.—The silver del
egates to the Democratic national con
vention ha ’ r e given out their address
to the public, replying to the letter pub
lished by the gold delegates, headed by
Senator Vilas and General Bragg. It is
devoted mainly to answering the charges
promulgated by the gold men, but goes
to some extent into the merits of the sil
ver question. The point is made that
silver delegates obeyed their instruc
tions until the chairman of the Wis
consin delegation refused to allow the
vote of the state to be cast for any pres
idential candidate, and that they then
obtained permission from the presiding
officer of the convention to cast their
votes. In conclusion, the Democratic
voters of the state are urged to get to
gether to see that silver men are sent to
the state convention.
Arrested by the Spauish Police.
Havana, July 28. —The police, acting
upon information received from a lady
who owned a small hotel at Barabas,
which was frequented by the insurgents
and their families, arrested Senora, Jo
quina, Latrudy, her father, Juan Pablo,
and her nephew, Benigno. They had
with them three horses loaded with
groceries, etc., and a quantity of cloth
and drygoods, evidently intended for
the _
PITTSBURG CYCLONE
Seventeen Persons Killed and Thirty-
Six Injured,
WRECK AND RUIN DN ALL SIDES
The Full Extent of the Damage
By the Hurricane .
THE LIST OF DEAD AND INJURED
A Boardinghouse In the Suburbs of the
City Blown Down and Washed Away and
Fifteen of the Occupants Drowned—Prop
erty Damaged to the Extent of One Hun
dred Thousand Dollars.
Pittsburg, July 28. —The full extent
of the damage wrought by Monday
night’s hu.ricane was not known until
daylight, when wreck and ruin were
apparent on all sides. Steeples were
blown from churches and adjoining
buildings crushed, houses were unroofed,
trees broken off and in some cases torn
up by the roots, while the havoc caused
by the heavy rainfall of last week was
repeated. Summed up at noon, with
several outlying districts to hear from,
the result is: Seventeen lives lost, 36
other persons were injured, a number
fatally, and property damaged to the
extent of SIOO,OOO. The list of dead and
injured, as far as known, is as follows :
The dead:
Jacob Affelter, aged 35 years, 17 For
ward avenue, instantly killed on Green
field avenue by a falling fence.
John Figus, aged 22, skull crushed by
falling tree at Sugar Camp Grove.
Injured:
Abner Hays, receiver for the P. W. &
0., struck by lightning.
August Sendtz, Robinson road, Alle
gheny, with family of six, shocked by
lightning; all in a critical condition.
H. A. Bennett and two children, St.
Olair street, struck by lightning; condi
tion critical.
George Miller, 226 Main street, Alle
gheny, fatally injured.
Thomas O’Connell, Jacob Metz, Frank
Ott, Charles Kosack and Harry Hadden,
all seriously injured by falling trees at
Sugar Grove.
Henderson Ritchie, aged 65, struck by
lightning at McKee’s Bocks; will not
recover.
Sidney Gebhart, South Side, sffuck
by lightning; will recover.
Will Parfitt, p<\tal messenger, sttuck
by lightning; injuhes slight. \
James Brady, janitor of the Ralston
Public school, struck by a flying bough.
Police Officer W. P. Smith, struck in
the back by a flying signboard and badly
hurt.
Motorman Shaw of the Brookfield
line, shocked by lightning.
Six girls in Armstrong’s cork factory
struck by flying glass.
“Uncle Bob,” a well known negro,
shocked by lightning.
E. McGovern, a baker, and an un
known boy slightly injured by debris.
Miles, the 8 year-old boy of
George Miles, struck in the head with
a brick.
Mrs. Thompson of Carbon alley struck
by falling chimney.
Unknown stable boy blown against a
cart at Twenty-second street and Penn
sylvania avenue and two ribs broken.
Fifteen Miners Drowned.
One of the most terrible results of the
storm was the drowning of a number of
coal miners in the Painter’s Run dis
trict, just over the Washington county
line. The boardinghouse which they
occupied was blown down and swept
away and of the 16 miners sleeping in
it, 15 are believed to have been drowned,
i The bodies of five have been recovered.
I One of the men was revived. They
were all foreigners, mostly Italians, and
were employed in the mines of Colonel
W. P. Randolph of the Ridgeway-
Bishop Coal company. The boarding
house was a little settlement called
Cecil, on the line of the 8-mile branch
of the Panhandle road, which leaves the
Chartiers division at Bridgeville. The
branch runs over to McDonald, and
Cecil is located midway between the
two points.
The fatality occurred at 4 a. m. when
the small stream, Painter’s Run, which
empties into the Chartiers creek, was
suddenly swollen into a raging torrent
by a cloudburst. The stream had been
running high on account of rain, but
little damage had been done before the
rush of water which carried away the
tenement house.
The particulars of the fatality which
have been received thus far are very
meagre owing to the remoteness of the
locality and the fact that the wires are
down. Five bodies of the unfortunates
were recovered during the morning at
various points about a mile away from
where the house stood. The other ten
are believed to have perished.
One of the 16 was rescued while cling
ing to a tree, and another of the occu
pants of the house was discovered cling
ing to the boughs of a tree three miles
down. He was unconscious and died a
few hours later. A great deal of min
ing and oil property was damaged in
the district along the run. The water
rose in some places to a depth of 18
feet. The loss in the district will
amount to thousands of dollars.
As all the miners in the house which
was swept away were foreigners, and
mostly Italians, it was impossible to
learn their names.
Meteorological Records Broken.
Three meteorological i ecords were
broken Monday. It was in the first
place the hottest day of the year; the
thermometer at 4 o’clock was 93 de
grees, the maximum point. The rain
fall for six minutes beats all records in
the local weather bureilu, wliich extend
back 28 years. From 4:30 to 4:86 over
one-third of an inch of rain fell in the
gauge on the roof of the government
building. The other was the cold wave
that passed over the city during the
storm. The register in the thermome
ter fell from 90 degrees to 71 and then
went back to 84. Had it not been
that the slightest change is regis
tered in ink this phenomenon
would not have been noticed.
The sudden change in a large extent
cans d a terrible electric display that
continued without intermission until
midnight. Up to 9 o’clock Tuesday
morning the rainfall was 1.42 inches,
and as the ground is thoroughly soaked,
all of it will reach the rivers, and the
flood of Saturday will probably be re
peated.
The approach of the storm was her
alded by black clouds that turned day
light into darkness. There was a con
stant roll of terrifying thunder and in
cessant flashes of vivid lightning that
gave warning to pedestrians to seek
places of safety. The wind rose to a
gale as the rain began to fall and then
the hurricane came on with a roar, driv
ing the rain in solid sheets before it.
In an instant the streets in many parts
of the city were filled with flying
branches of trees, tin roofs were lifted
from houses and sent whirling over
chimney tops, knocking them down like
ten pins, signs and fences and trees fell,
crushing out the lives of two men a d
injuring others. For a little over a min
ute the hurricane blew at the rate of 30
miles an hour and then decreased to 24
miles for five minutes and ceased. The
thunder and lightning, however, kept
up a terrifying display, while the rain
continued to pour down for au hour.
After an hour of low murmuring thun
der and sheet lightning the storm broke
out again, but the force of it seemed to
be in the country d stricts back of the
south side hills, and reports coming in
at a late hour contained the informa
tion that much damage had been done
by lightning and an exceptionally heavy
downpour of rain.
Silver Lake Dam Gave Way.
Silver Lake and dam, unable to sus
tain the strain, gave way under it and
turned Finley’s run into a river until it
emptied into the river near the Brilliant
Pumping station. At Braddock hail
added to the damage and when the hur
ricane reached Turtle Creek it assumed
the proportions of a cyclone, doing great
damage. In the oil fields, derricks
were blown down, particularly in
O’Hara township. Sewickley, Coraopo
lis, Bellevue and McKees suffered se
verely. At Millvale and Sharpsburg the
storm played great havoc.
Frank Ridgeway, the local forecast
official, was at his desk when the storm
cloud darkened the sky. Jle said that
he had never seen a more perfect cyclone
formation in the clouds, and the fact
that the city was not visited with a cy
clone worse than that which caused the
St. Louis horror, is due to the interven
ing hills. The circular movement of
the wind was broken in the lower strata,
or else there would have I een a path
plowed through the two cities several
blocks wide.
In the evening another storm swept
over the city, during which torrents of
rain fell, while the wind blew a gale,
but no serious damage resulted. EYom
8 o’clock until midnight. 75 inches of
rain fell, making a total of 1.42 inches
The storm died in long-continued rumb
ling that rolled through the heavens
with the noise of distant cannonading,
the lightning, meanwhile, illuminating
the sky with incessant flashes of bluish,
glaring light. It was not until the'mid
night hour that the god of storm ceased
his loud murmurings.
Many Hounen Unroofed.
The damage to pooperty was general
and various. The wind unroofed dozens
of houses, while others were damaged
by the water washing their foundations
away. Still others were struck by light
ning. The traction lines as usual, were
compelled to suspend operations. Great
heaps of dirt and debris, from the pre
vious floods, piled near the tracks were
washed down again and the only lines
which escaped serious damage were
those on the south side. In the Penn
sylvania avenue mill district, 25 large
smoke and draft stacks were blown
down, buildings were unroofed, trees
were uprooted and scarcely a house in
the district passed through the storm
intact. Budler street got a repetition
of the storm of July 15, and many per
sons who had suffered property loss on
the occasion had the same experience
again. Trees and telegraph poles went
down under the wind. Fences and
outbuildings were destroyed and largo
buildings suffered the loss of roofs and
■windows. Brushton and Wilkinsburg
suffered to a considerable extent, but
not so badly as the districts not far from
the river.
The telegraph and telephone systems
of the two cities were badly damaged.
All the police and Are alarm wires were
wrecked to a greater or less extent, but
by dint of hard work during the night,
they have been put in fair ,-hape again.
More than half the telephone wires in
in Allegheny county are out of order,
and strenuous efforts are being made to
repair the damage. At 9a, m. it was
estimated that 700 lines were still out
of order. The Western Union and Pos
tal suffered much damage, but by hard
work enough lines were kept open to
handle press business. The electric
light and street railway wires were
badly disordered by the wind and were
crossed and recrossed with other lines
and linemen got them straightened out.
All the railroads suffered heavily from
landslides, but the through lines were
all open and trains are running with
very little delay._ _
Will Support the Republican Ticket.
Reno, Nev., July 28.—The Reno Ga
zette, one of the largest papers in Ne
i vada, has declared its intention to sup
port McKinley and Hobart on the
ground that protection instead of silver
is the paramount issue of the campaign.
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MORE ACTIVITY SEEN
Trade Picking Up In Some Parts of
the South.
DIXIE’S MERCHANTS ARE HOPEFUL
Business Conditions as Re
ported by the Tradesman
MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS
Look For Good Business This Fall It the
Fine Crop Prospect* Are Realized—A
Number of Southern Cotton Mill* Are
Enlarging Their Plant*—Many New In
dustries Reported.
Chattanooga, July 28.—Business con
ditions in the south, as reported by Th®
Tradesman’s hundreds of correspond
ents, remain unchanged. At some points
more activity is noted, but, generally
speaking, trade in all lines is quiet and
no marked improvement is expected be
fore September. Both merchants and
manufacturers look for a good business
in the fall, if the fine crop prospects are
realized and the political disturbances
are not too demoralizing.
The condition of the iron and steel
market is still unsatisfactory. Very lit
tle is being done either in raw or finished
material, and prices are weak. The fact
that production is being curtailed is en
couraging and will tend to strengthen
the market.
The lumber industry shows no new
features. Buying is done on a limited
scale, and while some good orders are
reported, the volume of business is not
large.
Textile manufacturers report a quiet
trade, and the prospects are not very
favorable for an increase in demand, at.
present. Prices are nominally un- ’
changed. The export trade is holding up
well. For the 11 months ending with
May, cotton goods valued at $11,175,148
were exported from the United States.
Cotton mill building is active and a
number of southern mills are enlarging
their plants and getting ready for a
large output in the fall.
The coal mining business is fairly
good with no dissatisfaction existing
among miners.
The following new industries are re
ported for the week:
A brewery at Cuero, Tex, electric
light plants at Barnesville, Ga., and
Hempstead, Tex.; a 100-barrel flouring
millet Denton, Tex.; a $25,000 ice fac
tory at Greenville, Miss.; a quarry
tc be developed at Riverside, Tex., and
a $25,000 bark mill at Lynchburg, Va.
A $20,000 oil mill will be erected at
SMuer, Tex.; a paper mill at Sugarland,
Tex.; a $90,000 sugar refinery at Donald
sonville, La.; cotton gins at Forsyth,
Ga., and Orange and White League,
Tex; ootton mills at Douglasville, Ga.,
and Mebane, N. O.; a knitting mill at
Athens, Ga., and a tobacco factory at
Richmond, Va. Woodworking plants
will be established at Brewton, Ala.,
Harmony Grove, Ga., Gold Rock and
Orange. N. 0., Charleston, S. Ck,
Georgetown, Tenn., and a $25,000 lum
ber mill at Beaumont, Tex.
The enlargements include a cotton
oompress at McKinney, Tex., an elec
tric light plant at Van Alstyne, Tex,
flouring mills at Carter’s Creek, Mul
berry and Shelbyville, Tenn.; cotton
mills at Macon, Ga., and McColl, S. 0.,
and a planing mill at Columbia, S. C.
Among the most important new build
ings is a’sl9,ooo church at Alexandria,
Va., and one to cost $40,000 at Raleigh,
N. C.; and SBO,OOO government building
at Meridian, Miss.; a $25,000 library at
Oxford, Ga.; and a $50,000 opera house
at Knoxville, Tenn.
TWO MEN FOUND DEAD.
A California Sheriff* Lost His Life In an
Attempt to Capture a Highwayman.
Nevada City, Cal., July 28.—The
dead body of Sheriff David Douglas
and the corpse of an unknown high
wayman were found lying a few feet
apart in a woods two miles from town.
There were five empty chambers in the
pistol of the sheriff, who had been shot
through the heart and in the right eye
and hand. The bullets of the sheriff
had gone through the robber’s heart,
abdomen and hip. The unknown man
had a rifle, but it had not been used. It
is supposed Douglas was shot by a con
federate of the highwayman.
A number of bold highway robberies
recently reported in this neighborhood
have all seemed to be the work of one
man who stopped coaches and private
conveyances on the roads near Navada
City. The sheriff and his deputies have
been untiring in their efforts to capture
the highwayman.
Finally, Sheriff Douglas, believing
that a large squadron of deputies only
served to put the highwayman on his
guard, determined to attempt the chase
singlehanded. He started out Sunday
accompanied only by his dog. The dog
returned and searching parties tracked
the sheriff to the spot where officer and
prisoner lay dead side by side.
A Convict Saves His Guards’ Live*.
Columbia, S. 0., July 28. Near
Langley, Aiken county, the convicts in
the county ahaingang mutinied. They
turned upon Frank Weatherby and his
eon, who were guarding them, beat
them over the heads with clubs, and
would have taken their weapons had
not Willis Mention, a negro convict,
picked up a weapon and opened fire on
his brother prisoners. Mention shot one
convict and held the others in check un
til reinforcements arrived, but six made
their escape into an adjoining swamp.