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VOL. IV.
SOUTHERN STRAYS.
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN
INGS STRUNG TOGETHER.
MOVEMENTS OF ALLIANCE MEN—RAIL-
ROAD CASUALTIES —THE COTTON CROP
—FLOODS —ACCIDENTS —CROP RETURNS.
ALABAMA.
Near Jasper, H. M. L. Strickland, a
white brakeman on the Shefiield & Bir
mingham Railroad, fell from the top of a
moving train and twelve cars passed over
his body, crushing it into a shapeless
mass of flesh. Strickland was formerly
marshal of Sheffield.
The Memphis & Charleston and the
Louisville & Nashville Railroads are pre
paring to locate extensive yards and build
shops at Sheffield. The Memphis &
Charleston owns sixty acres of land at
Sheffield, which will be occupied by
tracks and sheds. Fully fifteen miles of
track will be laid in the yards.
GEORGIA.
A Grand Army post is being organ
ized at Dalton.
Coroner Haynes of Atlanta, who, du
ring the War was one of Stonewall Jack
son’s soldiers, died on Tuesday.
Calhoun -was again afflicted by a fire
on Monday, which destroyed property to
the value of nearly $15,000.
Head-bookkeper Forbes, of the Capital
City Bank, was found short in his ac
counts. He is a native of Virginia.
Tax Collector Wilson, of Atlanta, has
been investigated by the grand jury, and
his books show him to be $31,000 short.
He has been suspended.
In honor of the comrades who have
died in the last three the Confed
erate Veterans of Fulton County held
memorial services on Sunday in the Cent
ral Presbyterian Church in Atlanta. All
the prominent pastors of the citv todk
part and O. M. Mitchell Post G. A. R. art
tended in a body.
NORTH CAROLINA.
The fibre factory of the Acme Manufac
turing Company, at Wilmington, was
burned. The spinning and weaving mill
and fertilizer factory were saved.
All the prisoners in jail at Troy, Mont
gomery county, made their escape by
cutting through the wall. There were
nine prisoners. Some of them had been
very carelessly put in a room used in old
times for the confinement of debtors.
They cut through the wooden walls of
this, and released the other prisoners. It
appears there was also great carelessness
in pursuing the prisoners after discovery
of their escape.
A woman’s screams, as if in mortal
agony, were heard, and thrilled hundreds
fit people near the dep t at Greensboro,
on Thursday. There was a rush, and the
body of a negro woman was found lying
partially in the door of a store. Her
throat was cut from ear to ear, and she
lay in a pool of blood. The wound was
so dreadful as nearly to cut off her head.
Her name was Laura Hyatt, and she was
■ a young mulatto. She had left her home
but a little distance away, only a few
moments before, as the door of her house
was open and her baby, aged ten months,
was lying in the bed. No reason can be
assigned for the crime.
A horrible murder was perpetrated at
Columbia, S. C., on Saturday. In bold
ness, mystery, and the class of the victim,
it resembles the Whitechapel murders.
Those living in the vicinity of the Trini
ty Episcopal church heard three pistol
shots, the night before. It is a most or
derly portion of the city. The moon
piade it as bright as day and no signifi
cance was attached to the shooting until
Sunday morning, when the sexton, going
to open the church found the dead body
of Claudia Hanis, at the church door.
Three balls had entered her breast, one
penetrating the heart. The burning
powder had ignited the bosom of the wo
man’s dress, and burnedit away. The
murder was committed within ten steps
of the street corner, and in twenty yards
of occupied houses. There was no out
*X v cry of any kind and the first shot must
MVe been fatal.
TEXAS.
County Judge J. W. Brackenridge was
arrested at Austin under an indictment
ys found by the grand jury. It is charged
against him that he has charged and re
ceived fees in cases that have been dis
missed without trial. Last November h<
made up, it is alleged, a list of 11 leases
that had been dismissed or not tried, and
collected $439 from tiecounty treasurer.
A wholesale system of freight robbery
has just been discovered on the Mexican
Central Railroad, at Eagle Pass, and it is
believed that the total loss to the <om pu
ny will be in the neighborhood of SSO.
000. At Quansjuato there are three con
ductors and one brakeman in jail, and a
form- r agent of the Mexican ( iiiU.il rail
way company, named bimtii, a’ Juulco,
ba* also liecii arrested.
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY. OCTOBER 27. 1888
KENTUCKY.
A detail of fifty of the Louisville
Legion, Kentucky State Guard, was or
dered to report for active service. They
are to go to Harvard, Perry county, dur
ing the Fall term of the circuit court
with trials of persons engaged in the
French-Eversole feud on the docket.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Adger Presbyterian college, at
Walhalla, was consumed by fire on Mon
day. It was the property of the town.
It was not insured.
Thirty-nine colored barbers from eight
counties in the state met at Greenville
and organized a state barbers’ union for
“mutual benefit, regulation of pricesand
elevation of the trade.”
Roland Chasteen, a suspected revenue
informer, was waylaid by three moon
shiners in the upper section of Pickens
county, beaten and cut, and left in the
road in a dying condition.
George W. Susong, a prominent rail
road man, and a member of the Georgia
Construction Co., broke his leg at Ashe
ville on Monday while pulling off a tight
boot in his room at the hotel.
The Georgia Construction Company of
Greenville, elected A. Susong, of Green
ville, Tenn., superintendent, and W. A.
Susong, of Savannah, secretary and
treasurer. Arrangements were also made
to tide over the recent financial difficul
ties.
On Monday, Founder’s day was cele
brated at Wofford College, in Spartan
burg. The Alumni Association determ
ined last Summer to build a hall, and
the corner-stone was laid with imposing
Masonic ceremonies, with Past Master
W. K. Blake, presiding.
TENNESSEE.
The Stanton House, of Chattanooga,
changed hands on Monday. Phil Brown
retires and will be succeeded by Samuel
Skinner, of Chicago, 111.
Capt. Kellogg, of the U. S. Army,
detailed by the War Department to ar
range a correct map of the battlefield of
Chickamauga, commences his duties
Nov. 15th, at Chattanooga.
Elizabeth Frayer, the wife of a promi
nent farmer, was killed by a Southbound
freight on the Cincinnati Southern rail
road. ten miles North of Chattanooga, on
Monday. She was attempting to drive a
cow off the track, when the engine
struck and horribly mangled her body, j
VIRGINIA.
The Old Dominion steamship Roanoke,
arrived in Norfolk, on Monday, having
been delayed by a collision. Capt. Hul
phur reports that at 11:25 p. m., Satur
day, Absecom Light, bearing west, was
in collision with the brig Hyperion,
from Philadelphia to Portland, Maine,
with 400 tons of coal. Five men were
put on the brig to assist the crew and
she was taken in tow, but she sank. No
one was injured and the captain and
crew were taken on board the steamer.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers , in session at Richmond, decided
to hold their next convention at Denver,
Colorado, October 17, 1889. The fol
lowing grand officers were elected:
Third grand engineer, J. R. Spragge,
of Toronto, Canada; first grand assistant
engineer, Henry Hays, of Cleveland,
Ohio, and second grand assistant engin
eer, A. W. Covener, of San Francisco,
Executive committee—Edward Kent of
Jersey City; R. M. Clark, Denver, Col.;
Edward Binsley, Hamilton, Ont.; Will
iam Johnson, Rock Island, Ills., and J.
F. Regard, Atlanta, Ga.
PROHIBITION SUSTAINED.
The United States Supreme Court, in
Washington, D. C., sustained the consti
tutionality of the prohibition law of lowa,
The point at issue was the right to manu
facture intoxicating liquors solely for
expoitation to other states, despite the
state law, and it was pleaded that the
prohibitory feature, in so far as the manu
facture for exportation is concerned, was
in conflict with the constitutional provis
ion giving Congress the sole right to regu
late interstate commerce. The case is that
of J. S. Kidd, distiller, plaintiff in error,
vs I. E. Pearson and 8. J. Loughras.
The court holds that the sta'e law pro
hibiting both the manufacture and the
sale, except for mechanical, medical, cu
linary and sacramental purposes is not in
conflict with the interstate commerce
provisions of the Constitution, and the
decision of the lowa court is sustained.
A SHREWD ONE.
Henry Holcomb has gone to Canada
with $50,000 from Minneapolis, Minn.
He made this sum, it is alleged, on
stolen wheat. Holcomb was employed
by the Union Elevator Company, and had
a bin of his own located below the com
pany’s bin. The cars are loade 1 through
chutes, and Holcomb is said to have
taken off one of the boards from one of
these chutes and put another in its stead,
first shrewdly boring an augur hole in it.
Tnus during the loading process wheat
continued to pour down into Holcomb’s
bin through this augur hole. When
enough had been so obtained he loaded
it into cars and uuickly sent it totmarket.
THE WORLD OVER.
INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED
DOWN IN READABLE STYLE
THE FIELD OF LABOR —SEETHING CAUL
DRON OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE —FIRES,
SUICIDES, ETC.—NOTED DEAD.
Typhoid fever is epidemic at Fostoria,
Ohio.’
The Derbyshire (Eng.) colliers are on
a strike.
Russian troops arc maneuvering on the
Austrian frontier.
The Sultan of Turkey, has approved
the building of a railroad from Jaffa to
Jerusalem.
The trouble in Rio Grande city has
been settled by the arrest of the Mexican
malcontents.
The forty-second annual meeting of
the American Missionary Society was
held in Providence, R. I.
The Chicago & Alton Railroad tracks
have been blockaded several times re
cently by train wreckers.
A heavy snow fell at Nebraska City,
Neb., lasting nearly all day. The ground
is covered to the depth of three inches.
At a meeting at Lyons, France, M. De
Lesseps declared that the Panama canal
would be opened for traffic in July, 1890.
Justice Lawrence, of the supreme court
in New York, handed down a decision
sustaining the will of Samuel J. Tilden.
The North German Lloyd Steamshif
Elbe, from Bremen which arrived at New
York, on Tuesday had several cases ol
small-pox among her 515 steerage pas
sengeis.
The Neus Free Press, of Vienna, says
that the idea of a marriage between
Prince Alexander, of Battenberg, and
Princess Victoria, sister of the German'
emperor, has been abandoned.
George Francis Train delivered a lec
ture in Harrisburg, Pa., for the benefit of
the yellow fever sufferers. The net re
ceipts were $293.10, and a check for that
amount was forwarded to Jacksonville,
Fla.
A riot broke out at May, Ireland, be
tween Orangemen and nationalists. The
police were reinforced and charged the
mob with bayonet. Several policemen
were injured by stones thrown by the
rioters.
The national assembly of Hayti have
chosen Gen. Francois Denys as president
of the republic. Cape Haytien, Gonaives
and St. Marc having revolted against the*
legitimate government, have been closed
to foreign commerce.
Charles A. Culler, of Boston, Mass.,
has received a verdict of $5,500 damages
against Nathaniel Hamlin, owner of the
house occupied by Culler, where, because
of defective drainage, plaintiff’s familj
became ill with diphtheria.
The Pope, in donating $60,000 to the
anti-slavery movement, has written tc
Cardinal Lavigerie, in terms of praise
and encouragement of the scheme, in
which he was commissioned by the Pope
to invite the co-operation of Europe.
A dispatch from Potensa, Italy, says
ten cars of a train, crowded with excur
sionists returning from Naples fetes, were
crushed in a remote portion of that dis
trict by a landslide, consisting of about
fifty metres of rock. Seventy injured
passengers and ninety corpses were taken
from the wreck.
Tne minister of war, who has been
making a tour of the Southeast of France,
has informed the budget committee that
it will be necessary to spend £400,000,00C
for the purpose of defending the Eastern
frontier against a possible German invas
ion. The inspector found the present
defenses useless against the new explo
sives.
The grand jury of Wright county,
lowa, returned an indictment against
Mrs. P. Bertha Diggle, of the Ford Dra
matic Company, for the murder of her
husband, George Diggle, the 24th of
May. Mrs. Diggle, prior to her engage
ment with the Ford Dramatic Company,
was the leading star in Andrews’ Gpera
Company.
Albert A. Shaver, ex-county treasurer
of Clare, Mich., is under arrest on the
charge of appropriating between $1,009
and SI,BOO of county funds during his
term of office in 1884. On the night of
May 14, 1884, Shaver was found bound
uid gagged in his office, and he declare i
ie had been robbed of $4,000, but his
itory was found to be false.
The steamship Atlas, of the Atlas line,
arrived at New York, from Port Simon,
and was on her way up the river to her I
lock. WLen off Liberty street she was
run into by the New Jersey Central rail
road feriy b -at P ainfleld, and ten min
utes later toe Atlas sunk off Vesey street.
She rents on uneven keel, ami h< rtopmus.i
and smokestack show aboVe water.
New < from Africa, via Zanzibar, is t< '
the effect that a British company hst ,
laetmsuo rMiluLy iturled and hus coiieiji- I
ated all classes of natives. Drs. Meyer
and Baumann have arrived safely from
Panzani, where they were chained,
stripped and flogged and made to work
as slaves till the British ransomed them.
Oscar Lenz, explorer, expresses the
same opinion of Lord Wissman regarding
the whereabouts of Stanley—namely,
that he has joined Emin Bey.
Police Inspector Byrnes, of New York
City, arrested three Italians named lata,
Sabatano and Canizarro. for murdering
Antonio Flaccimio. Flaccimio was
marked out for death some lime back,
because he violated an oath. He be
longed to a society known as Malle. It
punishes by death any member who di
vulges its secrets or gives information to
the police concerning the identity of any
of its members who have violated the
laws of the land.
HORRIBLE CONSPIRACY.
The border counties of Kansas and
Missouri have been greatly excited over
the discovery of an organized anarchist
movement that is spreading with alarm
ing rapidity. At Winfield, Kan., Coffey
ville, Kan., Nevada, Mo., branches ol
the organization have been discovered,
and it was ascertained that the general
headquarters was in Chicago, 111. Right
on the heels of these disclosures came a
dynamite explosion at Coffeyville that de
stroyed a house and fatally wounded
two women. At 4 o’clock one evening
a stranger called at the Pacific Express
office, which is in the residence of 11. M.
Upham, who is the local agent. The
man handed in a package consigned to
a party in Winfield, Kan. It was
marked, ‘’Glass. Handle with care.” Mr.
Upham placed it among the other freight
and thought no more about it. Next
morning at 4 o’clock a terrible < xplosion
took place in the house. The residence
was blown down, and Mrs. Upham and
her daughter, a young lady eighteen
years old, was wounded in a shocking
maimer. The mother's limbs were frac
tured and stripped of flesh, while the
girl lost one of her eyes and was danger
ously burned. The wreck of all the
freight was found except the mysterious
package. It was no doubt an anarchist
weapon.
A GREAT MYSTERY.
At Tuscaloosa, Ala., four murders have
recently been committed, and in mystery
they equal the Whitechapel crimes.
About two weeks ago the dead body of
John Hill, colored, was found near a ne
gro dance hall in the suburbs. His
throat was cut and there were fifteen
knife wounds in various parts of the
body. The dead and decomposing body
of an unknown negro was found recently
in the woods near town. This man’s
throat had been cut from ear to ear. The
coroner spent two days in investigating
the case, but learned nothing, not even
the name of the dead man. The dead
body of another negro man was found in
the Warrior River, just below the town,
two days after. This man’s throat hail
been cut and his skull crushed in by a
blow with some heavy instrument. This
crime remains as great a mystery as the
other. On Sunday morning the body of
the fourth victim was found in the woods
just outside the town, and again the
throat had been cut from ear to ear. The
colored people of the town are wildly
excited and believe that some murderous
hoodoo is among them. Many of them
have left the town, and even the boldest
cannot be induced to leave their houses
after night.
QUICK WORK.
F. W. Adams and a companion known
as “Dutchy,” two hunters, found game
in abundance in the Snake country, Wy
oming, and began :i wholesale slaughtei
of the anima's. They were not hunting
for vension, but for hides and horns,
Tom Johnson, a ranchman, met them
and remonstrated with them. He said
they were violating the game laws of the i
territory, and he threatened to have them ;
ai rested if they did not cease the useless
slaughter. This threat enraged Adams,
and at night, he rode down to Johnson’s
ranch and set lire to his house. Adams
rode away, accompanied by his partner,
and Johnson set out for a little settle
ment on Snake to alarm his friends. He
rca'hed the settlement about daylight
and within an hour he had gathered a
force of forty men. The pursuers rode
ui til noon, when they came upon a little
dinner camp, of which the hunters were
the only ocr upants. The two hunters were
made pri om rs, and after being tied se
curely to their own horses, were started
back to the settlement, where they were
confined in an adobe hut. That night
a hundred men took them out and hung
th l m to the limb of a tree.
RATHER SHORT, >
City Treasurer Axworthy, of Cleve
land, <>h q, ran away to Canada, and hi
was found tt> be deficient neatly ssf;ts>
DOO. tie lurried off on lii* tiip $200,-
000 in cash. Hl'Z<Hh-s were heavy in i
the recent wheat sCmi'/e.
Per Annum; 75 cento for Bix Month*-,
< 50 cents Three Months; Single OopiM
( 5 oent*»-Iu Advanoe.
r GIGANTIC RAILROAD DEAL,
n .
, At a meeting held in New York on
k Monday of the Richmond and West
. Point Terminal Company, a bargain was
e closed for the entire capital stock of the
2 Georgia Central Railroad Company,
, amounting nt its par value to $12,000,-
000. This Georgia company’s stock is
t predicated upon a majority of the capi
tal stock of the Central Railroad and
Banking Company of Georgia, the most
j prosperous and one of the largest rail
road systems in the South. Hence, by
’ the purchase which the Terminal com
t pany made, it acquired absolutejnnd per
. petual control of the great Georgia Cen
) tral, and thereby increased the mileage
• of its own already extensive system from
. five to eight thousand miles. This trade
has been pending for a long time, but a
hick of harmony in the syndicate owning
the Georgia company stock has hereto
fore prevented anything like agreement
on a price at which all parties would
sell. For the last six months the Geor
gia company has been divided into two
irreconcilable factions. About a week
ago John Inman secured from all the
Georgia company stockholders an option
on their stock at $35 per share. This
option he transferred to the Terminal
company. This purchase by Mr. Inman, 1
ns president of the Richmond Terminal
Company, of twelve million dollars of
Georgia Central securities gives him con
trol of that vast system; is the most im
portant trade in railroads made in the
South in twenty years. It puts him in
direct control of the Richmond & Dan
ville system, the Ea«t Tennessee system,
and the Georgia Central system, covering
eight thousand miles of railway, and
twelve of the finest steamers that float
the ocean. Besides this, he is a lending
director in the Louisville & Nashville
Road, in the close confidence of its pres
ident. This makes him a leader in the
management of twelve thousand miles
I of railroad, and an immense line of
ocean steamers. This means the control
i of every road that enters the state of
Georgia. It means direct rail lines from
Baltimore to New Orleans, and from Sa
vannah to St. Louis.
RIOTING.
Clybourne avenue and Halstead street,
in Chicago, 111., was the scene of disor
der on Bunday. At this point, huge
timbers and loads of brick were suddenly,
I and with no little show of system,
thrown across the street, forming a pile
of obstructions, resembling, in some re
spects, regulation barricades. The
neighborhood is densely populated with
working people, and these being idle,
filled the sidewalks, windows and house
tops. All women passengers, and several
men, on the first cur to approach, had
been frightened off by crowds of yelling
boys before reaching the obstructed cor
ner. A couple of strangers in the city, a
reporter, the conductor and driver, and
two policemen acting as guards, were
the only ones who remained. When the
car was brought to a halt the air became
black with missiles flying from the house
tops and windows. The car was literally
bombarded. Shouts and imprecations of
all kinds were as plentiful as missiles,
the lead in this part of the affair being
taken by women mind in the mob. The
riot virtually ended, like the one of the
night before, with the arrival of a patrol
wagon filled with police. The crowds
were dispersed without serious trouble.
The mob reassembled immediately, how
ever, when the wagon departed. A '
prisoner was rescued from two officers
who were left behind, and the pair ol
police were being roughly handled, when
the wagon returned again in the nick ol
time. » '
A BROKEN TRUST.
The failure of an attempt by the big
gest lead firm in the world, Nathan, ..
Corwith & Co., of Chicago, 111., to cor 7 .4
ner the lead market by purchasing’the’fe
lurplusage of the output of
■in the smelting works of this country,* H
1 was the main topic in financial circles
there. The attachments filed in the local
courts cover the assets of Corwith & Co.,
and the Corwiths individually to the
unount of over $300,000, and in a gen
- iral way it is known that the liabilities
|if the firm are at least $2,000,000. This
imount, however, has reference solely
so recent purchases, including October
lelivery, and merchants interested iu the
trade believe that even the amount of
; >2,009,000 will be exceeded.
FAVORED AMERICANS.
The Neueste Nachrichter of Munich, g
! publishes a sensational article in ralatioo
t<» the \Vurtemberg court scandals. It
denounces the favoiitism shown by the
king of Wurtemburg to three Amerv ans, :
who, it says, by mean* of spiritualisin',
ha«a gained an enormous influence ovej
tl*.'.slid monarch, which they
' utlßj? for blackmailing purpiwes. It
i say* that one of them, who was formerly \
i aecMtary in the American legation st ■
1 Stuttgart, hat rveentlv eunubled.
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