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She snvnn nn It (tribune. Piibiiahed by the Tairova Fnbliahiaa 00. 1 J. BL DKVKAU2L / 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. NO. 2.