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J. W. WHITE, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME V.
Central & Southwestern Raili'ds.
[All train* of this system are run by Stand
pa (90) Meridian time, which is 36 minutes
llower than time kept by city.]
Savannah, Ga., Jan. 24, 1886.
ON AND AFTER THIS DATE PASSEN
GER TRAINS on the Central and South
western Railroads and branches will run as
follows:
GOING- NORTH.
Leave No. 61— No. 68—
Savannah...D 8 40am.. D 810 p m
Leave No. 16—
D 640 pm..
Arrive No. 16—
Utlleu D 8 46pm..
Arrive No. 61— No. 63
Augusta D 346 pm.. D 616 am
Haoon D 4 20pm.. D 8 20am
Atlanta D 9 86pm.. D 782 am
Columbus...D 6 28am.. D 216 pm
irxy DEB 8 46pm.. DES 12 00 m
sprt Gaines DES 438 p m
Blakeley DES 710 p m
(ufatila D 4 01pm
Albany D 10 45 pm.. D 245 pm
Montgomery D 7 26 p m
ktllledgeville DES 549 pm
Batouton .. .DES T4O p m
Connections at Terminal Points.
At Augusta—Trains 51 and 63 connect with
outgoing trains of Georgia Railroad,Columbia,
Charlotte and Augusta Railroad, and Sout.i
Carolina Railroad. Train 53 connects with
outgoing train of Augusta and Knoxville Rail
road. Train 61 oonneots with trains for Syl
rania, Wriglitsville and Louisville.
At Atlanta—Trains 51 and 68 connect r-
Air-Line and Kennesaw routes to all pt
North and East, and witli all diverging r
for local atations.
COMING SOUTH.
Leave—Nos. Nos.
ICillen...l6D 5 00am..
Augusta.lß D 93) am. .20 D 9 30pm
Mac0n...52 D 940 am.. 54 D 10 50 pm
Atlanta.. 62 D 600 a m.. 54 D 6 50pm
Columb’s 20 D 900 p m.. 6 D 11 40 a m
Perry.... 24 DES 600a m. .22 DES 300 pm
Ft. Gaines 28 “ 10 05am
Blakeley 26 “ 815 a m
But aula 2D 10 55 a m
Albany .. 4 D 410a m. .25 D 12 15 p m
Montg’ry 2D 7 40 am
Hill’dg’ve 26 DES 6 87am
Baton ton 25 DES 5 15am
Arrive —No.
Savannah 16 D 805am..N0.
Savannah 52 D 407 pm.. 54 D 600 am
Connections at Savanuah, with Savannah,
Florida and Western Railway for all points in
Florida.
Trains Nos. 68 and 64 will not stop to take
on or put off passengers between Savannah
and Mllten, as trains Nos. 15 and 16 aro ex
pected to do the way business between these
points.
Local sleeping oars on all night passenger
trains between Savannah and Augusta, Savan
nah and Maoon, Savannalt and Atlanta, Macon
and Columbus.
Tickets for all points and sleeping car berths
on sale at city offioe, No. 20 Bull street.
G. A. Whitehead, WILLIAM ROGERS,
Gen. Pass. Agt, Gen. Supt., Savannah.
I. C. Shaw, W. F. SHELI.MAN,
Gen. Trav. Agt. Traffic Manager,
Savannah, Ga.
“D.” daily, “DES,” daily except Sunday.
A SECRET OP THE CONCESSIONAL.
Revelations that itartled People
Shamed tlie Police.
A sensation was created in Milwaukee,
by tlie publication of a statemeut by the
Rev. Father Anton J. Decker, pastor of
St. Anthony’s Church, in that city, sup
posed to be a dea'hbel confession made
to the clergyman.
About midnight on (ho 11th of
November, 1883, a afreet car driver
named Grothe was attacked by two high
wayman in a lonely spot outside the
city limits. They tired upon him and
one bullet fractured his skull. He es
caped with his money, but for a time
was thought to be mortally wounded.
His wife was so overcome by the affair
that she became, and still remains, a
raving maniac. The ptrect Railway
Company offered a reward of SSOO for
the arrest and conviction of the high
wayman, and a few days later detectives
arrested a nineteen year old boy, named
William Puetz known among his com
rades as “AVild l ill,” and Malilon Mc-
Cullough, a member of a prominent
family there, but known as a wild young
fellow. On the day following the arrest
McCullough was alleged to have made
tt confession to the police, in which ho
was said to acknowledge that he and
Puetz, planned and executed the attack,
but he charged Puetz with tiling tho
shots. Puetz. was said to have made a
similar confession.
They were tried in May, 1884. Twenty
witnesses testified to an alibi, but they
were convicted. Puetz was sentenced
to three years and one month's imprison
ment and McCullough to three years.
Both were released from the Penitentiary
within a few days of each other,
McCullough broken down in health and
apparently dying from consumption.
Puetz is now living with relati es in an
interior town in Michigan, and McCul
lough is with relatives near Bay \ r iew.
At the time of the trial it was stated
in their testimony by the defendants
that their alleged confessions were forced
from them. They swore that during
their confinement of ten days at Police
Headquarters they were starved, beaten,
hung up by their thumbs and otherwise
illtreated in order to force them to make
a confession. Puetz swore that he fin
ally confessed to keep from starving.
The following card is published:—
CARD TO THE PUBLIC.
I have been authorized to state, for tlie in
formation of the public and for tho purpose of
restoring the moral reputation of Malilon Mc-
Cullough and William Puetz, that thov were
entirely innocent of tho attack upon ami shoot
ing of tho stroot car conductor, August Grothe,
on November 11, 1853, at Bay View, for which
alleged crime said parties wore convicted and
sentenced. This declaration and representa
tion is made by request and upon the authori
ty of the party guilty of tho assault and shoot
ing of tho street car conductor.
No further information will be given and no
questions answered.
ANTQN J. DECKER,
Pastor of St. Anthony's Church, Milwaukee,
Wis.
A correspondent called upon Father
Decker, but- the mergyman remained
steadfast in the purpose stated in the
closing words of his card, au4 it does
not appear probable that it will ever be
kuuwu who the guilty parties were. Im
mediate steps will be taken to secure a
formal pardon from Governor Rusk for
Puetz and McCullough in order that they
may be restored to the rights of citizen
ship.
A New York paper thinks that Pow
derly should be paid a higher sa ary
thau $5,000. It is hoped, however,
that this suggestion will not induce
Mr. Powderly to order himself out on a
Strike for higher wages or shorter hours.
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SOUTHERN ITEMS.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED
FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The parties to the robbery of Mr. Elli
son’s house, in Fairfield county, have
been caught. The nurse and three of her
friends are the guilty ones. They are all
in jail now, having been incarcerated
alter a preliminary hearing before Trial
Justice Cathcart. The money was recov
ered. The jail is rapidly filling up as
court approaches.
A company of twelve men from Illinois
have leased for a term of years the gold
mine of Frank Anderson, in the Willing
ton' tleighbfrhood near Abbeville. The
lease was entered into after a personal in
spection sf tho mine by two of the party.
The company has sufficient capital to de
velop the mine, and from all accounts
they will get rich at the business.
Mr. J. J. Goodwin, who lived near
Scranton, was killed in a very singular
manner. He was hauling timber
with two oxen, when one of the wheels
of his wagon struck a stump. He went
to the tongue of his wagon to guide it so
as to let the wheel of the wagon clear the
stump, and while thus engaged the oxen
started off, and, before he could get out
of the way, the piece of timber that he
was hauling caught his leg between a log
that was lying on the ground, and liter
ally peeled the flesh off to the bone.
Medical aid was summoned as soon as
possible, but before relief could be ren
dered he bled to death.
An inquest was held in Greenville on
the body of Echo Kilgore, an old colored
man from Arkansas. He was once a tan
ner in the city, but went to Arkansas
several years ago in the hope of bettering
his condition. It appears from the evi
dence before the coroner that on his way
home he was thrown or fell from a train
on the Western and Atlantic road near
near Lily Pond, Ga., on Friday, the 14th
of January. Whe he reached Greenville
he was in a semi-unconscious condition,
and he never gave any explanation of his
misfortune. It is thought there was foul
play, and the case has been committed to
Captain A. Blythe, who will investigate
the matter.
Robert Jones, colored, a convict from
Richland county, was killed while work
ing on the Columbia canal by the caving
in of an embankment. Jones was
digging out the earth from the foot of
the embankment and had dug in until he
had made a cave in the bank. Suddenly
the mass of earth above gave way. and
descended upon the unfortunate work
man, burying him alive. The other con
victs immediately went to the rescue and
dug away the earth as fast as possible,
hut when the man was found he was
dead, having been horribly crushed and
mangled, besides having been under
ground a sufficient length of time to have
been suffocated to death. Twenty-two
months ago Jones was convicted of bur
glary and larceny and sentenced from
Richland county to five years in the pen
itentiary. This is the second fatal acci
dent of the kind which has occurred od
the canal in the past six months.
Ft ORIDA.
The main building of the hotel at Silver
Springs Park is up, and commands a
splendid view. The hotel will be three
stories high and have sixty-five rooms.
A large corps of surveyors are at work
getting roady for the great sale of the
trustee of the Florida Winter Home com
pany, who is soon to sell all the lands at
Orange park and Ridgewood to the
highest bidder at public auction.
The shad fishermen of Palatka report
the heaviest run of shad for the seffson
on Saturday and Sunday nights, and on
Monday night the eight boats in Reyn
olds’ camp at E. S. Rugby’s place, in
East Palatka, caught 2,500 very fine
shad.
The Fruit Growers’ association at
Orange Park have built a large two-story
packing house near the depot. This is a
stock company composed of permanent
residents, who have madeti great success
in strawberry culture and small fruits.
Captain Porter says that the mocking
birds of Dade county do not sing. He
has bought some Leon county songsters
to learn the naughty birds of his section
to sing. Another strange thing about
Dade county is that there is not a road
in the county. People there generally
travel by water, or ride along the beach
or through the woods. The forest trees
are all tropical and different from other
sections of the state.
A Tallahassee lady dischaiged her col
ored servant recently and got up the next
morning to find her choice flowers dug
up and destroyed. Last week another
lady discharged her colored servant, who
was sister to the first girl discharged,
the same thing having happened to this
lady’s flower yard. Suspicion rested
upon the girl, and after some investiga
tion sufficient evidence was obtained to
convict her, and she is now serving her
country in the chaingang.
Asa result of a call for a meeting of
orange growers to convene at City Point
on Saturday, February 5, a good number
of representative men were present. Va
rious questions of interest were freely
discussed, but the chief interest centered
on the Orlando exhibition It was re
solved to send an exhibit of Brevard
county products under the auspices of the
Indian River Fruit and Vegetable grow
ers association apd to invite growers to
co-operate under this head.
Thomas F. Moore, one of Lake'Jack
son’s farmers, cut up his lands last year
into six one-horse farms. One he culti
vated himself, put on fertilizers and
worksd it with system. The result was
twelve bales of lint, cotton, besides other
crops. The five colored tenants who
leased the other five farms scratched over
their farms as usual without fertilizers
or system, and all combined only made
ten bales of cotton. This is the secret of
hard times among the colored people.
At St Augustine another daring bur
glary has been attempted, and tlie old
city eneaped from what might have been
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL AND IN ITILLECrUAL ADVANCEMENT OF OUR COUNTY
LOUISVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 24,1887.
a dangerous conflagration. Burglars re
moved a pane of glass from a front win
dow in the store of Goorge Myers & Cos.,
on King street, and crawling through the
aperture attempted to break open the
money till, by cutting it loose, fearing
the alarm attached thereto. Possibly be
ing disturbed or alarmed they left it un ■
opened, but left a lighted lamp which
they had used immediately under the
drawer. Wnen the store was opened
Thursday morning the till had the bot
tom nearly burned and a lot of old papers
wore just beginning to ignite. A few
minutes more and all would have been a
blaze.
ALABAMA.
The Tuscaloosa Gazette will shortly
issue a daily.
The population of Auburn is beginning
to increu
The citizens of Selma are raising funds
to send a delegation to Washington
City to make a bid for the negro world’s
exposition to be held in that city.
Sam Hogan, a negro brakeman, was
killed Thursday at Howison, two miles
below Stanton. While the train was in
motion, Sain slipped, falling under the
cars, the trucks passing over his thigh
and a portion of his body.
The Tuscaloosa Times gives this as an
example of the rise in real estate in that
city: “L. 11. Walter sold a lot on Broad
street to Janies Gaudin for $950. The
same lot was offered a few weeks ago
for S4OO, but found no purchaser.
They say the dogs in Gadsden have
grown so in numbers and intelligence
that, they will insist on going to church
and other public gatherings, much to
the annoyance of the people. Yet with
such exhibitions of purity and sociabil
ity tbe Gadsden papers would have them
exterminated.
On Monday morning when Sheriff
Tidwell went into the jail at Blounts
ville to feed flic prisoners, one of them
knocked the jailer in the head and made
his escape. One other prisoner escaped,
but was soon captured. Thompson, the
young man who knocked down the Sher
iff, is still at large.
R. Ogden Wat-on, of Mobile, was
awakened Thursday morning by a noise
in liis house. He arose and went out
on tin; back gallery, where lie was as
saulted by a burglar. The burglar
slashed Watson on the arm with a razor,
cut his night clothing into ribbons, and
finally kicked him in tho abdomen and
left him senseless on the floor. AVheti
Watson revived the burglar had escaped.
Near Abbeville there is a man who,
for several years of his life, wore dresses
and passed off as a woman, would visit
young ladies and have them to visit him,
stay all night with each other until he
wa3 nearly twenty-one years of age, when
one day. to liis surprise, he found out
that he was a man, and pulled off his
frock, and has since married and is now
the head of n family.
NORTH CAROLINA,
A. board of aldermen of Goldsboro held
a special meeting last week and decided
to take immediate steps towards giving
Goldsboro an adequate system of water
works.
Rev. Wm. A. McDonald, who has
served a pastor of Philadelphia Presby
terian church, of Mecklenburg county,
continuously for the past twenty-two
years, died suddenly of heart disease, at
the old Morris homestead.
The news from the fishermen in the
Albemarle and Pamlico sounds section is
that the catch of fish is large. Herrings
were never so abundant thus early in the
season, ana wmte snaa or large size are
being caught in great numbers. -
A bold robbery was committed on Bull
creek, Madison county, on Tuesday night.
The stores of John Bruce and Merritt
White were broken into and robbed of
money anil goods. Bruce recovered
about SIOO worth of his goods, finding
them hid under a rock cliff in the moun
tains about three miles distant from the
store. No clue to the thief.
Henry Artis, colored, was recently
sentenced to be hanged at Goldsboro, for
the murder of his stepdaughter. He is
in a dreadful condition of mind. He is
to be banged tlie first Friday in March.
He says he was drunk at the time he beat
out the girl’s brains. He cries and screams
ceaselessly, and it is thought may die of
grief and fright before the day of execu
tion.
A CLEVER COUNTERFEIT,
A Counterfeit Two Dollar a Half Gold
Pleco at Philadelphia, Pa.
The United States mint at Philadelphia
Tuesday secured a counterfeit two dollar
and a half gold piece of 1852, for which
it has been in quest for years, for the
purpose of completing its cabinet. It
was presented to Superintendent Fox by
L. H. Taylor & Cos., bankers, who got it
in a SIO,OOO lot from the sub-treasury.
This amount of gold was forwarded to
New York in the afternoon and this one
piece was returned as a counterfeit. By
a Philadelphia bank it was pronounced
genuine, and acid at the sub-treasury
subsequently failed to show it anything
but good.
At the mint, however, the assayer de
clared it a counterfeit—one of the most
dangerous bogus gold coins ever made.
“It contains only twenty-seven cents’
worth of gold,” he said. “Yet ita weight
is that of the real article to a hair. Its
size is exactly the same, save that the
genuine coin is slightly thinner at the
middle than the counterfeit, and it has
the true ring of pure metal. We have
been looking for an example of this
counterfeit for ten or fifteen years to
place in our cabinet here. I readily re
cognized it by the head upon it. Thnt
style of the head of ‘Liberty’ was not
printed upon the two and a half pieces of
1862.”
KILLED HIS PARTNER.
Last Sunday at Houghton, in Bossier
parish, La., Henry Bodenheimer shot and
killed his partner, Wm. M. Mercer.
Meroer had been drinking all day, been
in several rows, and wound up by abus
ing Bodenheimer and threatening him
with a pistol. Bodenheimer then flrsd
with tbs above rssult.
A VESSEL SUNK.
4 Steamer Aucliored in New York Jtnrlior U
Struck by Ice and Sink*.
The British steamer Wells City, while
anchored off pier 56, Thursday, was
struck by a heavy field of ice coming
down the river on the outgoing tide,
which caused her to drag anchor. She
had no steam on and was helpless. Site
drifted a mile and a half, until she ran
broadside on the bow of the Morgan line
steamer Lone Star, which was also at an
chor in mid stream. The cut-water of
the Lone Star struck the Wells City just
abaft the engine room and cut a hole in
her large enough to admit a two-horse
truck, and she sank in twenty minutes.
Those on board escaped in their own
boats. The Lone Star had all she could
do to save herself, but finally got up
steam and ran behind a pier. She suf
fered only a few hundred dollars'damage.
The Wells City is anew vessel, valued at
$150,000, and had a cargo valued at
$140,000, both fully insured on the other
side of the Atlantic. The Wells City’s
masts and smoke-stack tire visible above
the water, opposite Christopher street.
THE COAL HANDLERS.
They Resolve to <!o ISack to Work at Old
Prices.
A committee of coal boat captains who
struck in sympathy with coal handlers,
waited upon Superintendent Stockton of
the Deleware and Hudson company at
Weekawken, N. JWednesday. A sli 'rt
consultation was held and the committee
reported to the union that they had been
received favorably. It was then decided
by the captains to return to work at the
old terms.
Although large crowds of strikers
gathered on the streets no breach of the
peace occurred. A laborer who had vis
ited Broken Rock, in Hoboken, and was
returning, was mistaken for a “scab,”
and but for the ‘timely arrival of police
would have been beaten. Non-union
men are escorted to and from the ferry by
the police.
Freight handlers who were employed
at the West Shore company’s docks have
returned to work.
A KENTUCKY TRAGEDY.
flie Town of Adalrsville In aFerer of Ex
citement.
A special to the Atlanta Constitution
from Adairsville, Ky., says: This place
was thrown into a fever of excitement by
the killing of Fayette Thoughber by Bob
Gorham. Thoughber, who was a very
nice, quiet gentlemen when sober, was a
perfect desperado when under the influ
ence of liquor. He was in town on Sat
urday and was drinking, and it is said
that lie threatened to kill Gorham before
he left town. The two met in the
square, Gorham with a shotgun and
Thoughber with a pistol. AYho fired first
is not positively known, but Gorliam
fired one shot and Thoughber five, the
shot of Gorham taking effect in the hand
and breast of Thoughber, one shot pass
ing through the heart. He staggered and
fell against the hank of Adairville and
died in four minutes. He was taken to
the office of the Blanchage house and
dressed, and was carried to his home in
Robertson county, Tennessee. No in
quest was held.
HEAVY SNOW STORM.
Much Suffering Among Human lining* -
well as Cattle.
Specials from Dakota and Montana re
port accounts of heavy losses to stock
from heavy snows and long continued
cold. The snow has laid upon tho ground
continuously since the middle of Novcm
her, and it lias been necessary to feed dur
ing the greater part of that time. Forage
is consequently so scarce that straw stacks
two or three years old are being bought
up for feeding purposes. Heretofore it
has been necessary to feed comparatively
little during tbe winter. A special from
Butte, Mont., says the cattle loss in Mon
tana, near Fort Assini boine, is estimat
ed at 75 per cent. Sixty dollars is refus
cdfor a ton of coal, and green widow poles
are selling at $lO a load. Flour and oil
are also scarce.
COULD NOT nOLD HIM.
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A man was arrested at Marietta, Ohio,
Saturday on suspicion of being one of the
men wanted at Cleveland for the Ravan
na murder. He gave the name of John
Cole, and answered the description of the
prisoner who was rescued. A description
of the man was sent the authorities at
Cleveland, and an unsuccessful attempt
was made Tuesday to photograph the
prisoner. Wednesday night lie broke
from his cell, released all the prisoners in
jail, and all fled. Wednesday the fol
lowing despatch was received from Cleve
land :
“By all means hold him. He is undoubt
edly tho one we want. ”
He was to have been chloroformed and
photographed.
THE FLOOD SUFFERERS.
A special from Muir shows little en
couragement for the flood sufferers at
Lyons, Mich. The water has been rising
slowly and the damage to the buildings
continue The latest fear is lest the
channel of the river be permanently
changed, in which event the town will
be compelled to go out of business. The
water carried away part of the Camel!
mill, and its complete destruction it
feared. At St. Joseph tbe St. Joseph
river is the highest ever known, and is
cutting anew channel.
MEXICAN PENSIONS.
The Vetr&as Askotl to Htep Up to Thu Com
mUsionel-’s Desk.
The commissioner of pensions invites
pensioners under the Mexican pension
law to communicate directly with the
pension bureau at Washington. The
commissioner has prepared letters of in
structions and blank forms of application
and affidavits for witnesses, which will
be furnished to each directapplicant, and
which, if properly used, will greatly
hr lon the adjudication of the rights of
the applicants.
INCENDIARY FIRES.
Sioux City, lowa, In a State of Croat
Excitement.
Sioux City, la., is in a state of great
excitement over the alarming number of
incendiary fires and burglaries which
have occurred there within a few nights.
The town is infested by a set of desper
ate criminals, who have been attracted
by the spirit of lawlessness, shown by a
considerable class of the community.
Tuesday night a business block on Main
street was mysteriously burned. At the
same time a dozen residences on the
“hill,” were burglarized. There were a
dozen cases of housebreaking further
down town Wednesday night.
Late in tho evening the town was
alarmed by fire. The livery stables at
tached to the lowa house were burned to
the ground. The house is kept by Frank
Klepscli one of the men interested in the
saloon fight last summer. Ilis place was
enjoined and ordered abated. No special
comment was excited by this fire, but
when a second broke out, a half hour
later, there was much excitement and
speculation. This was a large stable at
tached to the Planters house, kept by
Henry Mielki, another man whose place
was abated. Mielki and Klepscli both
belong to the rebellious German saloon
element. In the second stable, when a
man entered to rescue stock, the halters
of horses were found to be cut. Both fires
were plainly incendiary.
A third and very dangerous fire broke
out suddenly in a large clothing house,
within three doors of the Hubbard house,
in tile centre of the city at 11 o’clock p.
m The entire property was destroyed,
but a spread of the flames was prevented.
Remarks are heard on the streets that
this is the work of prohibitionists.
Others say the liquor men have done it
to excite sympathy.
AGAINST STRIKES.
Representatives of l’reminent New York
Firms Meet and Organize.
Nearly 500 representatives of promi
nent New York firms engaged in differ
ent branches of the building trades met
Wednesday afternoon at the headquarters
of the Master Painters’ association.
Architect Charles Bulk presided. Air.
Bulk stated the object of the meeting to
be to form a building employer’s pro
tective federation for the protection of
employers in every branch of building
trades against the unjust demands and
restrictions of labor unions. He said the
step had been contemplated some time by
employers who were out of patience with
the many strikes which have seriously
hampered building operations in this city.
A committee appointed for that purpose
had drafted a report giving the griev
ances of employers, which was accepted
at a previous meeting and issued in the
form of a published address with a re
quest to employers to take part in the
proposed organization.
He concluded by suggesting that em
ployers organize in trade sections and
elect representatives to a central execu
tive committee to t iko charge of all mat
ters pertaining to the trades. The sug
gestion was not considered, but a com
mittee on organization was appointed to
draft a constitution and by-laws. The
committee as appointed represented the
following trades: Painters, carpenters,
iron workers, framers, plumbers, archi
tects, roofers, builders, heating, plasters,
gas fixtures, elevator makers, marble
workers, electricians, plumbers’ materials,
and blue stone cutters, The stone setters
refused to join.
A GAMBLER SHOT.
A Representative of the l aw and Ordei
Lenxur In Trouble.
At Lavenworth Kansas, the “Sara
toga’’ saloon was closed by the sheriff
upon the complaint of two representa
tives of the Law and Order League, Carl
Miller and F. M. Anthony. While the
two were passing the place that had just
been closed by their efforts, they were
set upon by a gang of roughs, who
knocked them down, tore their clothes
and otherwise maltreated them. Miller
regained his feet, pulled a pistol and
fired one shot, which took effect in the
leg of a gambler named Ryan. The crowd
did not scatter, however, and were pre
paring to assault the two again when the
police arrived and drove them off, taking
Miller and Anthony to the county jail for
Srotection. The closing of the saloons
as engendered a most bitter feeling, and
there is no telling what the outcome
will be.
AN OLD MAN’S DISGRACE
Thu Treasurer of Texes Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows in Trouble.
Judge Thomas M. Joseph, for several
years treasurer of the Grand Lodge of
Odd Fellows of Texas, is short in his
accounts $28,185, being the entire fund
of the Grand Lodge. Joseph was de
feated for re-election last week. 11c says
he lost the money nearly four years ago
in mining. He was mayor of Galveston
from 1858 to 1802, and stood high in tlie
community. He is nearly 7(1 years old,
and has a large family of grandchildren.
He is utterly prostrated, by liis fall.
Grand Master Gibbs declares he will
prosecute the defaulting officer until the
doors of tho penitentiary arc closed upon
him. Joseph is practically under arrest
now.
ROASTED ALIVE.
Throe Mon Porloh In a Bnrnlns Jail al
Murfreesboro, Tenn.
The jail at Murfreesboro, Tenn., burn
ed Sunday morning, and three men con
fined in it nerished in the flames. The
fire broke out at 12:30 in the office, lioin
an unknown cause. Jailor Jackßon, who
was asleep up staira, rushed down stairs
and opened the doors. Ten men in tho
tipper cages escaped, but three men in
the lower cages could not be reached.
They cried piteously for help until the
flames reached them. The names of the
three are Moses Maney, Jack Irwin and
Dilge Lyon. They are all colored. The
first two were put is for wreaking a train
last fall, and the third for forgery.
Those who escaped were captured, but
were released by order of the county
judge, there being no place to keep
them.
DECLARED FALSE.
A New IMiase to the Allegod Texas Elec
tion Outrage.
Ex-Governor Ireland, of Texas, ac
companied by twenty-eight citizens of
Washington county, Texas, is on his way
to Washington, where he and his compan
ions will appear before the senate com
mitte which will investigate the charges
of election outrages made against citizen
of Washington county by those: republi
cans who fled the contry for fear of being
lynched, and who claim to have been
driven out by democrats.
Ex-Governor Ireland says that at the
close of the election in Washington county
Dewes Bolton, the son of a candidate for
county commissioner, rode up to the pre
cinct, dismounted and demanded admit
tance to the polls and was told to come
in, and upon opening the door \v s shot
down in his tracks by a negro named Hill.
Eight of the occupants of the room were
arrested and three of them subsequently
lynched. The others fled the country for
fear of being similarly treated, and
brought the charge against the democrats
of the county that they were driven out.
The ex-governor says:
The whole story of these men is a pure
fabrication. Every statement they have
made to show they were objects of politi
cal persecution is absolutely false and
that will be easy to prove by all these
witnesses. They were not driven from
the country, but left of their own free
will and desire.
SHOT THE WRONG MAN.
An Innocent Ulan fails a Victim to a Posse
S of Pursuers.
A double tragedy occurred in Pike
county, Arkanas, Saturday. Alfred Mc-
Clinton, a desperado, waylaid Allen Wil
liams and robbed him of SSO, then
stabbed him and rode away; A posse,
under the command of officer Henry
Wood was organized and started in pur
suit of McOlmton. It was decided to
surprise the desperado, and the posse
secreted themselves in the woods along
the roadside, where McClinton was ex
pected to pass on his way homo. Soon
after twilight two men rodo down the
road, one of whom was James Savage,
cousin of Officer Woods, and the other
was G. W. Trout, a well-known citizen.
Both carried shot guns.
Wood, mistaking Savage for McClin
ton, told him to “halt.” Savagepaused.
Wood then ordered him to throw up his
hauds. Savage wheeled his horse and
raised his gun, when Wood fired. The
ball entered the breast of Savage, who
fell from his horse and died shortly.
When Officer Wood discovered his mis
take he was overwhelmed with grief, and
would have killed himself had not a
friend interposed.
TWO RAILROAD ACCIDENTS,
Curs iiemolislioc! Hut No Loss of
Life Reported.
At Watertown, 111., on the Chicago
old lowa railway, Tuesday morning, the
Dubuque train, with two sleepers,, had
just passed the station when the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy train, which fol
lows it, crushed into it, completely
wrecking the sleeping cars. The en
gineer of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy train broke his legs in jumping
from the cab, but by almost a miracle
none'of the passengers on the train were
injured. Each engineer claims that. the
other was two minutes out of his time.
At Robinson creek, five miles west of
Shelbyville, 111., Monday night the en
gine of New York express, on the India
napolis and St. Louis railroad, became
disabled and the train stopped for a few
minutes. A brakeman was sent back to
flag the freight train, but too late and
the engine crashed into the sleeper de
molishing the rear end. The freight en
gine was also wrecked. The passengers
escaped uninjured.
THE HUNGRY RED.
Thn Drought Coramssioners of Texno Be
gin Their Work.
The drought commissioners appointed
by Governor Ross to distribute the SIOO,-
000 appropriated by the legislature for
tlie relief of people in the drought
stricken district of Texas, arrived in
Fort Worth on the midnight train Sat
urday night and spent Sunday there,
leaving for Eastland, the county seat,
Monday. The commissioners began their
labors at Lampasas and have visited and
inspected the condition of affairs in six
counties up to the present time. They
say they find the people in need of assis
tance wherever they have been, but the
principal things they need are seed and
feed for their stock, and these the com
mission lias not the power or authority to
furnish them, tlie legislature having re
stricted them to simply furnishing flour
and meal to those in actual need of bread
and who will make the required oath to
llliit. effect
A SHOCKING AFFAIR.
Charles Kloze, a Schleisingerville,
Wis., saloon keeper, loaded two shot
guns Sunday evening, and emptied the
contents of one into his wife’s head, as
she was kneading bread, killing her in
stantly. He then tried to shoot himself,
but merely blew away one cheek. He
locked the door, poured kerosene over
the furnifure and set it on fi e. When
the neighbors tried to enter, lie loaded
one of the guns and blew out bis brains.
ACCIDENT AT A SAW MIDI.
The saw in a portable sawmill on the
farm of L. D. Wriglit, a wealthy farmer
living eight miles from California, Mo.,
flew to pieces Saturday, one part of it
cutting open Wright’s breast, exposing
his heart and killing him instantly, and
another piece carried away part of the
head of Miss Thompson, a young lady
who had gone to the mill to call the men
to dinner. She died from the wound.
A VALUABLE INTENTION.
Mr. Charles M. Noble, mining engin
eer, the present popular superintendent
of the Woodstock furnaces, nt Anniston,
Ala., has received letters of patent for
an improved arc electric lamp. Applica
tion has been made for pntenls in Eng
land, France, Belgium and Germany. It
is the cheapest, simplest, best and most
powerful lamp ever invented.
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NUMBER 8.
A TENNESSEE SENSATION.
A Lover’s Attempted Ravens® in Unvidnon
County.
The arrest of Elisha Greig at Nashville
Thursday reveals a diabolical plot to
commit murder and arson. On Sunday
night the residence of Mr. Joss<* Nolan, a
farmer of Davidson count y, was burned,
and tho inmates of the house, Miss Mat
lie Orment and Airs. Hamlet, barely es
caped cremation. The fire was supposed
to be incendiary, and now Grcig makes
confession of having set fire to the house.
He said he had been hired by a farmer
neighbor, Jim Bullayjack, to burn the
place. Bullayjack had planned, he said,
to burn Alies' Orment, who had refused,
him in marriage. The plan was to catch
her if she escaped burning and murder
her. They took a rope along to drag
her to the river and throw the body in.
Vfier they set tire both got frightened
and moused the ladies, who were alone,
Air. Nolan being in Nashville. The men
ran off before the ladies, whs had barely
time to get out, could See who they were.
Greig was arrested on suspicion, and con
fessed as above related. Bullayjactf has
disappeared, but officers are after him.
Aliss Orment was to have marnou Bullay
jack’s rival next week, and heucabts de
sire for revenge.
ARE TO BE SUPPLIED.
The Texas Drouth Siillerers to be Supplied
with Seed.
Commissioner Colman of the agricul
tural department, in speaking of the sug
gestion contained in the president’s mes
sage vetoing the bill for the distribution
of seed to Texas sufferers said:
“The suggesting of the president that
members of congress relinquish their
quota of seed for the benefit of distressed
districts is an excellent one. It is en
tirely feasible and if adopted will enable
me to do a great deal of good. There
are now remaining to the credit of sen
ators and representatives 228,000 pack
ages of seed. On the 11th instant. 1 ad
dressed a letter to those who have city
constituents suggesting such a donation
of seed, but have obtained thus far in this
way only 13,000 packages. County judg
es throughout the drought-stricken re
gions arc sending in the names of the
sufferers at the rate of nearly 1,000 per
day, and whatever is done should be
done quickly. If this suggestion of the
president is adopted. I shall give mv per
sonal attention to the distribution and
carefully divide tbe seed among the
regions affected.”
AN UNEXPECTED TURN.
The People of West Virginia to Vote <
the Prohibition Question.
Aii unexpected turn was taken by the
senate of West Va., Thursday morning
when the bill which had been passed by
the lower bouses to prohibit the sale of
intoxicating liquors and drinks wn ;iin
the state came up for its passage. Op
ponents of tlie bill discovered die last
that they could not defeat it, and in order
to do tbe next best thing they called lor it
vote on the joint, resolution which pro
vides for tlie submission of the question
to the people of prohibiting the manufac
ture and sale of intoxicating liquors in
this state, which had not been announced.
L'pon tlie call of the vote on submission,
three members who had voted against
submission changed their votes to aye,
which gave the resolution a two-third
majority. Submission will be voted on
in November, 1888, at the ncx’ general
election. The lower hou-e passed the
resolution two weeks ago. The. bill pro
hibiting sale of liquors and drinks was
then laid on the table. The prohibition
ists are very enthusiastic over their v ic
tory.
JAIL DELIVERY.
A Note Wliicli Ilatl tlie Effect of Gixln*
Prisoners their Liberty.
Information lias been received of a
wholesale jail escape at MorgautonN. C.,
which occurred on Monday night. Among
the number of criminals confined in .tho
prison was one Sam Pearson, a notorious
character, but a scion of one of the best
families in the state and a fellow having
many friends. The sheriff lives several
miles in the country, and entrusts the
prisoners to his jailer. Peirsou’s iriends
wrote to tlie unsuspecting jailer a note
and signed the sheriff’s name. This or
dered the jailer to allow Pearson to go
outrto visit liis relatives, his aunts family,
who lives in the town. As the jailer
came to lei out Pearson, tlie signal was
made, and by a preconcerted arrange
ment, tin- prisoners overpowered the jailer
and escaped. The alarm was given and
a posse pursued, but only two were cap
tured.
DASHED INTO A RAVINE.
Andrew Joselynn, a farmer residing on
Lookout mountain, his wife and two
small children, bad a thrilling experience
while descending the steep mountain road
on a wagon. His team became unmanage
able ana ran away. The wagon was
pitched over a precipice, carrying all its
occupants, who were dashedinto a ravine.
All were more or less injured, and it is
feared Joselynn and his sou will not re
cover.
A MURDERER LYNCHED IN TEXAS.
Deputy Sheriff Upchurch, at Dedias
Texas, on Monday, had a negro rained
Jim Richard under arrest, and the latter,
watching his opportunity, jerked bis pis
tol out of its scabbard and shot and killed
Upchurch. About sundown Mondny
evening over seventy-five masked men,
armed to the teeth, took Rithurd from
tho custody of guards and swung him to
a neighboring tree.
election frauds.
The federal grand jury, which has been
investigating frauds committed at tho
election in St. Louis last November,
made its final report to Judge Treat in
the United States district court Thurs
day, and returned twenty-two indict
ments in addition to those lieretofoie
found. A special jury has been called to
try these eases at the March term of the
court.