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AMEDBYAMOB
Lula Kissraan’s Assail
ant Lynched.
V
HANGEDAND THEN SHOT
The Negro Confesses His Crime
Before His Victim.
TOLD TO PREPARE TO DIE.
The March to the
10-Acre Lot.
AN ATTEMPT AT RESCUE.
300 Masked Men Pull at the
Hangman’s Rope.
ASBURY'S LAST WORDS.
His Body Riddled
with Bullets.
Warnings Pinned to the Dead
Man’s Clothes.
THE MOB’S QUICK WORK.
Waiter A*bury alias Berrien, the negro
assailant of Luia Kissman, was lynched at
Pooler bet ween 12 and 1 o’clock yesterday
morning, and his bullet-riddled body
dangled from a tree in an open lot near ttio
Central railroad last night. Acting Coro
ner Naughtiu, who was engaged in the
Tybee investigation yesterduy, will go up
this morning and cut down the body.
Tied story of the negro’s astrocious as
sault upon the the girl was givon in
the Mousing News yesterday. The crime
excited the people not only of Pooler but
of the entire western part of the county.
The assault wa committed between :! and 4
o’clock in the afternoon, and before night
masked men, mounted and armed with
shotguns and Winchesters, were galloping
their horses over the country, scouring every
place and searching every house whore the
negro could possibly ba concealed. No
vigilauce committee was ever more deter
mined in its work.
31)0 MASKKD MEN IN PURSUIT.
Between 350 and 300 men were formed in
squads and started out in every direction.
People on the road? were made to slop and
give their- names before they were allowed
topes-. Until a late hour the pimple, who
had watched the maneuverings of the
mounted men, blew out the lights in their
houses and stood on the
porches to tee wliat would
be the result. One squad was sent in the
direction of Savannah; one went on the
Augusta road, another toward Macon, and
two or three squads weut out on a general
skirmish. The house where Asbury lived
was carefully guarded, but the negro had
deserted it. It was not alone the white but
the colored people as well who wanted
Asbury.
The west-bound fast mail train due at
Pooler at 9 oc’lock was held up the maskers
until every c ach had been searched for
Asbury. The train stopped at the Charles
ton and Savannah crossing, and it was
thought that Asbury migat have gotten on
the train at that point expecting to go
through. A colored man was discovered on
the pilot and it was thought that Asbury
bad been found, but it was only a tramp
stealing a ride to Macon.
CAPTURED AT A DXNCE.
The search lasted until 11 o’clock, when
a squad of men in which wore several intel
ligent colored citizens drew up in front of
Willis Spivey’s house, three-quarters of a
mile from Pooler, where a ball was going on.
“There he is,” said one of the colored
maskers as he dismounted.
“Bring him out! Bring Asbury out’’’
shouted a hundred voices, and the men Un
mounted hurriedly and surrouuded the
house. In a moment there was a stampede,
but the doors wore guarded and nobody
was allowed to come out.
“Hims not heah,” shouted some of the
people in the bouse. The maskers had no
time to lose, and began to investigate for
themselves. Two colored meu of the
party discovered Asbury crouching
in a chimney c ruer behind
•ome rubbish. As the men seized him
he made a vigorous struggle to wrench
himself loose from their grasp, but it was no
use.
IN THE MOB’S HANDS.
When he saw that he could not get away
he began to plead with the meu to let him
go, but In a moment the mob had hold of
him and he was hustled away across the
fields to the house of his victim. At the
station two shots were fired, signaling the
men together, and within half an hour 300
masked men were congregated around the
man. Asbury was stood where all could see
him and he was asked a few questions by
different members of the mob.
All of the maskers had torches, and they
lighted up the town as they passed through
it, carrying the doomed negro to the home
!of the girl whom he had so brutaliy
i assaulted. The family had retired, but a
j rap on the door brought them out. Asbury
* was taken into the room and a lamp was
| held up to his face.
xo way of escape.
As soon as he entered the house he began
to cower and cast fiendish glance! about and
out of the door where the maskers stood
| with their torches and shotguns.
The blood had not yet been washed from
the floor and furniture and one of the men
asked Asbury if that was his work. The
negro bung his head, la a few minutes the
girl came out of her room, assisted by her
mother, and Asbury was told to stand up.
lie did -o.
“That is the mau who beat'tne,” tho girl
said.
.Asbury looked uneasily about him to see if
anybody would harm him.
FACE TO FACE WITH HIS VICTIM.
“Are you sure that this is *the man?”
asked one of the men.
“1 say it is. Ask him, he will not deny
it,” replied the girl.
“Did you commit tho assault?” Asbury
was a-ked.
“I was here yesterday.”
“Did vou assault tins girl?”
“I came hero after soma money that was
due mo.”
"Come, be quick. Did you brat this girl?”
one of tho ieadersasksd.
Asbury bung his head a second, an 1 c aid:
“I am not going to lie about it. I did do
just as she said i did.”
“That is enough,” answered a dozen
voices, and Asbury was taken out of the
house buck to the station. When the mob
was ibout half way, a man stepped outside
oftheroodand said: “Halt! Let me take
charge of this man,” and he drew out a puir
<f handcuffs nud started toward Asbury to
handcuff him.
AN ATTEMPTED RESCUE.
It was Justice Bevans. “Take him
away,” shouted tho mob. and the justice
was hustled off, while the mob proceeded
to the historic “ten mile field.” The field is
about three-quarters of a mile below
Pooler. It is where the first tavern on the
road was built, and it has been known for
many years a- a lynching ground. Just in
front of where tho old tavern stood, not far
from the Central railroad on tho north
side, stood a large pine tree, with a limb
extending straight out from its trunk. This
tree was selected as the ha iging place. It
has served the same purpose many times
in former years. When the mob reached
the old tree, tho maskers replenished their
torches, and twenty-five or thirty men
guarded the doomed negro while the rest of
the crowd prepared for the hanging. A
hemp rope thirty feet long spliced with an
ordinary plow line was used.
UNDER THE FATAI, TREK.
One end of the ropo was thrown over the
limb of the tree and the other end was
stretched out to tho railroad track so that
everybody could get hold of It and assist in
the hanging. Asbury sat in tho midst of the
crowd with the lire shining in his face. His
hands were tied behind hi.n and a
rope was twisted around one of his
legs. AVhilo the preparation was
being made Asbury began to get restless.
The old pine that was to servo as the hang
man's scaffold over-shadowed him as lie
squatted on tho ground. The men wont
about the hanging as calralyaud collectedly
as if they had been preparing for a picnic.
When the noose was put around Asburv’s
neck, ho seemed to realize what was to fol
low aud he began to weaken.
GIVEN TIME TO PRAY.
"Let me pray,” he begged, when the knot
was tied.
The hangman drew aside and the man
knelt down aud prayed. Before he finished
bo broke down ands >bbed.
“Have you anything else to say?” he was
asked.
"My God, yes,” he replied. “I am the
meanest man in the world. I can’t help it,
it looks like. I done everything to the
child she say I done. I had the devil in me.
I didn’t go to do it. 1 wish I ha in’t done
it. Oh, but I can’t help it now, its too late.
The man began to wander in bis talk, and
the hangman reminded him that it was
time for him to prepare for the next world;
•e must be hanged. "Oh, don’t do it yet,”
pleaded the negro.
“I want you all to toll my friends that I
have gone and left them a bad example.
Tell them to remember how I ended. Toll
my wife tha’ she didn’t love much in me. I
hope she will raise my two children to be
better man than I am. Don’t shoot me,
please, and don’t let the fowls eat me. lam
ready.”
THE PULL ON THE ROPE.
The hangman gave the signal and the
maskers threw their torches in a heap, and
seiz. and hold of the rope. Asbury closed his
eyes and would not look at tho place where
lie was to bo hanged. After he was well un
der tho limb of the tree, the word was given
.and tho men swung h ick on the rope an 1
Asburv’s body shot up into tho air, his head
touching tho limb. Ho drew his feet up
several times, and Boomed to strangle, and
it was over with him. The end of the rope,
held bv the crowd, was tied to a telegraph
polo beside the railroad track, and the b >dv
was left alone.
A Morning News reporter, accompanied
bv Mr. K. C. ( lie is m, went out to the scenes
of the liauging yesterday. The little town
was quiet. I’eople sat about in groups
talking about the deed of tho night before,
and the avenging of the wrong done their
neighbor’s family. On the left shoulder of
the coat which Asbury had on as his body
swung in tha air was the print of a hand
that had blood on it, supposed to bo that of
the girl in her struggle to get
away from him. A small puddle
of blood had formed below where
the body hung, and several bullet holes
were in his trouser legs, which are presumed
to be the work of a mob which came from
some distance ir. tho country too late to
take part in the hanging.
WARNINGS PINNED TO THE BODY.
The mob pinned the following placard on
the trouser leg: "We came too late, but
glory in your spunk.” On the other trouser
leg pinned to it, was: “This is the way wo
protect our homes.”
Asbury was not provided with a cap, but
bis eyes did not bulge out nor did his
tongue protrude, lie died from stranguia
lation. His neck was not broken.
The girl, who was the victim of the ruf
fian’s passion, was closely confined to her
room yest rday. Her left eye i- in a fright
ful condition, and it is doubtful if she will
see out of it again. Her face is terribly
bruised, and she has an ugly wound on her
breast.
THE GIRL’S STORY OF THE ASSAULT.
When asked about tile assault she said:
“I was iu the front room alone. I was fix
toil to go to a neighbor’s house where my
mother was when the negro walked in.
When he first came up I did not suspect
anything. As he entered the room, he
c&mo iu front of iio unci asivuii mo if I
was alone. He told me that I was prettv
and when I told him to gel out of tho house
he seized me by the throat, and placing one
baud over my mouth and holding my nose
!he threw ino to the floor. 1 fought
him a id kept him away the be t I could.
He dragged ine into the rear room
and repeated his attack. He tore mv
clothing into shreds almost and pounded
mo in ihe face and breast. I was nearly
| blind when somebody seized the negro and
! dragged him out. 1‘ run to the door and
| saw him running away, followed by
j Burgess, the colored man who dragged him
| out of the house. I yvas so weak tv at my
mother could not hear me when 1 first
called, but she came before the negro got
out of sight ainl saw him as he got over the
fence aud ran down into the swamp.”
the girl’s family.
The girl is about 15 years old. She is
intelligent, and is rather good looking.
Her father said that he saw Asbury- wh u
he got off the train ut tue depot. The negro
came down to Savannah Saturday
morning and made a purchase for
him. When ho returned on the 3
THE MORNING NEWS: M( >NDAY, AUGUST lit; 1889.
o’clock train to Pooler he handed
Mr. Kissinau the package which he wm
instructed to get in tne c;tv, aud said that
I he was going home. That was the last seen
| of him at the station.
Asbury has been employed at Pooler
about two years. He has a wife and two
children. He was born in Richmond
county near the line of Burke, and has
borne a very bad reputation ever since he
was fifteen years old, and has
several times assaulted colored
girls. His brother was lynched
between Milieu and Augusta three years
ago for the same offense.
Adarme Crump, a respectable colored
woman living m Pooler, said that she had
known Asoury all nn life. He came to he*
just before coming to Pooler and told her
that he was running from the officers. They
were after him for assaulting a white
woman, he said. She knew that he was a
very- bad man and said that the colored peo
ple feared him. She said that he had heat
his wife unmercifully many times since he
had lived iu Pooler.
Mr. Newton, who employe! Asbury, said
that the negro bore a oad name, but
that he was a good laborer.
THE SCENE OK THE ASSAULT.
The home in which the assault was made
ha s i all three-room cottag>, a few rods
S nth of Newton’s saw mill,and about two
hundred yards fr< un the nearest neighbors’
house. Asbury had to pass thej bouse in
going to his own house, which is just be
yond the saw mill. He passed the house
where the mother was visiting at a neigh
bor's and saw ber sitting on the porch,.and
had just left the father at the station, so
that he knew- the girl was alone. His plans
were well laid and he would have
accomplished his purpose if the colored man
Burgess had not came to the rescue.
Burgess said that when Asbury found that
he was likely to be taken he became des
perate. and when Burgess dragged him
from the house he tried to strike him, but
finally wrenched himself out of Burgess’
grasp and got away.
ASBURY’S SECOND ASSAULT.
Asbury then weut to the house of Mr.
Grayson, about a mile and a half from
Pooler, and assaulted Mrs. Grayson,striking
her a severe blow on the head with the butt
of a guu. She gave a:i alarm, aud when
the negro ran to the dour to see if any one
was coming, she cscaiied out of the back
door.
The respectable colored people of Pooler
and the surrounding oouutry who
heard of the assault made by
Asbury were as anxious for his cap
ture as were the white people. Dr.
liloaknov, who attended the girl, said that
she will survive the shock all right,but it is
doubtful if she will recover the sight of her
leit eye, which is badly swollen.
Anbury's wife did not go down to see the
body of herdiusband. She stayed at home,
close, all day. She will take charge of the
remains when the coroner has made his in
vestigation.
STATUS OF CHATHAM’S BILL3.
A Resume of Local Matters Before
the Legislature.
Representative Cliftfn has been home on
sick leave for a day or two, but
will return to Atlauta to-night. Mr.
Clifton was asked yesterday about the
condition of peudiug legislation of a local
character, and he gave quite a resume of
legislative mattors. He says that the legis
lature will not be able to complete the busi
ness of the session before Oct. 1.
The bill authorizing the city to grant 8
feet on President street to the Savrnuah
Voluuteer Guards for armory purposes
having passed both houses, only awaits t ie
signature of the governor to become a law,
and it is thought it will be signed to-day.
The bill amendatory of the charter of the
town of Tybee has been withdrawn from
further consideration by Mr. Clifton on re
quest of those who sought to have the
amended bill passed.
Tho bill, to incorporate the Enterprise
Street Railway Company, was referred to a
subcommittee of Messrs. Gordin aud
Clifton of Chatham, and Simmons of
Sumter, but the committee being unable to
agree, the 1 ill has been referred back to the
railroad committee, which expects to hear
from the incorporators soon.
The bill to increase oertain fees of county
ordinaries has been recoinmqpded for
passage by the judiciary committee. The
bill makes only a slight change in the fees
of the ordinary’s court.
The Ambrose oyster bill, forjthe protec
tion of oysters at Thunderbolt, will be
withdrawn, owing to the introduction of
the Posted bill, which with amendments
has passed the House. This _is the
much debated Gamier bill.
The Bradwell educational bill, to estab
lish a branch college,has been referred to the
committee on education, of which Repre
sentative Gordon is a member.
The Patterson bill, to allow eaoh notary
public who is an ex-officio justice of tho
peace to hold court in a separate office
from that of elective justices, has boon re
ferred to a special sub-ooimnittee of the
judiciary committee.
The Gray bill, to amend the charter of the
town of Warsaw, ami providing for tho
extension of the town limits, which was re
ferred to the committoo on corporations, is
finder consideration by tha committee.
The bill te authorize the city to sell to A.
Hanley nn 8-foot strip of grouud on Presi
dent street has been favorably reported to
the House by the committee to which it had
been referred.
’TWILL PROBABLY BE SOLD.
Nothing from Mr. Hughe3 About the
Garbage Crematory.
No word has yet been received from
President Hughes of the United States Gas
and Fuel Company of Philadelphia, as to
what the company proposes to do with the
garbage crematory, and it now looks as if
the company will let it go to sale on the
3S-h, to satisfy tho claims against it under
attachments issuing out of Just co Rey
nold’s court. An order has been taken
directing Officer Wetherkorn to offer the
crematory for sale to “the highest aud best”
Bidder on Wednesday, Aug. 28, to satisfy
the claim of John McCleskev, the carpen
ter, for work done on the crematory.
Thus far claims amounting to #279 50 are
reported against the crematory as follows:
John MoCleskey 75
John Nicolson. Jr 57 75
Johu W. Tynan A35 00
The claim of Mr. Nicolson has been put
in through Justice Patterson’s court. It is
also reported that the accounts for brick
have not been liquidated.
The court expenses and costs will be no
inconsiderable item, as a w.itchmau has
been stationed there as custodial! of the
property since July 7.
Found Dead at Tybee.
Henry Saunders, tha colored porter for
Capt. Henry Blun, was found dead in his
bed at Capt. Blun’s summer residence at
Tybee yesterday morning. Tha remains
were brought to the homo of the deceased,
at No. 27 President street, and will be
lat -iTod this morning.
In the absence of Coroner Dixon, Justice
Naugtitin made au investigation in the
case, but did not deem an inquest necessary.
I eeauseof Saunders’ death is attributed
to the excessive use of alcohol. He was -.veil
o’, 10 '? 1 ,',l owu t<J wn aj porter in Capt.
Blun s office, and was about 34 years of
age.
Legislators to Vi3lt Savannah.
Quite a delegation of Georgia representa
tives has been invited by Hon. Wm. Clifton
to come down to Savannah Saturday of
next week, and remain over Sunday, as his
guests, and they have accepted theinvita
ti m. Mr. Clifton will show them about the
city, taking in tho two extensive railroad
systems, and tho Ocean wharves
after which he wifi take them to Thunder
boll and Tybee. Tho visitors are t uck of
Athens, Perry of Gilmer, Bell of Forsyth
Jones of Chattooga and Tigner of Musi
cogee. ®
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
ABLE TO WALK about.
The Elixir Patient a Little Sore, But
His Lameness Better.
Nat Bryan, the old man upon whom the
Brown-Sequard elixir test was tried last
Friday, was in a rollicking good humor last
night when a Morning News reporter
called to inquire as to his condition. Appli
cations of flaxseed had relieved the soreness
superinduced by the injections, and the old
man was in a better humor than at any time
since the operation.
He came walxing into the room rather
spry for a confirmed rheumatic, and when
quest oned about his rheumatic pains he
said tnat they had not yet returned. His
sleep has been r*-stf ill—more so last Satur
day night than for a long time. He said
that there was a soreness yesterday morn
ing about the point of injection in the arm,
but the flax-seed application had relieved
that.
Bryan says that ha to k two or three
walks about the city yesterday, and feels
much relieved, aud while he feel3 that he
has been relieved to some extent, yet, on
account of the soreness from the treatment
he is not inclined to think he would submit
to another test of the elixir.
DUELS THES GO NOW.
A Painter and a Molder Fight Under
Alabama Rules.
Sporting circles are all agog over a prize
fight fought in the suburbs yesterday morn
ing between a well-known painter of this
city and au iron molder. The principals
had a heated argument Saturday night iu
which remarks more forcible than elequent
about each other le 1 to a challenge to settle
the dispute with bare knuckles under Mar
quis of Queensberry rules.
The principals were on the ground early
ye-tuday morning with their seconds, a
referee and interested friends, and after the
usual preliminaries they “toed the scratch”
and began to punish each other viciously.
The iron molder was the shorter of the
two, and shorter armed, but he was
scientific, aud while he received some
heavy body blows, he countered upon the
countenance of the painter and blackened
his peepers by some straight hits from Tue
shoulder.
Both men were dead game, and several
rounds were fuuglit, but a spotter station.-d
a' a convenient distance from the ring re
ported the approach of an officer, and the
light was hurriedly declared a draw and
the crowd dispersed. It is not believed the
mill will be fought to a finish.
THE COURT HOUSE BONDS.
Inquiries for Them from the North—
The Bids to be Opened Sept. 10.
Capt. J. R. Dillon, clerk of the county
commissioners’ board, says that he is receiv
ing daily an average of not less than half a
dozen letters of inquiry concerning the sale
of the court house bonds, and lie expresses
the opinion that the bonds will meet with a
ready sale and at a very good premium.
The issue is #109,00), divided into 100
bonds of #IOO each, eighty bonds of #SOO
each and fifty bonds of SI,OOO each, dated
July 1, 1889, and maturing Juiy 1, 1919,
bearing 5 per cent, interest payable s©;u.-
annualiy.
Tho plan of redemption is to re loam
$5,000 auuually after ten years from date
of issue, the redeemable bonds to bo deter
mined by lot if necessary. The bids for the
purchase of the binds will be opened Tues
day Sept. 10 after 2 o’clock p. in.
The letters of inquiry referred to are
coming principally from New York, Cni
cago, Kansas City and Augusta. The bids
may be for am- amount from #IOO up to the
entire issue—-#IOO,OOO.
THE ’CRAW AND FORT AT OUTS
A Lively Battle With Rocks On Lib
erty Street.
A squad of colored boys engaged in a rock
duel on Liberty street near the Savannah,
Florida aud Western depot shortly before
nightfall yesterday, and the police captured
four of the young duelists and marched
them to tho barracks. The affair created
almost as much excitement as a riot, aud
tne police and their prisoners were followed
by quite a crowd of colored men and boys,
but wholly from curiosity, as there was no
attempt or talk of attempting to release the
lads. It appears that the young African
bloods of Yamacraw were pitted against
tho chocolate-colored kids of the- Old Fort.
LOCAL PERSONAL,
A. Sabel of Augusta is hero.
V. I. Dorr of Augusta is here.
L. D. Hill of Brunswick is here.
J. R. Cox of Brunswick is here.
Louis Suteliff is hero from Augusta.
James O. Cameron of Charleston is here.
Jos. M. Robertson of Charleston is here.
M. L. Johnston is here from Lynchburg.
A. F. Churchill of Brunswick is in tho
city.
F. R. Killen of Hilton Head, S. C., is in
the city.
Miss Mamie Lewis is visiting friends in
Augusta.
W. N. Woodward and R. B. Bull of Way
cross are here.
W. T. Lane and W. C. Peeples of Val
dosta are here.
Mrs. Louise Logan has returned from a
visit in Augusta.
Mr. John H. Hunter has returned from
his trip to Europe.
W. H. Tutt, Jr., came dowa from
Augusta yesterday.
Jacob A. Rohr has gone to Indian
Springs for a short rest.
7a. T. Stiae, wife and child, of Augusta
are guasts of the Marshall.
W. J. Ellis, J. H. Ellis aud J. G. Winter
of \Y aynesboro are iu the oky.
J. L. Cohen, Mel via C. Arthur, T. Sroli
and M. Mack of Charleston are here.
Miss Fannie O’Driscoll will go north to
day by steamer to be absent several weeks.
Kev. Mr. Strong preached his last sermon
yestord \y before taking his vacation. He
may take a trip te Colorado during his
absence.
Joseph L. Graham, secretarv to Traffio
Manager Shellmanof the Centra! railroad
returned yesterday from New York. He
left again lasi, nignt for Warm Springs.
Savannah’s Young Acrobat.
Clarence Barbee, the boy acrobat, writ
ing from Topeka, Kan., says that Good
year, Cook & Dillion’s minstrel troupe, with
which he is traveling, will start south in a
few weeks. The company will open at the
St, Charles theater, New Orleans, Oct. 0
for a week’s engagement, and the troupe
expect to be at Savannah the first week in
November for two nights.
Young Barbee’s show name is Clarence
Nichols, and with Thomas and Johu Nich
ols travels as the three celebrated Nichols
brothers, ihe two Nichols brothers,writing
to A. M. Barbee, brother of Clarence,
say the latter will; one day make
his mark in the profession. During tne
season of 1890 the Nichols brothers expect
to begin to put him under a teacher for
bare-back acrobat ic acts. They say he is a
great favorite wherever be goes and willing
to learn,and not saucy like so many boys of
bis age. He :ias given aerobatic‘perform
ances turoughout Canada, tho wes:, north
west and on the Pacific slope.
The Pelot Woman Improving.
Mary Ida Pelot, the colored woman shot
by her husband in Gwinn -tt street lane at
midnight Saturday, was resting quietly
last night, and hopes are entertained of her
recovery. She is not permitted to converse
with any one. Nothing has yet been heard
from Pelot, who has thus far eluded arrest.
SHOT IN SELF-DBF.SNBE.
The Killing of B. J. Hicks at Humph
reys- The Body Buried Here.
The remains of E. J. Hicks, the locomo
tive engineer who was shot and killed at
Humphreys last Friday moraiug by C. W.
Hicks, were brought to the city yesterday
morning by the Albany express, and at 9:30
o’clock the interment took place in Laurel
Grove cemetery'.
The particulars of the tragedy, as far as
could lie learned, are as follows: On Friday
the deceased and C. W. Hicks had a diffi
culty in which they came together, and E
J. Hicks, a man weighing over 200 pounds,
and being the more powerful man of the
two, severely punished C. W. Hicks, who
would have been worse used had not parties
interposed.
fhe difficulty grew out of an accident to
t. j Hicks’ engine, having collided with a
lumtor piie.carrying away the steam chest.
C. Vi . Hicks, head sawyer at the mills and
acting as general manager in the absence of
the superintendent on sick leave, is said to
have reprimanded the engineer and that
led to the difficulty. C. W. Hicks
reported all the facts to J. J. McDonough
of this city, proprietor of the mills, and
owing to the dissipation of the engineer,
asked that his place be supplied with an
other man, but subsequently C. W.
Hicks had a talk with the engineer, agreed
to let bygones be bygones, and jforgave tfca
assault uoon him and countermanded the
request for his discharge.
Friday morning it appears that E. J.
Hicks became offended because the superin
tendent had moved or attempted to move
his engine, and going over to the commis
sary department of the mill renewed the
quarrel and charged the superintendent
with having l>een the means of his discharge.
E J. Hieks approached the keeper of the
commissary and said that he understood
that he had received a notice that Hicks,
tiie engiueer, had been discharged. The
commissary keeper replied that no such
notice had been received by him.
C. W. Hicks, who was sitting
on a barrel behind the counter
in the commissary department,
was then aoproached by the engineer and
accosted ab > it the disenarge, and the sup er
intendent admitted that he had the di -
charge in his pocket. The engineer became
extremely aousive, and with threats ad
vanced upon the superintendent at the
same time putting his hand in bis pocket as
if no were about to draw a weapon, whe ;
the superintendent drew bis revol
ver and fired, the ball striking
E. J. Hicks in the right side near the
breast, and ranging through the lungs, but
not passing through the body. The shot
staggored the engineer, but he continued to
pursue the superintendent, until weak
from loss of blood, he turned away and
walked some distance to his lodging place.
I his was about 9 o’clock in the moiniug,
and he died übout 7:35 that night.
The dying man’s son, Benjamin, a young
man of 15, who was about four miles awav,
was summoned, and a very affecting scene
took place at the bedside of the dying man,
who requested his son to kiss him good-by.
The testimony of those who witnessed
the shooting was decidedly in favor of the
superintendent, and the latter is said to ba
in great mental anguish over the tragedy.
He told the son of the man he killed that he
felt that his life was in danger, and that to
save his own life he fired the fatal shot.
He volunteered to do anything he could to
advance tho interests of the sou, but the
latter declined to consi )er any favors at the
hands of the man who had killed his father,
the public sentiment where the affray
occurred is said to be decidedly in favor of
the superintendent, and the coroner’s jury
which investigated the shooting exonerated
the superintendent from all blame.
Benjamin P. Lockwood of the Savannah
Florida and Western railway, a friend of
the family of the deceased, says that he
knew the latter from boyhood, and he was
an industri ms man and a liberal, great
hearted follow, but his temper was
ungovernable when he was j.
liquor. His wife brought the
remains home und gave them fitting inter
ment, and she told u Mohni no News re
porter who called to see her yesterday
that no better man to his family, and to
those about him lived than her
husband when he was at him
self. He visited the family in June
last, and after taking dinner
and supper with them returned
to Clinch county, taking with his
wife’s consent their son Ben, who was em
ployed as stoker on one of the engines
which run between the mill and the timber
lands. The father and sou roomed together
at Humphreys,
Mrs. Hi ks said that she was not able to
get all the particulars she desired abiut the
killing, but the details above given are
about a i she learned them, and it was her
understanding that while the coroner’s
jury had justified the shooting it is to be
further investigated by the grand jury
The deceased was in his 37th year, and
had been a railroad man fo** about fifteen
vears He was five years firefuau on the
1 ort K >yal and Augusta road, afterward
ran an engine on that road and on the Con
tral. Four years ago he removed with his
family to this city from Augusta, and was
employed as locomotive engineer by the
Savannah, Florida and Western and in
October, 18S7, he left the road to go into
the employ of J. J. McDonough & Cos. in
the same capacity'. His sou say's that his
mt er was not drinking on the day of his
death. J
Taken to Lowe’s Camp.
J. B. Crabb of W. B. Lowo’s convict
camp came down last night after Edward
Hazel and Emmett Steele, who were con
victed a few weeks ago of assault with in
tent to murder un i several other charge*
The prisoners will be taken this morning to
the penitentiary, fifty miles this side of
Macon, on the East Tennessee, V:rainia’a:: i
Georgia railroad. *
Taken Back to Hawkinsville.
W. G. Hunt, sheriff of Pulaski county,
came up yesterday after Mark Solomons!
the young man who was arrested in t e
Savannah, Florida and Western railway
yards day before yesterdav upon a charge
of murder committed in Cochran in 1880
He returned with Solomons to Hawkinsville
yesterday.
THE BOOK FOR BOOKKEEPERS.
It Will open Out Perfectly Flat From
First to Last Page.
The Morning Mews Printing House is
the licensed manufacturer of Bronson’s
Flat Opening Blank Books (adopted by the
LniuxA BtaU*> government).
There is no book made of equal strength.
It will open at any page and remain per
fectly flat. There is no danger of the leaves
becoming loose. It is the only elastic bind
ing designed to open flat that has received
the unquulillcd ind .rsemeut of bookkeepers
as well as bookbinders. Books ruled to any
pattern, made to any size and bound in any
We are making books for a number of
firms in tins city and elsewhere, ami will
take pleasure in showing them to those in
terested.
The Morning News Steam Printing
House, 3 Whi nker street. Savannah.
Concerning- lour tv an (.s.
The “one cent a word” column of the
Morning News pmces advertising within
the reac.i of every one who has anything to
sell or wants anything. Advertising shows
turift and enterprise, and for tha small sum
of cents you can demonstrate that you
are possessed of those very necessary requi
sites to success in life. The Morning News
circulates everywhere, reaches everybody
is read by rich and poor alike, has thousamli
of readers who never look at any other
newspaper.
It will print your advertisement, if 15
words or less, for 15 cents, and charge you
one cent for each added word. There is ro
ti ouble to calcula;e what your advertise
ment will cost you. If you have an adver
tising account with the Morning News
you can telephone your advertisement
“is #8” l ° P< “* Ba “
CITY BREVITIES.
[ D-Kalb Lodge No. 9, I. O. O. F., meets
! this evening.
The Railroad Loan Association wifi hold
to seventy-second monthly meeting at the
t *:retary s office, No. 114 Bryan street to
night.
The Chatham Artillery-Georgla Hussars
baseball match which has been postponed
several tunes on accouut of rain will be
played this afternoon. The game will be
called at 4:30 o’clock.
Justice Bevans issued a warrant yester
day for T. Foster, colored, charged with
assault with intent to murder Willis
Spivey at Pooler Saturday night. Foster
has not been arrested yet.
Charles Goven was lodged in the barracks
yesterday for cutting Isaac Townsend in a
row Saturday afternoon on Houston street
near Hull. Townsend’s wounds, which are
in the leg, are not serious.
There ware 177 failures in the United
States reported to Bradstreet's last
we?a, against 173 in the prec-diug week,
an l 151, 144, 139 and 160 in the correspond
ing weeks of 1888, 1837, ISSfI and 1885 re
spectively.
A good deal of excitement was caused at
about 11:45 o’clock last night bv a police
man rushing iu and attacking a’man who
was sit flag quietly in one of the chairs in
the Screven house office. The policeman,
so those who witnessed the affair declare
walked up to the man, who was William
Parr of Augusta, and said: “I want you.”
Hith these words he struck Parr with bis
club, drawing blood, and continued to strike
Jim as he carries! him to the barracks.
Parr made no resistance whatever, and
those who witnessed the affrdr were verv
indignant. The policeman stated that Pair's
offense was that he had attacked him near
the Southern Bank in an obsoeue way.
Night Watchman Z. T. Strickland at the
jail has been made the victim of some malici
ous people a number of times recently Titey
rmg the night bell at the jail gate, and Mr.
Strickland has got up and dressed to go out,
expecting to admit somebody. It is a
serious joke, if those who are guilty of it term
it such, ad Mr. Strickland said last night
that he will give 310 for the apprehension
of the guilty parties. The other night
when the bell was rung a policeman hap
pened to pass and saw three persons run
ning away from the gate. He did not
Know what they meant, but if the offenders
repeat the trick now they may be expected
to be arrested the next morning, the officers
say.
Messrs. Fried & Hicks have tha fl-st rice
birds of the season. The birds are coming
iu about ten days earlier this season than
they did last. For the first dozen birds that
were sold in Savannah was paid 32
Messrs. Fried & Hicks bought them Mr
Hicks said last night that fully 100,000
birds are consumed here in the coursa of a
season. The season begins now and lasts
until October 10th or 15th. From $3 par
dozen the price generally drops down to
seventy-flve cents, and then to forty-five
cent3 and forty cents, thirty and fifteen
cents. A large number of rice bi:ds are
shipped fro n Savannah also each season.
There are dealers who eraploy’hunters to do
nothing else but hunt rice birds.
RAIL AND CRO33TIE.
A Pullman porter tolls the St. Louis
Olobe-Demnorat that it is only tha man
that isn’t used t i traveling who complains
about the fees ho has to pay to porters on
the sleepers. The old-timers never say a
word. You have never hoard a drummer
cursing a sleeping car porter. We are paid
by the company to do certain work and we
do that, whether or not we are paid any
thing extra by the pasieagu-s. For
services boyond this we all have a fixed
scale of fees, and it is wall understood by
everybody that travels much. It’s
about the saint* on all the roads. A man
traveling by himself in a sleeper for a
single night has his boots blacked and his
clothes brushed, and is expected to pay
twenty-five cent- at the end of the trip. If
he has a lady with him we expect more,
for a lady in a sleeping car gives us as
much trouble as six men. If a party of
three or four are together we wait on them
attentively, get them out card tables, sea
to their little pieces of baggage, attend to
telegrams, aud think ourselves poorly paid
if we don’t get sl. If we have an invalid
on tne car, it is not unreasonable for us to
ba disapp anted if tha nurse doesn’t give us
|1 or 82. Robert Garrett believes in tip
ping on sleeping cars, and he never goes
over the road in an ordinary car without
giving the porter something.
President and General Manager Cecil
Gabbett of the Western Railway of Ala
bama and the Cincinnati, Selma and M >bile
railway, recently had a long conference
•vitj F red \Y olff, the noted banker aud
financier, who practically controls the Ciu
cinnati, Selma and M >bile road, relative to
the difficulties with which the little hranc i
is now surrounded, anil came to Birmin®--
ham to look into some investments
ot his in coal lauds iu this vicinity,
to the question as to what the owners or
stockholders of the Cincinnati, Selma and
Mobile were going to do about a settlement.
Mr. G ibbett said: “Mr. Wolff sails for Eu
ropeon Aug. 17. He goes to make arrange
ments with German c ipitalists to bond the
road for $2,000,000, or enough to provide him
with tha money to build the unbroken gap
from Marion junction, or Hamburg, to
Selma, and alsj the proposed extension
from Akron to Aberdeen, giving the road
a through connection with the Kansas City
Memphis and Birmingham Railroad and
Montgomery, Selma and Atlanta—a great
through line to Kansas City. I do
not know of a more profitable in
vestment than money put into
the bonds as Mr. Wolff proposes and which
will be secured, of course, by a m .rt-'a 'i*
on the road and its equipment and frati
chises. L hero ran be no doubt as to tho
paying of the new road. It will branch out
from Akron aud run through some of the
richest agricultural lands iu the state and
this with the through business which’ will
necessarily follow from connections with
the Kansas City, Memphis and Birming
ham, the Illinois Central and the Mobil*
and Ohio roads.” Mr. Wolff will return in
anout sixty days and report to a meeting of
the directors and stockholders -if the road
to be held in Selma about Oct. 25. ’
Kiss the Fool and Let Him Go Home.
From the Marietta ?o.) Journal.
The story goes that a certain society
young man, noted for his handsome b ear
ing and wiuning voice, accompanied a
young ladyto her home.nnd as all true lovers
do, lingered yet a little while at the gate
to have a lover’s tete-a-tete with his fair
companion. The night was beautiful no
one near to intrude, aud above all ha loved’
Uhy shouldn’t she kiss him* With true
maidenly modesty she refused. He im
plored. She still withheld from him that
which would fill his cup of happiness
Ihe request was repeated several times and
su engrossed did the young man become in
wooing, he failed to notice tho approach
of the parental step. ‘ The
old gentleman who had been there himself
and did not care to intrude upon the naopi
ness of the young couple, quietly stepping
behind a convenient rose busu, waited
thinking the young man would soon
leave. Iu this he was mistaken,
ihe loyer tarried over the request, until
the patience of the old gentleman was ex
hausted. A voice the couple well knew
aroused them from their happiness, in a
tone of impatient anger by iaying-
Daughter, kuw the fool aud let him
go home!” It is reported that the voung
man only hit the ground in high plnces in
his endeavor to comply with the old gentle
niarrs request.
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OF ALL KINDS.
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TELEPHONE 49.
Office. 7 Dray Onstreet, Citizens’ bank Building.
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This powder never varies a mn-. , ,
strength and wholesomeuess A PuritT .
than the ordinary kin Is i,, f Wo “ !,a >‘c'ai
sold in competition with the . *
test short weight alum or phosphate^ 0 ’,' *
Sold only in cans. Royal Bakinc
100 Wall street. New York. Po,rD s Cos,
LUUDILN A BATES 8. M . H
Our Fifth Annual Clearance
Sale, the most succesSK
our experience, will soon to
brougatto a close. The
struments still on hand, coni
slating of second - S
Pianos and Organs, which
have been thoroughly rpurT
vated in our repiir roo££
must be closed out at any
reasonable price. Cash buv
ers win find great bargS
Those who haven’t cash con
venlent can get as eas'
terms as they wish. Tho 4
who need instruments now
but are not ready for nw
ones, can buy a second-hand
bargain and exchange later
for any style desired if any
one wishes to trade for anv
thing from a second-hand
Melodeon to a Chickering
Grand Piano, we can suit
him every time.
Our tuners are the best that money
and experience can employ. Our re
pairers have been educated in the lead
ing factories. Our “giant" movers
are experts in their line. Probably
your Piano needs attention now. Send
us your order,
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FUBNITUBE AND CARPETS.
91 Bay Street
Oar Stock is Not Exhausted let.
VELVET, Body Brussels,Tapestry, Extra Super
and Engrain Carpets, Art Squares, Brussel!
Squares. Window Shades, Lace Curtains. Cor
nice Poles, Matting, Oil Cloth, Linoleum, Stair
Linen, Upholstery Goods, Plushes, etc., Bugs
and Mats.
Competent Workmen to Lay Goodu
Barber Chairs, Commodes, Easy Chairs, Cab,
inets, Desks, Wardrobes, Sideboards, Bookcases,
Mattresses. Pillows, Baby Carriages, Refrig
erators, Bedsteads, Parlor Suits, etc., etc.
Price is a secondary consideration, as the goods
Must Be Closed Out
Call early and get the pick. A choice lin®
of New Goods being added.
A. J. MILLER & CO,,
91 BAY STREET.
DRY GOODS.
■lrani
137 BROUGHTON ST.
YUTE have received during the past week tha
▼ T following lines of seasonable poods:
SATINES.
50 pieces French finished Satines, beautiful
styles and colors, at 15c. yard.
Chambrays and Ginghams
120 pieces Chambrays.in plains, stnpeds, sois
colors and new side bands, at 12tkC. yard.
80 pieces fine Plaid and Striped Ginghams, ail
new tints and styles, at 100, yard.
Unlaundered Shirks.
100 dozen Gents’ Unlaundered Shirts, maikj
from pood cotton, linen bosom and bands, cc
tinuous stay back and front, perfect fitting.
50c. each. . . ■,_/
15 dozen Gents’ Unlaundered Shirts, F la ■ !
bosom, extra long and extra large ooul
Can’t be matched anywhere less than 51-
sell them at 75c, each.
Umbrellas and Parasols.
300 Gloria Silk Umbrellas, gold ra°
handles, at $1 50; would be cheap at. f t '~- . j
A full line of finer grades in Gloria. Purity
and Twflled Silks, in oxidized, silver ana g
mountings. „ . xrnqiid
N. 8.-A full line of Ladies' Lockstitch
U nderwear.
CROHAI & DOOIER
“ NEW ARRIVAL’
Those new and stylish Side Band and Eu p" 9
Plaids, in
Toile Du Nord Ginghams.
JACKSON, METZGER A Ci
Successors to I. DASHER & CO-
UnTfjn MORNING 'NEWS
I H fi every part of the city earlyH ,-aw
JL lIL five cents a week payi 1