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The Democrat.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
BY CLEM. C. MOORE.
CRA WFORI) VILLE, GEORGIA .
Entered *t tho poitoffice at Crawfordviile,
Georgia, a« serond-eJaaB mail matter.
Acc id mg to the estimate of Edward
Atkinson that tho average production of
each man, woman and child in the
United States is the equivalent of $200
per annum on an average, it requires the
labor of nearly 400,000 to pay our an¬
nual pensions. No other country in the
world begins to do anything like this for
its soldiers. It takes nearly $80,000,000 to
pay the pensions this year, which is more
than tho total expenditures of the gen¬
eral government before the war.
It seems that the idea of attempting to
defeat nature by going without food is
in no sense a novelty. London Notes
and Queries cites an instance which oc¬
curred in 1357, during the reign of E 1
ward III, of a woman who was consigned
to Nottingham prison for life for the
murder of her husband, who held her¬
self without food or drink forty days.
Her experiment served a practical pur¬
pose, for it moved his majesty’s heart to
pity, and lie ordered her liberation.
According to the New Orleans 'Times
Democrat, tho money spent by Congress
on the Mississippi river levees amounts
to $1,000,112, and $4,240,000 more is
needed to complete the system, making
a total of about $0,000,000. The Timcs
Democratic says that even if all this
money is granted it will bo less than one
tenth of the sum already spent by the levee
states, viz.: Louisiana, Mississippi,
Arkansas and Tennessee. The alluvial
land defended by these dikes includes
some 23,702,000 acres, with a population
of 1,025,723 and an average annual agri¬
cultural production of $78,755,000.
Cincinnati will be, as nearly us its age i
can be reckoned, one hundred years old
in 1888. A beautiful city on a plain
and un rounded by hills, it has had a
rapidity of growth which is astonishing.
At tho beginning of tho century there
wore seven hundred and fifty people on
itssile. In this year of our Lord 1887
the nativu modesty of its inhabitants
forbids them to say that it is the pivotal
centre on which tho solar system swings.
It will celebrate its ccnteuuiul with all
the ceremonies that local pride can sug¬
gest. *____
1 The fact that several residents of Troy
were recently killed by odorless gas has
aroused some inquiry as to tho use of
this dangerous agent, It seems that
this fuel gas, which is manufactured and
used for various domestic purposes, can
readily be made safe, or at least practi¬
cally so, by giving it an odor which will
enable customers to detect its presence,
and many patents have been taken out
to accomplish this result. It may not
bo generally known that common gas
can easily be made odorless, but that
the odor is retained as a protection.
A bad boy came before a judge in a
Cleveland court recently, charged with
assaulting his mother. lie was nu old
offender, and in committing the lad the
judge remarked: "The boy is not re¬
sponsible for wlmt I10 does. There is
something wrong in his blood. He’ll kill
you some day—you or somebody else—
and then, when lie’s charged with mur¬
der, they’ll introduce a plea of insanity.
It will be sustained, too. The boy ought
to bo locked up. He’s been before this
court for almost every offence from sus¬
picion up and down. Costs and six
months.” Such a case as this brings up
interesting questions of how far crime is
a disease.
A woman has just died at the reforma¬
tory at Indianapolis who was 89 years of
age aud lias been iu prison since 1850,
when she was sentenced to imprison¬
ment for life for complicity iu a horrible
murder of a whole family—a man, his
wife and four children. She was a
motherly old woman, and to look at her
wrinkled face one would never suppose
that she was guilty of such an awful
crime. She had charge of the milk de
partiuent while at Jeffersonville, and
was * passionately fond of the children of
the guards, who were sent there for
milk. Frequently she would give them
presents to kiss her, and not one of them
seemed afraid of ber.
IRON BRIDGE WORKS.
intiher Imluilry Lolng fo locate *“
Decatur, llulmuan.
A large and very important contract
tias been made by the Decatur, Alabama,
Land Improvement and Furnace com
pauy. by w hi, h capitalists from V hicago
and Birming.iam agree to erect at that
plan a manu.-.n ti’iy t. r the purpose of
making all kinds of bruigt iron, etc
I h>- < mpany has just been incorporated
aud expect to have their works in full
operation within four mouths. They
have a cash capital of $100,000, all the
stock Wing taken by parties in Chicago
and Bit min ;ham. This industry from
the start will give employment to from
HMlto'OO t * killed laborers a- w2, »-,-!* n
crease ihc is
contemplated.
H
ITIE DEMOCRAT, CRAWFORDVILLE, GEORGIA.
southern items.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED
FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS.
LOUISIANA.
factory George W. Bennett will erect a broom
at Cheneyville.
The New Orleans Elevated Railway
their company road contemplate shortly. beginning work on
Sheriff Cook, of St. Tammany, icports
that the polecats are killing the hogs,
sheep and cattle in his neighborhood.
'Flic Petroleum Prospecting company,
rated capital stock $2,000, inis been incorpo¬
at New Orleans by B, F. Hitchcock
and others.
A statement has been made iu several
papers of the state that Governor Me
Enery is a native of Virginia, This is
an error, He is a Louisianian, born in
the city of Monroe.
The St. Tammany Farmer says that a
large force of men will he put to wiyk on
the Poitevent railroad in a few days, and
that the road will be finished to Abita
springs by June 1.
The Cypress Shingle and Lumber com¬
pany, capital stock $30,000, has been in- 1 {
corporated at Plaquemineto manufacture is I
shingles, lumber, Ac. S. D. Carpenter
president and treasurer.
The Kaufman Fibre and Manufacturing
Co., capital stock $1,000,000, manufacture has been
machinery organized at New decorticating Orleans to ramie,
for jute,
Ac., to decorticate and treat ramie and
jute fibre by the Kaufman process and to
encourage the eulivation of fibrous plants.
Messrs. plantation, Thompson Iberville and Compton, of
Texas their premises parish, substantial have
erected upon a
saw and shingle mill, and have just en¬
tered into a contract to furnish 10,000,
000 shingles 25th to Cameron, of Waco, Texas.
On the ultimo they shingles. shipped to
Wheeling, W. Va., 350,000,
A correspondent advocates the of the establishment Point Coupee of
Banner a
cotton seed oil mill at New Orleans in
opposition to American Oil Trust. Such
a mill, he says, could purchase seed iu
Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee.
Alabama and Mississippi, which furnish
about 500,000 tons of seed annually. The
independent mill would is believed only want that about its
80,000 tons, but it
competition with the Oil Trust would
run up the price of the whole product
about $4 per ton. Oil Trust, has to pay
dividends on $40,000,000 of capital, and
could not afford the correspondent thinks,
to fight the new company to tho extent it
has heretofore done. The capital which stock
would he $250,000, a portion of
would be held by the planters, and a
profit of $1 per ton on the product,
would result in a dividend of 40 per cent.
A deplorable tragedy the took Mississippi place at
Slaughter railroad, station, in on which Ike Higgin¬
Valley shot and killed by Captain
botham was
W. B. Porter, of-Rast Feliciana. Forcer,'
Higginbotham and a number of others
were at Ripley’s store at Slaughter, nnd
had been drinking some during the even¬
ing. After a while Higginbotham left,
and went toward the water tank, at
least 150 or 201 yards distant. When
Higginbotham said he believed git ncirly would there, shoot Porter him,
lie at
and cracked away. Higginbotham turned
around nnd in the same reckless way shot
back. Three or four shots were thus
tired from each pistol, when at tho last
report of Porter’s pistol Higginbotham brain.
dropped dead with a bullet in his
Higginbotham was a grandson of John
Higginbotham, known for forty years Captain as
a devout Methodist minister.
Porter is a leading citizen of East Feli
ciuna, and was a member of the legisla
ture in 1887.
KOKTIl CAROLINA.
W. B. Crews will develop a coal mine
at Oxford.
Tho Salisbury Water Works company,
capital stock $85,000, has been incorpo¬
rated ut Salisbury.
The Salem Water Supply company of iron has
contracted for tl^e construction an
reservoir at that place.
'I he North Carolina Millstone company,
Parkwood, have purchased two eighty
horse power steel boilers and a heavy saw
mill. They will add other machinery
and arc making arrangements to build
small roller mills.
W. C. Bain, Graham, lias contracted to
build a two-story addition to the Oneida
Cotton Mills, in which about 100 plaid
looms and necessary spindles will be
placed. It will be 50x120 feet, with a
[upper room 30x50 feet.
At or near Brown's cross roads in Ran¬
dolph county, one York, white, hired a
negro man to set fire to the barn of Wil¬
liam Brown. Esq., and the negro was
caught and confessed, but not until the
barii was in ashes and two horses had
perished.
The people of Richmond county voted
down the bill for the county subscription the
0 f $100,000 to the capital stock of rail
Soutn Atlantic and Northwestern
road, which is planned to extend from
QtnithviUe on the sea coast of this state,
to Bristol, Tenn.
The Christian Brotherhood, with head
New lork city, discussing ,, .
quarters in are
the project o. establishing a ir»-1 ass
school in Hickory for the education 01
bovs and young men. I ne school would
be under Catholic management; and tli° j
buildings and grounds of Mt. purchased St. Joseph’s by
academy would probably be
the Christian Brotherhood for the pur
pose iu view. The society is backed by
large capital. ■
Recently a companv has been organized
j u Chicago for the purpose of developing
fer { a in large iron ore beds which arc
known to exist in the northwestern part
0 f North Carolina. These iron beds are
hnmense, ' and are traceable for oualitv six. eight
and , ten . miles. The* They are are of of a a quality to to . ;
justify ;„st if v the tho expenditure expenditure sLi _o£ of vast sums in !
dev 'oein'' working them. This
7' rrnv >nv was organized with a
capital '.'7'- atock ol > f two two ana and one one-half ami miiura million
* nd th * fDtire StOCk ^ ^
911 men -
!
ALABAMA.
Some ore land in Franklin was sold a
few days ago at $150 an acre. j
The strike at Day’s Gap, Walker coun¬
ty, still continues, and many miners are
leaving to hunt work elsewhere. i
A little daughter shot of Mr. David killed Powell, ■
of Dayton, was and a few
days pistol. ago by the accidental discharge of a
A piece of "old ore about the size of a
baby’s was’recently fist, found near Alexandria City
sold in New York for $22
A large amount of tliis ore has been
found in the Tallapoosa lands hills, and own
ers are holding their at a high
f; ...
There is a little negro boy about seven
y< irs; of age living wonderful near Lniontown, talent. who
seems to possess a He
can take a lump, of mud from the road
side and with his hand form any animal
be ever saw, and the representation is al
most perfect. All the proportions are
Rood.
An old woman claiming to be of
Scotch descent, and in search of land, ,
\; it.d Brew ton last week. She abruptly did !
left her hotel, on foot, and as she
no' return, she was searched for and
found across the state line in Florida, in
a demented condition. She claimed to
hurt; been robbed of $25,000. This story j
W11S not - altogether believed, but she roll was ot
seen in Brewton with a large
money, and when found she had lost it |
all.
Mr. William Atkinson, a farmer living j ;
five miles southeast of Port Deposit, had
a curiosity in the shape Although of a pig which dead, |
was well developed. living. The pig
others of the same lot are
had eight well formed legs and feet, four ! |
cars, two eyes, two tails and one head,
two of his ears coming out On top of the ;
head. Just behind its shoulders the body ;
divides, and from this point to its tail j
there are two distinct bodies fully devel
oped. 1
FLOIIIDA.
The French hark Palmier recently ar- ;
rived at Pensacola has on board a cage
containing Africa” 700 birds from tho west coast
of
Citizens of Tallahassee havo already
subscribed $27,000 in behalf of railroad
connections with the Savannah, Florida
and Western.
A forty-acre Japan persimmon grove
will lie set out by a syndicate of fruit
growers, which was organized by some
of Fort Meude’s live citizens last week.
According to tho city directory just
completed, the population of Pensacola
is now 14,220, an increase in two years of
3,648. The number of new surnames is
1,049.
Tho hotel question should certainly be
kept going in Tampa until it is built.
The men are If now in the will city buy and $8,- the j
money ready. Tampa an
000 block the hotel will start at once. i I
General Finley, the hew United States
Senator from Florida, is seventy years i old
and the hero of three wa. He v ~
ptet M, - »g p y po pilfa the rgini-fr-p ’'Srffi.&J two> it p 1
speaker, lie is originator of \
letter postage.
Thomas A. Edison, at Fort Myers, nas
entirely recovered his health, and is buz
zing around town as active and strong as
he ever was. Much to the satisfaction of
the citizens, he will soon havo the town
brilliantly lighted reticent by about electricity. his He is
so extremely and inventions that he new posi- ex- j
periments inter
tively refuses to be drawn out by
viewerr on that subiect
One of the largest purchases of , land , .
,
that has been made around Tavares lately
has been by Hon Frank Jones, of Ports
mouth, N. II., of the Seals grove and
lands connected therewith, comprising
about 110 acres. This property was
own ed by Mrs. F. J. Thomas, of Eufaula,
Ala. The land is situated on Lake Eus
tis, within the town of Tavares, and has
an attractive location, comprising about
one-half mile of lake front, Mr. Jones
announces his purpose of having the en
tire property cleared. The purchase is
valucd at $20,000. j
cKonui.v.
There are thirty-live prisoners in the
Dougherty jail.
A canning factory is reported to b«
erected at Marshallville.
J. Taliaferro and others will develop
a slate quarry at Plain ville.
A stock company has been formed at
Dalton to build a planing mill.
E. A. Fincher contemplates develop¬
ing bis black lead mine, eight miles from
Canton.
T. Tray lias bought an old laboratory
at Mucou, and will, it is said, use it for
a soap factory.
Parties at Rome contemplate erecting
a large factory to manufacture buckets,
tubs, pails, etc.
Newton county lias more available
water power than any three couuties iu
middle Georgia. 1
The Forest ville Land and Improvement !
Co., capital stock $30,000, lias been in
corporated at Forest ville
The Eureka Co., Macon, contemplates
erecting a three-storv building, 76x100
feet to be used as a soap factory. [
The Rome, Iron, Land and Improve
ment Co Kl>mc . are negotiating the location with
Xortliwestern capitalists for
of a large rollin „ miu dt that place.
Mr. T. J. Palhn. of Lowndes county.
flew was chopping tire wood, the when apiece knock- ;
up and hit him on nose,
mg him down and causing a profuse
hemorrhage.
yjv. H. Simmons, of Chokee. Lee
county, has one hundred acres of the
finest oats ever seen in the State at this
season of the year. Tho entire field is
over two feet high, and are already be
ginning to boot.
Wednesday Wednesday ’ eanasnay mgni night night of of ox last last hsi week week, wees. the the uie
commissary commissary of ’{ Mr - lr. V. yy A. Dews, lew., at Wil- tl
Hamburg, Hamburg, was was robbed robbed of of a a large large quantity quantity j
^ of merchandise, merchandise, consisting consisting of of dry dry goods goods
f nd proeeries. The burglar is employed supposed
to hare been a negro man lately
by Mr. Dews on his turpentine farm, but
who was discharged a few day* before.
TENNESSEE.
B- S. Dresden. Ioi» k. erected . t.b.cc. lee- j
tory at
A twenty thousand dollar college is to
be built at Greenbrier.
A street railroad and water works are
to v be v built at . Athens uun. wUiiin within nn one fl VO year. or
A company 1 has been formed at Chatta
- „e machines.
nooga to , manufacture f . fence rxnrr
J. P. Ferguson, Nashville,has received
the contract to build a hotel at Kingston
Springs.
A companv to build a railroad from the
Nashville and Florence railroad to West
Point has been chartered.
the , .. Hebrew , who , shot , ,
Isaac Kosenstein,
and killed Jessie Harris in Memphis, was
admitted to bail in the sum ot $o,0(J0.
parties are negotiating with Paine &
Montgomery, Dayton, for a foundry
buildin" with a view to establishing 5 a
gtove foundry. "
It said that Dr. J. __ t ... Hicks , owns a
is .
vein of .solid manganese six nine reel feet
vnde situated on the road from Bristol
t0 Llizabetiiton.
There are no vacant business or dwel
ling houses in Bristol. The population
of Bristol would have been five hundred
more than it is to-day if new-comers
could have found residences.
A one hundred thousand dollar stock
company has been organized at Athens; j
to build a cotton factory. F. B. Me
Elwee, of the Mount Verd Cotton Mills,
Athens, will be superintendent.
Tr c , , rtf
/ SSSS
in the rr.nimalcourt, rt .argedwot per
•) ur ': e e P cxa “J ea * s
to his l qualifications as a juror^ that he
was a householder, and aferward stated
} h!lt ‘"j 11 ,lls P ossesslons ln the world were
i°ur clogs.
2. shocking accident happened at the
Craighead Marble quarics Tuesday that
cost a laborer bis life. The unfortunate
man, Wash Varies, was removing some
dirt from between a large stone, and the
wall of the quarry, when the stone became
undermined so much as to cause it to
topple over and crushed tire man against
the rock wall. The man was taken out j
but soon expired. Drs. were unfortunate summoned,
but on arrival found the
man beyond medical aid.
Mississippi
Olive Branch has been carried by the
prohibitionists.
It has been discovered that the title of
100 acres of land in tho heart of the res
idence part of Meridian has never been
acquired from the government. The en
try was made aud not proven. This is
from the records at Jackson. No fears
are entertained that the title s of present
holders will be effected,
The analysis received from Binning
ham of a specimen of iron ore found at
Enterprise shows 51 per cent of iron and
only .70 of 1 per cent of phosphorus,
The assayist pronounced the specimen to
Ae a first-class ore and nearly"a bessemer'
ore. The Enterprise Mining and Furnace
company ms on g . .eiucor
j^perprisVand j. ooo'acres Meridiln The companv capital’
of land and is P
. ,
^ ’ '
The stockholders and directors of the
Mississippi State Fair Association held a
meeting at which it was determined to
hold a State fair at Jackson some time !
next fall, the date not vet being fixed.
The number of stockholders have in- ;
creased to fifteen, all of whom are first
cl cner , retic business men, and who
make a 8ucces8 of everything they under
takp It is a j 0 j llt s t OC k companv duly
; ncorporated Mn ,p. r the laws of Missis
gj . IIon Wni L Hemingway is
president of the board of directors.
The negro Alex. Crawford, who mur
dered Yic Loggins, and was captured in
Choctaw county taken to Winona,
Crowds came in from the country, and
by 10 o’clock the town was full of peo
pj e Quite a decide crowd what assembled should at the
courthouse to steps
be taken, and many of the older citizens
tried to stay summary proceedings, but
all efforts to stay the infuriated populace
were futile. Several hundred men as- ;
sc milled at the jail and by force took the
keys from the jailer and unlocked the
cell. Alex resisted, but was soon over
powered and was carried about 300 yards j
to the railroad bridge, where he was
hanged. He acknowledged that he killed
Loggins, but would give none of the de
tails. He only stated that no one was
implicated with him.
ARKAN8AS.
A company has been organized at
N*wport, to develop gold mining prop
erty near there.
A company will be organized at Van
Buren, to bore artesian wells to secure
water for fire purposes.
M. R. Denning, of Michigan, has lands pur¬
chased about 4.000 acres of coal
near Ozark, and will develop them.
The Houston, Central Arkansas &
Railroad. _ Co., stock a .
Northern capita,
$450,000, has been incorporated, to build
a railroad from near Pine Bluff to the
Louisiana State line in Ashley county,
One of the citizens of Lonoke shot in
to a gang of little school children, put
tin" a number of small shot into several
of them, and he was held over in a bond
of $400. and further bound to keep the
pea 1 ce.
The Pine Bluff Athletic . association . .
was organized with a capital stock of
$5,000. Suitable buildings for a boat
club, gymnasium, bicycle, baseball and
all athletic sport will be commenced at
once -
$50,000 lias been subscribed towards
organizing a $500,000 company at Fort
Smith to build a large cotton factory; a
$50,000 company to start a wagon fac
torv; also a $50,000 company to erect a
canning canning 0 factory. factory, *
Wednesday, Wednesday, the the Rev. Rev. John John White,col- W hue,col
ored. 0 red, born born in in South South Carolina, Carolina, and and aged aged
yjo 112 years years July July 9, 9, next, next, obtained obtained from from the the
clerk license to marry Edie bmith aged
between 65 and 75. Rev, W bite has
fan preaching 81 years. When the stars
fell lie Rad several children, and this is
known him many years and is familiar
with his history. The clerk donated his
fee and all hands congratulated him up
° n his third venture, and great expecta
tions exist in the minus of all as to re
gults IIe livea in Greenwood township.
The town ana neighborhood ° of Searcy 4
haye for weeks past beeu greatly excite
over the running at large of mad dogs.
The excitement was increased when it
became known that Mrs. Mary Pitts, a
well known lad>, hud been bitten by one
ol these rabid canines. I he animals at
tacked Mrs. Pitts and bit her 111 seveial
places, her arm and body being dread
fully lacerated. A mudstone was pro
cured and applied to the wounds. It re
maiaed upon each some time and was re
peatedly applied. This is the fourth
person who has been bitten by a mad dog
in the locality named. All of these
treated the wounds with a madstone. No
cases of hydrophobia have yet developed
but there is naturally considerable aux
i e ty among all concerned.
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ARRESTED AND JAILED.
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Mrs. Parsons, Hie FemaleAnarcliist, xtriken
a Town ami is Not Tolerated
At Columbus, O., Friday, Lucy B.
Parsons, the lecturing anarchist, was re
fused a hall by a local military, where
she proposed to speak. She called on
the mayor to protest against such action,
arid became so abusive and demonstative
that she was locked up.
When Mrs. Parsons called on the man
agement of the armory, where the speech
was to ] lave been delivered, and found
that she could not secure the aimory for
that purpose> and also that the mayor
had been requested to prevent the meet
j n g being held, she proceeded to the city
prison, and was considerably enraged at
the time. She told the mayor emphat
ically that she wanted protection at the
armory, and that she wanted his assist
ance in securing the hall, as it had been
paid for. She was informed that the
police would be sent to the armory, and
that no meeting of the character would
he held, and she proceeded to upraid him
in the name of freedom, saying that he
was a scoundrel and unfit for the position
he occupied, else he would extend the
protection time be revolution asked for; and that deal, there by would which in
a a
the working people would secure their
Shu fi^^formed the ™y°F I
that he was of little consequence, aud
and that the him meeting would beheld re
gardless of or his police protection.
In the ordered height her of her excitement the
mayor to be taken to a cell,
and refused to let any of the local sym
pathizers see her, although a number
called. Quite a crowd gathered at the
armory to attend the meeting, not know
ing that Mrs. Parsons had been arrested,
!> ut “°? belD e of lnformed . * em that a ! lo '': the ed to co . me
ln > ld S take lac T he meeting
7? not P ®- y h ^ d a s0 .f
of indignation meeting about , the , hall,
bu A £» Parsons was
niir/Vle ; free snperh-that P atei, -heVas
iu s vcnteen St and this is |
the first time she has ever been molested,
She sent the followin £ telegram:
' <A ' R ' Parsons > Coullt y Jall > Chicago:
Arrested to prevent my speaking. Am
all right. Notify press. Lucv.”
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UNDER WATER.
----
Much Da»m*« by River Overflown in Lou.
Richland and portions .
Advices , from '
Madison parish report the outlook in that
section gloomy, ihe Epps plantation is
partially submerged, and the water is
rising in the Bayou Macon at the rate of
an inch in four hours. The P«g h place, ;
on Jones bayou, is about half covered ,
with water, which is rising there at the
rate of about three inches in twenty-four
hours. The.Cunningham place, on Ten
gas river, is all submerged and the water
is rising about six inches a day. The
Gasquet place, at section five, is also
covered with water. The private levee,
built by the late Colonel Edward Rich
ardson and other planters, which is about
six miles loug and four feet deep, aud is
intended to protect the east bank of the
bayou Macon, has given away in about
twenty places above Wyleys Monticello
place. Although a general overflow is
not anticipated, there will be much dam
age done by the water coming through
the openings in the Arkansas front, also
by that coming in at Diamond island
bend, and Reid Crevasse. The news was
received from Reid Crevasse Sunday to
the effect that the United States Engineer
Corps had succeeded in protecting the !
ends of the levee, thus arresting a fur
ther cutting away of the embankment.
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BOLD ROBBERS.
A Texas Knilroad nnd Express Office Re
tiered of Over
Sunday morning the Gulf, Colorado |
and Sante Fe railroad office at Coleman,
Texas, was the scene of a “hold up,” re- i
suiting in a loss to the express and rail
road companies and employes of over i
$3,000. James .Muse, the express messen
ger, Henry Brent, the night operator, j
and had two occasion men were to in the out depot. about Muse 3:45 j
go and said: j |
o’clock, and came running back
“Some one is robbing the cars.” The ,
party started to the cars, when Brent
told Muse to run back and get something
to shoot with. Muse went back toward
the de P ot to £ et his six-shooter, when
three men jumped out from the south
door of the depot, thrust six-shooters in
his face, and told him with oaths to open
the safe. Muse opened it, and and the rob
bers got two express packages, $2,-
500 and the other $360, and another of
$60 of railroad money, and the pocket
book of Muse with $135 in it, and his
gold watch, worth $123. W hile this was
going on Brent and the yardman were up
the road a few hundred yards, at the car
which Muse saw the man get out of. and
which they found had been broken open
and a load of bran set on fire. After
SO me trouble they succeeded in putting
t jj e fire out. It is believed that the rob
a© not live far from Coleman. All
the men wore long black masks that con- ;
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1 HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.
;
.4 BRIDGE BREAKS DOWN OX THE
ROSTO V ct- PROriDEXCE R. R.
Five Ciirs r - oa,lcd w,th unman Fre,«h,
«o Down .« Destruction-Thirty-three
person* Killed and Twice as
j Many injured. appalling railroau
One of the most
accidents that has ever been experienced Providence
occurred on the Boston and
railroad last Monday. 1 he scene • . the
horror was between Rosendal • an ; or
restvih- and was caused In a dete wive
bridge tiving wav under u heavy ■ aided
passenger train. Five cars fell through
the bridge instantly killing thirty-three
persons and horribly wounding crowded many
others. The train was with
working people principally. The engi
neer, when his engine broke from the
train, kept right 011 to Forest Hill to
give the alarm instead of stopping and to
ascertain the extent of impossible' the damage,
on that account it was to get
any nssi-mneo at once. Three cars went
OV er safely with the engine, but the live
others fell to the road beneath a distant
of thirty feet. The last car, which was
u smoker, turned completely over and
struck on top of the others,
list killed.
Following is a list of killed and those
who have died of their Tiiden, injuries:
Conductor Myron Dedham,
Alice Burnett, Roslindale, aged 1G years,
W. 31. Johnson, Itosliudale, violinist;
Mrs. Ilormidias Cardinal, Roslindale;
Mr. Clapp, Central station, West Rox
bury, 31 years old; Miss Norris. West
Roxbury; Edward E. Norris, Dedham,
freight clerk of the Boston and provi¬
deuce railroad; Edgar M. Snow. Spring
Street Station, West Roxbury; Waldo B.
Lailer, police officer, Spring Street Sta
tion; Lizzie Mandeville, Dedham, Lizzie
Walton, Dedham; Williams. Strong, in
nal injuries, died after removal to the
city hospital; William E. Durham, badly
crushed, died after removal to the city
hospital; Stephen T. Hauglitou, gas fitter,
Corinth street Roslindale; Harry Gay, a
clerk, Spring street, died after removal
to the city hospital; Miss M. L. O'Diorne,
Dover, N. H., employed by Salem, Wil
der & Co., Summer street; Miss Ida
Adams, Katridge street; Miss Lizzie H.
Price, Dedham; Miss Sarah E. Ellis,
Medfield, who was stopping with friends
at West Roxbury; an unknown woman,
“bout SO years old; Albert E. Johnson, 40
years of age, employed by George II.
Morrill & Co., jewelers; Peter 8. Warren,
Central station, about 15 years old, tailor;
Emma P. Hill, 25 years of age, worked
for R. II. White & Co.; Hattie J. Dud
ley, residence unknown; Miss Laura
Price, West Roxbury; Miss Rosa Bella
Welch, 53 years of age, West Roxbury.
The remaining parties killed have not
been identified. Of these there are three
and two women at the Morgue
It is impossible to obtain any absolutely
correct account of the number of injured,
but it will reach one hundred or -ore.
Of these ^aTcrbt at leaM 6 _tw_eidy.fivc_ r< U '' ’ u
"“ ^ ‘
° “The hniises evidently
bridge gave way when
the fouith car was passing over it. The
five rear cars went through to the road
way, landing 111 a mass of splinters in the
street. The strain of tho five tailing cans
pulled the three cars in advance from the
rail. They remained on top of the em
bankment, but were pulled off their
trucks and the floor of each was forced
nearly to the roof, while seats were
j um bi e d together in great confusion,
The end of the second coach was a mass
S pR n ters,caused by a cathead grinding the
a , rainst it when the others went down
e 7 nl)ankmen t. the
The third coach was flattened to
„ roun( i as if it had fallen on its trucks
from a t height, although it remained
Qn th(J ed „ e 0 f the embankment, The
ro(j{ ol - theTourtli car also remained on
^ em b an k me nt, having evidently been
torn clear from its fastenings while the
coac j 1 WC nt through. The next four cars
wen t down in a heap, the smoker, which
was OI! the rear of the train, falling in
m ;d st 0 { tiie coaches and being actu
a j. l]nc | j nt0 splinters. The inmates
q{ tl]e smoker were a p either killed or
; n ; ure< T ’ , 10 t one escaping without injury
of gome q’ wo 0 f the coaches went
c]ear acI . oss t ], e roadway,landing against
a stouc wa n that bounded a large field at
t ^ e foot 0 f the bill. As the cars lie in
the j r p resen t location they present a pic
turc of suck a i }so lute demolition that it
secmg remarkable that any person in them
csca ped alive. of-the. jHsaaUst- k
y curious feature
f ontu j j n the fact that the entire bridge
%vent ( j own with the wreck, not leaving a
p j ece Q f scra p Ron attached to the abut
iind but f or tbe c basm and awful
wreck beneath there is nothing to indi
cate that a bridge had once spanned the
abyss. of tho dead bodies have
Twenty-seven
been identified.
AWAITING THE OBSEQUIES.
Many Tbonsnnds of Chicago’s People Wit
nc§« Xeebe’s Burial.
Extra quiet marked the burial of Airs,
Xeebe. three’ Fully hours’ forty thousand people
shivered in the bleak wind
waiting for the obsequies of the noted
anarchist’s wife to commence, and were
only awarded hv the sight of a procession
that, exceptinsize,differedonlvinafew
minor details from any ordinary funerals,
Saturdav evening the master of ceremon
ies estimated that 20,000 sympathizers
would be in line Whether’the absence
of the anarchist widower dampened the
enthusiasm or the fact the no 1 ice were
takin" extraordinary precautions to Quell
disorder, had a like effect the demen¬
gtrntion fell far short of its promoter’s
predictions. Includin" the persons in
one hundred and seventy-seven carriages
and buggies, there were probably 5.000
in the procession. The prohibition of
the red flags was scrupulously observed.
^ few banners were carried and they
wer e furled and totally hidden in black
uniform! dranino- Not *A a dozen mourners were in
sin"le band furnished the
0 nlv music in the procession. The poiice
Ee 7 were almost wholly kent out t
g signt, j„h t and anu the tne entire enure affair anair was was characw cnaracy
^ d b - T decorum,
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