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SANDERSVILLE. GA.. TUESDAY. MARCH 22. ISSl
NUMBER 47.
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NEW8 NOTES GATHERED
FROM VARIOU3 SECTIONS.
F. H, SAFFOLD,
attorney at law,
SANDERSVILLE, GA.
TENNESSEE.
U. N. Irvine 1ms erected a tobacco fac
tory at Dresden.
A twenty thousand dollar college is to
bo built at Greenbrier.
Bmithvillo on the sea coast of this stato,
to Bristol, Tcnu.
Tho Cliristian Brotliorhood, with head
quarters in New York city, are discussing
1 ho project of establishing a tlrst-class
school in Hickory for the education of
boys and young men. The school would
be under Catholic management; and the
buildings and grounds of Mt. St. Joseph's
academy would probably be purchased by
the Christian Brotherhood for the pur
pose in view. The society is backed by
large capital.
Recently a company 1ms been organised
in Chicago for tho purpose of developing
certain large iron oic beds which aro
known to exist in the northwestern part
of North Carolina. These iron beds aro
immense, and arc traceable for six, eight
and ten miles. They arc of a quality to
ARKANSAS,
A company 1ms been organized at
Newport, to develop gold mining prop
erty near there.
A street railroad and water works aro
to bo built at Athens within ono year.
»ii A company has been formed at Chntta-
Will practice in all the Courts of the nooga to manufacture fence machines.
Middle ..Circuit and in the countie. y FcrgU80M) Nashville,lms received j j, us,i f v '. hr ‘’M'™dUure of sums in
the contract to build n hotel at Kingston ! ^ olo| "”«...!'": 1 ..
Springs. . |
A company to build a railroad from tho
Nashville nnd Florence railroad to West
Point has been chartered.
Isaac Boscnsteln, the Hebrew who shot i
nnd killed Jessie Harris in Memphis, was ^
admitted to bail in the sum of $5,000.
uirro'inding Washington. Special at
t.-iitiou given to commercial law.
H. N. HOLLIFIELD
SANDERSVILLE. GA.
Ofllce next door to Sira. Da jut’s Millinery
,tori', oil ll.irri-i at reel.
HUY YOUlt
from
(None genntno without our tiailu mark.)
ON llAXI) AND FOll SALE
SPECTACLES, NOSE GLASSES, Etc., Etc.
Watches, Clocks
JEWELRY
REI’AIIIBD nv
TEiR/iTxa-jfiLisr.
A TOWN BURNED.
Hindi \
Vit.Ur
by
entire
•outli Cni’ollnii I
u llrMtractive Fire.
business portion of tho
little town of Blackville, 8. ('., was
burned Wednesday. The tire originated
in the rear of tho general merchandise
if 1’. \V. Farrell and had gained
i considerable headway before it was dis
cover d and notwithstanding, tho ctlnrts
«! the entire town to check tho tire in
• remarkably short time tho Humes had
spread to adjoining buildings, nnd in less
than half an hour almost tho entire town
mass of tlnines and at night the
other portion of the town east of the rail-
mil 'vos one mass of ashes, twenty-seven
mo ' having been consumed.
Among the buildings consumed were:
IP- W. Farrell's uiul Martin A Soil’s gen-
nil lacrehandiso store; J. L. Bu-o’s large
jhiiik grocery house; I). K. Brigg's drug
‘tore; W, A Jarrell's general stoi c; Simon
Brown’s new brick general store; Martin
Keeler’s grocery store and bar; Brown’s
livery stable and a handsome residence;
tlie large warehouse of the South Carolina
railroad; half a dozen small stores and
■tuny residences. The depot was one of
1 e few buildings in town that escaped
tmi flamib. 'i'he |o-h is estimated at
*■■’"0,000. Insurance about $30,000.
Chicago company was organized with a
capital stock of two and onc-half million
dollars, and the entire stock was taken
bv six men.
Parties are negotiating with Paine ft
Montgomery, Dayton, for a foundry
building with a viow to establishing a
stove foundry.
FLORIDA.
Tho French bark Palmier, recently ar
rived at Ponsacola, has on boaid a cage
containing 700 birds from tho wu,t coast
of Africa.
A company will be organized nt Van
Buren, to boro artesian wells to secure
water for tire purposes.
M It. Denning, of Michigan, 1ms •pur
chased about 4,000 acres of coal lauds
near Ozark, and will develop them.
The Houston, Central Arkansas ft
Northern Railroad Co., capital stock
$4&0,U00, has been incorporated, to build
a railroad from near Pino Bluff to the
Louisiana State linn in Ashley county.
One of the citizens of Lonoke shot in
to a gang of little school children, put
ting a number of small shot into several
of them, and lie was held over in a bond
of $401), nnd further bound to keep tiie
pence.
The Pino HlulT Athletic association
was organized with a capitnl stock of
$5,000, Suitable buildings for a boat
club, gymnasium, bicycle, baseball nnd
all athletic sport will be commenced nt
once.
A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT,
A UKlDOE 1IKEAKS DOWN ON TIIE
UOSTON «C PROVIDENCE It. 11.
ARRESTED AND JAILED.
TIRED OF BEING INSANE.
Mrs. Parsons,iln> Frmnle Anarchist,Strikes
a Town mid la Not Tolerated,
Tt Is said tlmt Dr. J. F. Hicks owns a
vein of solid manganese six hundred feet
wide, situated on tho road from Bristol
to Eliziibothton.
There aro no vacant business or dwel
ling houses in Bristol. Tho population
of Bristol would have been live hundred
morn than it is to-day if new-coinors
could linvo found residences.
A ono hundred thousand dollar stock
company lias been organized at Athens
to build a cotton factory. F. B. Mc-
Klwee, of tho Mount Vcrd Cotton Mills,
Athens, will be superintendent.
V. 1 r. Staples, one of tlio jurors in the
late Goodwin ease in Memphis, is on trial
in the criminal court, charged with per
jury. lie swore when being examined as
to iiis qualifications as a juror that ho
was a householder, and a/tor ward stated
that ail his possessions in tho world were
four dogs.
A shocking accident happened nt the
Craighead Marble queries Tuesday that
cost a laborer his life. Tho unfortunato
man, Wash Yarks, was removing some
dirt from between a large stone, mid tho
u all of the quarry, when the stone became
undermined so much us to muse it to
topple over and crushed the man against
the rock wall. The man was taken out
but soon expired. Drs. were summoned,
but on arrival found tho unfortunate
man beyond'medical aid
Citizens of Tallahassee hnvo already
subscribed $27,000 in behalf of railroad
connections with tho Savannah, Florida
nnd Western.
A forty-acre Japan persimmon grove
will bo set out by a syndicate of fruit
growers, which was organized by some
of Fort Meade’s live citizens lust week.
According to tho city directory just
completed, tho population of Pensacola
is now 14,220, ail iucreaso in two years of
11,048. Tho number of new surnames is
1,040.
Tho hotel question should certainly ha
kept going in Tampa until it is built.
The moil are now in tho city and tho
money ready. If Tampa will buy an $8,-
000 block the hotel will start at onco.
Dong
TIIEi iiiurUk BUSINESS.
Hio Cnllon'i-ril Oil Mill* Co »<’ llullt, Con
trary Kciioru Noinlllintniiillnil-
flu 1 Baltimore Manufacturers’ Record
dulrs ili it it is officially authorize ! to
'iiiiionn;,. Unit new cotton ho.-d oil
mills ah mt which there lias been ineuh
ui ciis-ioi, w ill positively be built, all re-
l m i'ls to the contrary notwithstanding,
jl' iiry (’. Butcher, of Philadelphia, pres-
""‘I't of the Southern Cotton Seed Oil
foni|tanv, tclogi aplis the Manufacturers’
Ueeor.l as follows:
"You can assure tho press and people
'4 the S-mtli that this company moans
biisim-KH in its broadest sense. We have
lulirii hut one position since the start and
! V, H maintain it. We have all the funds
'u hand necessary to accomplish our pur-
l'°se and have no favors to ask oil that,
■'cnre. Our company proposes to build
“''Is at the most desirable points us fast
»the machinery can be turned out nnd
,l) into business on u purely legitimate
mercantile- basis and devolop it as it
he. Large contracts for machinery
“vo already been closed, and the work
Building the mills will proceed as
,1 l’"H.v as possible. Tho mills will be of
11,1 less than 150 tons capacity per
"city four hours.
ic are lliirty-tivo prisoners iu tho
terty jail.
A canning factory is reported to be
.■reeled at Murshallville.
J. Taliaferro and others will develop
a slate quarry nt l’luinville.
A stock company has been formed at
Dalton to build a planing mill.
E. A. Fincher contemplates develop
ing ids black lead mine, eight miles from
Canton,
T. Tray lias bought an old laboratory
at .Macon, and will, it is said, use it for
a soap factory.
Parties at Romo contemplate erecting
a large factory to manufacture buckets,
lulls, pails, etc.
available
Newton county inis more
General Finley, the new United States
Senator from Florida, is seventy years old
and tho hero of three wars, lie is very
pious, very popular and a powerful stump
spanker, lie is tho originator of two-cent
letter postage.
Thomas A. Edison, at Fort Myers, 1ms
entirely recovered his health, and is buz
zing around town as nctivo and strong ns
he ever was. Much to the satisfaction of
tiie citizens, he will soon have the town
brilliantly lighted by electricity. lie is
so extremely reticent about his now ex
periments and inventions that he posi
tively refuses to bo drawn out by inter-
viewerr on that subject,
Ono of tho largest purchases of land
that has been made around Tavares lately
luis been by Hon Frnr.k Jones, of Ports
mouth, N. II., of tho Seals grove nnd
lands connected therewith, comprising
about 110 ncrcs. This property was
owned by Mrs. F. J. Thomas, of Eufauln,
Ala. The land is situated on Lake Eus-
tis, within tho town of Tavares, nud has
an attractive location, comprising about
one-half mile of lake front. Mr. Jones
announces his purpose of having tho en
tire property cleared. Tho purchase is
valued nt $20,000.
About live or six miles from Baldwin
there lived an old lady who, wlmn alio
was about to die, tnado her children
proniiso to never put her under tiie
ground. She told them if they did she
would conic back and haunt them. They
faithfully complied with her commands.
They made a plain eollin out of the Flor
ida heart pine; carried her to the grave
yard nnd placed tho coffin east and west
$30,000 has been subscribed towards i
organizing a $500,000 company nt Fort
Smith to build a large cotton factory; a
$30,000 company to start a wagon fac
tory ; also a $50,000 company to erect a
canning factory.
Wed icsday, tho Rev. Joliu White,col
ored, horn in South Carolina, and aged
112 years July 0, next, obtained from the
clerk license to marry Edie Smith, aged
between 05 and 75. Rev. \\ liito lias
been preaching 81 years. When the stars
fell he had several children, nnd thin is
his third wife. His age was duly attest
ed by a responsible white person, who lias
known him many years and is familiar
with his history. Thu clerk donated his
fee and all hands congratulated him up
on his third venture, and great expecta
tions exist in tho minds of all as to re
sults. Hu lives iu Groonwood township.
Tho town nnd neighborhood of Searcy
have for weeks past been greatly excited
over the running at large of mad dogs.
The excitement was increased when it
became known that Mrs. Mary l’itts, a
well known lady, had been bitten by ono
of these rabid canines. Tho animals at
tack. d Mrs. Pitts and bit her in scvcrnl
places, her arm and ho ly being dread
fully lacerated. A mudstone was pro
cured and applied to the wounds. It re
mained upon each some time and was re
peatedly applied. 'I his is tho fourth
person who has been bitten by a mad dog
in the locality named. All of these
treated the wounds with a mudstone. No
cases of hydrophobia have yet developed
but there is naturally considerable anx
iety among all concerned.
l.Ot’ISIANA.
George W. Bennett will erect a broom
factory at Chcncyvillc.
The New Orleans Elevated Ruilway
company contemplate beginning work on
their road shortly.
, i,n top of the ground, and built a good
water power than any three com.ties in i og p 0n over her, where tho writer saw
middle Georgia. her after about thirty years in this posi-
Tlio Forestvilie Land and Improvement
Co., capital sti ck $30,000, lias been in
corporated at Forest vilio.
The Eureka Co., Macon, contemplates
erecting a three-story building, 70x100
feet to be used in a soup factory.
The Rome, Iron, Laud and Improve
ment Co., Romo, arc negotiating with
Northwestern capitalists for tho location
f a large rolling mill at that place.
Mr. T. J. Pal I in, of Lowndes county,
was chopping lire wood, when a piece
Hew up and hit him on the nose, knock
ing him down and causing a profuse
hemorrhage.
Mr. II. Simmons, of Chokco, Loo
countv, lias one hundred acres of tho
lincst‘oats ever seeu in the State at this
season of tho year. The eutirc field is
ver two foci high, and are already be.
inning to boot.
Wednesday night of last week, the
commissary of Mr. W. W. Dews, at Wil-
imnlmr"', was robbed of a large quantity
of merchandise, consisting of dry goods
and groceries. Tho burglar is supposed
to have been a negro man lately employed
bv Mr Dews on his turpentine farm, Imt
- ' discharged a few days before.
"VA |( IJIIOI SE BUHNER.
The
i ^yU’auiu railroad, was burned on
‘'"'day morning, about seventy barrels
a resi. 1 ,....T .. . ,
, J 08 . 1 '. 1 a,| d ten tons of guano being con
111 the conflagration. The rosin
Jed to Mr. R. Eastman and the
; ® 1(1 -Mr. Z. M. Ziegler. Tho house
' -4 11 Beni a small fire that 11.negro had
"in the ground near by. There
ii'iVii’ 1 L ’if4lit ear standing on the track
10 platlorm, which would also have
j,, ''Mroyed by the flames had it not
vl Ziegler’s daughter, who re-
"-d die chocks from the wheels and
the ear li ving safely to the other end
1 "ic switch
tion. That was nearly ton years ago.
Tho littlo house was in a good state of
preservation, so was-tho coffin, hut curi
ous pcoplo had forced the lid oil to sco
tho condition of tho body. Most of the
Body had decayed, but some parts were
in a natural position. Her descendants
mot some two years ago and repaired tho
place.
Sheriff C'ook, of St. Tammany, icports
that tho polecats are killing the hogs,
sheep mill cattle in his neighborhood.
Tlih Petroleum Prospecting company,
capital stock $2,000, has been incorpo
rated at New Orleans by B. F. Hitchcock
and others.
A statement has been made in several
papers of the state that Governor Mc-
Euorv is a native of Virginia. This is
an error. He is a Louisianian, horn in
tho city of Monroe.
by tiie
MISSISSIPPI.
Olivo Branch has been carried
prohibitionists.
ft has been discovered that tho title of
iviO acres of land in the heart of the res
idence part of Meridian has never been
acquired from tho government. The en
try wns made and not proven. This is
from the records at Jackson. No fears
»ro entertained that the titles of present
Holders will be effected.
who was
, , where it ran off. There
110 '"surance upon the warehouse.
' defective trestle.
Tile
(jin,a onaine and tender of the east
.““M morning train on
! 0 I„ , mu 11 on the Marietta,
esdiiv " IS Northern railroad Wcd-
u.,,1 through Vincent trestle,
j‘ ClmU » from Marietta, Ohio.
j.,. . duunuttu, vsmu. hylic
nit « " ail, l Albert Bootliby; engineer
0 V iMu! 1 - 1 ' VL ' I '° kille ‘ 1 ' 11,1(1 Mc-
r „a. " '* ffliam Stewart, conductor and
were badly scalded. Miclme'
'I,... hsssenger.had his left leir mashed
V ’'"finger,had hiw left leg mashed.
|U ^ n<! owl been shifting at tho stn
'as hacking to hitch to the
il tl'i,.",' 10 " Became derailed nnd ran
■estle, knocking it down,
NORTH CAROLINA.
W. B. Crews will develop a coal mine
at Oxford.
The Salisbury Water Works company,
capital stock $85,000, lias been incorpo
rated at Salisbury.
The Salem Water Supply company has
contracted for the construction of an iron
reservoir ut tlint place.
q hc N orth Carolina Millstone company,
Parkwood, have purchased two eighty
ho se newer steel boilers and a heavy saw
mid They will add other machinery
and aro making arrangements to bn,Id
small roller nulls.
w.aii^a«te!r“S5Sfii£
1 ud i two-story addition to tho Oneida
n Ann Mills iu which about 100 plaid
Cotton Mi Is, B nindles will he
looms and feet, with a
At or near Brown’s cross roads 111 Ran-
one York, white, hired a
dolph ^g’Jflra'to'tho barn of Wil-
Tbc analysis received from Birming
ham of a specimen of iron ire found at
Enterprise shows 51 per cent of iro■ 1 and
only .70 of 1 per cent of phosphorus.
The assayist pronounced the specimen to
or a first-class ore and nearly a hessemer
ore. Tho Enterprise Mining and Furnace
’ompauy lias been organized. The incor
porators are from New Orleans, Mobile,
Enterprise and Meridian. The company
owns 0,000 acres of land, ami is capital
ized at $750,000.
The stockholders and directors of tho
Mississippi State Fair Association held a
meeting at winch it was determined to
hold a State fair at Jackson some time
next fall, the date not yet being fixed.
The number of stockholders have in
creased to fifteen, all of whom are first-
class, energetic business men, and who
make a success of everything they under
take. It is a joint stock company duly
incorporated under the laws of Missis
sippi. Hon. W111. L. Hemingway is
president of the board of directors.
negro man - --- mul tho „ e gro was
Horn Brown, Ls<U e( , )ut not uut ;i the
caught and^ d two horses had
bam was in
perished.
of Richmond county voted
rho A’ . 11 for the county subscription
down tho bill for the county
8 ° UtU whichAs planned to extend from
-end
The negro Alex. Crawford, who mur
dered Vic Loggins, was captured in
Choctaw county and taken to Winona.
Crowds came in from tho country, nnd
by 10 o’clock tho town was full of peo
ple. Quite a crowd assemblod at tho
courthouse to decide what steps should
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
sembled at tho j dl and by force took the
keys from tho jailer nnd unlocked tho
cell. Alex resisted, but was soon over
powered and was carried about 800 yards
to the railroad bridge, whore he was
hanged. Ho acknowledged that ho killed
Loggins, but would give none of tho de
tails. IIo only stated that 110 ono was
implicated with him.
Tho St. Tammany Farmer says that a
large force of men will bo put to work on
the l’oituvent railroad in a few days, unil
that the road will bo finished to Abita
springs by June 1.
The Cypress Shingle and Lumber com
pany, capital stock $80,000, has been in
corporated at Pluqueiuiue to manufacture
shingles, lumber,ftc. S. I). Carpenter is
prtsident and treasurer.
The Kaufman Fibre nnd Manufacturing
Co., capital stock $1,000,000, has been
organized at New Orleans to manufacture
machinery for decorticating ramie, jute,
ftc., to decorticate and treat ramio and
jute fibre by the Kaufman process nnd to
encourage the culivntion of fibrous plants.
Messrs. Thompson and Compton, of
Texas plantation, Ibeivillo parish, have
erected upon their premises a substantial
saw and shingle mill, nnd linvc just en
tered into a contract to furnish 10,000,-
000 shingles to Cameron, of Wnco, Texas.
On the '25tli ultimo they shipped to
hingics.
Wheeling, W. Vn., 850,000, siting
A correspondent of tho Point Coupee
Banner advocates the establishment of a
cotton seed oil mill at New Orleans in
opposition to American Oil Trust. Such
a mill, he says, could purchase seed in
Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee.
Alabama and Mississippi, which furnish
about 500,000 tons of seed annually. Tho
independent mill would only want nbout
80,000 tons, but it is believed that its
competition with the Oil Trust would
run up tiie price of tiie wholo product
about $1 per ton. Oil Trust hns to pay
dividends on $40,000,000 of capitnl, and
could not afford the correspondent thinks,
to fight the now company to the extent it
has heretofore done. The capital stock
would be $250,000, a portion of which
would be held by tho planters, anil a
profit of $4 per ’ ton on the product,
would result in u dividend of 40 per cent.
A deplorable tragedy took place at
Slaughter station, on the Mississippi
Valley railroad, in which Iko Higgin
botham was shot and killed by Captain
\V. B. Porter, of East Feliciana. Porter,
Higginbotham and a number of others
were at Ripley’s store at Slaughter, and
had been drinking some during the even
ing. After a while Higginbotham left
nnd went toward the water tank, at
least 150 or 20J yards distant. When
Higginbotham g< t ne irly there, Porter
said he believed he would shoot at him,
and cracked away. Higginbotham turned
around and in tho same reckless way shot
back. Three or four shots were thus
fired from each pistol, when nt the last
report of Porter’s pistol Higginbotham
dropped dead with a bullet in his brain.
Higginbotham was a grandson of John
Higginbotham, known for forty years as
a devout Methodist minister. Captain
Porter is a leading citizen of East Feli-
cinno, and was a member of the legisla
ture in 1887.
l-'lvo t’nrn I.nndml Willi llnmnn Frclaht
(•o Down 10 Dontruciltin—Thlrty-tliroo
Pemona Killed nnd Twice a*
31nny Injured.
One of tho most appalling railroad
accidents that lias ever been experienced
occurred on the Boston nnd Providence
railroad last Monday. The scone of the
horror was between Rosendnlo nud For-
j restvillo nnd was caused by a defective
bridge giving way under a heavy loniled
I passenger troth. Five cars fell through
i tho hridgo instantly killing thirty-three
j persons and horribly wounding nnny
I others. Tho train was crowded with
1 working people principally. The engi-
i ncor, when liis engine broke'from the
train, kept right on to Forest Hill to
give tho alarm instead of stopping to
ascertain the extent of the damage, and
on that account it was impossible to get
nny assistance at once. Three enrs went
over safely with the engine, but. tho live
others lull to the road beneath a distance
of thirty foot. Tho last car, which was
a smoker, turned completely over nnd
struck on top of the others.
list killed.
Following is a list of killed nnd those
who have died of their injuries;
Conductor Myron Tiiden, Dedhnm,
Alice Burnett, Roslindule, aged 1(1 years,
IV. M. Johnson, Roslindule, violinist;
Mrs. llormidias Cardinal, Rnaliudnlo;
Mr. Clapp, Central station, West Rox-
bury, 21 years old; Miss Norris, West
Roxlmry; Edward E. Norris, Dodh nn,
freight clerk of tho Boston nnd provi
dence railroad; Edgar M. Snow, Spring
Street Station, V\ est Roxlmry; Waldo B.
Luiler, police officer, Spring Street Sta
tion; Li/./.lo Mundcville, Dedham, Lizzlo
Walton, Dedhnm; William S. Strong, in-
nnl injuries, died alter removal to tho
city hospital; W illiam E. Durham, badly
crushed, died after removal to the city
hospital; Stephen T. llaughton, gas fitter,
Corinth street Roslindule; Harry Guy, a
clerk, Spring street, died after removal
to the city hospital; Miss M. L. O’Diorne,
Dover, N. II., employed by Salem, Wil
der ft Co., Summer street; Miss Ida
Adams, Knlridge street; Miss Lizzie IL
Price, Dedham; Miss Sarah E Ellis,
Med Hold, who was stopping with friends
at West Roxlmry; an unknown woman,
about 80 years old’ Albert E. Johnson, 40
years of age, employed by George II.
Morrill ft Co., jewelers; Peter S. Warren,
Central station, about 15 years old, tailor;
Emma P. 11111, 25 years of age, worked
for R. II White ft Go.; Hattie J. Dud
ley, residence unknown; Miss Laura
Price. West Roxbury; Miss Rosa llella
Welch, 58 years of age, West Roxlmry.
Tho remaining parties killed have not
boon idcntilb d. Of these there are three
men and two women at tiie Morgue.
It is impossible to obtain any absolutely
correct account of the number of injured,
but it will reach ono hundred or more.
Of tlicso at least twentydlve are (piilc
badly hurt, and tho remainder received
only slight bruises.
The bridge evidently gave way when
the fouith car was passing over it. Tho
live rear cars went through to tho road
way landing in a mass of splinters in the
street. Thu strain of the live falling cars
pulled the three cars iu advance from tho
rail. They remained on top of the cm
binkinent, but were pulled off their
trucks and the floor of each was forced
nearly to the roof, while seats were
jumbled together in great confusion.
The end of the second conch was a mass
of splinters,caused by a carhead grindin
against it when the others went down the
embankment.
The third conch was flattened to the
ground as if it had fallen on its trucks
from n great height, although it remained
on the edge of the embankment. The
roof of the fourth car also remained on
tho embankment, 1 laving evidently been
torn eiear from its fastenings while the
conch went through. The next four ears
went down iu a heap, the smoker, which
was on tho rear of the train, falling in
the midst of tho conches and being actu
ally ground into splinters. The inmates
of the smoker were all either killed or
injured, not one escaping without injury
of some kind. Two of the conches went
clear across ilio roadway,landing against
a stone wall that hounded a largo field nt
the foot of the hill. As the cars lio in
their present location tiiey present a pic
ture of such absolute demolition that it.
seems remarkable that any person in them
escaped alive.
A urious feature of the disaster is
found in the fact that the entire bridge
went down with the wreck, not leaving a
piece of scrap iron attached to the abut
ments, and but for the chasm nnd awful
wreck beneath there is nothing to indi
cate that a bridge had once spanned the
abyss.
Twenty-seven of tho dead bodies have
been identified.
At Columbus, O., Friday, Lucy B,
Parsons, the lecturing anarchist, was re
fused a hall by a local military, whero
she proposed to speak. She called 011
the mayor to protest against such notion,
and became so abusive nnd dcinonstntivo
that slio was locked up.
When Sirs. Parsons called on tho man
agement of the armory, where the speech
was to have been delivered, and found
that she could not secure the aimory for
that purpose, and also that tho mayor
lugl been requested to prevont the meet
ing being held, she proceeded to the city
prison, and was considerably enraged nt
the time. She told tho mayor ompliat- 1
icnlly that she wanted protection nt tho
armory, and that she wanted his nssist-
nnec in securing the hall, as it had been
paid for. She was informed that the
police would ho sent to tho armory, and
that no meeting of the character would
bo held, nnd she proceeded to uprnkl him
in tho mime of freedom, saying that I10
w.is a scoundrel mid unlit for tho position
he occupied, else lie would extend tho
protection asked for; that there would in
time bo a revolution nnd a deal, by which
tho working people would secure their
rights. She finally informod tho mayor
that lie was of littlo consequence, nnd
and that the meeting would ho held re
gardless of him or his police protection.
In the height of her excitement tho
mayor ordered her to be taken to a cell,
nnd refused to let any of tho local sym
pathizers sec her, although a number
called. Quite a crowd gathered nt tho
armory to attend the meeting, not know
ing that Mrs. Parsons had boon arrested,
but none of them were allowed to come
in, being informed thut the meeting
would not take place. They held a sort
of indignation meeting about the hall,
but soon dispersed. Mrs. Parsons war
seen in her cell, nud stnted that this tin
effort to muzzle free speech; that she hat
lectured in seventeen States, ami this'is
the first time she lias ever been molested.
She sent the following telegram:
“A. R. Parsons; County Jail, Chicago'
Arrested to prevent my speaking. Am
all right. Notify press. Lucy."
Jansen, the Wife Murlunr, Riven la 'and ■
and Aelu for a Warm Jlcnl.
Henry Jansen, of .Chicngo,who was*'re
cently sent to Joliet for life, for the
brutal murder of his-wife, has been con
fined in the crank cell nt tho prison ever
since his arrival, constantly under the
eye of a doctor. Jansen stood it for thir
teen days. Tuesday last hc fell upon his
knees nnd begged for something warm to
cat, saying:
“My blood is so cold. Give mo a warm
meal.”
A few questions from tho physician
caused Jansen to confess everything and
own' up that I10 was not insnne. Hc stated
that I10 had not meant to kill his wife,
but that when tho fearful deed was dotv
his only thought was to snvo himself by
playing the insane dodge and possibly ho
might escape the penalty of hanging.
After his conviction nnd sentence to the
penitentiary he determined to keep up
the iden, thinking that possibly he might
be transferred to nn insane asylum,where
ho would be better treated and from
which ho might make his escape, but tho
mcdicino and diet I10 had been forced to
live on was too much. Jansen fairly
danced and shod tenrsof joy when a bowl
of hot coffco and somo warm incat nnd
potatoes were given him. IIo will be
placed in tho prison shop tomorrow
morning and ho rnado to labor.
BOLD ROBBERS.
AWAITING THE OBSEQUIES.
Jinny Tlior.nniiils of Clilrmo'a Pitoplo Wit.
rrai Airs. Nm-liu'a llnrlnl.
Extra quiet marked the burial of Mrs.
Necbe. Fully forty thousand people
shivered three hours in tho bleak wind
waiting for the obsequios of tho noiod
iinnrchist's wife to commence, and were
only awarded by tho sight of a procession
tlmt, except in size,differed only in a few
minor details from any ordinnry funerals.
Saturday evening tho master of corcmon-
les estimated that 20,000 sympathizers
would bo in line. Whether tho absence
of the anarchist widower dampened tho
enthusiasm, or the fact tho polico were
taking extraordinary precautions to quell
disorder, had n like effect, tho demon
stration fell fnr short of its promoter’s
predictions. Including the persons in
one hundred nnd seventy-seven enrringes
nml buggies, there were probably 5,000
in the procession. Tho prohibition of
the red flags was scrupulously observed.
A few banners were carried nnd they
were furled and totally hidden in black
draping. Not n dozen mourners were in
uniform. A single baud furnished the
only music in the procession. Tho polico-
mcn were almost wholly kept out of
sight, and tho entire nffnirwns character
ized by sombre decorum.
A Texas llnllronil nml Express Ofllce He*
llevcil of Over 93,000. ,
Sunday morning tho Gulf, Colorado
nnd Sante Fe railroad office at Coleman,
Texas, was the scene of a “hold up," re
sulting in n loss to the express and rail
road compnnics nnd employes of over
$8,000. Jiimcs Muse, tho express messen
ger, Ilenry Drcut, 1 ho night operator,
and two men were iu tho depot. Muse
hud occasion to go out about 8:45
o'clock, and came running back nnd said:
“Somo ono is robbing tho cars.” Tho
party started to tho cars, when Brent
told Muse to run hack and get something
t back toward
A DEAD OFFICIALS BOOKS.
A Doiid l'hiliul«l|»hlti Oincliil l'r«T«n lo be
u Drfuiiltcr.
THE FLORIDA CIGAR MAKERS,
A Report of Tholr Work 31 ado
City.
Tho Central Labor union, at its meet
ing Saturday in Clarendon ball, in East
Thirteenth street N. Y., elected a new
set of officers. The cignrmakers called
attention to a dispatch from Key West,
relative to the adventures of Ramon Ru-
biern in Florida. Mr. Rubiern is secre
tary nnd organizer of the Cuban confed
eration of cignrmakers in this city, editor
of L i Republics, and delegate to the
Central Labor union. IIo went to Flor
ida ostensibly to settle the difficulties of
the cigar manufacturing firm of Ybor ft
Banehczly. Ilayn, with its employes,
but really to organize the cignrmakers in
Florida. The Central Labor union
adopted resolutions that the proceedings
of the board of trade at Tampa bet,ays a
desire to procipitnto a class conlliet in this
republic in that tho expelled citizens
were informed that tho only cause of
their expulsion was their action in con
nection with the labor organization.
There is also a story to the effect that the
Spanish consul offered the board of trade
$50,000 to have the expelled men, who
are all Cuban revolutionists, put aboard
A considerable sensation was caused by
tho rumor that Newman Koitlier, who has
been registrar of the water department of
Philadelphia, Pa , for several years, and
who died on the lid instant, Imd been
found to he a defaulter. Keithor had
been in the public service about nino
years, the major portion of this time in
the water department as registrar, where
ho handled upward of $2,000,000 per
year. When an examination of his books
was had, after his death, it was found
tlmt live large firms, whoso water rent
amount to something Who $8,000 each,
had not been credited with payments as
they should have been mndo. Investi
gation revealed the fact that one of these
firms had paid Keithor $4,200 in'two
checks, one of which, for $751, lie had
placed in the money drawer and taken
that sum in cash therefrom, while the
other, for $3,449 he had deposited to the
credit of his individual account at his
banking house. Those fn charge of tho
investigation decline to my anything in
regard to tiie oilier four firms whose tax
appears on the books as unpaid.
to shoot with. Miibu went 1
tho depot to get his six-shooter, when
tlirco men jumped out from tho south
door of tho depot, thrust six-shooters in
his face, nud told him with oaths to open
the safe. Muse opened it, nnd the rob
bers got two express packages, and $2,- '
500 nnd the other $300, nnd another of
$00 of railroad money, and tho pocket
book of Muse with $135 iu it, nnd hie
gold watch, wortli $125. While this was
going on Brent and the yardman wore up
tho road a few hundred yards, at tho car
which Mtiso saw the man get out of, and
which they found had been broken open
nnd n load of bran set on tire. After
some trouble they succeeded in nuttingf
the tiro out. It is believed thnt the rob
bers do not live far from Coleman. All
tho tnon woro long black masks that con
cealed their faces.
UNDER WATER.
Much Ilnmniiu by Hirer Overflows In Ias*
Islnnn.
Advices from Richland nnd portions of
Mndison pnrisli report tho outlook in that
section gloomy. The Epps plantation ie
partially submerged, ami tho water ie
rising in the Bayou Macon at tho rato of
an inch in four hours. Tho I’ugli place,
on Jones bayou, is about half covered
with water, which is rising there nt tho
rnto of nbout three inches iu twenty-four
hours. The Cunningham place, ou Ten
sas river, is all submerged and the water
is rising about six inches a day. Tho
Gnsquet place, nt section live, is nlso
covered with wuter. The private leyeo,
built by .the late Colonel Edward Rich
ardson nud other planters, which is about
six miles long'aun four feet deep, and ia
intended to protect the eust bank of tho
bayou Macon, 1ms given away in about
twenty places above' AVyloys Monticello
place. Although u general overflow is
not anticipated, there will be much dnm-
nge dope by the water coming through
the openings in tho Arkansas front, also
by that coming in at Diamond island
bcud, and Reid Crevasse. Tho ncwB was
reccivod from Reid Crevasse Sunday to
the effect thnt tho United States Engineer
Corps lmd succeeded in protecting the
ends of the loveo, thus arresting a fur
ther cutting away of tho embankment.
VINCENT CAUGHT.
Ike Vincent tho Defaulting Treasurer I®
Jail.
A YOUNG MURDERER.
A Iloy or Twelve Kill. « Whole Family In
Kentucky.
Nows 1ms been received from a ionoly
farming community on Cat’s Fork, Law
rence. county Ky„ of a terrible tragedy.
Samuel Smith, aged twelve, who had
some difficulty with a neighbor, Stephen
llammond, Tuesday armed himself witli
a revolver and went over to Hammond’s,
following him into the house. Hammond
then readied for his rifle,‘Hiut Smith tired
and killed him. Hammond’s wife and
children, a boy and girl, attacked tho
murderer, but he sooil fatally wounded
Mrs. Hammond, and us tiie children at
tempted to escape ho filled them both
with balls. lie fled to tho mountains
and lias not yet boon caught. Mrs.
Hammond will die nnd tho children mny
not recover. It was hours after the
neighbors came, attracted by the cries of
tho boy.
A special from Montgomery, Alabama, • ‘
brings the information of tho arrest of
Ike H. Vincent, Alabama’s defaulting
Stato Treasurer, which was effected at
Big Sandy Wood Co., Texas. Most very
body is conversant with the story »f hu
suddcnHeavo taking on the 20tti o Jan
uary 1888, while serving his third term
as state treasurer.
The arrest was not due to any clover,
detective work but is to be attributed to
a mere accident. Mr. E. C. Ray now ft
deputy sheriff of Wood county Texas,•
but who formerly resided in Randolph
couniy Ala., and who hod known Vincent
for many years previous to his defalcation
was ihe one to make the arrest. Thirty
tw-o indictments hang over tho unfortu
nate man. Mr. Ray delivered liis prisoner
to the sheriff of Montgomery county, and
taking his receipt for him went and re
ceived from Governor Seay the reward
of five thousand dollars.
Vincent decliucs to talk about his fu
ture prospects. Ablo counsel have been
employed to defend him.
IRON BRIDGE WORKS.
Another Industry Roina to Iioeat. la
Ilecntur, Alabamn.
FIRES IN BRUNSWICK «A.
At Brunswick Ga., last Monday night
nt 12 o’clock, a fire occurred cle-
troying A. E. Wenz, D. . J.
Dillon and P. P. Halzendrof’s build
ings on Buy street, nnd at 0 o’clock Tues
day morning two stores in the Kaiser
are an v,u u nu revu.uuuu.^,, — Wock, occupied by Glover ft Dunn and
the Spanish gunboat iu the vicinity of, Lloyd ft Adams, were burned. The total
Key West. This seems remarkably im- , loss is. about $25,000, insurance $18,000.
probable, but the Central Labor union A cigar box full of holies were found in
calls tho attention of tho United States
authorities to it, and desire that pcaco be
preserved in Florida.
the debris of the Wenz building, sup
posed to be tho remains of Albert Lof-
rauco, formerly of Elmira, New York,
A large and very important contract
lias been made by the Decatur, Alabama,
Land Improvement and Furnace com-
'piiny, by which capitalists from Chicago
and Birmingham agree to erect at that
place a manufactory for tho purpose of
mnkiug all kinds of bridge iron, eto.
The company has just been incorporated
and expect to lmvj their works in full
operation within four months. They
have a cash capital of $100,000, all tho
stock being tukeu by parties in Chicago
and Biimin-ham. This industry from
the start will give employment to from
150 to 200 skilled laborers, an early in
crease in the capacity of the works i$
contemplated.