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About The Conyers weekly. (Conyers, Ga.) 18??-1888 | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1887)
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A body c „)• ;i ,i; , mob on St. land. Stones and other missiles were to Great Britian, and took out her first papers citizen declaring her intention to become a of the United States. killed in the Vulcan osnsss, tit NotWay, mine Mich. They were coming out of the mine in a cage. Some men above allowed the tram-car to get away, and it went thundering the down the shaft and struck cage. Laflin & Rand’s nowdermill atWavne Tier;’aS«fiSjSS N J exploded instantly y <i?^ killing Charles August iv arouse, married about nine months ago, was near the mill and has not been seen since. He is undoubtedly killed. James H. Garner, foreman, wag attack on the head with a missile, but will recover, Several men were slightly injured. Sigs. Baccelli and Boughi, ex-ministers d public instruction, will present in in the Chamber of Deputies, at Rome, Italy, of a bill providing for the preservation ancient Roman remains in the vicinity of the Forum, the Baths o C iracalla and the Via Appa by means of an archaeological promenade inclosing ! h 2J* The ,estimated cost of the work is $8,00u,<nn/. . A LUNATIC’S WORK. He Gee* To A Field And Kill* A Man At Work. iTeriah H., sSp of Job Lewis, living near Franklin, Ky., a young man, 30 year* of age, has shown signs of derange¬ ment for the past four years, though not thought to be dangerous. Recently, he mounted his horse and armed with two Navy pistols, rode into town, rema’ning only a short while. He started in the direction of William Roach’s farm, and on leaching his field, in which his of two sons were resting he slipped under the from shade behind a straw Shd fired, stack, John up Roach, about shooting of a in young the man twenty years age, of back. He jumped and ran a distance about one hundred and thirty yards, and fell dead. Lewis continued to fire on the fleeting brother, one ball sheriff passing through his clothing. The was at once notified, and with a squad the of men, hastened to the scene. In meantime, Lewis had repaired to the home of his father, saying he would not surrender, and when the sheriff’s posse arrived, he opened fire upon them, which they returned. They were held at bay some hours before they heard a pistol shot in the house, followed by groans as coming from a dying man. They entered and found him lying on the floor shot through the right side, from which he died. BRITISH OFFICER SNUBBED. The town of Bantry, in Ireland, is suffering from drouth, and the inhabit ants have great difficulty in procuring water. Captain Blackburne, of hei ma jesty’s ship Shannon, which is stationed in Bantry Bay, offered to furnish forty tons of condensed water to relieve the town’s wants, but the board of poor law guardians met and resolved to decline to accept any favor from the Shannon’s captain, in consequence of the insult he had offered the inhabitants, in seizing Mr. M irphy’s yacht for flying a green flag on jubilee day. _ A QUARTER’S GROWTH. ENCOURAGING STATISTICS OF SOUTHERN INDUSTRIES. Some Very Interesting Figures Which Prove That the Material Advanee ofa *t»»r ter is a Permanent One. The following is worthy of careful reading,- being a report of the leading new industries and railroad comp organized and protected dtumg three months ending June reported 60. 1 e each i - eellaneous industries in deVelo^mmtlompanie^^Tol A, lowlD , . . the list S 18 ‘ FLORIDA. Tile works 1, cigar factories 2, cottt mon _____factories 1, fertilizer factories 2, flour mills 1, mines and quarries 4, railroads 14, flee mills 1,- saw mills 17, street rail ways 2, watef works 4, miscellaneous 7. SOUTH CAROLINA. Brick works 3, cotton mills IS, electric light works 1, fertilizer works 1, flout to i, acco fafctoffes 1, water’works 4,wood and futeceo> factories 13, e ec S g ; works 2, fertilize-works 2, o r ■ > grist mills 7,, ice factoiie , ® — "■ Louisiana. Cotton mills I, compresses 4, distiller ies 3, engittd works #, flour and grist mills 1, foundries and 1 nrachiueshops 2, furnaces 1, ice factories 2; mines and quarries 6, natural gas and pettoTenm 4, 3, oil mills 3, rice mills 5, railroads sugar mills 4, street railways 1, wood-working establishments 10, miscellaneous 8. -$EZf viBoisiA. Brick words 1, car shop's 1,- cotton and woolen mills 1, distilleries 1, fdfrtfdries an ff machine shops 3, flour mills 2, mines aid Gharries 13, natural oil and gas conr names §, oil 1, potteries railways 1, pipe 1, works 1, railroads 7, Street water works 2, wood-workihg establish ments 5, miscellaneous 7. Arkansas. Brifck works 2, car shops 3, cotton fac torie8 4 com p £ r e 8 ge 8 4, distilleries 1, foun ’ 6, flow mills 1, drie8 ftn d ma bine sbop3 ice factories 3, f works i ^ „ ri st mills 1, ime aud c ent works 1, mines and quarries 37, oil mills 3, railroads 20, rolling Mil* L stamp mills and smelters 19, street railways water works 1, wood-working establishments 38,- miscel¬ laneous 16. TEXAS. Cotton and woolen mills 10, car wheel works 1, compresses 1, car shops 1, elcc trifc light works 14, engine works 1, foundry and machine shops 12, flour mills 18, gas works 3, grist mills 1, ice facto¬ ries 7, locomotive works 1, mines and quarries 20, natural gas and oil compa me8 ‘ 4, oil mills 5, railroads 15, street railways 6, smelters 2, water works 11, wire works 1, wood-working establish¬ ments 15, miscellaneous 28. VIRGINIA. Agricultural implement factories 1, brick works 1, bridge works 1, cigar and tobacco factories 3, compresses 1, cotton and woolen mills 4, distilleries 1, electric light works 5, flour mills 6, furnaces 1, foundry and machine 1, gas works 4, mines and quarries 36, natural gas and oil companies 2, potteries 1, railroads 16, rolling mills 2, steel works 2, street rail¬ ways 7, water works 7, wood-working establishments 9, miscellaneous 33. GEORGIA. Agricultural implement works 6, brick works 11, bridge works 1, car shops 2, compresses 6, cotton and woolen mills 12, electric light works 4, foundries and ma¬ chine shops 4, furnaces 4, fertilizer works 6, flour mills 1, gas works 5, grist mills 1, ice factories 2, lime and cement works 5, mines and quarries 22, oil mills 5, railroads 9, rolling mills 1, street railways 15, water works 7, wood work¬ ing establishments 41, miscellaneous 32. TENNESSEE. Agricultural implement works 2, brick works 12, cigar and tobacco factories 2, cotton and woolen mills 3, electric light works 5, foundries and machine shops 11, f urnace s 7, flour mills 0, gas works 5, grist mills 2, ice factories 6, lime and ceinen t works 1, mines and quarries 38, oil na tural gas and oil companies 17, m m 8 2, railroads 14, rolling mills 1, steel works 1, street railways 15, smelters 2, w j rc works 4, water works 9, wood working establishments 49, miscellaneous 35. Alabama „ bnck works, 31 breweries 2 ca.r work* 5, cigar and tobacco factories 4, cement works 2, cotton mills tO, compresses 4, car wheel works \ engine works 3 elec tnc light works 5, elevators 1, «« o foundnes and machine shops 17 «< * mills 3 fertilizer factories 1 gnst milU 1 ice factories 6, fficomotive works 1 mines and quarries 19, natural gas, oil and asphalt 11, oil mills 2, pip 2 rolling mills 8, railroads 18, steel plants 2, street railways 10, shoe facto ries 1, water works 6, wood working es¬ tablishments 47, miscellaneous 40. 0ll thc passage of the crimes bill the British f Government will issue a special roclamatioil declaring the National League f in Kerrv, Clare and Cork an ille f , s30ciation ; ;irl<1 will also proclaim h ose counties a id bring them within the ratl „, of the secret inquiry and summary jurisdiction sections of the Act. NO. V.). THE SOUTH. ITEMS OF INTEREST GARNERED ALL OVER THE LOT. Facta, Fanolaa and Personal Dots Briefed For Bnay People—A Week’* hum in ary of Interoating New*. Lexington, Ga., has a scare caused by the apperrance of a bear in the vicinity. Rudolph Schnaubelt, who, it is said, threw the fatal bomb at the Baymarket riot in Chicago, Ill., a year ago, has been heard from at Christiana, Norway. The grand jury at Jackson, Miss., brought in true bills against Jones S. Hamilton and L. W. Eubanks, for the mtirder of R. D. Gambrell, on May 5th, at Jackson, Miss. The “Knights of the Switch,” an or¬ ganization of farmers that attend to the regulating of the morals of Winchester, ^j^'yXny 5 ^ switches, Lilv to Mrs. Martin . i,„ r dauebter Sunday of church-goers in the principal ttMSf MM ‘ R0 ” e ' Sheriff Gray and nineteen deputies w ent to Natrona, Pa., to evict several strikers from the houses of the Pennsyl - ** »** treated —. to the other deputies were a shower of stones and mud. West Angel, colored, was suffocated |,y fire-damp in a well, at Chattanooga, Tenn, His partner, Rich Warren, went down in the well and was overcome by tbe gaS) a ild Angel went down to rescue bblb He tied a rope around Warren s bod y, and the ^ was hauledout safely, but Angel could reach him. Jefferson Davis, in . a letter to the Bal timore, Md., Sun, about the nag 8e ' 1 sa " South hias , e tion, says: “The mam e no desire to have possession of i g lost when in they battle. v®® ^ Their value ^pa t^d excitement whic a created over SrftE*2?£Si £y . tbe XJ the flags had lost “ U e verV much like a tempest * ln a T ot ' A railroad accident took place at Me J*eil, a station nine miles from Austin, Texas, by which a number of persons were hurt. Banks Winter, the well-known min¬ strel and vocalist, was married in Hunts¬ ville, Ala., to Miss Clara Newnan, an ac¬ complished belle of that place. The people in the Fairview section of Greenville county, S. C., are arming and organizing in view of the formation of secret labor societies among the negroes. Patrick O’Brien, employed as a watch¬ man at the depot of the Petersburg & Weldon Railroad Co., in Petersburg, Va., fell in the river while fishing, and was drowned before aDy assistance could b® rendered him. At Stony Gap, in Hancock county, Tenn., Will Hobbs, a member of an out¬ law gang that has killed several mc« during the past few months, was in at¬ tendance at a meeting with a pistol rill Green bur v~ led around him. Deputy She tried to arrest Hobbs, and a herce tight ensued, in which both men were killed and a number of persona wounded. John M. Barclay, alias Bartlett, who traveled through the country mounted on a mule, getting spurious sentenced money changed into good coin, was Judge to four years’ imprisonment by Speer, at Macon, Ga. The one hundred and eleventh anni¬ versary of Fort Moultrie was generally C. The celebrated in Charleston, S. military organizations of the city turned out, public offices were closed, and flags were everywhere displayed. C. B. Carter, Tom M. Killon and three other prisoners killed the deputy Mt. sheriff and escaped from the jail at has Vernon, Mo., and a reward of $400 been offered for Carter’s arrest. He was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be hanged at Mt. Vernon in a few days. A COOL RECEPTION. Princes Albert Victor and George, sons of the Prince of Wales, proceeded attend from the London to Dublin, Ireland to jubilee exerc-ises, but received rather a poor reception. The corporate authori¬ ties of the city did not meet them, but a military escort and a number of crown cral », cami .„ W ent down the bay to meet &m| the royal boat . The prince8 j {l at Kingstown n at the appointed j d wcre received vvith great en :hu a sm. The Marquis of Londonderry, lhc , rish vicer0Jt met them, and the town ‘ presented c 11I ,. uission ,. rs of Kingston, then , L vvith an ad(]r , ss . The princes their (jcdyd tQ DublilIj an<] U „ 0D ar r.val they ideome were presented with an ad by J some conservative citizens. the war is over. of if ^TfrooTs^have^riven the troops ha ' of hosbtos back^to the re^rvation where , they have surrendered, anc stilted an investigation ana genera! court martial for trial of* ■ g "ity of military offenses t.m, tiu.. ‘6 the present disturbance.
