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THOSE TRAIN ROBBERS.
They Make Thing's Lively Over in
Gordon County.
AN ORGANIZED GANG
Beui in Existence Near Plainville for
Hriernl Years Despemle En
counter with«» Nheriir.
A Rome dispatch to last Sunday's Con
stitution says;
A desperate and bloody battle occurred
at Plainville, just over the line in Cor
don county last night
the result is Sheriff N. 11. McGinnis, of
Gurdon and twy of his posse are desper
ately wounded.
Jim Green, one of the three men re
cently arrested for the hold robbery of
the store and postuffice at Little Row last
Tuesday night and who was carried to
Calhoun and lodged in jail, after his in
carceration, made some very startling
confessions. He owned to having com
mitted and having aided iji several train
robberies. He said he knew all about
the Piedmont robbery, the East Rome
robbery a year ago, and the attempt to
rob the Western and Atlantic train at
Adairsville a few weeks ago. Besides
himself Henry Leals and-Ben Morrftw
who were in jail, he named Will Mor
row and Chester Scott as accomplices in
the robberies and last night Sheriff Mc-
Ginnis went down from Calhoun to
Plainville and there collected a posse to
arrest Scott and Morrow.
THE POSSE STARTS OUT.
Six men were armed and went with the
sheriff to the house of old man Morrow,
the father of the Morrow boys. It hail
been learned that Scott was tlierfi with
Will Morrow and that they had said that
’ they would die before they would be ar
rested. They were both excellent shots
and both were armed with shot guns.
The sheriff and his posse proceeded to
old Morrow’s house, two miles from
Plainville, in Floyd county. About 10
o’clouk they reached the house ami sur
rounded it. McGinnis and two voting
Hjen, Frank Floyd and Jim Johnson,
went around to the ba.ck door, leaving
the others in front, and at a given signal
they demanded that door be opened and
that \\ ill Morrow and Scott surrender.
T here was no response to the demand.
“Open that door,” Remanded Sheriff
McGinnis.
HUED ON AND SEVERAL HIT.
“All right, we’ll open it,” came the re
ply, and as. the dbOr swung back on the
hinges a blinding volley was pourer! into
the party outside. 'The Sheriff dropped
to the earth, his arms and breast filled
with small shot. Floyd received a load
of shot in his arm and hand and Johnson
received a fearful wound in his thigh,
'flic door was immediately, closed apd
locked, and rushing to the front door
they opened it and fired another volley
at the other party of beseigers. The
scattered from the frrtnt door and
iwi around to their wounded friends,'and
at this interval Morrow and Scott leaped
out of the frontdoor ami escaped to the
woods. •
The wounded men were taken up and
carried to a house near by and a telegram
sent to Sheriff S. t’. Moore at Rome, for
help and for six Winchester rifles. Ti e
telegram was received here at midnight
and Deputy Sheriff McConnell, Bailiff
Byars and Marshel Lindsey, of East
Rome,.went on the 2:30 train, reaching
THE .(IX.TS: HILTON. CA„ SATI’BMY, DECEMBER 2. 1592.
Plainville at 3 o’clock. They found the
house still surrounded by a crowd of
armed citizens and the three wounded
citizens receiving medical attention.
TWO OF THE MORROWS CAUGHT.
About 4 o’clock this morning the
crowd discovered a man trying to escape
from the house and arrested him. He
proved to be Joe Marrow and said he had
just returned from carrying his brother
Will two miles away on a mule. He
was held until about daylight when the
crowd closed in on the house and found
John Morrow, another brother, and some
women and children.
Officer Lindsey returned to Rome
early this morning with the two Morrow
boysand lodged them in jail.
Sheriff McGinnis was brought to Rome
tonight from Plainville on the 8 o’clock
train and carried to Dr. Battey’s Inijruia
rv, where he is receiving medical atten
tion. It is believed that be wjll die. A
number of the shot entered bis side and
three shot penetrated the lower part of
the abdomen. Frank Floyd., it is thought
will lose his leg, which was fearfully
torn by the shot. The wounds of Jim
Johnson are not considered dangerous.
Deputy Sheriff McConnell and Constable
Byars returned to Rome today at noon,
bringing back the Winchester rifles they
had carried, up. on the »:30 trajp this
morning.
THE GANG’S DEPREDATIONS.
The story of Jim Green, who is in jail
at Calhoun’, is that, the Morrow gang has
been organized for several years and that
it was modeled after the style of the
James and Dalton gangs of the west. He
says that it was members of his gang who
held up the East Tennessee train just out
of East Rome a year ago apd secured $C»t)
from the express messenger, Ross Simms.
The Piedmont robbery came next which
occurred about two’months ago. The
gang then went for the M estern and At
lantic train at Adairsville tvyo weeks ago,
and the story of their failure to rob the
express is still fresh in the mind of the
Constitution’s readers. The robbery of
the Little Row store and postoflice last
Tuesday night was the most reckless and
daring of all their crimes, and it proved
to be the turning point in the luck of the
gang. Scott was a very valuable man to
the gang, having been freight conductor
on the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia for several years. He is twenty
five years old, has a wife and four cliil
drert ami belongs to a good family. A igor
ous efforts are being made to capture
Will Morrow and Scott, who it is believed,
are making their way to the
of Alabama.
SCOTT IS CAUGHT,
A telegram from Calhoun, dated Sun
day night, says:
“About daylight this morning Chester
Scott, one of the outlaws who tired on
Sheriff McGinnis ami his posse at Plain
ville, was captured at the home of his
father-in-law John Boyd, near Plain
ville. ,
“A posse had been on the lookout for
him Saturday and late last night it was
learned that he had left the hills near
his father’s place ami gone to the home
of old man Boyd.
“A party headed by an East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia section boss named
Calvin Giles, surrounded Boyd’s house
at about midnight and at daylight Scott
came out ami gave himself up, saying
he had been persuaded to do so by his
father-in-law. Scott, turned over to Giles
two long frontier army pistols.
‘fGiles and his party carried Scott to
■ his home and allowed him to eat break
i fast with his wife and children, and
i after he had changed bis suit, they pro
-1 ceiled with him to this place and lodged
him in jail.
“The town has been
Al.g EXCITEMENT
today and armed squads have come and
gone since early this morning. A party
of about fifty citizens, armed with shot
guns, went out this afternoon to Will
Morrow’s house, a few miles distant,
where it is reported he js hiding.
“Late tins evening Deputy Sheriff Wil
lingham and posse brought in old man
George Morrow the father of the Morrow
boys. He was found at a farmhouse in
Dry valley.
“A late telegram from Rome says that
Dr. Batty has examined the wounds of
Sheriff McGinnis and says he cannot
live ”
Dr, L. Matthews Deiui.
Dr. John L. Matthews, of Ringgold,
Catoosa county, so well and favorably
known al| over Whitfield and North
Georgia, died at his home in Ringgold
last week of an abcess on the liver. Dr.
Matthews was a genial gentleman, a
warm true friend and a most successful
practitioner, and did much good in his
chosen profession. He was greatly be
loved by all wfiojknew hjm. He was one
of she most loyal democrats in the land,
and although he had been sick for sev
eral months he went to t he polls in u car
riage. at the recent election.
He was buried in Ringgold with Ma
son ic honors. A memorial service was
held jn the Presbyterian church, and the
deceased was eulogized in an impressive
manner by Dr. James R. Cravens.
Already Boosting Hie South.
“The election of Cleveland,” said a
well-known 'traveling man from New
York, ‘‘will have a salutary effect upon
the whole country. 1 expect to double
my customary sales during the coming
year, and 1 have heard a hundred differ
ent merchants in the south avoiy that
if Cleveland was elected the house I
represent would receive an order for as
much again as they had been in the
habit of purchasing. 1 believe thftt the
next four years will evidence the fact
that the democratic party is essential to
the growth and prosperity of the coun
try.”—Atlanta Constitution.
A Gospel 'l’rutik
Those who advertise in The Argus
will be those who do the business in
Dalton. The Argus is whooping things
up for Dalton and its business, enter
prises and industries, and the people are
learning to look in The Argus forfwhat
they want to know. When they want to
buy anything they will look in The
I Ar’gl’s to see where to go.
If you are wise, you will advertise in
I The Argus, and let the people know
what you have to sell.
What Clever Tom Peeples Will Do.
Mr. T. J. Peeples, ticket agent Western
, and Atlantic railroad at this place, will
sell you a ticket to any pointnort.li, south,
! east <>r west as cheap as the cheapest, and
J will send you over the shortest route and
I on quicker time than any other line.
Call on or address him, before purchasing
vour tickets and he will make it to your
interest.
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SOUTHERN GOLD.
Our Section In Not Behind Others in
This Bespect,
According to the mint records, as given
in the official report of the superintend
ent, the total product of gold mined in
the limits of the United States from the
establishing of the mint to the discovery
of gold in California, a period of fifty-six
years from 1792 to 1840, wa5524,536,000,
less than half a million a year. After the
enormous richness of the California de
posits became known there was a wild
rush for the Pacific slope, and mines
along the Atlantic ranges of foot hills
were much neglected, although not ei -
tirely abandoned.
These Atlantic slope sources ,of gold
supply are in the hills along the eastern
base of the Blue Ridge or Appalaehain
chain of mountains. In Alabama, where
the range loses its contjnqous and ridge
like form, and breaks into rugged knobs
ami rocky hills,the gold deposits extend
around their southwestern slopes. The
gold originally occurred in veins and
seams of quartz, associated with granite,
slates, mica and talcose reel's, the ordi
nary accompaniments of gold bearing
quartz. Where the material carrying
gold has been decayed by the weather or
broken down by physical forces, the gold
is found jn the gravel in the beds of
streams, as in the case of the California
placers.
These mines of the Appalachian range
are st ill worked and the introduction of
improved processes has considerably in
creased the production. A recent mint
report shows a result which, while it is
far from realizing any dreams of fabulous
wealth, shows that there is gold enough
to be worth wording for ip these South
ern states. It is as follows for t}ie year
1889:
STATES. GOLD PRODUCT.
Virginia 8 4,1 W)
North Carolina 146,295
South Carolina „. 46.852
Georgia 107,605
Alabama 2,580
Total 5307,4 3
This is not up to the average yearly
production of these states, in the ante-
California period, says the New Orleans
Picayune, but it all proves that the
Southern states, i|i addition to their other
rich resources, are also producers of the
metals in commercial and financial use.
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The Holiday* Are Coining;.
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