The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-03-31
Monday. March 20.

On Saturday last negro by the name
of Jim Wilson was horribly butchered by
four white drunken fellows at Tilton, Ga.
on the Brunswick and Albany railroad
The murderers have been arrested, and
are now in Jail. The negro was brought
to point near Albany on hand car
and buried among his friends. As far as
we can learn, the colored man was muir
dered without the least provocation, he
having merely laughed at the antics of a
drunken lad, at which his father or bro
ther took umbrage, and cut the poor fell
low to pieces before he could escape from
the store.
There are some fifty or sixty convicts
from the Texas penitentiary at work on
Capt. Duncan's places on the Caney, and
day or two since Mr.. Nixon went out
in charge of four cutting or clearing land.
In a few hours his body was found, the
skull cut in two, his brains taken out and
thrown on his breast, three bloody axes
lying near, and the four conyicts gone,
taking the arms of the unfortunate man
with them, double>barreled shot gun
and six shooter. Later in the day they
took another shot gun and pistol from a
negro man living in the neighborhood.
Last Monday evening Thomas G. Fite
son of NJ. H. Fite, was drowned in Smith
Fork, Tenn, near his residence. The
creek was very full. 1t is supposed he
was engaged at the time in pulling rails
out of the stream, when he fell into or was
pulled into it by hook with which he
had been drawing them out No one was
with him, and he could not swim. His
wife growing uneasy toward night, on ac-
count of his continued absence, had some
friends to make a search for him, but it
proved futile. Another search was made
the following morning and his body
found mile and half below the point
where he was supposed to have been
drowned. He was inferred the next morn
ing by the Changers He belonged to
the Baptist church, and had lived a con-
sistent member. He leaves a wife and
five children.
Yesterday morning about 1920 o'clock,
a young man of Knoxville, Tenn. named
Clabe Austin met with a very serious ac-
cident, which will doubtless terminate
with his death Mr.. Austin had been
hunting the day before, and probably in-
tended to hunt again yesterday, as he was
out of work. He had loaded his gun at
home, and something being the matter
with his ramrod, as it would not go into
its proper place right, he had gone over to
the shop to file it down. Having done 80,
he placed the stock of the gun against the
bench, and inserted the ramroad in its
place, but as it did not fit right yet, he
attempted to pull it. Finding it rather
tight, he gave vigorous pull, and in do
ing so the hammer of the gun caught
against something on the bench, causing
the load to discharge, taking off all the
fingers of his right hand and tearing out
his intestines, perforating them thorough
ly with shot.
The notorious Lone Wolf was captured
about the 18th of February in the Wichi-
ia mountains, with his warriors, number
ing fifty-seven men. Some of his bucks
stole several horses belonging to Asa Ha-
witt, a Comanche chief who Joined the
United States troops last fall, and Havitt,
his warriors, gave chase, and
Lone Wolf and his braves in
the Wichita mountains, where there was
nc possibility of escape, and then gave
them just three minutes in which to sur
render. The old fellow saw the point and
he and his companions acceded to the de-