The news and herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, 1879-07-09
Me- us or THE DAY,

itSic'' ~ Nlcil on inc lli2nt Oi June ".
and u great quantity Of weapons was
seized.
: -C!ark's cotton factory and mill.
sixteen miles east of Atlanta, Ga, has
been burned; insurance $50 900. The
property was valued ut $4,000.
Mrs. Frances y. Ross, Il wealthy
old lady, was sitting in her carriage in
, front OF her residence, in New York,
Tuesday, when she suddenly dropped
dead.
-Rcv. Dir. John Cumming, the
! celebrated writer on the millennium,
has been medically ordered TO re-
nouncc all mental work. lie is about
TO retire from the ministry.
The failures in New York during
| the iirSt six months of 1879, are one
hundred and torty-ci"ht less in number
and 92S, 100000 in liabilities than those
which occurred in the same period Of
last year.
Visitors TO tho White Mountains
within the past few days have been
treated to the novel summer sport Of
snowballiny. Many SUBMITS and
slopes were covered with snow six
inches deep on the lst inst.
The miners at Seneca CoIlicry,
near fittston, Penn, numbering three
hundred, struck last Thursday owing
TO a dissatisfaction with the docking
| boss OF weights. The collicrv is opcr-
atcd by tho Emira Coal Company.
Thirty ncn were killed by Il
collicr% explosion on the High Blan
| Tyre Pit near Glasgow, last Thursday
morning; -Four Of tho victims
wcro burned alive. Twenty
one corpscs have been recovered.
"A Lebanon, PENNSYLVANIA, dis
patel. says that Nimrod Spaticnhnbcr,
convicted Of numbering Johr Iyison,
in Il saloon in that city, on the NIGHT
ofDcccmbcr 10th, 1913, was hanged
there on Friday :norning.
Tho louisiana Constitutional Con-
ycniioh ,,as adopted an ordinance pro-
hlh",ng tho sale of alcoholic or malt
I, liquors on Sunday, and providing that
the next Legislature shall pass 4 law
for the punishment VI the violators of
tllis ordinance.
1t is stated that Salem, n. G., q
small town, has shipped, during three
years, over three millions Of pounds
Of dried hlacklrrrics, for which il re-
ccivcd $500, 900, equal to ten thousand
bales Of cotton at ten cents per pound.
Henry White, City years old, was
leading bull into Il slaughlcr-housc ut
West SomcvilIc, Mass, on Tuesday,
with II rope around the creature S
horns, when the knot accidentally
slipped and the animal caught White
below the naval with one Of its horns
and ripped his body completely open,
causing instant death.
Miss Lou Boiling, aged twenty,
daughter Of Colonel Thomas Boiling,
Of Richmond, Va, died Oh Friday
evening from the effects Of burns re-
ccivcd tho night before by her dress
catching fire from piece OF burning
paper thrown by her on the floor OF
her chamber after lighting thc gas.
Miss Rolling was one of the leading
!, be les OF Richmond society, and her
sad death canscs great sympathy in
the community.
The Signal corps station at Fort
: Macon, North Carolina, reports that
Capt. y. OakSmith, Of Carolina City,
North CaroliEa, with four daughters
| and ono son: started in Il, small boa!
r. m. Of thc Fourth. When half way
across Ho2nc Sound the boat capsizci.
The father, son and three daughters
were rescued, bat thc recovery or the
; other daughter is doubtful The hodv
ofthc eldest daughter has not been
. found.
AT Lake QuinSigamonl, Mass.
on FRIDAY afternoon, as The steamer
iS''"c D"rtS, with two hundred pas
Sch@crS on board, drew upio the land
ing, crowd ofncarly one thousand
people on shore, whr were waiting to
cmbark, rushed tumuluouslv on
board in such numbers as TO cause the
vessel To violently carccn. The h,rri-
cane deck gave way with the weight
upon il and prccipitatcd II hundred o,
more people into the water. Seven
were drowned, five injured, and three
are missing.
-~Ihr Inferior Department is in re-
cclpt OF Official information that dur
ing the past few weeks white men
have stolen about seventy horses from
the Indians ut the Rcd Cloud agency
ana run Them across the Nebraska
line. The State authorities arc doinp
nothing to prevent similar raids upon
the Indians property, and tho military
authorities, on account of the law OF
last year, stand by without intercept
ing or pursuing the maraudcrs, al
though the stolen horses were driven
right past Camp Sheridan and Camp
Robinson on the way TO market or TO
the horse thieves corros.
"A fright(ul accident occurred on
the Metropolitan Elevated Railroad
last Wednesday morning. The rrnu-
lar up trains had stopped running at
that time, and several trackmcn on q
hand ear started down the east side
track to make some needed repairs.
When Franklin street station was
reached, they discovered an engine
with somc cars coming up the road.
Davis Stadlcy, one of the oldest en-
ployccs OH the road, volunteered 10
get of and warn the approaching.
train, when he was struck by u rcn,i-
lar south bound train. His body was
manglcd in Il horrible manner, one of
his legs was cut Off and remained on
tho track, while his body was thrown
into the street below. Death was in
stantancous.
On Friday afternoon Professor s.
W. Col9rovc and Miss Emma Allison
! mnIp n