Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-12-20
CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.
II. r. SMITH SHOOTS KATE THOMP-
SON AT vALDOSTA.

Maj. COuper, of the Florida Southern
Railroad, Fatally Stabbed at Ocala-
Murder Among Farmers at the Same
Plaee-Outrage and Murder in an IIIi-
nois Hotel.
NALDosTA, GA, Dec. 19.-This MORN
ing about4 O'Clock T. r. Smith shot Kate
Thompson in the left breast with pistol.
DR.. Lang was called to see the woman,
and is doing all he can for her, but says
that she cannot live longer than tonight.
Mr.. Smith was for several years Marshal
here and has held other offices of honor in
his community, but his relationship to
this woman has brought him to shame.
Smith left soon after the shooting, and has
not been heard of since.
OUTRAGE AND MURDER.
JOLIET, ILL, Dec. 19.-George Free
stune, % years of age, one of the boarders
at the Auburn House, entered the room
of head-coOk Jane Haycock last night,
bound her head to prevent her screaming
and then outraged her. When he started
to leave the room the woman gave an
alarm, when Freestune returned and cut
her throat and fled. He was arrested
While his hands were still covered with
the blood of his victim. He afterwards
confessed the deed, and declared that he
was intoxicated at the time. The woman
is unconscious, and will probably die.
Her assailant was taken to Jail amid
threats of lynching.
MAI. CoUPER, OF THE FLORIDA SOUTH
ERN RAILROAD, FATALLY STABBED.
JACKSONVILLE, Dec. ia special
from Ocala says: ''Maj. Couper, Chief
Engineer of the Florida Southern Rail-
road, quarreled with tie contractor
Of 4 aa cl,t1,. lac
and the latter stabbed Mr.. C0uper fatally
in the side."
FARMERS QUARREL FATALLY.
Another special from the same place
says: eighteen miles from Ocala, yes
terday, two farmers named Rawls and
Hilvenston, qnarreled about some hogs,
and the former blew the side of the lat
ter's face off with a shotgun. killing him
instantly"
RoBBERIEs AT CISCO.
New ORLEANS, Dec. ia special dis
patch from Cisco, Texas, saws: ssSome
robbers entered Yarbrough's store at
Clyde yesterday, and forcibly rifed the
safe. a lone horseman robbed the mail
six miles south of Cisco. This coach was
robbed a few months ago in the same
manner thirty miles south of Cisco.
GALVESTON, Dec. ia special from
Cisco says: ''The Brownwood stage, which
was robbed of It's mail yesterday by a
single highwayman, was attacked again
this evening. A passenger named Hen
dersOn shot at the rObber. and the latter
firing back continuously, retreated as fast
as his horse could run. No one was hurt"
HIGHwAYMEN IN OREGON.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. ia special
dispatch from Huntington, Baker county,
Oregon, reports number of highway rob-
DpripS Inv a nf
men at the point of the pistol. They
robbed a merchant named j. Tyler of cash
and drafts to the amount of $4,000. The
paymaster of railroad construction
company was robbed of $4,000. Other
persons were relieved of sums ranging in
amount from 5000 to $500. There being no
constabulary force in the county it is
thought that the highwaymen will escape
with their booty.
TWO WOMEN MURDERED IN BED.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. ia dispatch
from Clinton, La, says: ''Jim George, a
colored man, residing five miles from
here, returned home late last night, and
found his daughter, aged II years, dead,
and another w0maa mortally wounded,
who has since died. The double murder
was committed by a man who called
there during Georges absence. He found
the women in bed and shot them both.
for the murder, the suspicion against him
being strong"
AN EMBEZZLER FOUND DEAD.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 19.-W. j. Pearson,
Postmaster at BatesVille, Ark, was found
dead in his room, in the Hotel Barnum,
on Monday night. The post Office authori.
tiles here say that he was some $1,000
short in his accounts, and that his where
abOuts had not been known for week
prior to finding him dead.
A REVENUE COLLECTOR ROBBED.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, Dec. 19.-Bur-
glars last night entered the residence of
E. j. Hoppins, Collector of Internal Reve-
nue. in this city, and stole $43, 900 in money
which he had taken home to pay an obli-
cation this morning. There is no clue to
the perpetrators.
MURDER ON A PLANTATION.
VICKsBURG, Miss, Dec. 19.-Pat Flynn,
an agent on J.Wilsenskie's Dunbar place,
at Lake Washington, was killed yester-
day by colored man named Howard.
The murderer has been arrested. Threats
Of lynching have been made by white and
cOlOred citizens