Savannah weekly echo., 1884-02-10
South and West.

GEORGE HARDIsoN and Harry Bronson
fought with knives at Richeieu, KY, and
killed each other. Sixteen years ago Hardi-
sons father killed BronSJn's father with an
ak.
Two boys-John Anderson, seventeen years
old, and Zach Snyder, twenty-one years of
age-were hanged at Mount Vernon, Ind,
for the murder and robbery of James Van
Wve. a seventeen-year-old boy The two
murdererS were shiftleSs characters, and
their victim was stranger. An immense
crowd was present at the hanging.
A DISPATCH from Winchester, Va, states
that Miss Elizabeth Rebecca Payne, who is
one of the best known ladies' in the Shenan-
doah valley, and who for thirty-eight years
has appeared as woman, turns out to be a
man The discovery was made by her ap-
plying fer license to marry young woman
who had been employed in her family as a
domestic. Payne was brought up as woman
and no one ever questioned his sex, and his
open avowal IF masculinitv has intensely
tonished the community. Payne married
the domestic at Martinsburg, w Va.
THE Cleveland PAPER company. Of Cleye-
| land, Ohio, one Of the oldest and most widely
known corporations of the kind in the coun-
try, owner of four paper mills and one pulp
mill, and employing 500 hands, has failed for
$250,000.
J. B. SIMPSON, the seven-year-old son of a
le9QlQR ClDlXon OIL AldJ, bd., uletL q low
days ago in great agony of hydrophUbia. He
! had been bitten month before by rabld
| dog.
ILLNESS from q kidney trouble has led Big
| Horse, one of the most prominent of the
! Cheyenne chiefs in the Indian Territory, to
commit suicide by shooting himself in the
head with pistol.
| THE Virginia house adopted without de-
| bate the senates resolution calling upon
| United States Senator Malone to resign.
AT Mineral Springs, Ark, two judges of
the supreme court were hanged in effgy be-
cause they granted an appeal in the case of
| three colOred men sentenced to be executed
for murder.
FRANK WILLIAMS and John Gray killed
Orion kurtz, prominent citizen of ROsita,
Col, and were in turn taken from jail by
vigilants and lynched.
SAN Francisco is to have bronze statue
Of Garfield
THREE brothers named Wilburn, of Jack
son county, Ala, quarreled with and as
saulted negro, when man named Webb
! interfered in the latter's behalf Webb was
fired upon. and drawing his revolver he
emptied it at the Wilburns, instantly killing
! two of them and mortally woundlng the
third
Ex-Governor JOHN LETCHER, Of Vir-
rinia, whose death has lessened the number
of men prominent during war times, was
buried at Lexington with military honors.
MRS. MANGO, of Cleveland, Ohio, lost four
of her five children within a short time by
diphtheria, and the other day her fifth child
was burned to death. The mother was 20
affected by her terrible bereavement that she
became a raving maniac.
BURGLARS blew open safe in the post
office at Blue Island, near Chicago, securing
money and stamps amounting in all to Sl5,-
OO0.
AN express train struck huge rcck which
had rolled down on the track from noun
tain near Chattanooga, Tenn. The engine
was demolished nearly every car left tire
track, the engineer was killed, the fireman
fatally burned, and a brakeman was bally
hurt
MARTIN SELLLRs, of Kendallville, Ind.
summoned to testify against man on trial
for murder, declared he would kill himself
rather than appear as witness in the case
He carried out the threat
A pECUNIARY loss of about S125, 900 was in
Cured and 500 men were thrown out of EN-
pIovment through the destruction by fire ol
the Phoenix Glass works, of Philipsburg, Ohio
The works, which covered large area, were
among the largest in the country.
A FINANCIAL crisis has occurred at LIE ad
vile, Col, through the failure of three Of it:
four banks within fortnight.