The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-05-02
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS,

zling $4,000, and was sentenced to the Ala
bama Penitentiary.
RECENT investigations in the Lillian Mad
ison murder at Richmond, Va, show that
she had watch key which resembled that
found at the aperture in the reservoir
fence. This, in part, destroys the most
valuable evidence against Cluverius, as the
prosecution relied upon the watch key to
connect him with the tragedy.
THE mutilated remains of James Sloin
were found in woods near Spring Grove,
Tenn.
} The United States Court at Waco, Tex.
gave decree in favor of the Central Trust
Company, of New York, against the Texas
and t.Louis Railway ordering foreclosure
of mortgages aggregating 100000.
MARTIN MITCHELL, of Blacklist Lake.
Ark, while in the woods was attacked by
three men who commenced firing at him.
He replied with a. Winchester repeating
rifle killed all his assalants and then gave
himself up to the authorities.
THOMAS A. EDISON has bought winter
dwelling house at Fort Meyers, Fla.
Rev. JOHN GAss has resigned his position
as proctor of the university at Lawrence,
Tenn, and taken parish in his native
State, South Carolina.
AT meeting of the Maryland State
Temperance Alliance, in Baltimore it was
determined to start again Prohibition
party in Maryland, and committees on or
ganization and platform were appointed.
} A STRANGE and startling spectacle of q
man en- deShdbille hanging with one hand
from the cornice Of house, while with
the other he held club and smashed the
panes'of glass Of the ird-story window,
was witnessed at an early hour the other
morning at No. ASS North Mount street,
Baltimore, Nd The man was Martin
Perkins, aged fifty seven, residing at the
above residence Perkins had been suffer-
ing from typhoid fever for several weeks,
and his mind had been affected thereby.
He had been carefully watched by his
wife, but being worn out by loss of rest, she
had fallen asleep, and the patient silently
;crept out of the room and fed to the roof.
The policeman on the beat first discovered
him hanging as above stated. An instant
after he fell to the pavement, a distance of
sixty feet, and sustained injuries which
caused his death. His body was mashed
to jelly. Deceased leaves family.
COLUMBUS L. MoFFET was hanged at
Dallas, Ark, on the oath, for the murder
of VIM. Wehunt. The execution was pub
lie, and witnessed by great crowd. The
doomed man maintained his innocence to
the end, and met his fate without tremor
A FAST stock train going east on the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad was thrown from
the track, the other day, near Bolton, W..
Va, and nine cars badly wrecked. The
cause was a broken axle. john Madden, a
brakemen, had both legs broken and re-
ceived other serious injuries.
AN important discovery of oil was made
near Chattanooga, Tenn, few days ago
The oil was found on the surface of run
ming stream, and is thought to exist in
large quantities.
The bicycle race the other afternoon, at
Macon, Ga, for $500, between Morgan,
champion of Canada, and Pat Hill, cham
pion of Georgia, a ten mile heat, Morgan
won by ten feet in 81 AS 1-2. Prince, cham
pion of the world, lowered the Southern
record OF 3:O7 to 2:03, one mile.
The wife of DR.. Steinriede, of Memphis,
Tenn, eloped with a colored coachman,
some weeks ago, and went to st. Louis,
thence to Chicago. The other day she was
ready to retul n to Memphis, but her hus-
band would not receive her.
The editor of the Quill and the editor of
the Reporter, at Abilene, Texas, who have
been squabbling for some time past, met
with six-shooters there the other day. Mr..
Gilbert and his brother law, A. B. Will
son, started the row by going to the Quill
Office with a horsewhip and six-shooter.
Not finding their man they gave the fore.
man, Captain Thompson, whipping, and
left, stating their intention to six" Gibbs,
the editor, later. They met him on Second
and Pine streets, where the row began by
Gilbert striking Gibbs with the butt end of
the whip and drawing his revolver. Gibbs
got the drop, however, and fred five times
one of the bullets fracturing Gilbert's skull
above the eye, and producing a probably
fatal wound. 1.-THE men were then separated
Both are prominent church members.
w. Il. HARTMAN, of Cumberland, Md,
has been indicted for arson, the charge
being that he set fire to his store on March
%, which resulted in the burning of six
buildings and loss Of $40 000
THE bridge over the Catawba River, on
the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, near
Birmingham, Ala, was burned, and sew.
eral workmen, engaged in the attempt tc
extinguish the fire, were injured when the
bridge fell.
BERNARD BATTIsHwHILER, of Nashville,
press dispatches from the american office
to the Evening Banner, fell from the BAN
listers in the third story of the American
Building the other day and was instantly
killed.
FIRE in Vicksburg, Miss, burned out
several business houses, three residents
the Herald, telephone, U. S. Signal and
Western Union Telegraph office. Loss
100000.
FRIENDS Of Postmaster Adreon, of Balti.
more, are urging his retention. This action
is being taken regardless of party affillia'
tions.
THE seventeen year-old daughter OF
GeorgejClark, living at Habersham, Ga.
was burned to death by a fire in her fathers
house.
U. s. DEPUTY Marshal Bowman, aided by
aposse, arrested forty illicit distillers in the
mountains of Tennessee.
J. A. LENNox, a prominent dentist OF
Sevierville, Tenn, stopped at the house OF
VIM. Arnold, in Raccoon Valley, the other
night about midnight. He arose from bed
made a futile effort to murder and rob the