The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-03-21
SOUTHERN NEWS GLENAlNGS.

AT Durant, Miss, three colored children |
were burned to DEATH The parents locked |
them in the house while they attended a
log-rolling. The house took fire during
their absence, and two white children were
badly burned while trying to release the
burning children.
THREE negroes, Charles Latham, Frank
Freeman and Almus Young, were taken
from the Courthouse, at Union City, Tenn,
few nights ago, and hung. At eleven
O'Clock Policeman McClanahan answered a
knock at the door and on opening 1t
dozen pistols were stuck in his face with
orders to hold up his hands, About one
hundred men then overpowered the guard
and took the three prisoners to the fair
grounds, where they were strung up to the
same tree. The crime for which they met
their death was the murder of Mr.. Mont
gomery some months ago. Frank Freeman
made full confession.
A CARPENTER named Miller, while work.
ing in drift the other afternoon at the
Pratt mines, Birmingham, Ala, was struck
by heavy plank, which accidentally fell
upon him and broke his skull. producing a
fatal injury.
WHILE preaching, Elder johnson, of the
African Methodist Church, at Clayburne,
Tex, broke lamp chimney, and it is sup
posed that bit of glass fell into his goblet
OF drinking water. He is now suffering
terrible agony, and is not expected to live.
JOHN WEST, colored, was executed at
Montgomery, Ala, on the 18th, for the
murder of Claiborne Wilson, another COL
ored man, in 1888. A few nights before the
execution West with three other convicts
set fire to the Jail in which they were con-
fined, intending to make an effort to escape,
but the fire was discovered and put out,
and their plot frustrated. West confessed
and made short address from the gallows
to the assembled crowd, and ended Iby re-
peating the Lords prayer. Precisely at
noon the trap was sprung, and within
twelve minutes life was extinct. He died
without struggle.
Rev. WILBURN, noted Memphis, Tenn,
colored minister, will languish in prison
six years for $500 embezzlement.
THE Southern Agricultural Works, At
lanta, Ca, is $4,000 failure Assets,
$4,000.
The Jail in cambridge, Ga, has been
broken open and prisoners released. One
of them, Martin McGriff, was held for MUIR
der. They are being tracked.
FRANK WELDON, colored employee at
Sloss' furnace, Birmingham, Ala, fell from
the top of house at Furnace No. l, dis
lance of thirty-five feet, and suffered in
juries from which he died in a few minutes
wire rope, holding hosting car for ore
and coke, broke, throwing him to the
ground The accident is mystery, as the
rope was guaranteed to be capable of lift
ing five tons.
MISS CoLINA ATKINSON, living four
miles from Riceville, Tenn, to find a
needle her mother had dropped in the
leaves, set them on fire. Her clothing i'm
mediately blazed up and she soon burned to
death, the flesh on portions of her body be-
ing terribly charred. Her mother, in try
ing to extinguish the flames, was also
severely burned about the hands and
arms. They are among the best people Of
that section.
49, nisnU tornado struck a
north bound freight on the Texas Central
six miles south Of Van Alstyne, Tex. Five
cars were blown completely off the track
including the caboose. No one is reported
injured.
The death of Dr.. Thomas P. James, late
Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture, is
now alleged to have been suicide, resorted
to because of depression over the fact that
ne stood no chance of securing the Federal
ommissionership of Agriculture, for which
position he was an applicant
REPRESENTATIVE HuDG1Ns, of Polk, was
arrested the other night on requisition
from Georgia, on the charge of arson, and
temporarily released by the Governor
withdrawing the warrant. He appeared
in the House next morning as usual, but
shortly before the adjournment of the
morning session left the Capitol, at Little
Rock, Ark, jumped into buggy, and
drove out Of the city. The Sheriff was no.
titled, and posse is in pursuit His dis,
appearance caused great excitement.
The rate war being waged by Southern
trunk lines is even more bitter than the on,
recently adjusted. Chattanooga is mad,
the base of operations, and the first init
nation that the roads had fallen out agar
came from the fact that the Western anc
Atlantic reduced rates from the East t,
Chattanooga about twenty per cent. Thi
cut was met by the East Tennessee, Vir
ginia and Georgia. Rates are thorough,
demoralized, and each road will make it,
own rates, regardless of pool restraint, un
til the Southern pool association adjusts
the difficulty.
VIM. Brown, a prominent Democratic
politician of Marion County, W. Va, wa
eightynine years old on the 9Th, and cele
brated the day by big dinner, to which
number of friends were invited. Befor
sitting down to the feast he made speech
saying that now that the Democratic part,
was restored to power in the land he wa
prepared to die in peace. Half an hour late
he was corpse, having choked on pieo
of meat and strangled to death, before an,
relief could be afforded.
A DESPERATE fight occurred in Swat,
County, N. c., the other night, in whicl
one Sheriff and two desperadoes wer
killed. On the night of the 9Th store wa
robbed at Ocona, s. c., of $500, thel
burned, by eight negroes-sx men and tw'
women. The thieves then fed toward Ten
nessee, but were overtaken by the Sheriff
and posse of men. A desperate fight en-
sued in Swain County, near the State line
in which one of the women killed the Sher
if with an axe. Two negroes were shot +
death and two others of the gang were ar