Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1888-08-25
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A freight train with twenty cars loaded
with iron ore WAS wrecked near
Reeder's station, on The Birmingham
Mineral road fifteen miles from Birming-
ham. The wreck was caused by the rails
spreading. Every one of the twenty cars
were broken to pieces and pulled down
an cmbankment. Brakeman a. W. Sit
tie was instantly killed and Conductor
Lee Gardner and Brakeman j. A. Fuller
were severely injured.
Capt. II. +. Kolbs, Commissioner of
Agriculture of Alabama, left Montgom-
cry for tour of the Northwest. He is
accompanied by party of thirteen gen
tlemen, representing as many towns, who
go in a special car. lie also takes an
other car filled with specimens of Ala
bama products for exhibition. They go
direct to Evansville, Ind, and thence To
Drs Moines, sheldon, Council Bluffs,
Iowa, through Minneapolis and st. Paul,
and back to Chicago. From there they
will 20 through Ohio, Michigan and
Pennsy lvania. The object of the trip is
to advertise Alabama's resources in tho
interest of immigration
| Tennessee.
Chattanooga's new Directory shows a
| population of 46, coo.
After digging in the ruins Of the recent
fire at Chattanooga, nearly Il dozen bod
les were recovered.
News came To Chattanooga, that James
r. Decamp, a former prominent citizen OF
that city. died suddenly in Cincinnati,
Ohio. from heart disease.
VIM. Baker, a butcher, of Knoxville,
on Saturday skinned COW that had
been poisoned. He had sore finger,
which became infected. Baker is row
dying with spasms
The .. /. Luce Manufacturing Co., en-
! gagged in the production Of wire cloth at
West Nashville, a new manufacturing
suburb of this city, made an assignment
on Saturday. Tue assets are placed at
about SlSO,00 while liabilities are
Sl20, 900.
On Wednesday a collision occurred at
Chattanooga, between two trains on the
Western & Atlantic and East Tennessee,
Virginia Il Georgia Roads. The two
trains came together nj the crossing of
the 10 .ls with n crash. Conductor w.
X. Johnston attempted to jump from
coach aud was badly hurt. No one else
was hurt, but 'he damage to property
was considerable.
II. G. Bate, the United States signal
corps assistant, at Nashville, makes the
following report as to general conditions
in his weekly weather crop bulletin.
Since the last report there has been but
little change in the percentage of condi-
ton, and that has been mostly for the
worse. In some places good local raias
have revived the lowering conditions;
this is true of the central portion of the
eastern division, and in most of the
middle division, while in the western di-
vision there is beginning to be felt se-
rious want of rain to check the rapidly
falling percentages of conditions of the
late corn and cotton crops. In Smith
county the tobacco crop is reported
looking well. Fodder is rapidly drying
up, and the yield will be greatly less
ened. Flowing for the Fall seeding of
wheat has been suspended in many places
on account of the dry condition of the
soil. In the middle and western divi.
sions carly co is considered safe
Two men had made ready very
heavy blast in the face Of the high bluff
at the mouth of Smiths forks, near Ian.
caster. 1t was composed of quite mum.
Der of holes about twenty feet deep, and
with nine or ten kegs Of powder TO tho
hole. Everything had been made ready
to touch the blast with electricity by
means of wire connected with tine bat
terry. A cloud came up in the meantime,
and as it was lightning, the men con-
cluded to wait until the cloud passed
over. A flash of lightning, however,,
came running along the wire from tho
battery exploding the blasts with a tre-
mendOus noise The whole side of the
bluff was blown off and it tumbled with
q tremendous crash dows below. At
the time the blast occurred, two laboring
men were seen coming along down
under the bluff. They were vigilantIy
searched for after the explosion, but no
trace Of them could be found.
GeerGia.
Rev. W. ii. Strickland, of Gainesville,
hls received call from the Central
Baptist Church of Atlanta.
A man named Pannell was run over by
q train and killed on the Western & At>
lantic Railroad about five miles from At,
lanta, while walking on the track.
James L. Steedman, Post No. 70, of
Department of Tennessee and Georgia,
G. A. r., with 20 charter members, was
organized at Tallapoosa. This makes
five posts in the state.
An unprecedented rainfall at Colum-
bus, resulted in peculiar accident to
reieht train on the Mobile & Girard
Railroad. Coming into the city itstruck
a sandbar six inches deep. The engine
overturned, four cars were telescOped
and the boiler of the engine exploded
with tire nendous force. Engineer Hoff,
man escaped with slight scalds, and
Fireman Pickerson with dislocated
shoulder. The lightning struck the
flagstaff of the exposition building and
shattered the staff without doing further
damage.
United States Court Clerk p. Walter,
Of Jacksonville, has been ordered to re-
move his official headquarters to Tala-
la. see.
A colorcd man in st. Augustine who
was in the habit Of stealing from China
man was cau,ht on Wednesday and
jailed. The Chinaman attempted 10 kill
him, snapring pistol at him twice.
The Ptcsbytcrians of Orlando have ex-
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