The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-05-10

place, WAS accidently burned to death.
The family was in the field at work and
no one was about the house to render her
any assistance or to give the alarm. One
of the family returned to the house about
9 o'clock and found her in the yard dead
with all her clothes burned off. 4.
LAURENs, May 5.-John Hill, farm.
or, sixty.five years old, living near Gin.
ton, in this county, committed suicide by
hanging himself this morning. Hill
was naturally weak minded and had
lately lost his eyesight.
VIRGINIA CRY, New, Msy 4-Jno,
L. Black and Samuel L. Black, brothers,
who came here from Alabama, nearly
thirty years ago, and had acquired a large
amount of real estate in this city, had q
quarrel to-day which resulted in the
death of the former. Two shots we're
| heard in the building, which the brothers
owned, and Samuel Black emerged from
| the house with an iron wrench in his
hand. He went to the sherif's Office and
surrendered. His brothers body was
found in the house, with the front part
of the skull broken and bullet wound
on his person. Samuel claims that he
killed his brother in self.defence.
RALEIGH, N. O., May 7.-At Carthage,
Moore county, Saturday evening a young
man named McNeill shot Miss Ida Poe,
seriously wounding her. jealousy is
supposed to have been the cause of the
shooting. McNeill called to see tho
young lady, and, finding that she was
entertaining another gentleman in the
parlor, asked her to come to the door,
and shot her. He then fed. Great in
dignation is expressed against McNeill
in Carthage, and kilograms are being
sent in every direction for his apprehen-
sion.
ATHENS, Ga, May 4.-Last night,
when Neal Taylor, a railroad laborer of
the colored persuasion, wen. to his home
he found that his wife had bidden q long
farewell to the world, the flesh and the
devil, and embraced Christianity. Neal,
whose religious precepts are rather lax,
endeavored to persuade his wife to for.
sake her newly formed faith, and upon
refusal to do so, used more effective argu-
ment in the shape of bed slat. The
woman's hands were tied above her head,
and she was forced to bend herself over a
trunk while her fendish husband beat
her unmercilessly. The woman is dying
from the effects of the beating, and her
inhuman husband is at large.
CLEVELAND, OHIO, May Slight
ming struck country school house in
Delaware county yesterday afternoon.
John Bowers, aged ~, who was at the
blackboard, explaining an example in
arithmetic, was instantly killed, the
electric fluid passing down his appraised
arms to his body. The teacher and
twenty scholars were thrown from their
chairs and benches to the floor, remain
ing unconscious for nearly half an hour.
JOHNSTON, S. G., May GA colored
man by the name of Ben Byron was
murdered this morning about two miles
from Johnston, on Emanuel Snipe's
place. He was putting out guano and
when he reached the end of the row was
shot by some one in ambush. The cor;
oner at Edgefeld O. H., vas telephoned
! for at once and will hold an inquest this
afternoon. No clue can be had as to who
the murderer is nor the cause which led
to the deed.
NEwBERRy, S. G., May 7.-This coun-
ty was visited with fine rains last Friday
evening. Near Chappelr's and Saluda
Old Town, we learn, there was hail, the
most in quantity and the largest in size
that has fallen for years. On the farm