The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-10-11

viii take place at ST. Helena Episcopal
Church, Beaufort, tomorrow morning.
NASHVILLE, TENN; Oct. Probably
:the youngest convict 10 the United States
Is now in the State prison in this city
His name is Dan Jordan, and he was Sent
from Memphis last Sunday. He is less
than eleven years old, and is small for hii
age. He Was convicted of having stolen
|sS5. and sentenced to three years in the
penitentiary When the first night o.
his Incarceration came the guard did mo-
lock him. 10 q solitary cell, but allowed
him to lie on q blanket by the stove
where he sobbed: himself to sleep. He
has q widowed mother in Memphis.
RALE1aH. N. G., Oct. 5.-News haI
been received Of 9 highway robbery il
Rutherford county, night before last
AS B. "a. Hampton was returning from {
meeting of the democratic club, he va!
attacked by four men; and hit on the head
with 8 stone, ard stunned and robbed o.
q large sum of money. His clothes were
almost cut to pieces BY one Of his assail
ants. Hampton recovering his senses
managed to reach home, where he has
aiuce been lying in an unconscious condi
tion: His assaiIants made their escape
and are at present unknown. The as.
sault was committed at lonely point in
the road. J.
BIRMrNGHAM, Ala, Oct. GA -disas.
trious fire occurred about4 o'clock this
morning on the corner of Second avenue
aud twenty. third street, q short distance
from the heart ofthe city, which resulted
:in3 the burning ofthree buildings and the
serious Injury of three persons, one oi
whom,J Fl. w Weatherly, assistant: business
manager Of the Chronicle. is not expected
to live. One of the buildings, three
story brick structure, was used on the two
upper foors as boarding house. and the
ground floor was occupied by w. Collins
& Co, grocers, and Kiernan's laundry.
When the fire broke out about fifty peo.
pie were in the building, all of whom
escaped except J. q. Weatherly, his wife
and niece, Miss Lula Weatherly, who,
being cut of by the burning of the stair.
way, Jumped from the third story balcony,
adistance Of forty feet, sustaining serious,
if.not fatal, injuries.
SAVANNAH, GAn Oct. 81. 0. Nell,
a Central railroad carpenter, committed
suicide last night by taking poison at his
third wife's grave in Laurel Grove GENE.
terry. Nell was man past the middle
age. Three months ago his third wife
died, and since her death be has been
despondent, and his dependency has
caused serious illness. Since his recovery
he has several times threatened to Aill
himself. Friday he told one of his
daughters that he had lived long enough,
and was going to die. He went down
town and bought FIVE grains of morphine,
which he took home, and told the family
that he was going to swallow it. Leaving
his home, he started in the direction OF
the cemetery. Failing to return, search
was made for him, and his body was found
lying by the side of his wife's grave. 10
his coat pocket was note addressed to
his son, stating that his death was caused
by dose of morphine, and that he had
committed suicide. lie asked Gods
blessing on himself and them.
FIEDLAY, Oct. Tin opening box
car which came in on the Lake Erie and
Western Railroad at noon to-day man
in famishiDg condition was found lying
on the aoor. He gave his name as Isaac
Hitz, and told a strange story to the effect
that in the early morning of October ! he
was at work in the car in Bloomington,
Ill, making some heavy casting before it
was time for the train to leave, when the
trainmeD, In their haste to get of, closed
the door, not knowing he was in the car
and that despite all his efforts to make
himself heard when the train stopped and
while being side tracked at several points,
he had been unable to secure his release
from his living prison until the car was
opened here to day. Hifz is we'll dressed
and has money, and with care and good
nursing will recover from his five days
absence from food and water. He teie.
graphed his friends at Blooming immedi-
ateiy on his resurrection, and will return
to that city tomorrow: