Hillsboro recorder., 1888-07-19
NO. 50.
SOUTHLAND ITEMS.
PARAGRAPHS, SAD, PLEASANT
AND TERRIBLE.
INDUSTRIAL PRoGREss-THE EXCURSION
FEyER-RAILRoAD ACCIDENTs-sUIcIDEs
DEFALcATIoNs--coTT REPORTS, ETC.


Ihe IND United states artllierys IN
.harge of the Gulf coast defenses, have
been ordered to Mont Sano, near Hunts.
vile, where they are now encamped.
Oscar Cooper, wealthy young planter
living near Town Creek, Laarens county
was shot and killed on Tuesday by Steve
Binford, colored, o tenant OF his farm
The negro wAylaid and shot him froui
ambush. Cooper leaves wife and two
children.
William Willis, young white man
employed as q fagman on the Mobile d
Montgomery Railroad, was killed in
stantly Tuesday, by being knocked OH
the train by low bridge at Fort Deposit.
Willis was o young married man, and
had been married only few months.
Florida.
L.W. Vanhaulover has been appointed
postmaster at Breyard.
W. @. Jones most estimable young
man was drowned near st. Augustine.
Several Cuban tobacco planters are max
ing arrangements to plant near Lake
City. :
A pension has been granted to Clara
H., widow of John II. Scott, of Zell-
wood.
starke had big fire, in which DR.. j.
L. Gaskin's mills were destroyed. Total
loss about $4,000.
The American Press Brotherhood, Of
Jacksonville, will make an excursion to
the cincinnati, Ohio, Exposition August
list.
The Executive Committee of the Flor.
ida Horticultural Society have selected
E Sanford as the place of the meeting Of
the American Pathological Society next
February.
The artesian we'll sunk at Sarasota, is q
grand success. It has a depth Of 400
feet, a siz-inch bore, runs $50 gallons per
minute, and rises 23 feet above tide.
The water is very pleasant to drink, with
a scarcely perceptible trace Of sulphur.
Rev. r. s. r. Allen, while swimming
IN Saddle creek, ut Kissimmee. was
drowned. The body was eHbalmed and
iarried to Orlando for burial. He was
pne of the first settlers of this place. Hs
bpened the Kissimmee river for nayigaI
ton aud ran the first steamboat.
Georgia.
Mrs. Ann Walsh, respectable and ell
derly lady, living in the southern por-
ton Of Augusta, fell ir the canal on
Thursday, and was drowned before dis.
covered. She leaves three children, ali
grown.
Col. B. w. Frobel died at Monticello
after an illness Of four weeks. He was
So years old and was born near Alexan.
dria, Va. He was o naval officer until
the War and resigned to'enter the Con-
federate States navy but was transferred
10 the army, serving as an engineer offi'
Ger. At the time Of his death Col. Fro'
bel was cl ief engineer, vice-presidenf
and general manager of the Macon q
Coyington Railroad.
neniusky.
The large training stable Of William
Rue, at Danville, was burned on Thurs
day night. Thirty.three head Of fine
trotters were incinerated. The total loss
will be $75,000. Some Of the trotters
were entered in Ohio and New York
races.
LouIsisna.
J. b. Carpenter, q notary public, has
gone to Mexico. Suits were fled against
him for sums aggregating 100000. Il is
thought that there are enough creditors
to swell the amount 10 $4,000. II 10
understood that in most cases the money
was placed in his hands for investment,
Maryland.
The Furniture Workers Cooperative
Association assigned on Wednesday.
The bond Of the trustees was $4,000.
Within the past two weeks nearly 800
men have been discharged from the Bal.
timore & Ohio railroad shops at Mount
Glare. Last Saturday, 115 wen were
dropped from the different departments.
The discharge is due to the recent sale oi
the sleeping car system TO the Pullman
company, and general lack Of work.
MissesrI.
That portion Of Missouri known as the
home Of the bald knobbers, Christian,
Taney. Barry and Ozark counties, is
striving 10 surpsss former records. Du.
ring the last two or three months IL is Is.
Iutl " Ithet SsNVV HtHh VI NAt1e
have been stolen in Taney and Christian
cJunties by the bald knObbers, uplanders,
as they call themselves.
BY the spreading Of the rails on fifty.
10 { trestle ten miles west Of Cameron, on
Thursday, the Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific construction train With seventeen
men on board was precipitated to the
ground, distance Of thirty feet. The
fireman, Richard Jones, was killed out.
right. Engineer Wilcox vas scslded
and died few hours later. Brakeman
Cummiugs' feet were crushed, and be
also received internal injuries from which
ho will die.
The boycott against Burlington care
vas put into effect by switebmenO Of Kan.
sas City. Wabash and Chicago and Al.
ton officials notihed the Burlington com.
pany that they would continue ioreceivs
cars as usual. Shortly before noon on
Wednesday shout twenty-five strikers
made an assault upon G. A. scanion, o
new switchmnn, and beat him IN a terri.
bic manner. George sheehsn, striker,
then had ScanlUn arrested for houfishing
q revolver, and said the assault was made
in selI-deiense..