The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-08-25

ouC mas Deen arrested and placed IN
jail. Death was caused by strangula-
ton.
Nerth Carolina.
A waterspout burst on the mountain
in Alexander county and in few min
utes the small branches had swollen to
the size of rivers and done much dam
age.
Thirty of the lawless negroes (railroad
hands, were tried before Judge Mares at
Charlotte. All were found guilty and
sentenced from two to three years in the
changing
The Interstate Farmers Convention
assembled in Raleigh, and was called to
order by the president, Col. L. L. Polk.
The convention represents the cotton
states. Welcoming addresses were
made by Governor A. NJ. Scales, Hon.
A. A. Thompson, Mayor of Raleigh
Commissioner of Agriculture John Rob
inson, and DR.. G. w. Sanderlain, of
Goldsboro.
Governor Scales received a telegram at
Raleigh from Wadesboro, the county
seat of Arson county, which informed
him Of the escape of all the prisoners in
the Jail there. They overpowered the
jailer when he went to give them supper,
and took away his revolver The hue
and cry was raised and a number of citi-
zens turned out in pursuit. John Nor
ton, who had the revolver, faced the
pursuers defiantly, and dared them to
advance. They did so, and he shot two
of them, one mortally. All the fu9i-
tlves then made their escape.
Fire broke out at Durham in an unoc-
cupied tobacco factory Of E. II. Pogue.
The local fire department had disbanded
Saturday night, in consequence of dis
.pute with the town authorities. A high
wind was blowing, and the fire spread
rapidly. After destroying Poguc8 fac
tory the fire next burned another old to-
bacco factory, occupied by w. Y.
Whitfield. 1t next swept away two to-
bacco houses owned by Robert Jones and
William Osborne, in which were three
hundred thousand pounds Of leaf tobac-
co, owned by Jones and Osborne. After
burning several small buildings, the fire
destroyed DR., Johnston's livery stables
and residences In all twelve buildings
were burned 1t is the belief that the
fire was of incendiary origin.
Tennessee.
The police Of Chattanooga, are arrest
ing 7iolators Of the cruelty to animals
law.
A threshing machine exploded near
Telford on Thursday, and Bud Carper,
engineer, instantly, and wounded several
Others, The cause of the explosion was
defective steam gauge.
The efforts to organize a railroad de-
partment Of the Young Mems Christian
Association in Chattanooga, nave not been
successful, ard the proposed organization
will be abandoned
The dry goods house of w. T. Bull, at
Chattanooga was closed on an attach
ment in favor of J. G. Burnett Bull
was in the act Of packing his goods to
move away when the sheriff'levied on his
stock.
w. II. Inman, of New York, died at
Tate Springs Monday. He was native
of cambridge. The deceased was
brother of Shade and Walker 2. Inman,
and the uncle Of John H., Samuel NJ,
and Hugh T. Inman, Of Atlanta, Ga.
Mr.. Inman removed to New York shortly
after the close of the War
1t is alleged that the revenue officers
had discovered one hundred empty whis-
key barrels in the wholesale liquor store
Of Col, Frank NJ. Potts, Of Chattanooga,
without the stamps having been can
celled. The penalty for each offense is
a fine of from $500 to $40, 900 and impris-
onment not less than one year.
DR.. Abe Williams was arrested at
lockwood, by United States deputy
marshals on a charge'of obtaining money
under false pretenses, by representing