The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-01-26
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

BIRMINGHAM, ALA, January 21.-A
stable containing 200 horses and mules
was burned here yesterday. All but two
of the animals were cremated and the
survivors, had to be shot.
BROWNSVILLE, MINI, January 49,
The people of this valley are in dire dis
tress. They have had 60 communication
with the rest of the world for over three
weeks. The last train to arrive here came
in December 26. There is not lump 81
coal or stick of irewood on the market
The people have con6scated all the fuel o1
the Manitoba Company and torn down
and burned their railroad buildings.
WICHITA, KAs., January 18.-Peter
Peterson, a blacksmith of Clear Water,
was accidently shot and killed by his
father about noon to day. The two men
we're out hunting on hill. The son was
higher up the slope than his father, when
rabbit jumped up and the latter fired,
the entire charge entering the sons head
killing him instantly. The old man j
frantic with grief and has attempted
take his own life.
GREENv1LLE, S. G., January 19.-ME|
Heury Hicks, of the providence Steam
and Gas Pipe company" very narrowly
escaped death while at work in "Hugue!
not Cotton Mills" Hicks was standing
near shaft, with his back to the coup;
ling, and in leaning too far back his
clothes were caught in the coupling,
winding him around the shaft five or SIX
times. His ankle was badly sprainea
and back and legs painfully bruised, his
clothing being completely torn from bis
body. His injuries are not dangerous,
though very painful.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, January 1S.-A
cowardly and brutal murder was com.
mitted al Morris Station, FIVE miles north
ofthe city, last night. Two section. hapds
on the Louisville and Nashville railroad,
named Cornell and Spear, were at the
house of some women, who lived nearthe
station. Charles Smith and Joseph Gill,
also railroad men, went to the house and
told the two first named to prepare todie.
Connell and Spears were unarmed, and
the former fell on his knees and begged
for mercy. He was shot dead on5 the
spot. Spears started to run and wasshot
in the back and hip, receiving wounds
which will prove fatal. Smith and.Gill,
the murderers, are still at large. !
ALBANY, GA, January ga short
time since Mrs. Dowdell, wife of the pre-
siding elder of the American Methodist
Episcopal church, stepped into heryard
and saw her pet Maltese cat playing with
a huge snake. The cat is very large
one. The snake was coiled to strike.
Every time the serpent would strike at it
with its wicked looking fangs, the cat
would give it vigorous slap on the side
of its head and it would be withdrawn.
This byplay continued for fully an hour,
Mrs. Dowdell standing upon the steps
watching the combat and fearing every
moment to witness the death of her pet.
At last the cat pounced upon the snake
and killed it.
AMER1cUs, GA, January l9.-George
Harris, aged nearly seventy, was granted
a divorce at the present session of the
superior court from his wife, to whom
he had been married forty years, but
with whom he has not lived forsthe past
four years. She is nearly as old as he,
AMI large family of children we're the
fruits of their union, all of whom still
reside in Sumter county. On the same
day that the divorce was granted, Mr..
Harris went to Macon and sas there
married to a lady of that city, Runner
has it that two of his grown son B by his
his former marriage were So jncersed
with the old man that they t;ppon and