The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-08-18
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CamueI NOBLE, the most prominent cltl-
zen OF Admission, died on Monday.
The Henderson Steel Works will re-
sumo operations at once. The plant will
be enlarged to fifteen tons daily capac-
lty and will turn out the finest grade of
STEEL
A freight train with twenty cars loaded
with iron ore was wrecked near
Reeders station, on the Birmingham
Mineral road fifteen miles from Birming.
nam. The wreck was caused By the rails
spreading. Every one of the twenty cars
were broken to pieces and pulled down
an embankment. Brakeman A. W. Sit
tie was instantly killed and Conductor
Lee Gardner and Brakeman ]. A. Fuller
were severely injured.
Capt. R. F. Kolbs, Commissioner of
Agriculture of Alabama, left Montgom-
cry for tour of the Northwest. He is
accompanied by party of thirteen gen
tlemen, representing as many towns, who
go in special car. He also takes an
other car filed with specimens of Ala
bama products for exhibition. They go
direct to Evansville, Ind, and thence to
Des Moines, Sheldon, Council Bluffs,
Iowa, through Minneapolis and st. Paul,
and back to Chicago From there they
will go through Ohio, Michigan and
Pennsylvania. The object of the trip is
to advertise Alabama's resources in the
interest of immigration.
Tennessee.
Chattanoogas new Directory shows a
population of 46, 900.
After digging in the ruins of the recent
fire at Chattanooga, nearly dozen bod
les were recovered.
News came to Chattanooga, that James
F. Decamp, former prominent citizen of
that city. died suddenly in Cincinnati,
Ohio, from heart disease.
VIM. Baker, butcher, of Knoxville,
on Saturday skinned a cow that had
been poisoned. He had sore finger,
which became infected Baker is now
dying with spasms.
The o. l. Luce Manufacturing Co., en-
gagged in the production of wire cloth at
West Nashville, new manufacturing
suburb of this city, made an assignment
on Saturday The assets are placed at
about $4,000 while liabilities are
$3.50, 600
Fl. c. Bate, the United States signal
corps assistant, at Nashville, makes the
following report as to general conditions
in his weekly weather crop bulletin:
Since the last report there has been but
little change in the percentage Of condi-
| ton, and that has been mostly for the
worse. In some places good local rains
have revived the lowering conditions;
this is true Of the central portion of the
eastern division, and in most of the
middle division, while in the western di-
vision there is beginning to be felt Sc
rious want Of rain to check the rapidly
/ falling percentages of conditions of the
late corn and cotton crops. In Smith
county the tobacco crop is reported
looking well. Fodder is rapidly drying
up, and the yield will be greatly less
/ ened. Flowing for the Fall seeding of
wheat has been suspended in many places
on account of the dry condition Of the
/ soil In the middle and western divi-
/ sions early corn is considered safe.
Two men had made ready very
heavy blast in the face of the high bluff
at the mouth of Smiths forks, near Ian
caster 1t was composed Of quite num-
Der of holes about twenty feet deep and
with nine or ten kegs Of powder TO the
I hole. Everything had been made ready
/ to touch the blast with electricity by
means Of a wire connected with the bat
terry. A cloud came up in the meantime,
and as it was lightning, the men con-
! Guided to wait until the cloud passed
over. A fash Of lightning, however
came running along the wire from the
battery exploding the blasts with ire
meadous noise The whole side Of the
bluff was blown off and it tumbled with
( tremendous crash down below. At
! the time the blast occurred, two laboring
men were seen coming along down
under the bluff They were EigilantIy
searched for after the explosion, but no
I trace of them could be found.
West virginia.
Information has reached Charlestown
that four Of the Hatfield Mccoy gang are
working their way through the noun
taius of West Virginia toward the Nor
folk & Western Railroad. It is claimed
that their intention is 10 take a train al
some point west of Roanoke for Wash
ington and thence proceed North 10 some
locality where they viii be beyond dan
ger OF pursuit. They are desperate men
and viii not be taken without trouble.