The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-09-21
SOUTHERN eLEANINas.

is visiting her son IN AAl4enSt Ia
Coleman, the negro Who recently MUIR
dered his employer. James Grant, In
Norfolk County, Va, was caught near
Cape Henry and lodged in jail atNorfolk.
The call for finan cial help for the yell
low fever sufferers ut Jacksonville is
meeting with prompt responses from
cities in all parts OF the country.
The telephone wires and the electric
| light wires at Columbus Ga, became en-
tangled, a few nights ago. while the full
current was on the electric light wires.
The telephone wires were melted and
| Night Operator Galloway had a marrow
| escape, as thecurrent communicated witA
the central Office. He had the head phone
on at the time, but prompt action on hts
part saved his life.
Benjamin Clayton, aged thirty-onO
years, was run over and killed on the
Overland Dummy railroad in Nashville,
| Tenn, few evenings since. While ut
tempting to board a car his foot slipped
and he fell. The wheels passed over his
head, cutting it in two. Ons arm was
broken. The deceased was formerly con-
nected with the police force, and leaves q
wife.
A singular and fatal accident occurred
in Union County KY, few nights ago.
| William Costen, a young society man,
was on his way to a dance with pistol
in his trousers pocket handle down. He
dropped q pen-knife in his pocket which,
The ball entered the abdomen, ranging
upward, and came out between the shoul-
der blades. Lock jaw set in and the young
man died in convulsions.
The damage by flood to Augusta, Ga,
and vicinity is estimated at S1,0O0,000.
Jerry Graves, colored, was cutting down
trees at Crofton, KY, few days ago,
when one of them, in falling, killed him.
Nolen Edmunson, brakeman on the
Louisville g. Nashville railroad, was
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KY, a few evenings since.
Richard T. Wilson was tried before
United States Commissioners Grain at
Louisville KY, few days since, on a
charge of counterfeiting, and in default
of s. 900 bond, was sent to jail for trial In
October.
notorious woman, known as 'Dog-
head" assaulted policeman who tried
to arrest her at Harrodsburg, KY, few
days ago, and he shot her, inficting
! fatal wound.
Thos Cannon, a farmer living near
Friedville, Tenn. stepped up to neigh
Dor, Alex Hammontree, who is wealthy
planter few days since, and knocked
him down with the butt Of a rifle, fractur-
ing his skull. Hammontree died in
few hours. Cannon escaped
A serious cutting affray took place, q
few evenings since, near Hanson, KY,
, between Roy Jones and Jimmie Webb,
, during which the former was stabbed in
| the abdomen and fatally wounded by his
opponent, who then fed and still at
D large, though pursued by officers OF the
law.
DIR. John Alexa nder, distinguished
physician Of Bolton, Miss, who had been
practicing his profession since 1883, died
at his home recently, in the htty~ntnth
! year OF his age. He was exceedingly
fortunate and successful during the
dreadful yellow-fever scourges of 1873
and 1878.
- John Kitenens, over seventy years old,
l. was so badly injured in q fight with his
son, G. p Kitenens, at Dawson. Ga, re-
t Gently, that he died twenty-four hours
= later. The old man had been unkind to
y his wife for several months, since her
It union with the Mormon church, and while
= under the influence Of whisky had quar-
o relied with her. which the son resented.
% The news from the rice crops along the
r Savannah river Is very gloomy. II is not
IS expected that more than one-fourth Of
I, crop of the 10000 acres will be saved. The
n crops around Charleston and Georgetown,
= however, are much more promising.
. The body OF A. W. Walker, a resident
t. of Vicksburg, Miss, for n number Of
Y years, was found, few days ago, in an
10 outhouse on the premises where he re-
5s sided, with pistol ball in the right tenn
lr pie. The pistol was lying by his side,
= leaving no doubt OF his having killed him
self. He had been out of employmentfor
: a long time.
, Maria Seargent, an aged colored woman
: residing at Pembroke KY, was walking
"a along the railroad track at that place,
* few days ago. when she was struck by
's train and knocked from the track, receiv-
5: ing painful injuries, from which she died.
d Being deaf she failed to hear the danger
% signals.
le The news from all the agricultural dis
g tricts in South Carolina, and many in
ID Georgia, is of the gloomiest character.
The autumnal rains started at least two
y weeks ahead of the regular season and
a. played havoc with the cotton in the Nigh
l. lands. The long and protracted rainfall
10 finally eliminated in series Of the most
N damaging FOODS that have ever occurred
in the State.
An insane colored man, who was being
taken 10 the lunatc asylum at Hopkins
40 Vile, KY, by Marshal Bobie, Of Wick
Dis life, made a break for liberty while wait
ing for the train at Nortonsyilie, few
r evenings since, knocking Bobie dowa
a with iron bar no had seized. He ess
C. capped to the woods and, at last accounts,
o, was still at large, though men were out
a. hunting for him. Bobie Is very seriously
a. hurt.
ID No little excitement has been created
IA in Birmingham, Ala, by the news THAI
g Frank 81. Irion, tho defaulting clerk Of
IN the city court had surrendered In Lon
th don. A cablegram from London TO tho
MS officers at Birmingham announced that
n he had surrendered and wanted To come
ry back and be tried for his crime He is d
y physical and mental wreck and peuni-
D. less.
as Jim shackelford, a farmer living on Bog
- Branch, ia the southwestern part of Giles
re County, whipped his twelye-year-o Ole
y daughter TO death few days ago. He
p ordered the child to bring bueket Of
l1 1 fresh water from the spring, and becauso
81 - she did not come quickly as he thought
- she should he seized piece of plank and
IA beat her 80 that she died, after lingering
y a few days
Swell the Florida sufferers fund
Lou Young, an employe at the Louis :
vi- vile g. Nashville shops at Louisville, KY,
al accidentally stabbed and killed HODert
~ Crowel, brickiaYer They were both
- young men and close friends. While
- skvlarkfng Young made feint with a
al small knife and by move OF CroWelFa
- the blade entered the left breast auc
~ penetrated the heart at the apex.
Ier Alexander Hammondtree, a prominent
"a farmer living near London, Tenn, gOs
vfa into a quarrel with Robert Cannon q rev
~ davs ago and tho latter struck him on the
~ head with a gun. killing him instantly,
n. Cannon made his escape, but officers
were in hot pursuit
Savannah. Ca, was flooded a few days
since the river being highest since rbi0
ON blanche Sales, colorod, aged sixty nYo
on vaara was shot few days since at M0-
hts bsre Ala. ana instantly killed by her
nty orandson. o boy Of Ave years, with
IL double barreled shotgun which was con.
or. gfdered harmless, ss the grown folks
nd could not get Il 70 20 of Tho CHILD
est managed a, however, in some unknown
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