The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-08-04
Georgia.

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in Atlanta.
The 43d Georgia infantry held a re-
union at Ponce de Leon Springs, near
Atlanta, and out of the 1000 men that
composedit, in 1861, only ID were present.
S. P. Skater & Co.'S rosin oil mill and
chemical works at Savannah were burned
on Sunday. The works were located on
the West Ogeechee canal beyond the city
limits. The origin was spontaneous
combustion.
The Augusta Exposition received an
application for space from one of the
biggest loom manufacturers in Massachu-
sets. The exhibit alone will cost several
thousand dollars to place, and the six
fancy looms will be operated by six
blooming Yankee girls.
Memphis is to have a police patrol
wagon.
The steel rail mill of the Roane Iron
company at Chattanooga, has shut
down until September, on account of
the depressed condition of the steel rail
market.
Sam Watts, a clerk, and Charles Hum
phreys, married miner, fought at Coal
Creek while on a drunken spree. The
latter was shot through the body and
will die.
Policeman W. r. Russell, who week
ago killed Jesse Bishop while, it is al
legged, Bishop was resisting arrest, was
taken before Judge Shepherd on a writ
of habe0s corpus at Chattanooga on
Wednesday. AS result of the examin-
alton, Russell was held to bail in the sum
of So, 900, which he readily gave.
A number of Southern capitalists and
manufacturers met on Monday at Nash
vile to discuss the location there of an
international mineral and metallic expo
sition. 1t was resolved to hold the expo
sition at Nashville in 1890. A commit
tee was appointed to organize the enter
prise, secure a charter and put it on
practical basis.
Conductor Frank Cushman was ar
rested in Nashville and jailed there on
Sunday. Cushman was in charge of the
extra freight train which collded with
the Louisville & Nashville fast express
killing Engineers Nichols and Austin,
and Fireman Cummings. Cushman was
indicted by the grand jury last week for
manslaughter in the first degree.
Virginia.
Three colored section hands on the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad were caught
under gravel bank which caved in a
few miles below Richmond, Va, on Mon
day. Fred Yates was killed and the
other two seriouslyainjured.
Miss Ella Barnes, daughter of Con
gresham G. T. Barafs, of Augusta, Ga,
with party of friends, was witnessing a
pyrotechnic display at Winchester, when
some sparks fell upon the dress she was
wearing, which in an instant blazed up
around her. The gentleman who accom-
panied her snatched off, his coat, and
together with it and Miss Barnes wrap,
which she had 4YeC her shoulders, the
flames were extiBguished. Miss Barnes
dress skirt was destroyed. but she es-
capped all injury, except slight burn on
one of her hands.
The coroner's jury assembled at the
scene of the recent collision on the Nor
folk & Western Railway, rendered its
verdict on Wednesday as follows: eve,
the jury, find the Norfolk & Western
Railway Company guilty of neglect IT.
sending complicated orders not easily
understood by employees of the company,
as shown by the evidence adduced before
the jury and for its failure to designate
engine No. 3, which would have pre-
vented this collision; and it is the opin-
ion Of this jury that the Norfolk &
Western management should be held
responsible for the results of this disas
ter"
The first bale of cotton of the crop Of
1888 was received at Galveston on Wed
nesday. 1t weighed $50 pounds, and was
cIassed as middling fair staple 1t was
sold at auction at IL cents per pound,
aud will be shipped to Liverpool via New
York.
Lieut.. Flipper, the colored officer in
the United States army, who was dis
missed some years ago, and afterwards
Joined the Mexican army, has turned up
at Ell Paso, with a story of two old gold
mines which he has found in Mexico,
IN bursiinp with ore,