The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-05-31
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

Williams and Allen Smith, two white
men were drowned while seining in
Reedy river, near Fork Shoals, this after.
noon. Williams, while in deep water,
was taken with a cramp, was in the act
of drowning when Smith tried to rescue
him. In the attempt to do so he also
was drowned. J. A. Mooney, promi-
nent lawyer of Greenville, seeing both
would drown unless help was rendered,
plunged in and made gallant attempt
to save them, but without success, life
being extinct from both bodies, when
found few hours later. Williams leaves
wife and four children and Smith a
wife and FIVE children.
CHICAGO, May 34.-A dispatch from
Bonham, Texas, says: A destructive
cyRlone swept over Brownton, 25 miles
east of here, yesterday evening, destroy
ing the Methodist, Baptist and Congre.
gational churches and eight dwellings.
One building was carried across railroad
track and crushed. Amanda Willis
(colored), who had taken refuge inside;
was instantly killed. Eight persons, in
cluding the Sheriff and County Recorder,
were fatally injured. The damage will
exceed $4,000. The path of the storm
was three hundred yards wide and every:
thing within those limits, crops, fences,
barns, outhouses and trees, was swept
away. "A terrible rain, hail and lightning
storm followed.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, May 26.-Eugene
Chalfant, q alsborer in the glass works at
New Albany, Ind, died here this morn.
ing of hydrophobia. He was bitten some
weeks ago BY q small Spitz dog, but as
the wound healed he paid no attention
to it. Yesterday he was seized with
slight paroxysms of nausea which he
could not explain. he sent for a doctor,
who, BY the time of his arrival, found
Chalfant frothing at the mouth and delir.
ious. In spite of attempts to relieve him
the malady grew worse through the night
until this morning. The sufferer was
passing through succession of terrible
convulsions, which rapidly grew more
frequent, until death. The immediate
cause of death was the bursting a blood
vessel. =ez.
COLUMBIA, 8. g., May 7.-Great ex-
element is reported to exist in the upper
portion of Union county, this State, in
consequence of the brutal murder of
Cummings Byers, a white youth of sixteen
years, by q negro named Ben Cunning.
ham. This negro han previously had q
difficulty with Byers's rather, on whose
farm helwssa q tenant, swearing vengeance
sgainst the whole Byers family. Cum.
ningham took 1t on the first member he
met unprotected. Meeting young Byers
Isalone inithe woods he dealt him q mortal
iblow on the head with an az and then
fled. "A party are already In pursuit, and
it is not likely that Cunningham can
escape. There is much talk Of lynching
him, and unless he falls into the hands
of the authorities before the pursuers
Iitake him heiwill doubtless never come to
trial. 49,
B1RM1NaHAn, Ala, May GA
bloody and brutal tragedy occurred late
last night Helena, q small mining town,
fifteen miles south of this city. A mum.
|:ber of negro laborers were drinking
together, and Jack Williams and Dick
Russell became involved in quarrel.
Williams drew long. .bladed knife, and
attacking Russell came near cutting his
heartout. The negro's breast and abdo.
men were laid open by heavy blows with
the dirk, and he was otherwise mutilated
|. in horrible manner. The second stab
with the dirk laid open Russell's breast
and penetrated the heart, killing him
|, instantly, Williams was arrested by
three white. men. While on the way to
the Jail he attacked them, and succeeded
lin making his escape, after having
severely beat one of bis captC ;. He is
still at large, but was trailed with blood.
hounds today.
TOPEKA, KAN, May pa pardon
has been issued by Governor Martin to
Chas. ii. Rotrock of Ottawa County, who
killed his wife number of years ago
while under the influence of liquor. The
peculiar feature of the pardon is the fact
that the Governor issued it upon the
condition that Rotrock will forever ab-
stain from the use of intoxicating liquor.
Such q condition has never been imposed
in q pardon issued By Governor of this
State. The Supreme Court of Iowa has
held that the Governor may impose any
condition he chooses in granting pardon,
and that in case the condition ID ever
violated the person pardoned may be
rearrested on the order of the Governor
and made to serve the balance of the
penalty. Attorney General Bradford has
advised the Governor that such condi.
ton as imposed in Rotrock's pardon
would be sustained by the courts.
Co4pMR1A, S. O., May 26-An attempt
at poisoning, which came near being
successful, is reported from YorkYille.
The household Of Withsrs .Adickes, a
prominent citizen of the place, consists
fisk grown persons. All felt alarming
symptoms Immediately after breakfast |;
and physician's services were required.
He said their symptoms indicated arseni.
cal poison. They all recovered a..er
treatment. Next morning Adickes, sus-
pecting something still wrong, went to
the kitchen, and there found that gray
powder had been put into the several
articles of uncooked food. Analysis by
two different tests showed the presence of
arsenic iu these articles, including the
milk. The: second attempt TO poison
somebody was more determined than the
first. sAnabel Jones, q negro woman, has
been arrested on suspicion and she is in
Yorkville Jail. The generally accepted
theory is, that the attempt to poison was
directed sgainst Adickes's cook, also a
colored woman.
ATLANTA. Ga, May 25.-A few weeks
ago man located in Green County and
called himself "Abbiddigal" or "Holy
One," said he had received instruction
by Divine revelation to free the negroes
Of Georgia from the bondage of a false
religion, and deluded them into believ.
ing he was the colored Saviour. He held
services in the fields and groves and
adorned himself on these occasions with
gaudy turbans and flowing robes. He
had beads and ornaments that he sold
readily as shields against the power of
Satan. he was regarded by the white
people as harmless crank. The stran.
ger secretly informed the negroes that
there was Gland Of promise" which he
had recently discovered. It was, he said,
q place prepared for negroes, where they
had neither to work nor starve, para.
disc that was to be the home Of all who
followed him. He bade them steal or to
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