The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-11-24
ALABAMA.

ALABAMA.
The vote cast for presidential electors
was counted on Tuesday by the governor
and secretary of state. Cleveland re-
ceived III, $40 votes; Harrison 81, 107,
and Fiske (prohibitionisD 5S8.
The safe in the county treasurer's of
flee, at Carrollton, Pickens county, was
blown open. The noise of the explosion
aroused several people living near by and
the burglars fled without securing any
Doodle.
The passenger agent of the Kansas
City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad,
on Tuesday, tioketed two Mormon elders
and fifty converts to Ogden and Salt
Lake City, Utah, from Birmingham.
The converts are mostly from Cullman
county, d few coming from south of
Montgomery. About five hundred con-
verts from East Tennessee will be ship
ped from Chattanooga to Utah.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The fishing smack Puritan capsized
off Charleston, and several of her crew
were drowned.
The British steamer Sandringham,
loaded with cotton at Charleston
for Reval, was found to be on fire in the
forward hold, and Was nearly destroyed
on Sunday night.
Great preparations were made for the
gala week which begins in Charleston,
5. G. Amusements include fireworks,
naval sham battles, prize drills, balloon
ascensions, trades display, torchlight
procession, fantastic parade, prize shoot
ing, lawn tennis tournament, racing daily
and an illumination of forts and Charles
ton harbor.
There Is danger of serious riot in
Beaufort between tho negroes. Ex-
Congressman Robert Smalls ran for sher-
itf and was defeated He then became
disguised, and it is said assisted in hav-
ing split ticket put up against the Re-
publican ticket tor county officers and
representatives. Serious trouble is ap-
pretended at any moment, and, acting
under the order of Governor Richardson,
Adiutant- General Bonham has ordered q
battalion of infantry to arms, and they
are now awaiting orders.
GEORGIA.
The Legislature elected U. s. Senator
A. H. Colquitt for another term. Only
one candidate appeared to contest, Col.
S. A. Darnell, of Jasper, who received
one vote.
Hon. James Hunt, member of the
Georgia Legislature, was killed in At
lanta, Thursday night, by Sully Moore,
Railroad. The two men were old
friends.
Plans for the new union depot to be
built by the Richmond Terminal COM
pauy in Atlanta are now being prepared.
The finest union passenger station in the
country, the one at indianapolis, is to be
duplicated in the Atlanta station.
N. b. Baum g. Bro, of Toombsboro,
have failed, with liabilities ranging from
$780, 900 to $125, 900. A Savannah firm
of cotton factors lose over $50, 900. Baum
& Bros, did large general merchandise
business in Wilkinson and several neigh
boring counties. They operated three
stores, one each in Toombsboro, Irwin
ton and Dublin.
Bud Thrash the well-known locomo-
tive engineer, who ran the engine which
hauled President Ceveland's train (when
he visited Atlanta a year ago., and man
named Sullivan had dispute on Mon
day, which ended in Sullivan slashing
Thrash across his neck, lnficting an ugly
wound. The people are getting very
tired Of the frequent murders and affrays
in which deadly weapons are used.
J. F. Hill, a prosperous farmer of
Madison, left home, telling his wife that
he was going away never to return, and
that she might take the farm, stock,
corn and eight bales of cotton, valued at
about ten thousand dollars. He sold be-
fore leaving about fifty bales of cotton,
and some suggest that he carried with
him not less than five thousand dollars
in cash. Before leaving he paid all of
his accounts. He is fifty years of age,
has been married more than twenty
years and left a wife and four children,
all daughters, three Of whom are mar
ried.
KENTUCKY.
Court of Appeals at Louisville rendered
adecision in the case Of David Roberts,
charged with murder. Their decision
sends Roberts 10 prison for twenty-five
wears. Roberts is sxty-four years old.
In 1884 Roberts cut the throat of james
Kendall, OF Morgan county, and hid the
body in tho brush and escaped 10 Mis-