The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-10-13
SOUTHERN STRAYS.
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN
INGS STRUNG TOGETHER.
MOVEMENTS OF ALLIANCE MEN-RATL-
ROAD CASUALTIES COTTON CROP
-FLooDs-ACCIDENT RETURNS.
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ALABAMA.
DR.. R. V. Williams died in Decatur
on Monday of yellow fever.
The Pike County Guano Factory, at
Troy, was burned. Loss $4,000; insu-
rance $4,000.
A stabbing ARRAY occurred at Bridge
port, which resulted in serious injuries
to Alexander Carpenter. Mr.. Carpenter
got into quarrel with a stranger, whose
name could not be learned, when the
fellow stabbed him in the back with
knife, inficlng painful wound. The
extent of his injuries are not known but
it is thought they will not prove fatal.
Fire broke out in the Mcclellan
House at Birmingham, and burned SO
rapidly that the building was almost to-
tally destroyed, before the iremen could
get the flames under control. J. A.
Weatherby Of the Egenipg Chronicle,
with his sister and niece, jumped from
the third floor to the yard, distance of
fifty feet. Weatherby was fatally in
jured.
s. q. Lawrence, a recently elected
justice of the peace of Birmingham, ac-
companied by Will Lacey, both armed,
entered the Hot Blast office for the pur-
pose OF making w. II. Edmunds, the
editor, 1etract something he said in a
card to the Montgomery Ad06rtiser, de-
nying statements made Ky Lawrence as
correspondent of the Montgomery Dis
patch, concerning the difficulty between
Edmunds and ex-Policeman Phinize,
which he (Edmunds) declined to do.
Lacey commenced firing promiscously
self-cocking revolver, striking Edmunds
in the left arm, badly crushing and break
ing it. S. G. Tripney, plumber, who
was in the room, received ball in the
back of his head, coming out through
the mouth. John Chappell, a young
man connected with the office, was shot
through the back of the neck. None of
the wounds will likely prove fatal. Mr..
Edmunds will lose his arm.
GEORGIA.
The National Forestry Congress will
meet in Atlanta Nov go
81 The Young Mems Library Association
of Atlanta was damaged by fire on Tues
day to the extent of SIS, 000
Because he could not control his appe-
tite for whiskey, Remus Jones, young
man of Atlanta, ended his life on Tues
day by taking IA grains of morphine.
The latest returns on the vote to
amend the state constitution to have two
more judges on the supreme court bench,
shows a majority against it of about o.
500
The criminals in Atlanta varied the
methods of murder on Monday, by chic
reforming q woman, binding her hand
and foot, and nearly choking her to
death with a rope around her neck. The
deed was done by two men, and Jim
Tucker, of Douglas county, was arrested
as one of the men.
The colored woman, Maria Farris, who
was shot through window while eating
supper, in Summerville, died on Mon
day Rev. Edmond Harms, a colored
Presbyterian preacher, and a former
member of the Legislature from Warren
county, and who is worth so, coo, is in
Jail as accessory. The alleged assassin
is Nathan Walker, who says Harris gave
him So to shoot the woman.
LOUISIANA.
A rule was taken a few days ago on
Gen. j. B. Vinnet, public administrator
of New Orleans, requiring him to pay
over $50. 600 to the heirs Of Kate Town
send. The fact is made known that his
predecessor, Gen. VALERIE, is about $40,-
900 short in his accounts. This amount
or more is due to the administrator Of
the state by VALERIE. In May last VALERIE
was elected criminal sheriff for the parish
of Orleans, and still holds the position.
MARYLAND.
Mr.. and Mrs Kenneman and their
eighteen months child, and Mrs, Phillips
and her four children, were crossing the
Wicomico River in a canoe, near Princess
Anne, when a sudden blow of wind cap
sized the craft. Mrs. Kenneman, with
her babe in her arms, sank instantly.
Mrs. Phillips two-moEths-old babe was
borne from her arms il the struggle for
life in the water, and went down to-
gether with her four-years-old child.