The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-08-25
ssouiI, Carolina.

| popular men in the county.
Great excitement was caused in Green
vile by the raiding of two gambling
saloons by the police Thirteen gamblers
were arrested and placed in the station
house-twelye negroes and one white
man.
The driver Of one of the fire engines in
Charleston had an eye knocked out
while driving out OF the engine house to
fire, but retained his seat and got his
engine to the fire before giving up the
reins
Georgia.
The police of Atlanta are going to
stamp out lettering in he streets, espe-
cially at night
The revenue steamer Boutwell, returned
to Brunswick after a cruise down the bay
looking after yellow fever refugees and
quarantine contrabands, she having found
fishing smack sunk in the bay near the
bar at the mouth of the bay. The
| sunken vessel is supposed to be the fish
ing smack Madge, of Savannah.
Messrs Dibbrell and Underwood, of
Atlanta, who, for the past year, have
been employed as conductors on the Pan
anna Railroad, left that city en- route to
Mexico having accepted positions on
the Mexican Central Railroad The gen
tlemen have had sufficient experience on
the isthmus of Panama to last them for a
lifetime, and will probably never feel any
strong desire to return to that country
Virginia.
O. n
is still negotiating to buy from the Rich
mond g. West Point Terminal railroad
the latter's interest in the Virginia &
Georgia road. The transaction will in
volve 81, 100000
The Merceet model of the equestrian
statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee was placed
on exhibition at the capitol at Richmond
on Monday, and the board of managers
of the Lee Monument Association, of
which Governor Lee is president. have
cabled their acceptance of the design.
A duel between Segar Whiting, son of
H. @. Whiting, president Of the Hamp-
ton bank, and Dixie Lee, son of Mai. b.
H. Lee, collector of customs at Newport
News, was arranged to take place at
Buckroe, at daylight on Saturday. The
principals were on the ground and
choosing weapons when Sheriff Williams
arrived and arrested Lee and his party
Whiting escaped and went to the eastern
shore.
LOmisiaaa,
A severe storm ragged in and around
New Orleans on Monday. Nearly fifty
boats on the river were lost, and great
damage was done to rice and sugar cane
crops, The tide in the gulf was very
high, and back water was as heavy as in
the famous flood of 1861, when New
Orleans was badly inundated
The storm was very severe at Morgan
City. Dozens of houses were wholly or
partly unroofed, and fully fifty buildings
are off their foundations. The floating
elevator, George Gilchrist, valued at
$l3, 00O, was destroyed. Among the
heaviest losers Of property along the
river are the coal dealers. Eighty loaded
coal barges and boats, and one boat of
coke were sunk and a number of Others
were reported sinking. The Pittsburg
and Southern Coal company lost forty
at Willow Grove, twenty-seven at Nine
Mile Point, and ten at Brown 81 Jones'
coal yard at Algiers. The total loss is
$500, 600
West Virginia.
While /, 900 or more people were
massed on the substantial stone bridge
over Wheeling creek at Nam street, in
Wheeling, watching the raging waters
caused by the floods, a man on the creek
bank one hundred feet above, shouted
warning, and the pan c-stricken crowd
rushed into each other IN wild effort
to reach terra frma. After the bridge
was cleared those nearest, seeing it still
apparently safe, turned back, laughing
at their alarm, but before they reached
the edge the bridge, $40 feet in length,
fell with one awful crash and the waters
leaped sixty feet in the air and water
gas and natural gas mains, sewers, tele-
graph and telephone wires, electric lights
and street car wire conductors were car
lied down The Baltimore and Ohio de
pot, built over the creek, and the Market
street iron bridge, it is feared will go.
The losses will. reach $3.50, 00J.
Florida
Charles w. Cook, of St Augustine, a
young man about 2G years old, and con
tractor IN charge Of the concrete work on
tne cathedral, ell eighty feet from the
beIlry to the ground He roke his I'm
and d ed few minutes later.
a c9lored school trustee of the
Board Of Trus ees Of Orlando, named c.
+. Edwards, having been charged with
demanding Sl2 from IN applicant for a
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