The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-11-03

lie was general IL the lnulan war, ana
was identified from time to time with
railroad building and management.
The control of the Admission Land
Company has been sold to Northern CAPT
talists for $600,0 which amount will
be invested in various industrial enter
prises in that city.
ARKANSAS.
An East bound passenger train of the
Iron Mountain Railroad was held up by
train robbers on Sunday two miles west
of Newport. The passengers were rob.
bed of about $500.
FLORIDA.
jacksonville has received so far, $312,-
876 as an epidemic relief fund, of which
$40, GOA has been expended.
A large number of the men employed
by the sanitary committee on the public
works in Jacksonville have been dis
charged, and only a limited number are
retained.
Enterprise on Monday made requisi-
ton on Jacksonville for 400 rations for
period of two weeks. Seventeen cases
and two deaths in the past forty-eight
hours were reported.
The United States government has es-
tablished baggage fumigation station
at LaVilla junction, near Jacksonville,
under charge of Dr. Julius Wise of the
Marine Hospital service.
GEORGIA.
DIR. James S. Hamilton, of Athens,
died of pneumonia after a short illness
of one week. He had been in very fee
BILE health for the last year, and taking q
severe cold fastened his death. DIR.
Hamilton was one Of Athens oldest citi-
zens, and during his life had amassed
quite a fortune. He was at the time Of
his death president of the Princeton Fac
tory Company.
Arthur Watkins, of Huntington, was
shot and instantly killed, on Tuesday
afternoon by Marshal Rosebraugh. Wat
kins had been arrested in the morning,
and while awaiting trial gave the officer
the slip. Rosenbraugh followed and
coming up with him, ordered him to
halt. He responded by drawing knife
and rushing at the officer, when the lat
ter shot him, killing him instantly.
The 102d annual session of the grand
lodge of Free and Accepted Masons for
the state of Georgia, convened in Macon
on Tuesday at Masonic hall. Most Wor-
shipful John S. Davidson of Augusta,
presided. lie delivered splendid adj
dress at the morning session. 1t is said
to have been one of the finest produc-
tions of the kind ever heard by Georgia
MasOns.
The jury in the case of George NJ,
Eddleman, a real estate dealer in At
lanta, charged with killing Tom Ores
ham, a railroad man, last Summer,
brought in a verdict on Monday of mot
guilty" An indignation meeting was
held at night in the square in which the
artesian well is located, and arrange
ments perfected by the citizens to burn
the Jury in effigy in front of the court
house on Tuesday night.
MARYLAND.
National Watts, aged ninety-three,
died of pneumonia in B fillmore, Nd. He
was an Old Defender and one of the
natrots who, September 70, 1914, re-
pulscd the British attack upon Baltimore.
MISSOURI.
A sensation was created in the crimi-
nal court in Kansas City on Tuesday
morning by the suicide of Jack Fleming,
deputv marshal who drew q reVolVe
and blew his brains out, while the court
was IN session.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The great event in the history Of the
Lutheran churches of Charleston, the
celebration of the Festival of the Refor-
nation, will take place in st. Matthews
German Lutheran Church, Sunday.
The celebrated corpse trust case, which
made such a sensation in Charleston, has
again been brought to public notice.
A conspiracy was formed among NUM-
Der Of whites and negroes, by which
certain life insurance companies in New
York and the West were swindlcd out Of
thousands Of dollars. The conspirators
insuriug fictitious persons and passing
off corpses procured from the pottcr's
field, as the deceased pcrsonages. The
case has been reopened by a suit insti-
tuted hy the heirs Of Pat Foley, who
killed himself some time before the eX-
posurc Of the conspiracy aud who Is sus-
pected of having been concerned in the
conspiracy. to recover a policy Of s., 600