The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-10
THE SOUTH.

AS Deputy Sheriff Witt was reading a
warrant to Fred Conway, a farmer living
eighteen miles north of Conway, Ark, re-
Gently, Conway drew a knife and stabbed
the officer in the left side. COnway's wife
and two sons then attacked Witt, who
drew his pistol and fired at Conway, but
the ball struck Deputy Sheriff Lloyd in
the breast, infiicting fatal wound. Witt
was exhausted from loss of blood, and it
was said that neither officer could recover.
JOHN MADDEN, Of Lexington, KY, has
sold to W. H. Hill, of Worcester, Mass,
Readyboy, the trOtting colt, and ChicOpee,
the fast young pacing mare, for $4,000.
The first bale of new cotton arrived at
New Orleans on the 9Oth from Meyersville,
Tex. 1t Is classed strictly middling. The
first sack of this seasons rice crop arrived
at New Orleans the day before. 1t came
from st. James Parish.
DIR. ROBERT MORRIS died recently at his
home at La Grange, KY, Of paralysis. He
was seventy years old and a native of
Mississippi. He was the poet laureate of
Masonry. He was a past grand master
and the author of nearly a hundred Ma
sonic works and poems.
NEAR Bardstown, KY, the other day
John Duncan, colOred, was attacked in a
fight by negro woman whose name coTfld
not be learned, with butcher knife. and
defended himself with "A shotgun. She
seized the barrel of the gun and in the
struggle for possession the load was dis
char ged, taking effect in Duncan's head.
JAMES o, JOHNSON, an intimate friend OF
Henry Clay and executor under his will.
died recently at Lexington, KY, aged
eighty -four.
AT Cannon, a small town in Gravson
County, Tex, the other night, Rev. G.
Harrison, a Methodist minister, killed his
son -in-law, Ben Pervin, and then killed
himself. Cause, family trouble.
a FIRE originated in the oil warehouse
OF J. p. Wsbb's drug store at Suffolk, Va
on the 1st, proving very destructive. Sew
eral blocks were burned, the loss reaching
nearly S400. 900.
TIN yellow fever in Florida was reported
dying out for lack of material There
were only four known cases In the State.
JOHN KIRKMAN, president Of the Ameri-
can National Bank, of Nashville. Tenn,
was killed by his horse the other afternoon,
Mr. Kirkman was about sixty five wears
old, and had been a prominent banker for
many years.
p. W. VAN VALKENBURG, Associate
/ Justice Of the Florida Supreme Court and
one Of the oldest Republicans in office in
I the State, died recently at Euwanee
/ Springs, Fla, aged seventy.
FoUR laborers Of Little Rock, Ark, have
/ died from the heat.
i AT a voting precinct in the Tenth dis
/ trict Of Claiborne County, Tenn, on the
/ 2d, Burns Yoakum shot and killed James
I smith, the independent Republican candi-
date for county trustee, who was engaged
/ with Yoakum's brother in a hot discussion
/ over the election. YoakUm escaped.
/ HENRY NJ. VIMONT, of Mllersburg, Ky.
has been sent 70 an insane asylum, his
mind having been destroyed by excessive
/ cigarette smoking.
IT Is reported in Naldosta, Ga, that
James Williams, the negro desperate who
/ killed the station watchman there five
/ years ago, has been arrested at last. Over
! httv men resembling him had been ar
] rested since the crime