The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-09

Mike ". Graham, well-known as a trav-
! cling salesman in Charleston aud through
out the state, and more recently as book
keeper for Col. Mike Brown, died at Black
Vile Thursday.
Chief Engineer Temple, of the Georgia,
/ Carolina aud Northern railroad, with his
assistants, Capt. Thomas b. Lee and W.
/ A. hawkins, is at Greenwood, selecting
route for his railroad through the town.
Il is rumored at Greenwood that MeSsrs.
Clark & Hill Of Augusta will put up a cot
/ ton compress near the junction Of the Fort
Royal and Western Carolina and Columbia
and Greenville railroad in a short time.
At Stateburg, about a week ago, Mrs.
/ Holcombs house, 10 which is attached the
postofice, was broken into, and Sl6 belong
| ing t. the office, AID s. TO Mrs. HolcomO
was stolen.
Agents OF an English syndicate have just
Travelled the route Of the Carolina, Knox
vile and Western railroad by private con-
vevance. 1t is said that Enghshmen con-
template a purchase.
The murderer, Powers, has not yet been
caught, though he has been seen by several
negroes of Stateburg, who said he wandered
about several days handcutfed, but they
would not take him, as they were waiting
for the governor TO offer a reward.
Hampton Guardian: A tract of land in
levied on as the property of the estate of II.
c. Ruddell, was sold by the sheriff last
Monday for 1901. Mi. JEFF. Warren
was the purchaser.
A charter was issued Tuesday to the Ian
caster Manufacturing Co npany. Of the
| stock of IS, 900 more than so per cent. has
been subscribed and % per cent. paid in.
The company will manufacture spokes,
handles, doors, sashes, etc, and repair
machinery.
There has been peculiar case of sus-
pended animation in Pickens. A Mrs. Ste
phens lay down to rest and take n nap on
| Aug %, and could not be aroused from her
| comatose condition, although worked upon
! by the doctors, diving on Aug. 80. She was
81 years old, the mother of eleven children.
Noting the arrival of thirty German
immigrants at Walhalla, few days ago,
the Courier says if they are pleased with
their new home, there is a colony of about
1000 who will sail from Brunswick, Prus-
STA, and settle in Ocones county.
A. story comes from Lexington county
that one day last week, at Spring Hill,
white man, Lawrence Fuller, son of Perry
Fuller OF Columbia, assaulted his wife ana
child In most brutal manner, breaking the
little ones leg and arm, and beating his wife
SO severely that he would have killed her but
for the Intervention of neghbors He was
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bla, and IS now in the Lexington jail.
William Green of Aiken county has
reached the ripe age of 50 years. aud is still
hale and hearty He has had fifteen chill
dren, nine of whom are living; forty-eight
grandchildren, forty-two living; nineteen
great grandchildren, fifteen living. A
family reunion was held at the residence of
his youngest daughter, Mrs. Laura V.
Glover, Cawtaba Springs, N. c., recently.
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present on that interesting occasion.
At Columbia the friends and kinsmen Of
James |. Clark. who was killed month ago
! by w. b. Meetze, have engaged Messrs.
Abney u Thomas, of Columbia, to assist
| the solicitor in the prosecution Of the case
| against MeetZe for murder. The refusal by
Judge Wallace to grant bail to Meetze was
| a surprise to him, as it is said that he was
| so confident of being released that he had
made up fishing party to leave the city
when the judges order should be received.
AT Beokham Monday, the evidence before
the coroner in the Bowers Vincent case
showed no provOcation on the part of
Bowers. They were playfully talking about
wrestling, when Bowers embraced Vincent;
| Vincent jerked loose, and struck Bowers on
the side CT the head, knocking Off his hat.
| Bowers stopped down and picked it up, and
asked Vincent what he meant, and said he
was only playing Vincent took out his
knife, opened it, and deliberately stepped
nesses swore that Vincent had said
IN their presence on Tuesday before
that he intended to cut Bowers. Bowers
is dead and Vincent is in Jail.
AT Walterboro the colored fire engine
company, while practicing Wednesday
night on Fripp Bros mill building, lost one
OF its members by terrible death. Will
lam Piercson was sent to the roof to hold
the nozzle of the hose in position in an
empty barrel, placed there to be filed with
water for protection against fire. The men,
bers commenced pumping, and when the
| stream struck the barrel the force of the
water turned the barrel from its place.
| Fiercson, seeing the danger, called to the
men below to get out of the way, as he
could hold it no longer, but they failed to
hear him, and becoming exhausted he let it
go, and with a crash it rolled from the
shed, falling on Abram Williams and kill
ing him instantly and bespattering his COM
panions with his blood
1t is likely that John B. Barnes, the
jewelry thief who, on account of his
mothers devotion, was pardoned by Gov
Thompson upon the condition that he
would never return to South Carolina. will
find that he made a costly mistake in ven
turing back to the state in defiance of his
decree of exile Chief Graham had an in
terview Tuesday with Assistant Attorney
General Bachman in relation to Barnes
status under the law. Cap. Bachman was
satisfied, upon consulting the books, that
from the moment Barnes set foot upon South
Carolina soil his pardon was forfeited and
he became merely convict whose term
had not expired, and as such, liable to
conclude his proper period in the peniten-
tiary. Barnes was under sentence of ten
a years imprisonment. and only served a
few weeks. The matter will be brought
to the attention of Solicitor Nelson, who
viii probably bring Barnes before the
circuit judge for proper disposition. He
will doubtless be required to show cause
why he should not be returned to the pen
itentiary.