The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-09-19

GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CHESTER, S. c., Sept. 14.-Rader @.
Brandt, the son Of well.knoWn leweler
of the came name, comhittetl suicide at
Chester this afternoon, by Blowing out his
brains with b pistol. The act is the result
of dissipation.
GREENv1LLE, Sept. 13.-Marcus Pool,
living twelve miles above this city, com.
mitted suicide today By shooting the top
of his head of with a double. barreled
shotgun. His brains were scattered in
every direction. BE Was bevbhty years
old. Financial troubles are given as the
cause. He leaves wife and twelve
children.
COLUMBIA CITY, IND, September Is.
While Sunday school services we're be.
ing held in small hatae church Eve
miles south Of this city this afternoon,
lightning strnck the spire and coursed
down through the roof, striking and
instantly killing two girls, both aged II,
who we're sitting together ih the centre
of their class. The other ten children in
the claas were badly stunned, but not SO.
riously injured.
Troy, N. Y, Sept. i3.-John Gordon,
in the employ Of the Lake George Paper
and Pulp Company ut Ticon4erogs, fell
asleep near the machinery. Two fellow
workmen, it 10 said, planned to scare
him. They tied a rope about his feet and
threw it over shaft making 125 revolu-
tions minute. They could not cut tae
rope in time, and Gordon was killed, bis
body being horribly mutilated. One of
the perpetrators Of the joke has lost bis
reason from the shock.
MERIDIAN, Miss, Sept. l4.-Reports
that the negroes of Newton County,
Miss. .ein the neighborhood of Decatur,
we're arming and organizing have dis.
turbed the whites OF that vicinity to such
degree that they are arming themselves
and merchants have been unable to sup.
ply the demand for Winchestefs. The
whites declare that they WANT no trouble,
but will be prepared for an emergency.
The negroes acknowledge they have been
organizing politically, but deny that they
intend any disturbance.
DANv1LLE, IND, Sept. 14.-Millard
Jones, druggist of Clay ton, this county,
yesterday fatally stabbed the Rev. MI.
Smith, of the Baptist Church of this town.
Smith had been abusing the druggists of
the town from the pulpit, and yesterday
he and Jones met in the postofhce. A
quarrel epsued, and Smith attacked Jones
with large cane, whereupon Jones used
his pocket knife on Smith, making sever.
al cats in the abdomen. Smith cannot
survive. Jones was Arrested, but a mag
istrate dismissed him on the ground that
his acts were justifable.
READING, Pa, September l5.-During
g roar of laughter in the academy of mu.
sic last Tuesday night, at the eccentrici.
ties Of the character of Joshua Whiteomb
in "The Old Homestead" lady In the
audience was seen to throw up her hands
and fall back in her seat in state of
Mysteries. The uphers quickly brought
water, but the lady not reyiying, her
husband-George II. Dunsford- carried
her from the parquett into the ladies'
dressing room, and she was carried home
unconscious in cab. 1t was later learn
ed that in q spell of laughter she had
swallowed silver. plate containing two
teeth. The lady fingered in agony until
to-day, when she died. At the postmortem
examination the teeth vas found in her
wiudpipe.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, Sept. 11.-One OF
tue greatest caveins that has yet occurred
In the coal regions startled the residents
of Wyoming valley last night. Just out.
side the town of Plymouth the earth
settled for distance of half mile.
affecting about thirty acres of territory,
belonging to the Delaware and Hudson
Railroad company. The entire territory
was undermined and was still being
worked out. The conclusion was thought
by many to be caused by an earthquake,
and the people in the city, four miles
distant, experienced a rocky sensation.
at the scene of the cave in this afternoon
the earth was broken and extensive Gre.
vices were running in every direction,
many of them extending to great depth.
Several mules which were in the mine
were killed, and nearly all the miners
lost their working tools. The damage
cannot as yet be ascertained, but it will
be immense. Workmen are this afternoon
endeavoring to effect an opening into the
mine, but there is great danger of water
entering from the surface aud shutting off
all further labor.
LYNcHBuRG, Va, September 15.-
a Mormon emigrant train on the Norfolk
and Western Railway was wrecked early
this morning about four miles below this
city. The train was a special, and was
running ahead of the regular passenger
train about twenty minutes. The wreck
was caused by small bridge giving way
after the engine and baggage car had
passed over it. The water in the creek
was very high, caused, by the heaviest
rain almost ever known in this section.
The emigrants numbered one hundred
and sixty. Two cars plunged into the
creek, but, strange TO say, no one WAS
killed, and but fifteen or twenty hurt;
one seriously. The first car that went
down turned completely over and is
total wreck, and the second car struck or
end end stood almost perpendicular. All
the passengers were badly shaken up, but
when brought here Elder W. R. Payne,
in charge of the party, stated that none
were crippled and all would proceed on
their journey as soon as the train could
be made up. There we're nine Mormon
elders in the party.
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