The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-03-14
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
CHATTANOOGA, March 5.-One huns
dred and fifty men, women and children
passed through the city tonight from
Georgia and Alabama, bound for Utah,
in charge of three Mormon elders. They
go tojoin the Mormon Church. The
party is composed Of 81 ignorant and
destitute class Of people, who claim they
have been promised homes and plenty of
work. They are to be followed by
another batch of one hundred tomorrow
night.
LITTLE ROCK, March 8.-United States
Marshal Faulkenburg arrested in Con.
way county yesterday Martin Thorpe
and William Garner, leaders of the most
extensive gang Of counterfeiters in the
Southwest. Officers have been on the
track Of them Tor months. An immense
quantity Of bogus money, comprising FIVE,
ten and twenty dollar imitation gold
pieces, WAS also secured. Over dozen
persons are implicated comprising some
well. known people. Thorpe and Garner
have been bound over. The arrest causes
a great sensation.
XEN1A, ONO, March 9.-The 3-year-
old son and the 5 year old daughter of
Mr.. Jacob Smith, who resides northwest
ofsthis city, found q copper flask Of fpow-
der, containing about one pound Of the
explosive. They threw it into the open
door Of q big wood stove, when it went
of, tearing the doors and windows ont
of the room, and badly injuring both
children. The little girls eyes are burn.
ed so badly, it's thought, that she will
never be able to ace if she RECEIVERS,
Their clothes caught fire, and only
the prompt efforts Of the mother, who
was in the neyt room, saved them from
burning up.
HARRoDsBURa, KY, March 9.-The
nuptials Of Mr.. Stephen Tyler and Miss
Mary Jane Bottom were celebrated at
Dixyille, this county, yesterday after
noon. Last night large crowd of young
men and boys gathered to have char.
5ivari, and had brought with them drums,
bells, horns, tin pans, horse.f fddles, fire.
arms, and, in fact, every conceivable
thing on which q noise could be made.
The groom appeared at the door, and
when the crowd attempted to scatter Q
pistol was discharged, the ball entering
his shoulder, making dangerous
wound. It is not known who did the
shooting. Z.
CHARLOTTE, N. O., March 10.-A very
peculiar accident, proving fatal to two
negroes, occurred in CASTOR County last
Friday night. Leander and Bob Sloan,
two brothers, had been hauling cotton
seed for Andy Ranklin and storingit in an
old house. The room had become almost
filled BY night, when the two brothers
Islay down by the large pile Of cotton seed
to sleep. Yesterday morning they did
mot come ont of the house, and Rankin
on going in to inquire the reason discov-
erred that the cotton seed had fallen dur.
ing the night until their bodies we're
completely covered, and they were lying
beneath it, having been suffocated while
asleep.
B1RM1NGHAM. ALA, March S.-Near
Gate City Junction, q few miles from
Birmingham, at 2 O'Clock last night, a.
w. Busby was sitting by his freside and
bis wife and children we're in bed.
Without a note Of warning, a bullet
from Winchester rife passed through
the window and struck him just under
the;left ear, causing instant death. He
had quarrel yesterday with q sawmill
man from Pelham, named Grant, over
some lumber debt. Grant subsequently
braced up with whiskey and made
threats to some companions that he
would settle with Busby before 9 o'clock,
He is supposed to have been Busby'a
assassin. 15s.5.s5.5 .z
CHARLESTON, March 6.-John D.
Wrede, q drummer for commission
house in this city, met terrible death
last night. He left his home about 9
i O'Clock and was not heard from till about
]: 9 8. m. to-day, when his body Was found
stuck in the mud at Hunters dock, on
the Eastern water front. The body was
found buried in the mud, the water
|:being just below his arms, which we're
extended, and myriads Of crabs feasting
on his face. 1t is supposed that be fell
from the wharf into the dock, and while
trying to extricate himselfsank SO deep
in the mud as to be unable to get out.
Atthis hour no p. m. the tide was low,
and at high tide there is not over three
feet of water on the, spot where he per.
ished. He must have been slowly
drowned by the rising tide. There are
residences within 100 yards Of the place
! where the unfortunate man met his terri.
Bile death, but his cries were unheard.
He must have been alive for four, hours
before:the tide reached bis mouth and
drowned him. The place where the &C.
cident occurred is noted as death trap,
Wrede being the fourth victim who has
perished there In the same way. It isa
dock far removed from the river and
which is filed With pludf mud, yielding
almost as quicksand. The mud is bare at
ebb tide, and the food tide covers it only
from two to three feet.
CHARLOTTE, N. g., March 8.-The most
daring case Of robbery ever known in
Mecklenburg County was committed
here last night. This morning 1t was
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