The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1889-04-25
SOUTHERN oLEANlNos,

/ Policeman Hendrick, is dead Hendrick
was lodged in jail.
! Mack Carneal, yardman in the Louis
vile & Nashville yards at Birmingham,
! Ala, was struck by locomotive few
nights ago and almost instantly killed.
| Carneal leaves wife and two children.
| Rain has at last stopped the forest fires,
which have been so destructive in North
| Carolina. Immense stretches Of the long
| leaf pine country have been burned, en-
| failing irreparable loss.
| John Green, negro, now living in JEFF
fersonville, Ind, two years ago, in the
| Federal Court at Louisville, KY, sued a
number of white men of Hart County,
KY, for ku- kluxing him wniie he was liv-
| ing in that county. The suit has been
compromised by the defendants paying
Green 500 and costs.
| The stable of James Miller, colored
hackman of Louisville, KY, two horses, q
carriage and his colored driver, sleeping
on the second floor, were burned few
days ago. Miller, as soon as he discov-
cred the fire, rushed into the building to
save his horses, but was overcome by the
smoke and lost his life.
An interesting historical document, up
to few days past, was the property of
Captain r. A. Hardie, Uniontown (Ala.)
| cltiZeU. IL was Uue luduRtlTd dl huufcSS VI
General w. ii. Harrison delivered on
March 4, 1s41. The address is printed on
satin, and is perfectly clear and well pre-
served Captain Hardie has sent it to
President Harrison.
At Ringgold, Ga, a few nights ago,
Jacob A. Parson, contractor, and five
of his family were poisoned by drinking
| coffee. A table spoonful of arsenic was
found in the bottom Of the coffee pot. The
attending physician said the family would
recover.
John Banks shot and killed Andrew
Taylor near Coal Greek, Tenn, few
| nights ago. Banks was badly wounded
by Taylor's brother.
VIM. Dibble, alias j. E. Dow, colored,
was convicted of the murder of Walter
Long. in Thomas County, Ga, and sem
fenced to death.
The Southern stove molders at Chatta-
noogo, Tenn, elected Fillmore Gibson, of
that city, president, and p. L. Pfngst, of
Louisville, KY, secretary. They ad-
journed to July 10.
y Miss Mamie Tatum, of SouthPittsburgh
Tenn, was shot through the brain and
instantly killed by her brother, Joseph
Tatum, few nights ago. The shooting
was accidental.
Isaac Jones, Jacksonville (Fla.) ne
gro, broke every bone in the body of his
four -year-old child with an iron bar, a
few days ago, and then fatally beat his
wife. Jones says he has fts, and that he
was suffering with one at the time of the
deed.
The Grand Lodge of Tennessee, Knights
Of Honor, met in annual session In Nash
vile last week. There was a large attend
ance, ninety-six out of 119 lodges being
represented. The reports of the grand
officers showed that the order is in -four
ishing condition.
VIM. Wiley, who was recently tried in
the Circuit Court at Hopkinsville, KY,
charged with the murder of Albert
Wright at dance near Madisonville last
December, was found guilty and sem
fenced to the penitentiary for life.
Joshua f. Ross, convicted of the mur-
der of his uncle, George Hughes, at Glou-
oester Court House, Va, and sentenced to
Ave years. Imprisonment, will have an
other trial. 1t was asked on the ground
that one of the jurors had expressed an
opinion on the case before he was
sworn.
Captain John Smedley, an old and
prominent citizen, died at his home in
Paducah, KY, few days ago. He was in
the sixty first year of his age. For a
number of years he was engaged on the
river. and for several years past was
member of the City Council.
Henry Rice, the murderer of Vince
Olive and John Hollis, who was lodged in
Jail at Florence, Ala, had to be moved to
Huntsville for safety. A mob was or
ganized, and the leaders declared they
would have the prisoner and lynch him.
A west-bound passenger train, on the
Vicksburg g. Meridian railroad struck an
old gentleman named Dolittle, at Newton,
Miss, few days ago, inflicting wounds
from which he died. He was upwards of
eighty years old. and being very decrepit,
did not hear the train in time to get off
the track.
Bishop Walden, DR.. J. C. Hartzell and
associates held meeting at Chattanooga,
Tenn, a few days ago, at which the papers
were signed and the unifcation of the
Chattanooga University and the Grant
Memorial University at Athens was COM
pleted. The two universities are now
combined in one. The School of Liberal
Arts will be in Chattanooga, the School
of Technology at Athens, both being un-
der one board.
The Baltimore Manufacturers Record
reports that there is great activity
throughout the South in building cotton
seed -oil mills, and that dozen mills, &c
cost 81 ,000, 900 or more, have been or
ganized in the last two weeks, while there
is report that 81, 100000 company ha
been organized in Philadelphia to build
mills in the South. The new mills re-
ported are nearly all by independent
companies not connected with the Cotton
Oil Trust.
A negro named Grant, who has been
A. - 4l,.., s.H ID
Miss, killed the jailor, Robert Thomas,
a few nights ago. The negro was put in
Jail some time ago under q writ of lu-
macy. 1t is thought that he was harmless
and he was allowed to walk around in |
the jail-yard when the negro struck him
ON the head with an axe, almost severing |
the head from the body.
ANorthern tourist reoentlyphotograped, |
at the Secretary OF States office in Co |
lumbia s. c., one Of the most remarkable |
documents existing among the records of |
the State. 1t is the original deed made by |
the Casseque Indians, in 1915, to the Lords |
proprietors of Carolina for all that tract |
of land which now constitutes what Is |
known as the low country Of South Caro-
lima.
Colonel w. q. Johnson, OF Lexington,
Ga, has in his library book that was |
printed in 1868, making it 226 years old. |
II is "Rolle's Abridgment of the Laws Of |
England" at that period. Role was the |
presiding Justice at the trial of and signed |
the death warrant Of Charles l., under |
which he was beheaded.
William Baker, brakeman, was at
tempting to uncouple moving train at
Darlington, KY, few days since, when |
his foot caught in frog and he was
thrown under the car-wheels. His leg
was broken in three places and he was
otherwise badly injured.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad |
Company will shortly erect a steel plant