The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-10-03
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

HUNTINGTON, w. Ma, Sept 27.-On
Big Heat creek, Lincoln county, AL.
Brbmfeld and his newly married wife
were returning home after their wedding
trip when they were ambushed BY man
who shot them both. Mrs. BrumGeld
died in few hours. Brum6eld Is dying.
He claims to have terognizeR the sssas.
sin, but refuses to say who it was. It is
the belief in the neighborhood that q
former suitor Of Mrs. Brum6eld, who
failed to win her, is the murderer.
GoocHIASD G. Fl, Va, Sept. 26.-
Intense excitement Was created here
tonight during church meeting By the
appearance Of Amy Boggs, small color
ed girl, in the congregation, fourishing a
razor. Men, women and children ran in
all directions. Some women tainted, !,
Others tumbled in the mud, and the girl
was soon in possession of the church, her
eyes glariug and her slight figure tremb.
ling with frenzy. When she had driven
the last perscn from the church, she cried
out: "Now want to see the devil"
She was finally oVerpowered by two con-
stables, and an examination showed that
she was in religious ecstacy and was
looking for the devil, whose throat she
had taken VOW to cut. II was fortun.
ate that the congregation fed before her,
as she had been told that the devil was
in some people, aud she designed cutting
them open to get at him.
ODESSA, September 27.-The wiping
out an entire family of seven persons,
which has just occurred here, makes one
of The saddest stories of tragedy ever
recorded In the city. The head of the
family was a teacher named Sause,
Oyerworked and depressed he was driven
to commit suicide. he left widow and
five children. The woman's mind was
unbalanced by the burden of fcare thrown
entirely upon her by her husbands death
and while in this crazed condition she
killed all the children. Their little
bodies she threw down to the ground
from third-story window of the house
Then, With despairing cry, the poor
woman jumped from the window herself
and striking heavily on the ground re.
ceived injuries from which she cannot
recover.
NEaAUNEE, MICH, September SO.-A
brakeman named Thomas Higgins slipped
between two freight cars on moving
train, near Maple Ridge, to day. The
signal to stop was given by another
brakeman who saw the fall, and the train
stopped and backed up to where Higgins
lay. Eight cars passed over his body
which was frightfully mangled. Hi
head was completely severed from biz
body and lay several feet from the track
Fireman Byo picked up the head and
was horror. stricken to see the eyelids
close and again open and partly close
again. This was seen by Engineer Viii.
liam Whitney and the brakeman. AL
three were badly frightened. This sigr
Of consciousness was given several min
utes after the head was severed from the
body. The three witnesses are reliable
men.
WAYNEsBoRo, Ga, Sept. 3O.-Greer
Howell is negro who owns plantation
and is well to do in life, and lives in the
lower part of Ireland district, near the
home of Captain A. L. Archer. He is
highly respected by all who know him
both white and coIored. Green is fifty
two years old, and once he was as black
as any of the fifteenth amendments, ane
now he is nearly white all over. Shortly
after the close of the late war, two sma!
white spots, about the size of nickel
anneared on hig wrist about two inches
apart, and they remained for short time
and disappeared, and nothing more va
thought Of it till 1885, wheo they return
ed in the same place and have beer
spreading since that time, and now he il
spotted all over, and in few years ht
will be white all over. He does no
suffer any pain from the spots, and h'
says the only inconvenience he experien
ces is from the sun, and it causes them t
blister.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA, Sept. 30.-A I'll