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

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
CHICAGO, October IA Lima, Ohio
special says: Eleven mer sro reported
to have been killed in 3 quarry, near
here, by hn upheaval Of earth, which was
followed by the spouting of q subterra.
mean stream of water 200 feet in the air.
No particulars are at hand.
INDIANApoL1B October 7.-At Mount
Vernon, George Trice, an aeronaut with
Wallace's circus, made an ascension. AS
he descended over the river he became
tangled in the rope, and Was dragged
| through the watet and drowned. This
was bis huhdredlh ascension.
! CAYUeA, ONT, October 4-Thr,e
+, children, named Walton, obtained &C.
cess to the powder house of the Gysum
| mine here yesterday afternoon and one
of them lighted match and ignited q
| quantity Of powder. One child was lit
| orally blown 10 pieces aud the others can.
| not recover.
| Fort WAYNE, IND, October "A
| traction engine and threshing machine,
while being moved across small stream
near Janesville, ip thi4 county, yesterday,
broke through the BID, ,e and landed in
| the water some thirty feet below. Five
men were buried under the engine
John Sparks and Henry Wright were
pinioned beneath the boiler, aud before
( they could be rescued had been Acslded
to death by escaping steam. The three
others were severely but not fatally iD
jured.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, October 3.-A
sensation was created in Chambers
County several days ago by the arrest of
the Rev. ]. FL. M. Duran, Methodist min.
lister, charged with passiog counterfeit
money. He was lodged in jail and his
trial came off yesterday. He admitted
that be had passed spurious money, but
proved that be had got it out Of the con-
tribution box. There we're eight silver
dollars in the box and seven of them
were counterfeit. He says God and the
sinners who passed the coins were the
only ones who knew. The csse was
dismissed on account of the officers ina.
bility to get the absent witnesses.
| INDIANAPOLIS, IND, October 5.-Two
gangs of counterfeiters were surrounded
near Palon yesterday by United States
officers. Eight men were captured, and
are being brought to this city in charge
of Deputy Marshal Mounts Several
| months ago some spurious silver dollars
we're put on tho market in this vicinity
and Treasury Agent Carter, sfter consid.
| {roooI ha OF IF fN
Orange County. A trusted man was
sent to the locality. he iDgratiated MIN.
self into the confidence Of the men and
gradually accumulated evidence against
the unsuspicious violators with yester-
I days results. There are fifteen men in
all engaged in the making of counter
felt money.
CHICAGO, October Airs. Mary
O'Brien, so years of age, was robbed
yesterday of So 600 that represented her
savings for years. Mrs. O'Brien came
from Waltbam, Mass, Wednesday, on
her way to her sons home at Elgin.
She had sold her home in Waltham,
aud in long envelope buttoned inside
her dress were the proceeds of the sale.
Mrs. O'Brien vent 10 cheap hotel near
the depot, where she was given a room.
Yesterday the odor of coal gas was no.
ticed coming from her room. The door
MAS broken open and the gray-haired
occupant was found lying on the floor
unconscious. Assistance was given with
such yigor that Mrs. O'Brien was soon
restored to consciousness, but her money
had disappeared. An employee of the
house has been arrested.
CHICAGO, October "A dispatch from
Jamboree Pike, KY, says: "The old
Hatfield. Mccoy feud has broken out
again, and at least three more lives have
have been sacrificed in the bloody vendet-
la, which has now lasted over seven
years. The shooting occurred at q mar
risge at the farm house of Peter Mccoy.
His daughter was to become the wife OF
John Hand, relative of the Hatfield
gaug, and members of both factions had
sworn to prevent the union. Hand had
never been connected with the disputes
of the factions and refused to recognize
the leaders. On Tuesday nightthe bridal
party assembled in McCoy's house, and
just as young Hand and Miss Mccoy
stood before the minister volley was
poured through the window which killed
both of them and fatally wounded the
clergyman. Report says that the farmers
and mountaineers Of the locality are
hunting for the murderers, but no trace
of them has been found"
NASHVILLE, TENN, October 4--News
comes from Wilson County that Mormon
elders have been driven out by White
Caps. The elders disappeared some time
ago, when the agitation WAS hot against
them, but few days ago returned, Be.
lieving the storm to have blown over.
Eowever, the people who warned them
proposed to make their threat good.
Forty or fifty masked men robed in
white last night visited the houses of
William Barrett, Thomas Smith and Lee
Barrett, where the elders have been,
searching for them. Some one, however,
had given warning, and not an elder
was to be found. These men were eau.
toned against allowing the elders to
ever darken their doors again, and the
elders left the County yesterday. a
number of converts have declared they
are done with it. The experience of q
lady of the neighborhood, now in Bowles,
KY, has had beneficial effect. She
went to Utah as convert, but is back in
her old home, warning others.
MOBILE, Ala, Oct. 3.-The assassina.
tion committed in the church at Moss
Point, Miss, last night was cold blooded,
and entirely without cause. It seems
that halfwitted negro, crazed with
religious mania, went out last night with
his double barrelled shotgun, and, seeing
the people seated quietly attending their
deyotions in the Presbyterian Church,
fred off both barrels of his gun through
the open front door ofthe church. There
was 80 much CONSERVATION among the
congregation that many thought thatan
organized attack was about to be made
on them. So, instead of pursuing the
assassin, they shut the door, and could
hardly be persuaded to open it even to
the friends who were attracted to the
church by the noise of the gun. Mean.
time the negro escaped round behind the
church and into the woods He was