Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-07-16
THE SUNNY SOUTH.

Soous were uiiinaSCu Dy nrc Ut l.yHCH-
burg, Va.
Miss Regina Howell, of Bull Swamp,
: -, t,ss,tni' d suicide by taking con
ccntratcd lyc.
Benton Garner, an Is year old white
man, was drowned while bathing in Old
River, Louisiana.
The Southern Dental Association is in
session at Atlanta and the meeting will
continue until Friday.
A negro boy assaulted white girl
near Elbcrton, Ga, and was only Sc
vcrcly whipped by the citizens.
Miss Mary Il. Foster, well known
lady of Fauqnicr county. Va, was
thrown from buggy and killed.
Rev. A. l.. Wiley, of Mccklcnburg
county, was seriously injured by being
thrown out of a buggy and against a
tree.
A stock company with capital of
SlOO. 900 has been formed in Houston.
county, Ga, for the purpose OF raising
peaches.
Charles Crowdcr, a wcll-to-do and re-
spcctcd farmer, oi Cullman county, Ala,
cut his wiic's throat, probably fatally, in
quarrel.
Peter boyle. colorcd, jumped from u
dummy line car at Oxford, Ala, and was
thrown under the wheels. lie was in
stantly killed.
The dead body of Melville RAIDER was
found in Webster county, Va. There are
suspicious of foul play and an invcstiga-
ton is lcng made.
Rufus Bcnnct, a white man. assaulted
his Is year old daughter in Danvillc, Va,
and To silence her cries for help cut her
throat. She is not fatally hurt.
Johnson, City, Tenn, has popula-
tion, according tn the recent census, OF
i,lGo. In 1850 it had but little more
than 6OO-an increase of $50 per cent.
A $2OO.OOO fire occurred recently at
brunswick. Ga. The fire started at a
coal wharf and consumed large quanti-
ties oi grain. hay, groceries and liquors.
John Woodiin, justice OF the peace
was thrown against u moving saw at
Catlcttsburg Ky. His head was cut IN
two and his body divided from head to
foot.
Edwin \. Gcnnctt, Il prominent young
business man oi Nashville, was struck by
"A Louisville aud Nashville passenger train
aud Instantly killed near Edgciicld june
ton. Tenn.
Tony Frank, "a young Italian Of Bir-
mingllam, while trying To separate two
OF his countrymcn who were fighting,
received n knife wound in the back which
will prove fatal.
{. L. Pollard, foreman of the Chcsa-
pcakc and Ohio shops at Richmond was
crushed to death by heavy truck, which
got away from the men while being
loaded on a wagon.
White men. members Of the Amalgama-
ted Association oi Iron Workers. have been
put to work in Lookout rolling mills,
Chattanooga. in the places of the dis
charged colorcd employees.
Vim. ". Ilamman, of New Birming-
ham. Texas. was shot and killed by :. /.
Cooncy, n young merchant, formerly of
Nashville. Tenn. This tragedy was the
outgrowth OF II Islander suit.
Mr. Chas. Vcnablc, of Atlanta was on
top Of u moving freight car and struck
the root Of a shed through which the
train passed. lie was thrown under the
wheels and died shortly after.
John Robinson. u l5-ycar-old colorcd
hoy, was seriously burned at Columbia,
5. {. Some negroes jokingly tied paper
saturated with kerosene To his legs, and
lighted it, while the boy slept.
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ia ,,,;,,is hnnsc in Nnn,,,nn,cry and
iud,up her nsl,cp pullcd ont his knife and
en-, hcr in several places. She will prob.
ably die. Bailcy made his escape.
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Atlanta ponce r'ined sWior'u tIuo .
sunday and arrested io'h Io'her anu nus
wiic ior se'ing pc't on Sunn'y anu WIN
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{. {. Crowdcr. seventy years oI age,
was attacked aud severely injured by u
vicious Jersey bull IN Prince George
county, Va. Five oi his ribs were broken
aud he was cut and bruised, and proba'
bly, internally injured
III, ;,;I,, n, N,mnh;s Tenn. hasn't
settled ybn runs th, inil. Ills prisoucrs
rrn,sc IN nr,,,ny The cells In which the
anmr ,,u,Jr,r,s RECENTLY hanged were con.
fined ns they snv that The ghosts of th,
drnJ men haunt The cells,
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NJ Ohatcl,cc, calhoun county AVA.
instantly killed Henry Jones, n negro