Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-07-24

vile will double track the Western an
Atlantic from Chattanooga to Atlanta
Will Williams, the negro who stole tn
Jewels from the Lookout Mountain hous
in Chattanooga, has been bound over t
court.
!, Adolph Ochs, editor of the Chatta
nooga Times, has been compared to Jos
cph Pulitzer of the World and the MAJ
still lives
Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, ha'
appointed the list of delegates to attcnt
the National Farmers Congress to b,
held at Council Bluffs, Iowa, August
1920.
Typhoid fever is reported in seventeen
counties in Tennessee, whooping cough
and mcascls in nine, scarlet fever in toul
and mumps, diphtheria. spotted fever
and crysipeas in one.
The steamer Gift was burned of La,
mons landing near Chattanooga. The
loss will foot up $4,000. Nobody was
injured, although the passengers were
forced to wade ashore.
In fight between two colored men at
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Tom Hillyard was instantly killed by
viii Watson. A 22-cal'bre revolver was
used. Watson now languishes in jail.
Ex-Governor Smith and other promi.
nent republicans of Alabama have issued
a call for republican convention to pro-
test against the Force bill A meeting OF
the chamber OF col. nerce has been called.
Ella Burch and Carrie Smith quarrclcd
over a mutual colored lover at Pigeon
Roost. Tennessee. Ella carved her rival
with a razor and killed her and was
taken to jail. The blood was wiped up
and the dance went Oh.
Jesse Hatchctt, colorcd, has been ar
rested at Danvillc, Va. charged with set
ting fire to another colored mans house.
lie tried to prove an alibi, hut was iden-
tilted by some women as the fire iicnd
and sent to the grand jury.
Governor Fow,e regrets but the State
will not allow of his offering a reward
Tor murderer unless the man is known.
The question came up on his being asked
to offer reward for the murderer OF
fisherman Foils at Wilmington.
Capt. John Bycrs, a prominent gentle.
man living in Staunton, Va, had his foot
caught in the wheel o' a buggy and
was draSsr,' TO dtH,li.. The terrible ac
,idcnt happ icd in the presence Of his
daughter who was in tie buggy.
Uncle Dave, an Alabama negro who
was with General Andrew Jackson in the
Indian war and was a ccntcnarian, has
Just died at Sheffield. Since 1912, when
his wife died, he has prayed daily at her
grave, although he married again.
a man named Ward started an origi.
nal package shop near Colinsvilc, Ala,
dynamite found its way under his place
of business and it went up sky high. No
one was in the house and MIR. Ward has
gone to parts unknown.
Caroline Hartley, n colorcd woman
living near Lcnoir, recently died, and
Just u few days before she told her friends
that before the war she had buried n
large sum of gold belonging to her mas
ter ut u place short distance below the
city. The ground has been thoroughly
spadcd but no gold has been found.
Andrew Young, negro living near Par
is, Texas, was called to his door at night
and was greeted with n vollcy of shot
and ball from rifles and pistols. He was
almost filled with bullets but may re-
cover. His tongue was cut in two, and
he cannot tell who shot him. The only
reason attributed for the deed is that he
had a row with some white boys.
Miss Belle Bates, young lady from
one of the best families OF Cleveland
Tenn, answered an advertisement Of n
California gentlemen, asking for cores
pondcncc with Southern young lady.
The couple correspondent and became en-
gagged. The young lady recently took n
trip to California and they met for the
first time. The marriage occurred shortly
afterwards.
The court house at Jackson, Tenn, is
being modcrnizcd and while &. W. King
was digging into the wall Of the circuit
court room he uncovered glass jar
which contained three $50 Confederate
bills. The jar was covered with hard
mud and had evidently been buried by
some one who lad faith in the establish
mcnt Of the Southern cause previous to
being placed where il has been hidden
the last twenty-five years.
Union county claims to have n wild
man who makes the woods his home and
lives on what he can steal from the far.
mcrs. Several times he has been shot at
charmed life. Women and children are
II .x( .s..l. Al
and the whole country is tcrrorizcd. He
is known to carry two rcvolvcrs and IL
is thought he is an escaped outlaw. A
party is to be organized to run him
down.
A. T. Reeves, who assassinatcd Father
Ashfcld OF St. Peters Catholic church,
Memphis, Tenn, in February, 1889, and
in the Nashville insane asylum from
which he escaped three weeks afterwards
has been arrested in Philadelphia in re.
sponsc to telegram from the chief Of
police at Memphis. lie will be held to
await the arrival of the rcquisition pa
pcrs.
The Southern Dental Association In
session at Atlanta elected the folio wing
officers: G. +. S. Wright, Of Charleston,
president X. n. Luckic, of Holly Springs,
Miss, first vicc-prcsidcnt; W. II. Rich.
ards, of Knoxville, Tenn, second vice
president; l.. p. Dotterer, Of Charleston,
third-vice president; b. X. Stubblefcld,
of Nashville, corresponding secretary,
and NJ. c. Marshall, Of Little Rock, re-
cording secretary.