The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-03-20
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
BIRMING1lAM, Ala, March IA
special to the Herald froq1 Hartsell,
Morgan County. says that Robert Raines
was hanged to day for the murder on
January I, 1889, of his. brother, Bones
Rainea. Both parties were drunk when
the killing occurred. He confessed on
the scafold and asked forgiveness of all.
New ORLEANS, March ia Times
Democrats, Oacla. Fla. special reports
the killing of. FL. Burchfeld by bis
ffteen.year old sou. Burchfeld had
chastised the lad and had taken up his
gun to shoot his wife, when the boy drew
a pistol and shot his father dead. Burch.
field was considered as dangerous char
acter.
AsHEv1LLE, N. c., March IL
Reports coming from the great tobacco
centres in Western North Carolina show
chat at least one third of the plants in
beds have been killed by the cold weather
which prevailed Saturday night aud yes
terday. The peach and apple crops are
also almost wholly destroyed. The
mercury stood at ] 0 above zero Sunday
morning.
CHARLOTTE, N. c., March 9.-Yester
Gay Thomas Stewart was fooling with
pistol at his home at Monroe. AS usual
the pistol was not loaded. His aged
mother was sitting in chair near his
side. The pistol was accidentally dis
charged, and the ball wentin bis mothers
left breast, and with horrifying scream
she sprang to her feet, then slowly sank
to the floor. The young man, on discoy.
cry that be had shot his mother, became
frantic, and it required the strength of
four men to prevent him from commit.
ting suicide. Mrs. Stewart was alive to-
day, but there is very little hope of her
final recovery.
KANSAS CITY, March 15.-A special
to the Times from Bloomfield, Neb, says
A murder which was committed here
this afternoon at $3.50 was followed thirty
minutes later by the lynching of the MUIR
derer. ]. Stratton entered the butcher
shop of W. W. Lewis, where Lewis sat
reading newspaper. With the simple
announcement that he had been looking
for Lewis three days he began shooting
and following Lewis up as be groped his
way into the house, where he 6ied in.
stautly. Stratton was at once arrested,
and in half an hour he was taken out by
masked mob aud hanged. No cause
for the murder can be assigned.
CUMBERLAND, Nd, March IA
huge rock rolled down the mountain side
to. day and fell upon The West Virginia
Central Railroad track in cut between
Chafee and Blaine, forty miles West of
this city. A work train with a crew of
twelve men was dispatched to clear the
track. A large cable was placed around
the rock and attached to an engine, that
it might be dragged from the cut. All
was nearly ready and the men were max
ing final adjustment of the rope, when
the great mass of earth came rushing
down unon them from the steep mountain
side, overwhelming seven of the men.
Two were dead when taken out, one has
died since, and three were seriously and
perhaps fatally injured. Two of the
killed aud two of the injured we're Ital-
iana. One of the dead and one OF the
injured were citizens of the neighbor.'
hood. The obstruction delayed trains
several hours.
HUNTSVILLE, Ala, March l4.-Uni.
ted States Deputy Marshal Perry l..
Harrison brought in last night Rev
Press D. CLANCY, who is charged with
violating the postal laws while postmas-
ter at Dutton's store, Jackson county,
Ala, about FIVE years ago. CLANCY left
soon after that, and has since been in
Mexico and Missouri. He is minister
of the Northern Methodist church, and
was in the act Of beginning to preach at
church near the line between Alabama
and Florida, in a backwoodo settlement
about forty miles west of Pensacola,
when captured by Harrison, who presen.
ted himself as young brother divine.
In finding Chaney's whereabouts, Harri
son acted as fruit tree agent, among the
neighbors and to Chaney's wife, he hav-
ing left to I'll an appointment. CLANCY
is about thirty.6v years old, and has
wife and nine children. He is having
hearing before United States Commits.
sioner Mccullough.
P1TTsBURG, Pa, March 14.--As the
Western express on the Pennsylvania
Road passed through here, en- route to
the West, couple Of the passengers at
tracted general attention, partly on &C
count of their appearance and partly
because they we're fastened together by
pair of steel handouts. The larger of
the two vas an officer of Silver Cliff,
little mining town in Colorado, about
fifty miles from Denver. His companion
was a gambler named Martain Cain.
Nearly year ago, while taking part in a
poker game at Silver Cliff a dispute
arose, hot words followed, weapons were
drawn and Cain shot and killed promi-
nent citizen of the town who was taking
part in the game. Before he could be
caught the murderer had grabbed the
money on the table, nearly $4,000, aud
made his escape. Marshal James Hall
followed him through Europe, but was
never able to come up with him. At
last he learned that he had returned to
America. Hall returned and landed in
New York last week. The day he arri7-
ed he met Cain on Broadway. The
murderer came up to him, and, to the
officers surprise, surrendered himself.
| He said his conscience had troubled him
so that he had determined to return to
Silver Cliff and stand the punishment
for his crime. The pair are now en- route
there, and the officer says the man is
sure to be hanged. The prisoner says he
feels great deal better since giving him.