Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-12-12
SUMMARY OF SOUTHERN NEWS

STEPHEN G. RYAS formerly large dry
goods merchant of Atlanta Ga, went 10 jail
at Atlanta The Supreme Court Of Georgia
deereed that he should psy MS creditors
sI2l, t0o or go 10 Jail for in indefinite period.
lie claimed that he had lost his fortune in
betting aud outside speculation The court
deemed his accounting insufficient, and adj
judged him in contempt
THE Tennessee board of prison inspectors
met at Nashville and ordered the return Of
the conyicts who were released from Coal
Greek and Brieeville 10 those two places.
The order in general terms puts no restriction
on the lessees, nor does it fix the time when
the conYicts shall be returned
Cor. GEoRGE II. SNYDER tried at Austin,
Texas, Tor the murder of his wife, Ida at
their home in San Mario, was convicted of
murder in the first degree. The jury fixed
the penal At life imprisonment instead OF
hanging giving the prisoner the benefit of
the doubt as TO his sanity.
THE Augusta GA Exposition closed with
great eclat Exhibitors and visitors are very
we'll pleased. The exposition was q great
success in every Enthusiastically and
financially.
NEAR oneonta, Ala, M unknown person
called Stephen Copes, q well-known farmer,
to his door and shot him TO death without a
word. No cause whatever is given for the
deed nor have the officers succeeded in
catching the assassns.
A LARGE and enthusiastic meeting of the
citizens of Hartman, Tenn, was held, at
which preliminary arrangements were made
looking to the securing Of the next national
prohibition convention ut Hartman.
GOVERNOR BUCHANAN, Of Tennessee, de-
cares that the convIcts shall be returned to
the mines if ittakes every sble-bodied nan in
the State to do it,
A TRAIN on the. South Carolina Railroad
was wrecked near Summervlie. The fire.
man was Killed, and baggage master,
expressman, and three passengers injured. A
rail was misplaced. It's supposed BY dis
charged employe Of the road,
AFTER two persons in Georgia had spent
some so in a lawsuit over some six geese
they concluded thatit was expensive business,
aud compromised the case by dividing the
fowls between them equally.
WHITE miners employed by the Cumber-
land Mining Company, at Oliver Springs,
Tenn, attacked the colored miners and gave
hem notice that if they did not leave in
.wenty.four hours they would be killed, The
company had warrants issued for ten Of the
rioters and two we're arrested. The others
He'd TO the mountains
THE McDougald- murder trial at
Fayetteville, n. G., resulted in a verdict of
not guilty,
A COLLISION occurred at the railroad cross
ing, the rear car OF Belt Line train on the
Sherman Heights Division being struck and
knocked from the track by delayed express
train on the East Tennessee Main Line. The
Belt engineer stopped his train when near the
crossing, and, having the right OF way,
moved along. The express made no pretense
toward stopping ard eollided with the rear
eoseh. that was occupied by white neope,
fed it of the rails and threw it down the
embankment. There was at least dozen
passengers in the ear, and oil were hurt.
ASHLEY WtTHEBLI. James Moss, Edward
Williamson and Henry Mosley, laborers en-
ployed on the government works near Hope
field, Ark, were drowned while on their way
10 work. Their sont was struck by a sudden
gale and capsized.
The annual report Of the Kentucky rail-
road commissioners recommends that law be
passed providing for separate coaches for
white and black passengers. This is probably
due in part to the unfortunate shooting of Miss
McEwan by negro i'll a row between whites
and blacks On a Louisville and Nashville
train in September last.
THE Georgia General Assembly elected
Attorney General Y. J. Pope associate justice
Of the Supreme Court.