The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-06-18
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

HANIoNToN, N. j., June 12.-During
a thunder storm to-day lightning came
down the chimney killing Dan Cross and
his two little daughters, aged II and II
years.
NINETY SIX, June 11.-Mr. Henry
Parkman, well.to-do young farmer of
Edge6eld, living twelve miles below here,
Sunday evening was struck and instant.
ly killed by lightning. When discovered
his clothes were on fire. He leaves wife
and five children.
BIRMINGHAM, June 11.-John Thom-
as, II years old, met a horrible death at q
saw mill near Marion yesterday. He was
working around the saw, when be stepped
on q log that rolled from under him.
His body came down on tho saw, revolv.
ing at full speed, and his body was cut
completely in two parts through the
stomach.
WAYcRoss, Ga, June 11.-Willie,
the fourteen.-year-old son of Mr.. ]. W.
Leigh, while picking berries on the Sth
instant back of his fathers field, was
bitten on the leg by large rattlesnake
about o'clock in the afternoon. near
Folkston, Ga. He died the following
morning at $50 o'clock.
BLOOMINGTON, ILL, June 22.-Nearly
one hundred children and others were
poisoned by ice cream eaten at festival
at the Christian Mission Church on
Wednesday evening, and several had
narrow escapes and suffered greatly.
Similar experience followed the reception
at the home of the Hon. Jas. E. Ewing,
following the marriage of Ewing's daugh.
ter. A number of guests who partook
of the banquet have since become vio-
lently i'll. Tie guests of other recent
social gatherings have been similarly
attacked, and much excitement resulted.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, June 12.-Hon.
J. N. Gilchrist, prominent young MEM
Der of the legislature from Montgomery
County, committed suicide at the Mer-
chants hotel here this morning. He
was found in his room about 8 o'clock,
unconscious, by bell boy. Physicians
were summoned, but he never rallied.
He left note addressed to his father,
Colonel J. G. Gilchrist, bidding him
goodby, asking his forgiveness for his
act, and giving as reason for his deter
mination to take his own life that he
preferred death to dissipated life. He
had been drinking hard recently, and
had become desperate.
R1NGGoLD, GA, June 12.-While Mrs.
Laura TRIMMER was out in her flower
garden watering flowers, she chanced to
look up in tree, and saw sight once
seen never to be forgotten. It was q
covey of about fifteen birds around a
snake. The snake had stealthily crawled
up the tree and charmed the little birds.
After looking few moments at the
reptile Mrs. TRIMMER decided to "tfx"
him. So she went into the house and
procuring her husbands shotgun, repair
ed to the battle ground, and taking good
aim, she fired. The snake tumbled out
of the tree dead, but she gave him the
other barrel just for luck. His snakeship
measured exactly five feet and one inch.
he was Immediately hung up for rain.
ALTOONA, Pa, June 12.-While COM
ing down the mountain from LloydsVille
to Bellwood, on the Pennsylvania and
Northwestern Railroad, last midnight, q
heavy coal train got beyond control, and,
dashing down the grade at fearful rate
of speed, was piled up and smashed into
kindling wood at the curve on the side of
deep ravine, three miles north of Bell.
wood. The engine and twenty-five cars
loaded with coal lay piled up in q mass
of fbroken wood and twisted iron at the
bottom of the ravine, and among the
debris we're the bodies of the conductor,
engineer and one brakeman with almost
the semblance of humanity crushed out
of them. Other train hands escaped
with their lives, but all were more or less
injured.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, June 10.-A spe.
cial from Scottsboro to the Age. Herald
tells horrible story. This morning Mr..
and Mrs. Allen Young, who live near the
Tennessee River, started to the field to
plant corn. Nothing was heard of them
until iust before noon, when their ten.
year-old daughter started to the field
with dinner for her father. On the way
she found the corpse of her mother lying
by the path with a horrible cash on her
forehead, seemingly made by arock. Her
husband could nowhere be found. The
last seen of him vas by boy, who saw
him in the woods sometime after the deed
skinnipg the bark from a hickory sapling.
He was presumably preparing to hang
himself. He has been known to be un.
balanced mentally, but it had never
taken the form of enmity toward his
wife.