The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-08-06
CRIMEs AND CASUALTIES.

Railroad, committed suicide here to-day
by swallowing an ounce of laudanum.
He was found about s o'clock this after
noon in an unconscious condition, lying
under a railroad bridge just above the
city. He was taken to the police station,
where he died at II o'clock tonight. He
left memorandum, stating that bad
treatment On the part of his wife caused
the rash deed.
SELwooD, FLA, July 9l.-A. G. Jones,
a section foreman on the Florida Central
and Peninsula Railroad, was shot and
killed last night by Miss Myra Fancher,
who is only sixteen years of age. For
about year Jones had paid attention to
Miss Fancher, snd it was generally un-
derstood that they were engaged to be
married. Two months ago, however, he
discarded her and married another.
Last night Miss Fancher laid in wait for
him on the street, and when be approach.
ed she blew out bis brains with q bullet
from q revolver. She was arrested, but
public sympathy is entirely on her side.
Jones had ruined her under promise of
marriage.
PROSPERITY, July ga serious cut.
ting scrape occurred here to-day at the
Alliance barbecue and picnic. An old
feud existing between James Hunter and
some of the Morrises was re.kindled.
Mr. James Hunter was struck on the
head with club, inflicting painful but
not serious wound. Mr.. George Morris
was badly cut in the face and neck. His
injuries are reported to be very danger
ous, and may prove fatal. Mr.. H. M.
Singly rushed in to settle the difficulty,
and was accidentally cut in. the throat.
MIR. singly's wound is very serious. Mr..
Julius Epting was cut on the back of his
right hand while attempting to stop
the FUSS Others received minor inju-
ries.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA, July 31.-Requi.
sition papers we're granted today by Gov.
ernor Jones for D. B. Whilden, who has
been arrested at Portland, Oregon, at the
request of the New York Mutual Life
Insurance Company. Whilden, who has
SAC, 900 on his life, disappeared in March,
1890, and was supposed to have been
drowned in the Tennessee River. The
Insurance Companies resisted the claim
and put detectives at work on the case.
WhiIden was heard of at Tacoma on Ju.
ly II, and detectives were sent there, and
on July "a he was arrested at Portland.
Five insurance companies are interested,
and suits against four of them for $4,000
of the $4,000, brought by Whilden's
wife, are now pending in the Birmingham
Courts. Unless he is released before the
requisition papers arrive, Whilden will
be brought back to Birmingham.
AUGUSTA, Ga, August LA wreck, in
ed, occurred at midnight last night at
Ridgeville, on the South Carolina rail-
road. The fast mail, which left Oolum-
bia for Charleston, ran into the way
freight, which had not cleared the main
line. Engineer Henry Brissendsn and
Fireman W. B. Brown, seeing the dan
ger they were running into, jumped from
the cab while the engine wss running
at full speed. Engineer BrisSenden had
his neck broken, his leg mangled, and
was cut in the stomach. He died Instant
", Fireman Brown also had bis neck
broken from the jump. There was an
other fireman in the cab, Mr.. Webb
johnson. Johnson did not leap, but re
mained in the cab until the engine
struck switch, and turned over on its
side. He escaped with broken leg.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA, July 31.-Fifty
kegs of powder in the Alabama Great
Southern depot exploded about midnight
last night, completely wrecking the build
ing and demolishing number of cars on
adjacent side tracks. Fire was noticed
in the building before the powder explo-
ded, but there Was scarcely time to give
the alarm before the explosion occurred.
The Depot was almost entirely consumed
with it's contents. The latter are valued
at $4,000 and the other losses will foot
up shout the same amount. Only one
man VAS in the building and he was
thrown out of bed by the explosion. A
few minutes before the explosion q
watchman had been over the building
and found it all right. Glass was shat
tered in all the windows around the
neighborhood for four OF FIVE blocks, and
houses trembled for mile around. 1t is
believed that two men seen loafng around
the building early in the night set the
building on fire.
OSBORN, Ga, July 29.-While 200
people were assembled at Lower High
tower Church, uesr here, in Towns Coun.
ty, on last Sunday, stroke of lightning
fell near the Church, and glancing from
the ground where it first struck, proceed