Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-09-03
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

MRS NM SIDES and her son nd daughter
who live near Clemmonsville, n. c.. have
been at the point of death for two DAYS from
arsenical poisoning. Arsenic powder was
put in the coffee.pot Sunday while the fam
lily were at church, Monday morning at
breakfast all were taken i'll and a physi,
cian was summoned just in time to save them
immediate death.
A STREET sewer at Louisa, Ky, caved in
burrying five men. The sewer was eevep
leet deep and very narrow. 1t took an hours
harI W DIRK to recover the bodies. Oscar
hughes was dead. Abe Webb was rescued
more dead than alive, with both legs broken;
viii probably die. Leon Wilson is believed
to be fatally injured
The executive board of the Southern Rail
way and Steamship Association diScu5seI
the fraudulent substitution of cotton pra,-
ticed under the rebeiling privilege Com
missioner Stahlman was instructed to pre-
pare stringent rules for the protectio of the
roads. Some changes were made in cotton
rates and the board adjourned
REPORTS from Coal Creek say that miners
They are given an immediate examination,
and if circumstances point to their being
mixed up in the recent riots they are held.
1t is said that telegram has been discover
ed in Coal Creek directly duplicating Ford
II the riots.
The Southern Railway and Steamship As.
ISOLATION met at Atlanta, Ga, to consider
the question of continuing the Association
for another year from September LIST Some
of the companies have already signed the
agreement but others are holding out for
the settlement of various minor differences
The Tennessee board of State prison in.
spectorS have decided to return the convcti
to the mines from which they were released
by the rioters.
The reported uprising among miners at
Coalburg Ala, where convicts work in mines
turns out to be a tempest i'll a teapot. Frank
Morris, trusty convict, had assaulted lit
tie girl To prevent lynching he was hur-
risd though the woods to Birmingham jail.
Surprising he was still in the stockade the
mob of miners formed at midnight and seut
u committee to search the stockade This
alarmed the officials, who telegraphed for
100 armed men. When the miners learned
that Morris was not in the stockale they dis
persed
a STORY is published to the effect that the
notorious Capt Eugene Bunch met death at
the hands of one of his own band of out
laws Hopgood being charged with having
fred the fatal shot from behind, having been
promised immunity from prosecution if he
killed Bunch
FIRE of incendary origin destroyed the
Southsde Park, Columbia, Tenn The fol
lowing valuable horses were burned: Pince
Pilot, 2;22 PAGER, by Prince Pulaski Rosa G.,
PAGER, two-year-old, by Duplex; Black Bess
PAGER, 2:27; Minnie II. Fairfield, Addie Field
both by Adfield, 2;2S -; Hal Flo, Tom Hal,
jr., Duplex colt and a Tom Hal filly.
Adfield, 2. 2s II was seriously injured. Rosa
G. and Adtiela we're insured for $4,000 each
The loss on the other horses, able, and traps
is very heavy
A. F. FIELrs, rail road station agent at
Jennings, Fla, was drowned in Alapaha
river under peculiar circumstances. He was
bathing with party of friends, and got into
a whirlpool and was instantly drawn under
and drowned The river at this point is full
OF eddieS and rapids, and the waters are dis.
charged through numerous subterranean pas
sages into springs and sinks, some of then
many miles distant. The people confidently
believe that the 10 ly will corae - light III
one of these sinks and watches are TO be sci
at all of them