Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-19
SUMMARY OF SOUTHERN NEWS.

ISAAC NJ. ELM, a well.known stock dealer,
of Dallas, Texas, was shot dead by Add
Owens. The cause is unknown. Owens has
been arrested.
THE Ocean and Beach Hotels and three
cottages at Tyhee Beach, twenty miles from
Savannah, Ga, burned at II o'clock the other
night. Estimated loss, S41 900; insurance I'M
known. The fire started in the Beach House
and is believed to be ofincendary origin.
THE charcoal furnace at Grand Rivers
KY, was blown out after a two months run.
Thecause wasa ''burnout, with loss of ST..
co.,, second furnace will be ready for blast
in two weeks.
ORIGIN KEATS. farmer OF Hopkinsville,
KY, was driving home in his wagon when he
walked out on to the tongue Of his vehicle to
arrange some harness. sudden jostle threw
him to the ground, when one of the wagon
wheels passed over his body AMI one over
his head, killing him almost instantly.
REV. T. c. BAILEY, editor of The Biblical
Recorder Raleigh, n. G., after preaching a
sermon was immediately stricken speeches.
with paralysis.
THE brothers Bar.inger killed Thomas Tai
bert, the founder AMI once president OF the
International Order of Nat;on7l Mechanics,
OF Florence, 5. c.
THERE is much excitement Mt Messy Creek
Tenn, over some stories that are aioat re-
gardlng the supposed hidden wealth of one
John Peck, who recently died near that place
1t is claimed that money which he inherited
from a relative who died several years ago
has been steadily changed by him into gold
and silver and then buried. To bear out this
story it is alleged that two colored men two
years ago found 81 500 that had been hidden
by Peck in the WOO Is, aud it is further stated
that shortly before he died Peck attempted 10
get coored man to asst him in burying
81, 600 the latter refusing. 1t is stid that there
is great deal of digging done after night
around Messy Greek by people who expect to
strike gold.
Mrs. adobe BEACuAM. of Columbia, S.
C., left her seven months old baby sleeping
in the hou,e and stepped out. After she had
gone Bud Harris, little fve-year old negro
boy, who lives next door, slipped in, carrying
o bent and heavy piece of iron, with sharp
ened point, with which he repeatedly struck
the infant on the h adj. Seeing the blood part
everywhere, he fled TO the yari. The child's
mother having heard the screams, rushed
back to the house to find the infant saturated
N blood and dying. The boy murderer was
found sitting at the front gate digging holes in
the ground with the bloody weapon. lie
frankly MESSED the deed.
CLARK COLE, Robert Farrell, +. a Yerger
and o. L. Webber, deputy sherifs, who went
to the Curve, on the fernando road. three
miles from Memphis, Tenn. to arrest some
coored men, were shot by sympathizers with
the men of whom the officers were in search.
Deputies Coal and Farrell were MORALLY
wounded The wounds of the other two are
necessarily fatal
ALL of the officers and leading employees of
the Louisiana sta e lottery were arraigned
before the United States Court in New Orleans
charged with violating the anti-lottery postal
law under an Indictment found in Trenton,
n. J. This makes the fourteenth indictment
which they have been called Oh to answer In
as many different States, from Massachusetts
to Dakota and from Minnesota to Texas.
GREEN CAMPBELL was convicted of wi e
murder at Birmingham, Ala, and the pun
ishment fixed at death.
4 FIRE in Turner Bros, trunk factory,
Birmingham, A Ia. caused loss of about S.,
90 on the stock, which was insured for So
900. The Levy Commission Company, in the
building; lost s., 00) on stock; insurance, 81,
500. The loss on the building was $1,000,
which is covered by insurance.
Mrs. GEO. MAEsTEN, Chattanooga, Tenn,
poisoned her baby by mistake. She had in.
structions to give the baby one drop of aconite
and tablespoonful of cough syrup. She
made mistake and reversed the dose, with
fatal result
The boiler of the steam saw mill of Col L.
d. Stephenson, seven miles from Raleigh. n.
G., exploded. The LoiIer was hurled $50 feet
across the creek John Stephenson son of
the proprietor. was thrown sixty yards through
trees and killed. lie was terribly mingled
Fireman Jones was Blown about twenty feet,
bat was not fatally injured.
THREE coirred men, charged with com
plieity in the ambushing and shooting of four
deputy shcriiis in Memphis, Tenn, were taken
from jail by mob at o'clock in the morning
and shot to death.
LIST Of Patents granted to Southern IN,
'Ventors TINS week: j. b. Underwood, Fayet'e-
Vile, NC, tigsret,e-machuei NJ. II. Il. b.
Ninsen. Eosson, Ark, Cotton-scraper J. l.
Nogeler, Baltimore, Nd, Bottle; J. W.WilSs,
"iiksoufg * {. Whiuts, Chester, 5 c, Car
coupler A, p. Wlllmm@ AdamsviiIcr ;. l.,
Eertilizer-iistnbuter; A, A. Wood, Atlanta,
ga Spnn:-no'or; }. a. Simmons, Enondale'
MISS, MISUNDERSTANDING; 7. II. Paul, Frost
burg Md, Apparatus tor making Illuminating
gas IT, W Price, Baltimore, Electric circuit
closer q. u. Purdy, Parkersburg, W. Va
Machine for jrdenting and crushing meats
etc; l.. l. Eies Il W. ). Horny, Bait NOR,
Regulating socket or holder for incondcscent
electric lamps; c. +. McAuley Erin Tenn,
Post driver; T. b. Mclean, Mullins, S, C.,
Fertilizer distributors :. Meyer, Baltimore,