Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-09-24
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

SEWER County, Tenn, White Caps took
George Stevens, farmer, his mother, his
sister Lizzie, and woman named Tilda Vest
from their house, stripped them of their
clothing and whipped them nearly to death.
They were ordered to leave the county with
in two days under pain Of death. Stevens
recently left his wife and children to liYe
with the Vest woman, and this was given as
the cause Of the outrage. A company of
law-abiding citizens is being formed to rid
the section of the White Cap gang.
THOMAS ALLISON, was taken from the
Surry county, n. c., jail and lynched On
August 20 Allison accused W IL Brown on
the streets of Mt. Airy, NC, of backing out
of foot race with Allison. Brown denied
the charge. Hot words followed and Allison
shot Brown twice. Citizens pursued and
caught Allison 1t is thought the lynching
occurred because Allison's trial was post
poned and his ultimate escape from justice
was feared.
PARTICULARS Of fatal shootingin Stokes
county, n. c., just come to light. George
Hall and Arto Smith had quarrel over a
pistol which Smith had He'll took the pis-
tol away from Smith, who then went home
and reported the trouble to his father 1t is
stated that Smiths father armed himself and
followed Hall three miles and then shot him
in the neck, the ball coming out under the
chin.
CHRISTIAN BRUCE, an aged farmer was
driving hom. from Augusta, Ky, he was at
Y tack bod ,x-C ba,lag Ott.a ~ MoI7
two young drunken fellows. Bruce was
knocked in the head with stave and then
dragged from his wagon and badly beaten.
His skull is fractured in two places and his
nose Is broken and almost beat off of his
! face. He is thought to bel Internally injured
as he has been vomiting blood Little hopes
are entertained for his recovery. Bad blood
existed between the parties engaged.
/ WHILE bathing in the Tennessee River
Frank and Ralph Curtis and George d.
Sparks, young schoolboys, sons of prominent
| parents, were drowned. d. G. Curtis, father
| of the first two named, who accompanied the
boys, narrowly escaped death in fruitles
effort to save his sons. The lads ventured
beyond their depth and were caught in a
very rapid current OF the river.
j. BUSH blacksmith, of Greenville, Miss,
was probably fatally stabbed by one Santi-
ago De Navarro, barber. The trouble or
| iginated in a dispute between the children
of the two men, who reside in adjoining
houses. The women of the two households
took up the quarrel and Mrs. De Navarro at
/ tackled Mrs. Bush with butcher-knife. Mr..
Bush arrived just in time to save his wife,
and slapped Mrs. De Navarro in the face.
Then the men fought, and Bush was stabbed
! with a small-bladed knife.
! JOE J. BLANKTNsHIp, a farmer of Monroe
county, Tenn, was put in the insane asylum.
| He was divorced from his wife twelve years
| ago, and since then has become a religious
fanatic Sunday he tried to get his wife to
| let him cruelty her for the sins of the
cholera sufferers. She refused, when the
husband became violently insane and had
1 to be put in custody,
THERE was a sensational shooting affair in
/ Memphis, Tenn, in the storeroom of Roots,
! Taylor s. Co. George Forest, contractor,
nephew of n. r. Forest the celebrated Con-
federate cavalry general, thought r. l..
Dukes, clerk, was Colonel J. 7. Taylor and
fred three shots at him, one bullet piercing
I the bladder, another cutting through the
/ groin and the third landing in the feshy
] part of the neck.
A CABIN on the place Of Judge j. II. Shaft
at Camilla, Ca, was destroyed the other
night by fire. Two small children and their
insane grandmother were in the yard at the
time the cabin caught fire. The old woman
carried the children into the midst Of the
flames and left them there, where they were
burned TO death.