The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-11-22
ALL THROUGH DIXIE.
HAPPENINGS OF WEEK IN TEE
SUNNY SOUTHLAND.
Georgia Alone Is Not Our Domain - we
Cover the Entire South from the
Potomac to tho 1sio Grand

Richmond Va, November 14-The Rich
mond, Fredericksburg aiAi Potomac rallroad
shop, with the machinery and ten freight
cars destroyed by ire thlS morning.
Loss, $40 1000; insured.
Another ii iartv Paper suspended.
Jackson. Miss. November 17.-tSpecial.)-
The Leader the populist organ published here
has SUSPENDED Weaver only carried one cOun
ty in the state ana in that one of his electors
fell few votes short of the highest demo-
cratic elector.
Suicide Of y Cigarette Smo:.er
Lexington, Va, November 16.-H. j. Coffin,
secretary of the Columbia paper mills, OF
Buena Vista, committed suiSlue h mere th ms
head The excessive use OF cigarettes, it is
supposed, led to the trouble. He leaves Il
wife and three children. lie was ha1iVe OF
New York.
s,eath of a Co.ored Bishop.
Louisville. Ky. November 14.-Bishop w.
H. Miles, senior bishop OF the Colored Meth
Odist Episcopal church In America, died here
this morning. The bishop was kentuckian
and ut all times enjoyed the confidence of
the whites. as well as those or ms own race
lie was the organizer of his church and i
bishop for twenty-five years. He preached
more than forty years and was slXty-hve
years OF age
hs.in Makers in Texas.
San Antonio Tex. November leigh
thousand pounds of dynamite and other high
grade explosives were sent today to Fort
Sam Houston target range, two miles east of
here, where General Dryenforth's ran-lnaklng
experiments are to be made. 1t is expected
that a train of explosives three e. miles long
will be laid for Mondays test. The weather
is clear and the barometer shows no lndica-
ton OF rain.
A sixteen Year Old Suicides.
RALEIGH N c., November 19.-(Special.)-
The sixteen -year-old daughter of John Halnp-
ton, in Currituck county, committed suicide
this morning by shooting herself i'll the tenn
pie with a pistol. While at the breakfast Ia
BILE her fatheT repremanded ard threatened
to chastise younger brother, Tor Wn9m she
She Immediately left the table, went to her
room and committed the fatal act.
-Four Murderers Ut One Clip.
Raleigh n Ca NoyemPer t 15Sipe %hlor
in Yadkin county, as a result or which four ne
groes are in jail They are Pleasant Dalton,
John Long SG2sy H btSn sia Me an H nEed
woman with whom they had had a trivial
dispute regarding the hauling Of some corn.
They crushed her skull and so arranged her
body in the yard near the house as to make
ii appear that she had fallen against large
iron pot.
Found in tho River.
Chattanooga, Ten, November 14.-joe
Lanes wife, with u party OF searchers, found
his body floating in the Tennessee river near
Moccasin Bend today Two gTn.shot wounds
murder Saturday he went out to kill Il wild
goose, taking but one load, for his gun. He
friends. went to search for him. They found
the body with its evidence of murder, but no
clue the murderer or the cause OF Ine uceu
can be mearthel. Lane was prosperous
young farmer and generally esteemed.
~ h'' $50 "a
Mobile. Ala. November 1.-THE democrats
of Mobile and the first district Of Alabama,
ratified the election of Cleveland and Steven.
tonight with q parade and torchllght
procession, which was one OF the largest ana
most enthusiastic ever seen in this city. The
procession was more than two miles in
length and the transparencies and fireworks
Illuminated the whole city, The militia ano
x,j,;t thn Oft
parade, did also a number of negro or
CARNATIONS.
no Hats in Town.
Ladonia, Mo. November 15.-Ihe dem
ocrats of this place on Saturday night cele-
brated the democratic victory with Il great
bonfire ending up with casting their hats
in the flames. Not content with that they
seized the heaGgear of all spectators and
burned them up. Then parading the streets
in squads they robbed every pedestrian Of
his hat and carrying it to the fire consigned
it to the flames. The result is that nearly
the whole male population of the town is
hatess.
Hanging of ii Wife Murderer.
Wheeling, November 1S.-Wilhelm Maer
was hanged here today for the murder of
his wife, Marie, under sensational circum-
stances, on April 9Th last. Maer was a
native of Weinberg, Germany, and but
twenty-five years old. His wife was aged
about twenty and the daughter of William
! ono, a prosperous farmer of this county,
formerly of WOodSfeld Monroe county.
Ohio. The couple had been married six
months when the tragedy occurred D.
velopments at the trial proved that their
married life had been far from happy.
* He'd HIS Brother-in-Iaw.
Columbia, S. c., Noyelnl.
cial. John d. Cheek was killed by his
brothcr-in-Iaw, Sam Switzer, near Young's
store, Laurens county, yesterday
Both parties are respectable white men of
good connections.
1t is said that the men had quarreled
several times before and that Check had on
one occasion drawn his pistol on Switzer
Both men were about thirtv-fve or fortv
years old. Swift = has family Switzer
has not been brought to jail yet, but was ar
rested He was at homo this morning aud
had made no attempt to escape.