Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-07-16
SUMMARY OF SOUTHERN NEWS

WILLIAM PATr1S, chief O. police of Pine
Vile, Ky. was killed by Lucias Smith at a
picnic in the subj BIS. Pattin got into a dis.
Tute with a negro and hit him over the head
with n billy. Smith resented it and Pattin
reached for his pistol, whereupon Smith fired.
Five shots were exchanged and Pattin was
shot through the heart. Pattin YVES The last
of the old Pattin gang in the Pattin-Turner
feui.
NJ. PIEEcE, a farmer living near Pottsboro,
in Grayson county, Texas, suspected Morg IN
+. PACK, his farmland, and Mrs. Pierce of
being 100 intimate. Pierce shot Pack dead
with a rifle. and then cut his wife's throu.
Then, dragging h $ wife's body into the house
he lay dosn by her side end cut his own
throat.
AT a picnic q few miles from Ami'o City,
L., a fight occurred between Thomas and
James Bond on one side and Sherard and
Freiller R;cks on the other. Sherarl Kicks
was xii ed. Freiller shot through the arm,
Thomas Bond through the lungs and his
brother n the stomael Both Bonds may
die.
NEA Murray, Ky a thr sher boile- ex-
ploded, HI ling Albert b amen, III, engineer,
Instantly, and wounding 10 other p rsons who
were assisting about the th eshers. io1r of
whom are fatally injured and viii not 1--we.
CONSTABLE J. f. Gfeen. Brigham CIR ssom
and Bob Bell we e killed in a saloon fl sht at
Claredon, Tx. Green. see mpanied by Girls
som and al ether man, entered a saloon where
Bel and his brother wtre. A row immedi
nte,y began, The outcome Of a long x;sting
feud between Green aud Bells, mi when the
smoke OF ba tie cleared away the three men
named lay dead IN he floor.
GEORGE EEHzEE a brewery emplo e.. &C
c.den'ally Shot and fatally woun led William
ochs in Lauisyil e, X, and then shot him
teh dead. They were at the brewery owned
by ochss father-.n-law and got to fooling wi b
Der GERS risio Be- ger pointed the wenp n
at Ochs and said joklnglJ: Look out, Pll
shoe: youl The weapon was discharged,
sending the ball through ochs's brain. Ben
ger then ran up sta rs and shot himself through
the head.
H. X. ENsoN, a merchant of Blount
Springs, Ala, when intox Gated, cursed Pro
bate Judge Ran 'olph. W. King rebuked
Ben'on, who pulled a gun and fired at King
three times. King put four bullets in Rem; on.
Benson is dead.
MRS. WILKINS, a widow, lives in a co tege
with her dau hier Julia in tlsy County, Ala.
AT night they he ,rd a noise at the chick n
coop and Mrs. Wilkins went out 10 see about
1t, carrying her pistol. Wrie she was at the
chicken'housc n negro named Ell Prater
slipped in through the door she h d left open
and assaulted Miss julia. Mr.. Wilkins i'm
med ately gave the alarm. In q few hours a
party OF citizens had caught Ed Prater aud he
went the usual way.
LESTER Ii. CALF, teller, and W. Z. Turner
bookk eeper OF the 'ity Saw ngs Bank, nj
Nashville, Tenn, skipped with all the cash
on hand amounting to 81, O0l. They we're
in New Orleans snl ere SUPPOSED TO have
Eoao to Mexico. Gale and Turner we're mem
bers OF the Capitol City Club, leading mem.
bcrs of the Young Mems Caristian Associa-
ton, and had good regulations. They made
a number Of pur bases before leaving making
payment in checks which have be II Il shon-
Ufed.
DEP TY-MarshNl Byrd attempted to arrest
the Phillips brothers, who we're drunk and
disorderly in Judge Purker's saloon in Helen.
WOO / Tenn. One o. the men shot the Mar.
shal All after he ell two more shots were
fred at him. The Marshal drew his pistol
DTd the three b~:others, with Il cir father, fed,
! ut the Marshal fl ed once, The bullet fatally
wouuding the iathe-. The MarshaI's won d
was not IA q anu he says he will kill the m1n
that shot him on eight.
THE convention in thu Third Georgia s.
triet renominaicd Speaker Crisp AMI unanI,
mous.y pr sed q rcsolu ion calling upon hin
to suppo t The Stewart Silver bill. There j,
no doubt Of Crisp's reelection.