Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-08-19
South and West,

THE Tennesses Democratic State ConveD =
ton met in Nashville and nominated Judge
Peter Turney, of Franklin County for Gov
ernOr
! GOVERNOR BUCHANAN, of Tennessee, COM
muted TO Imprisonment for life the sentence
Of Colone, H. Clay King, who was to have
been hanged at Memphis for toe murder OF
David II Posten on March ID last on pub
lie street in that city
/ JUDGE JAMES C. NoRMILE, Of st. Louis,
/ Mo. committed suicide by taking poison.
/ He had brought libel suit against tho Post
Dispatch. an his mind is supposed to have
/ become unbalanced on account Of the ques-
| tions put to him by the counsel for the de-
| fence.
/ EIGHT colore1 men were drowned by the
swamping of ferry sloop between Sullivan's
| Island and Charleston, :. G. They were
nucksters on their way to the island with
vegetables.
A STEAM thre sher operating on Thomas
Faulty's farm, near Elizabeth, W. Va, was
/ blown TO pieces and Samuel Booth and an
other man wers fatally and three others
seriously hurt. Dynamite hal been placed
in the machine, it is believed, to kill the
operatives.
D lhE VI ONOi NV ~ DNNN~
Convention at Atlanta and plece1 IN the
field full State ticket, headed by w. j..
Northen for Governor.
In Talladega, Ala, r. L. Rasberry, bar
tender who had been discharged by n. SIM
mons. met his former employer in the street
and shot him TO death. Then he turned hts
revolver against himself and sent a bullet
through his heart.
INTENSE excitement prevailed at Mem
phis. Tenn, over the commutation oy the
Governor Of the sentence OF Murderer ii.
Clay King to Imprisonment for life Threats
10 lynch King were made and he was taken
out of to sn, but friends OF the man he MUIR
dered said they would overtaks and hang
him. A huge crowd gathered at the corner
Of Main and Madison streets. where KING
assassinated Posteu, and hanged Governor
Buchanan in effigy.
A LANDSLIDE near Carrolltou, Ca, re-
suited in the death Of three workmen-Jerry
Collier Sam Wimbush and Sam Waems.
Five others were badly hurt.
The Michigan Prohibition State Conven-
ton assembled at Owasso AMI nominated
the Rev. John Russell, OF New Haven, for
Governor.
HUGH MCCURDY, OF Michigan. was elected
Grand Master OF Knights Templar at Dem
yer, Col. It was decided TO hold the twenty
sixth triennial conclave at Boston.
COLONEL H. CLAY KING, the Tennessee
murderer has been safely delivered at the
Penitentiary in Nashville
SALE and his two sons were drowned
in Fox River at Grignon's Point, Wis. The
two boys were bathing aud got beyond their
deptb Calling to their father, be pulled
off his coat and hat and jumped in to -sscue
them. when all were drowned.
THs official count Of the Choctaw vote in
Indian Territory gives Jones. tho Progress
siye caniiiate for principal chief. large
majority. and gives the Progressive four
teen out OF twenty representatives In tne
National Council.
The Georgia Republican State Conven.
ton met at Atlanta aud rcfus,t 70 put out
any State ticket. Debates showed strong
feeling in favor Of the Peoples Party tic<et.
An electoral TICKET, however, was agreed
upon. after which the convention adjourned.
In a stampede at Baunock Butte, Idaho
which was caused by hungry prospectors
attempting to capture calf, two cowooys
and 36l cattle were swept over cliff and
dashed to pieces.
w. H FOREMAN, Albert Inman. Alex
ander Moore. Charles Sawyer AMI JACK
Pummel were killed by falling wall at
Hartford City, Ind.
A. PRICE and Arthur Kurtz. each eight
wears old. were found dead Rt Lansing,
Mich. in an ice-chesr. They had evidently
crawled into il in play and had beer
smotherec.