The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-09

The confederate monument at Orangeburg
will be unveiled Oct. l8. Its cost is about
$1,000.
Lewis Fielder a colored man, has been ar
rested al Barnwell as the murderer Of Jack
Creich. Tracks and antecedent circumstances
induced suspicion. Jealousy is assigned as
the cause OF the crime.
The stock OF goods of the Orangeburg book
store was sold nj puOlic sale Tuesday. and
was boughtin by James l.. Sims editor and
proprietor of the Times and Democrat. Mr.
Sims will In future conduct the business.
A charter has been issued to the Gates
Manufacturing Company, Of Greenville. The
directors OF the company are a. A. Gates, f.
j. Gates and Julius H. Hayward. The officers
are; President, A. A. Gates; secretary and
treasurer, Julius Il. Hayward; superintendent,
Fred J. Gates The capital stock of the com
pany Is s95O00, and the purposes of the com
pany are to manufacture and deal in desks
and all kinds Of goods made of wood.
A curious accident happened at the base
ball park at Greenville, Wednesday, during a
game between two mines Of local players
George Hammett, son of the late Col H. p
Hammett, was pitching for the nine repre-
senting the Greenville team, He had not
played ball during the summer. In the first
inning in attempting fancy out-curve he
broke his arm between the elbow and shout
der He is hard thrower, and it is sup
posed that being out of practice, he used too
much force before warming up to the work
South Cardinals tobacco market opened at
Florence Tuesday with nearly Is
900 pounds OF leaf on the
floor OF the warehouse from Florence
kershaw, Sumter, Marion Darlington. MARI
eOro and Richland counties. The sales we're
highly satisfactory to all parties. Many large
lots brought so cents per pound. he greatest
part of the tobacco is very DOOR, planters
holding the better grades to test the market
The average Of all the sales was nearly II
cents. AKeI shaw planter got an average OF
1919 cents all round.
The second primary election at Spartan
81 rs of L.
The contests in some of the wards were very
close The ticket nominated is now as fol
lows: a. B. Calvert, mayor, a lawyer and
United States commissioner; aldermen. :. d.
Reid, merchant j. :, Amos, real estate and
guano agent; II. A. Robson, carriage and
wagon dealer; Robert Chapman, merchant;
store; II, } Johnson, merchant. 1t is con
sidered fair nomination, and all classes of
democrats are represented
A special to the Charleston News and Cour-
Ter from Lynchburg says: Last Saturday r.
NJ. Mct adden, prominent farmer and mill
man Of this place, was caught by belt and
thrown on the shaft connecting his engine
ana gin and had his left arm and side so e ri
bly, mangled that he died from the effects this
morning at 4 o'clock. The case was as re-
markable as 1t was horrible 1t seems he had
Just finished mending belt which ran a grist
mill. Holding the loop OF the belt on his left
arm he called to his ginner to raise the gin
breast. as he was going to have the engine
stopped in order to belt the pulley which ran
the mill The glnner obeyed. Just as he
called to the engineer to stop he stepped
astride the shafting, which was about eigh-
teen or twenty inches fIom the ground, and in
doing so stumbled ana fell AS quick as
a fash the belt became entangled in
or twisted about the shaftlng fasten-
ing his left hand in its folds and be
fore the engine could be stopped his left
arm was wrung clear in two between the
wrist and elbow. He was whirled around the
shatting three or four times. each time strik-
ing the ground with all the force Of the speed
OF the engine. While being whirled around the
bone in that part Of his arm above his wrist
was thrust against his left side, Just below the
collar bone, with such force that it entered
the lung cavity The attending physicians