The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-01-24
ALL THROUGH DIXIE.
HAPPENINGS OF Il WEEK IN THE
SUNNY SOUTHLAND.
Georgia Alone Is Not Our Domain - we
Cover the Entire South from the
Potomac to the Rio Grand.

johnson City, Tenn, January 2O.-(Spe-
cial)-J. w. Hyams, the originator of the
purported Bakesvile riot. is wearing a sore
head tonight, the result of fight with Cap
tain Ii. f. Perry, in which Hyams was
badly whipped.
gazette Factory Burned.
Richmond, Va, January 1.-THE cigar.
cite factory Of Allen Il Ginter, branch or
Valentine Meat Juice Works were destroy
cd by fire this morning. The loss is about
So 900; insured. Two firemen were badly
frozen.
IN Electric Car Accident.
Chattanooga Tenn, January 1S-(Special.) j.
lust at noon today two cars or the Chatta-
nooga Electric Company jumped the track at
the corner of Market street ana Mo ,, try
waiting in the street to board the car, was
instantly killed Ice had filed curve and d, the
cars left the track Mt q speed OF twenty miles
an hour, crushing the lady terribly.
Collision Near Chattanoora.
Chattanooga, Tenn, January ia tall
end collision occurred on the Alabama Great
Southern eighteen miles south of here about
4 O'Clock this morning between pay tram
is said the pay train had about three
thousand dollars on board. Engineer Pat
O'Brien had leg broken. The fireman IS
probably fatally injured. 1t is reported that
ten cars, including the pay car, were badly
wrecked.
Lynching in Louisiana.
New Orleans, La, January PA mob
of masked men last night broke into the
Parish jail at Convent, st. James parish,
and forced the jaier to open the cells OF
Robert Landry and Pink George, two ne,
grocs incarcerated, one for garroting and
robbing a telegraph operator at Delphon
station and the other for numbering man
named Dewhost. The negroes were taken
to shed near by and lynched, the ropes
being tied to beam of the ceiling. Great
prnyai1S in the DarSh
Chain, q anG Deserted.
Radford. Va, January 1S.-The wife of
A. w. F'illie. who came here from Illinois
recently, was found chained in deserted
the story that the woman was insane and
would soon be sent to the asylum. She
proved to be perfectly sane 1t is supposed
Fillie and the woman who posed as his house
keeper We're trying to put Mrs File out of
the way. Eille is under arrest and the
jail is heavily guarded, as there is danger Of
lynching.
a Historic House Burned.
Richmond, Va, january 1S.-Informa-
ton was received here tonight OF the burn
ing of old Hewlett house located
on the south bank of the James river OPP
| poste Dutch gap, and famous in war an
nails. There was a confederate battery of
artillery stationed at this house during the
| war and while General Butler was cutting
| his canal through Dutch gap, his troops
W
| 1t was occupied by a family from Aichi-
| gan, who lost all their personal effects. The
| loss is $1,000, with no insurance.
What North Cnr"linians Want
Raleigh, n. G., January 17-(Special)
A resolution was adopted in the house by
a party vote inStructng the North Carolina
senators and repre- entatives in congress to
use all possible means TO secure the repeal
the 10 per cent tax on the state banks.
The democrats voted for it and the repub-
md ST n Another
resolution was adopted by a vote OF 10 TO
20. requesting President Cleveland to call
an extra session OF congress at day as
early as possible after his inauguration
~ iirute's Gate.
Birmingham, Ala, January 1S.-(SpeciaL)
| David WalliamS, negro tend living LII
Picllins county was lynched near the Geor'
gia line last night.
Williams had committed an assault
| on a thirteen-year-old white girl named
Mary Davis. She had Identified INN i ana
| the proof against him was complete. VIII
| lans was being taken by officers to Car
| rollton jail for safe keeping when mob
| overpowered them, took the prisoner away,
| hanged him to u tree and rlddled his body
| with bullets
Gambling on the Ice.
Louisville. Ky, January 1S.-The Ohio
river is still frozen solid from Cairo TO Pitts
burg On account Of the falls here this
was the last point on the river to be closed
by ice: The steamboats, are safely en- en-
sconsed in the canal, where they lie tightly
frozen in. Coal bargeS containing half a
million bushels of coal are m0ored above the
gorge The gravest fears are felt that when
the ice breaks up many OF the river craft
will be crushed by the immense mass of ice
which would be turned loose in the current
| The ice is nearly two feet thick, while on
the gorge it is piled up twenty feet high
-Four saloons have been erected in the mid
die of the river and are doing thriving bus
Al.
advantage of being beyond land jurisdiction
craps and other gambling games are in
full blast in the saloon shanties on the ice
and prize fight is billed for tonight in one
of the dens in the middle of the river.
r.. Oh am" 'e4.s >ture. M""ts - nin.
Montgomery, Ala, January 19.--(Special)
The legislature reassembled today, after
the holiday recess. Among the important
measures introduced Was bill by Speaker
Pettus providing for the holding of a consti-
tutional convention. Section provides for
the consideration of the suffrage question
and as al additional qualification to wit:
mo person otherwise qualified shall be per-
mitted TO vote at any election in this state
unless he is able to read and write the Eng
lSh language, or has served as a soldier
sailor marine in the late war between
the states or if he resides within the corpo-
rate limits of a city or town, owns property
to the value of $3.50 or if he lives without
the corporate limits of a city or town and
owns forty acres of land"
This is by far the most important section
of the bill of Speaker Pettus's and one that
will elicit a lively discussion in the state
press and a still lveler debate in the
general assembly.
.rw,ng Machine FREE.
A 500 machine, sold by us at $11.U0 to
$500 will be placed in your home to use,
without cost of one cent TO you. Cut this
advertisement out and send with address
today to Alvah Manufacturing Company,
Department, Chicago, Ill. jan10-2t
TERROR IN BIRMINGHAM
Staid Citizens Carry Pistols for Self Protoc-
ton The "Fiend of the Alley"
Birmingham, Ala, January 15.-(Special.)
This city is aroused as it has not been since
the Halves murder four years ago. Per-
ry II. Carpenter, the man shot by the I'M
known white man last night, died early
this morning. All descriptions Of the muir
derer tally with those of the man who re-
Gently assaulted three women on the streets
in ono night and IS locall, known as the
"fiend Of the alley Two arrests have
been made today, but the right man is still
at large. These desperate crimes have
come along with an outbreak of an epidemic
of highway robberies. A woman can no
longer go out alone late in the evening
and staid citizens wear pistols for self
protection. The sheriff is fully prepared
to resist a lynchng should the unknown
Of no oil no