The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-04-18
ALL THROUGH DIXIE.
HAPPENINGS OF II WEEK IN THE
SUNNY SOUTHLAND.
Georgia Alone Is Not Our Domain - We
Cover the Entire South from the
Potomac to tho Rio Grand.

SfOeS, were SeHlcUCeu 10 Uc Nuiiy
| 26th for assaulting white woman named
| Cox. The men confessed.
Three Mur,iercrs Captured.
Jacksonville, Fla, April IA special
| from Orlando says that three white men
| have been captured and have confessed
to @t the murder Of the old man named Morot
| at Grasmede, on the night of April LIST.
Their names are Hunter Fudge, II. A.
Blockner and Alex w. Walker. All three
are in Jail. There is no excitement and no
threats Of lynching.
| Tiu,nnn ~ Whisky Expert.
Columbia. s. c., April 14.-(SpeciaL)-
Governor Tillman returned to the city to-
| night from his tour i'll the interest OF the
state dispensary. Speaking of his trip, he
said:
IL now know more about liquor than any
man in South Carolina / haven't ac-
qured this knowledge, however, through q
| sense of taste. but from careful study of
the methods of manufacture"
Shot While Gcing to Church.
| Galveston, Tex, April "a special from
| Livingston to The News says john ".
! Snow and WILDER Gamer were going to
church with J. w. PEBBLES and his daugh-
ter. Miss Emma They were met by Ar.
thur Fields, who killed Snow and shot
| Gamer four times. Gamer was not seri
| ously hurt. Fields was shot twice and
| his wounds are fatal.
Shot and Then Cremated.
Eufaula. Ala. April 14.-.Jef ID. Barnett.
| a young white storekeeper near the line of
Quitman and Clay counties. in Georgia, was
| found dying in Il pool of blood in his store
| vest erlay A posse of white and blacks was
organized and after a six mile chase. cap
| tured the murderer, negro. who confessed
| his crime. giving his name as Ed only. He
| fired several shots at the posse before he
| was captured. The posse tied him and shot
| him to death, then piled fence rails on the
body, saturated them with oil and burned
| it.
Thought He Was Burglar.
| Lexington. Ky. April 11.-Last night
| at Il late hour while effecting an entraLce
! to his wife'S ROOM Harye Saowden, Il des-
| perate negro was shot IN the breast W
his brotherin-law, Lewis Jackson. Snow
den had been living apart from his wife for
several weeks, but last night attempted to
| enter her room 10y Climbing Upon the
kitchen of Jackson's house and brt akins
| open the window. Jackson claims tEat he
| thought his brother-in law was Il burglar,
and he fired thirteen buckshot into his body.
| Snowden will die.
Judge Randolph Acquitted
| Montgomery Ala, April 13.-(Special.) ,
| The Jury in the case of Judge Randolph, in
dicted for the murder of " V. Metcaff in
| this city, on the day of the presidential
| election, after being out two and a half
hours, late tonight brought in verdict of
not guilty. The state and defendant We're
both ably represented. The case was Wig
orously prosecuted and no trial in recent
years elected SO much interest In this
city. After the verdict Judge Randolph
was warmly congratulated by his friends
| who crowded around him.
Three Persons Drowned.
Huntington. w. Va. April lion
Greebrier river. near Huntington. Il sad ac-
cident occurred this morning. Mrs. Box
ley the wife of prominent. well-to-dO citi-
zen. accompanied by her four-year-old son,
tod Ir.iy- ctr who
the vehicle they Were in was drawn into an
eddy and smashed to pieces against the
rocks Both occupants were drowned.
At Guyandot this morning, George, the
ten-year-old son of William Rich fell into
the Guyandotte river and before assistance
reached him, he was drowned. The body
was recovered this evening.
The Husband was Killed.
Knoxville. Tenn, April 13.-(Special) y
On the night of April LIST French Sharp,
colored, 1nysterously disappeared from his
home at Athens, Tenn. All search for him
failed until today when the mystery was
cleared. His badly decomposed body was
found with two bullet holes in it. The
body was found in cluster of trees and
brush only short distance from the town
The night of his disappearance he was last
seen with John Armstrong, colored To-
day Armstrong was arrested. He has
been carrying on Il lesion with Sharp'S
wife for a long while and the story is that
he put the husband out of the way.
The Honduras Revolution.
New Orleans, April 13-Dispatches re-
ceived here last night from Honduras, an
nOunce that the reyOluti0nists have aban-
dCned the interior. and are moving toward
the Atlantic coast. The liberal party is
said to have seized the American Steam
ship Rover. of the Oteri line, engaged in
the fruit trade and With the assistance of
the ship captured TruXillo.
DunrtO (I0rtpy is STRONGLY ounr0o0 and
no fears of an assault at this point are felt
by the government. Steps will be taken
Immediately by the government to quell
the revolution. which Is now transferred to
the coast.
VIII Discuss Future Delivery Contracts.
New Orleans. La, April 15-The board
Of directors Of the new cotton exchange
have issued notice that a special meeting of
the exchange will be held on Monday, the
18th instant to discuss an important change
i'll the form of future delivery contracts.
II clause being introduced III the present
contract reading: 1T is distinctly under
stood and agreed that no cotton shall be
rendered nor received of a less market
value than good ordinary. white, and the
receiver shall have the right to refuse all
sandy, dusty. red or gin cut cotton
1t is proposed by the advocates of the
measure that the change shall take effect
on all contracts entered into and after
date of adoption for sales for delivery from
and after january, 1894.
Farmer Lynched by Neighbors.
Pickens. Miss. April III. Jeffcoats.
farmer living eight miles west Of IickenS,
was lynched last night by mob for kililns,
his wife. Saturday Jeffcoats went 70 the
residence of Il neighbor, named Allisou ana
told Il narrowing story about how some
unknown person had assaulted and fa'Hly
injured his wife with an aY. The :lal N
was given by Allison and an investigation
of the ncighbors soon fastened the crime en-
Jeifcoats who confessed.
When the news of the crime srr"ai over
the county yesterday. hundreds of tanners
noclled to the scene. The excitement be
came intense and II number of them w; LIED
to burn .IetfcOatS at the stake. but this
idea was abandoned and thc covering
wretch was dragged to Il hickory tree and
ierlled into space. The body was then rid
aled with bullets.
Heirs Wanted.
Ann w. Douglass was born somewhere
in Georgia. perhaps i'll Screven or Burke
counties.
She came to Texas about 1882 with an
uncle, Samuel G.. Douglass, and an aunt,
Ann W. Wilkerson. widow of Reuben Will
kers0n
She first married a man named Hunter.
After his death she married Il man III
Texas named Robert ID. Moore, but sepa-
RATED from Moore and returned to Georgia