The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-10-03
SOUTHERN SPECIALS
NOTING THE MOST INTERESTING
OCCURRENCES OF THE DAY.
And Presenting an Epitomc of the
South's Progress and Prosperity.

The prohibitionists of North Caro-
lima, in mass meeting recently, decld-
ed to make no nominations this year.
Yet there was meeting in Wake coun-
ty Wednesday and full ticket was
nominated, though only ten delegates
were present.
A Savannah, Ga, special says: A
severe storm is reported off the coast
of Cuba and south Florida, causing Sc
we're gales in the southern portion of
Florida. The storm is reported to be
moving in this direction and all ships
are warned not to leave port.
Judge Cooper, of the criminal
court at Memphis, Tenn, delivered an
opinion in the motion for bail made
by M. Strickfadden, under indictment
for murder growing out of the lynch
ing of six negroes on August 21st at
Millington. Bail was denied and
Stakeholder was ordered remanded
to Jail to await the trial for murder.
At Memphis, Tenn, Monday morn
ing, the family of Mrs. Annie Osborne.
numbering five, and a boarder named
HUT, were poisoned. The dose was
put in the coffee. Mrs. Osborne pre-
pared the coffee and partook freely.
Four of the family are thought to be
fatally poisoned. The physician ad-
ministered antidotes for arsenic. The
police have no clue, but suspect that
some enemy of the family put the
drug into the coffee pot.
About 200 employees of the Ger
mania silk mill at Holyoke, Miss,
went out on strike Tuesday morning.
At meeting they appointed COM
mittee to wait on the officers of the
company and ask for an advance in
their wages. The committee went to
the mill office but could find no one
authorized to negotiate with them.
The committee reported to the opera
tives and all left their work. Every
department in the mill is closed.
At a meeting of the Greensboro, N.
c., Steel and Iron Company, the COM
pany was organized with the following
officers: President, Julian G. Carr,
of Durham; vice president, J. W.
Scott; general manager, J. F. Jordan;
secretary and treasurer, D. G. Wad-
dell; general counsel, R. M. Douglas;
directors, J. S. Carr, J. W. Scott, j.
f. Jordan, w. E. Ashby, Nell Filing
ton, John Wilkes and George Noble,
Sr. The company expects to put the
furnace il operation at an early date.
A state of lawlessness prevails in
Randolph county, Alabama, in the
community in which Whaley, the gov
eminent informer, was murdered two
weeks ago. Whaley has two brothers
who live in the same neighborhood.
Almost every night guns are fired
around their houses, rocks are thrown
into their windows and an attempt was
made to burn one of their houses few
nights ago. Several families in the
neighborhood hide out every night
through fear of visitation from this
gang of desperadoes.
A Montgomery, Ala, special says:
A movement is on foot to carry 500 of
the most prominent and influential
business men or Alabama, georgia,
Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee and
Louisiana, to Washington when con-
gress convenes, ror the purpose Of
lobbying through the Nicarauga canal
bill. The proposition is to have the
commercial clubs in fifty or sixty of
the largest towns in these states send
ten delegates each to Birmingham,
from which city they propose to go to
Washington on special train.