The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-11

the top OF the building. but It seems the
weight of the three men on the planks
overbalanced the weight that was holding
down the ropes on the top Of the building.
ana one side OF he planks Tilted and the
| three men were thrown to the sidewalk.
All were more or less injured, but the most
serious injury was the breaking Of the
right arm Of Mr. futile. Mr. g. n. Cdld-
well. who was standing on the sidewalk
under the scamold, was struck on the head
By one OF the planks. but fortunately he
was not severely injured, and escaped with
only slight cash on the mead: MT Tut
tie was given prompt medical attention
ana was sent home In a hack But Tor
the broken arm he would be all right. The
painting Of the building viii continue
without delay. The accident attracted a
large crowd Of people to the scene.
Monday night the wife Of negro nam
Ell Bob COthran entered "a store or Holmes
4 Co, at Rome. and was buying grocer
les when her husband came IN and told
her to leave: that the place was not hit
10 be at. He cursed the prOprietOrs and
clerks in the vilest manner Cowart
Holmes asked what nc said, and. the ne
gro replied insultingly. Holmes then
Knocked him down and was beating him
when another negro, Henry Griffin, ran
UP with a stick under his arm, caught
Holmes and a struggle ensued. Holmes
finally 1orked loose. Wrenchcd the stick
from the negro and struck him a blow on
the head splitting the skin open TO the
bone and laying him out. a crowd gath
cred and trouble was threatened. but the
police dispersed the crowd. Henry Griffin
was badly hurt and COthran was well
pummelco, but Holmes escaped injury.
The first bale OF cotton of the season,
grown by Elihu Griffin, Of EtOwah coun-
~, Alabama, was received by the Simp-
son Grocery Company at Rome Saturday.
They sold ii 10 the HarVel Cotton Com
pany for cents. Tt weighed 80 pounds,
and classed low middling strict. The Har-
vel Cotton Company 10 turn sold 1t 10 the
Rome cotton factory. where IL viii be
manufactured into goods and shipped to
China
Rome Correspondent Constitution:
News has reached Rome Of a thrilling eX-
perience of parties in pursuit of four es-
capped prisoners in the Sand mountain
country. As the story goes one night last
week four prisoners escaped from Gun
tersville Jail They were Bill Bell charg-
ed with the murder Of Constable Childers;
John Stanford, the slayer Of Yves Mitchell
and two others charged with burglary. So
soon as the authorities learned or the eS-
cape they organized a posse and set out
In hot pursuit. The trail led toward the in
accessible Businesses of Sand mountain,
and part of the posse soon gave up the
hunt and went back to their homes. Some
Of the others kept on and came up with
q couple Of prospectors who were raInb-
ing about the mountains and told them
OF the escape. The prospectOrs were from
East Tennessee and their names were
Hawkins and BaZemOre. Shortly after
parting company with the man hunters
the prospectOrs wandered down into a
deep and secluded valley known as the
Dungeon, because of its inaccessible Cliffs
and gloomy interior. There is but one
narrow entrance to 1t through the noun
tains, and while threading that narrow
gorge the prOspectOrs suddenly came upon
two men who answered the description
of Bell and Stamford. They were lying
asleep In the shadow of the rocks and
showed fight when aroused by Hawkins
and Bazemore. Seeing they We're over
powered, however they made a pretense
of submission and the prospectors started
them back toward the railroad. which
they hoped to strike about the little sta
ton OF Carlyle. They had nothing to tie
their prisoners with but Hawkins had
pistol and BazcmOre armed himself with a
stout club and away they went through
the thickets and over the rocks. They had
been Informed that a reward of $25 each
would be paid for the return of the fugi-
tlVes, and that was an incentive sufficient
to cause them to attempt to carry them
back TO their old quarters in Guntersville
jail. Suddenly, in rounding a point Of the
cliffs. the prisoner in front by a quick
movement, grabbed up a rock and hurled
II at Hawkins, striking him on the arm
and knocking the pistol from his hand.
lie made spring for the pistol at the
same time Stamford pounced onto Baze-
more, and a desperate struggle ensucd.
Finally Bell secured the pistol and com
manded Hawkins to hold up his hands, at
the same time Stamford wrenched the
club from the hands of BazemOrc and the
wouid-be captors were made captive. The
deSperadOeS then commanded the crest
fallen prOSpectOrS to retrace their steps
to the Dungeon, whore they relieved them
of their spare cash and arms and left
them to find their way out as best they
could after nightfall. The prospectOrs lost
their way and il was late during the next
day, when they found their way to lit
tie way station on the Alabama Great
Southern railroad and succeeded in getting
transportation to point where they could
secure enough money TO get back to their
homes. The escaped prisoners so far as
could be learned, are still at large some
where in the Sand mountain region unless
they have gone west