Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-08-31

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umn was ready to move. The forme
prisoner then said to him. "Old man
l told you / would remember you.
have kept my word
Again the moral must be- 'sWitl
whatever measure We nete it shall b
measured to you again.
JAMES A. ScoTT.
GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS
SAVANNAH, Ga, Aug s4-The trial o
Abe Small, the negro who shot Police
back from Baltimore, resulted yesterda,
In verdict of guilty of murder. The cas-
has attracted unusual attention.
WELDON, N. c.. Aug. 24-While con
victs on the state farm in Northampton
county were being taken to the dykes OF
the Roanoke river last evening three at
tempted to escape. Two were killed. Th,
third got sway. All were colored
MIDDLEsBoRoUGH, Ky, Aug. 20. =
bloody encounter occurred at the waite
works yesterday, in which James Lyl
literally carved Peter Sullivan to pieces
Lyle escaped, but is closely pursued by
police and citizens. II caught Lyle will
be lynched.
HUNTINGTON, W. Va, Aug. 27.-Johr
Dame, the leader of the West Virginis
green goods men who have been working
In the western part OF this state for year
and reaped harvest of thousands of dol
lars, was found guilty yesterday of felony
in Lincoln county and goes up for sever
years.
WINSTON, N c., Aug 23.-The jnr,
yesterday returned verdict OF guilt,
against seventeen of the twenty-thres
rioters who have iseen on trial here fol
several days. All were sentenced to the
county roads, the three leaders for twelve
months. eleven for four months and three
for three months.
MANNINGToN, w. Va, Aug. 20 -Martir
Gerard, a prominent citizen of this city
was shot and almost instantly killed by
James A. Riddle, who was insanely jeal
Gus OF his wife, and who claimed that un,
due intimacy existed between her and
Gerard. Riddle confessed the shooting
and was arrested
ATLANTA, Aug. 24-It has been ar
ranged that President Cleveland will
touch the button at Gray Gables on Sept
Is, and set in motion the machinery OF
and unfurl the flags on the Cotton States
and Industrial exposition buildings. The
principal address of tho opening day will
be delivered by an orator of national repu-
tation whose name is not yet made public.
MrDDLEsBoRoUeH, Ky, Aug. 24-News
has just reached here of desperate fight
IN the Knoxville, Cumberland Gap aud
Louisville railroad, in which two mon
were killed, aud Captain Wynne super
intendent of the road was knocked in Che
head. A negro excursion of 1000 people
were en- route to Cumberland Gap, when
Captain Wynne and the other two men
attempted to qucll n row.
BRISTOL, Tenn, Aug ga bloody war
etween two factions. resulting from a
long standing feud, has been fought in
the Cumberland mountains, seyenty-fiye
miles north of here on the Virginia and
Kentucky lines. A number of Boyd rola-
tiyes and Thomas relatives with Win
chesters met at an Illicit distiIlery. where
the battle began. -Four men, John Boyd,
Will Cox, Jack Thomas and Floyd
Thomas, are dead and several wounded.
SPRINGFIELD, Ky, Aug. GA dozen
masked men took Harrison Lewis, negro
who was charged with the murder of
Joseph Brooks, also colored, from the
jail here and hanged him TO a tree in the
court house yard. The men, after three
hours work, succeeded in battering down
the Jail door with sledge hammers. The
mob did its work in a systematic man.
ner and seemed to be thoroughly organ
lied. 1t is the opinion of many persons
that 1t was composed of colored men.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Aug. 2S.-Last Fri
day the body OF a stranger was found
near the Louisville and Nashville, rail
road track six miles north of Montgom-
cry. Yesterday news was received in the
city that negro man and his son-in- law,
living in cottage near the scene, had
been arrested by the sheriff of Elmore
county, charged with numbering the man.
Evidence against them is very strong.
There is great indignation in the com
munity, and the negroes may be lynebed
NASHVILLE, Aug. 2f-At Winchester
j. G. ArledGe was shot and killed By
Officer McCiaren The officer had noti.
fed Arledge to close his saloon, as the
hour for closing required by the city lazy
had arrived. The saloon was closed, but
some parties remained outside, while
Others asked for admission by some
means glass in a show window was
broken. and Arledge shot through the
window into the saloon. Officer McClaren
returned the fire. Arledge fell dead. Nc
Claren was shot through the leg and ear.
COLUMBIA, S c., Aug. 25.-Charles
Lloyd, noted negro desperate, met two
white boys, W. Il. Welsh and John Hougli,
both about IL years old, near Hailes' gold
mine. Lancaster county, and with the
declaration that it was time for negroes
to begin to kill white men, he opened fire
upon the boys, who were unarmed When
Welsh begged the negro not to shoot the
brute placed his pistol to Welsh's head
and shot him dead. Lloyd then fired at
Hough, but succeeded only in hitting him
once. breaking his right arm The muir
derer then took to the mountains, but q
OF white men are after him.
SERGEANT, KY, Au9. 2s-Great excite
ment prevails on the Virginia side of the
this place, over white cap outrage.
Shortly before midnight an unknown
number of men went to the home of Mar
tina White, a well known old woman, aged
Go years, aud pulled both her and her 20
year-old daughter from their beds, and
taking them to patch OF woods near
their home tied them to tree and beat
thom brutality. They were finally rescued
by a neighbor. Today they are both alive,
but are not expected to survive their In
juries. If caught the whole party will
likely be lynched
MEMPHIS, Aug. 26.-Percy Brooks, 7.
II. Scarborough and young man named
Sullivan have been arrested here on a
charge Of numbering Cornelia Brayor, a
young colored woman, whose body was
found in well at fernando, Miss, on
Thursday. The young men were released
on bonds Of s.. 900 each to await requisi-
ton papers. Young Brooks says he and
several boys from Memphis went to Her
volyed in a quarrel with the negress.
chased her, and that she ran into the well.
There is considerable mystery about the
case, and owing to the prominence Of the
young men arrested it has created sem
sation.
To Punish the Bull Fighters
DExvEs, Aug. Is il H. Wolfe, Of
Cripple Greek, the promoter OF the Gil
lette bull fights, was arrested yesterday.
He was unable to furnish bonds, and IL
now in the FL Paso county jail Officers