The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-17

DigEer Buried Alive While at W ork in
the Suburbs Of Atlanta Charges OF
Shocking Cruelty Against the Super
intendent OF the Bibb County Chain
gang omcers Elected BY a MIL Com
pany of Florida.
GEORGIA
Mrs. Joseph Conner 81 Athens died Non
day.
Thomas Guernsey. Of Macon. died Mon
day nieht after au illness Of sixteen
months with consumption
An old coIorcI couple. the groom 50 and
The bride = years OF age was fe ti.tl4
united in marriage hE H. 1ulnGhloO4,
Esq. in Washington county.
j. T. Little. painter was arrested at
Gainesville Tuesday morning ior pas7lilE
counterfeit money at the store of o. +.
Estes. lie was carried Co AN atlanta jail
by Deputy Ben Lauaers soon after ms arr
rest
The handsome dwelling and AN the fur
nlture Of w =. Bowers ol boWmi- lu
The upper portion Of Ebert county were
totally destroyed bv fire Sunday night.
Nr. Bowers ls prominent business man
OF Bowman. His loss Dr. heavy
The stock OF goods of JIIus Srhcutr
Of Cartersyille who failed several weeks
ago. is 10 Doe sold as a whole 10 The high
est bidder to-day. hv consent ami agree
ment OF an his creditors. The stock la-
voices up between 5000 and 5000. Ills
liabilities probably are several thousand
higher.
T. A. CantreH ON Ninth avenue and
Tenth street al Columbus was totally
destroyed by tire sunday. together with
his entire stock Of merchandise The build
ing was owned by H. H. Daniel and was
valued at about 500. Mir. Cantrells stock
was worth between 5000 and $500, which
was uninsured.
Hiram Williams. who is serving on the
present grand jury at Anericus. walked
u Monday morning from nus nome pa inc
country. distance Of ten or twelve miles
and arriving long before o'clock, the
hour OF meeting. Mr.. Williams Us between
~ ana 50 years Of axe but thinks nothing
OF a little walk like this
Monday afternoon about o'clock. the
little 3year-old son OF j. T. Land, of Co
lumbus, narrowly escaped being badly
burned. Tho mother had loft the little
one for few minutes TO step into an adj
joining room when her attention was at
tracted by his screams. She immediate
" fastened 20 him and was startled to-
discover the little fellow g dress In flames.
She heroically tore his clothes away and
saved him from any injury. hut her hands
were badly burned in the effort
Jack Walden, prominent young farmer
OF Newton county. was frozen To death
Saturday night, while returning home
from Covington. Walden had been TO
Covington on business and started home
morning his body was found frozen stif
near Broom's bridge over the Yelo river.
1t Is supposed that ne was overcome from
the cold and fell from the buggy and was
unable to rise again. Walden was a pros
porous young farmer and leaves "a wife
and children.
The new academy recently built by the
colored people of Woodstock was de-
stroyed by ire. sunday night. about il
O'Clock. There had been "a wranclC be
tween the colored democrats and colored
pOpulists as TO who should be employed 10
teach the school this year. After numer-
Gus meetings and arguments Allen Dial.
democrat was employed. II Is rumored
that some of the defeated faction made
threats that they would burn the build
ing and even kill Dial before he should
teach. There is no doubt the burning
was the work Of fire bugs. There IS
some clue.
Henry White, "A negro well digger was
buried alive in a well at Reynoldstcwn.
q suburb Of Atlanta. by the caving In of
quicksand al ! O'Clock Tuesday afternoon.
White and his partner were digging a we'll
at the residence Of j. T. Wellham, corner
Lee and Wylie streets Reynoldstown.
White had eaten his dinner and descended
into the well. which had reached the
depth of forty-one feet Harrison heard
White shout: Something's fallin' herer"
Harrison looked down IN the well and
there was nothing TO be seen but "A mass
of clay and sand which had completely
buried White. He must have died quick
~. NO one would go in the well, and il
was an hour before efforts were made to
dig him out.
Alec Goodrich, a builder Of Augusta. is
quite anxious for Judge Eve. who as com
missioner of roads and revenues has to
Supply the scanold for the execution. TO
allow him 10 have the new style patented
automatic gallOws which has been adopted
Tor use in the west, tested with Virgins
by the new process of hanging, if it is
adopted. Jabez viii stand on the ground
and VIII be jerked I'D instead of falling
from an elevation down through trap
doors The automatic gallows is worked
with tank of water. In the tank is
Heating trigger and when the tank is
flled the trigger puts IN motions "a 800 or
400 pound iron ball which rolls down an
incline. Attached to the ball is the rope
the other end being fastened around the
murderer's neck. When the ball rolls of
It will pull Jabez up and the several feet
or slack rope which is allowed Will crack
his neck as he is pulled up the fun length
and is about to descend.
The grand jury Of Bib county met
Monday. Col. William H. Ross is foreman.
The most important business transacted
was the appointment of a committee con-
Eisting of A. +. Parrot chairman: w H.
Whitehead and W. II. MCGEE to investi-
gate certain alleged cruelties and abuses
1hat are practiced at the Bibh county
changang. The charges of bad treatment
o. prisoners and stock are made against
superintendent w r. Paschal by j. D.
Hill, who was one of the guards at the
county changing during the year 1885,
Hill says that PasChal has made prisoners
so into mud and water up to their knees.
when the ground was frozen, and lift the
cars out that were mired up 10 the axle
and these cars weigh from $500 to 5000
pounds. besides the load that was in them.
I'M further alleges that he has seen Pas
chal blindfold mule with corn sacks
and then beat him numerically with a
stick. Hill says: Il also witnessed W r
Paschal take negro girl in her teens,
down fiat on the ground and strip her to
the waist, then put negro man on her
feet and another on her head. while he
whipped her with heavy leather strap
and she begging him TO take her off to one
side where she would not be exposed 10
all the gang. I counted seVenty-fve licks
he hit her, and that was not all She was
well blistered." Hin further says that a
prisoner has been made to go on the road
and work, when the ground was frozen
hard, with no shoes on his feet and Il
have seen Paschal" says Hill run a
prisoner from the fire, who was bare
footed and almost naked and the ground
frozen hard I have seen fifty 10 sixty
prisoners with not more than thirty or
forty blankets. ! have seen from forty
to fifty prisoners IN a room eighteen bV
twenty. and the room would be so crowd
ed that some woulG have to stand and do
the best they could as they could not lie
down. I reported to him. w. r.. PaschaL
and his reply was that they were no more
than horses" Hin says he has seen
white men chained with negro men and
white women chained with negro women.
and thus sleep a night. The prisoners
were not allowed TO wash but once week