Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-09-07
GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS,

ouiicu GlttttS Judge IOr the soulucFH Gle
cuit Of Georgia, has bsen chosen orator fol
the opening exercises of the Cotton State:
and International exposition, and ha.
signified his acceptance of the invitation
MoogEHEAD, Ky, Aug. 3o.-Henry Free
man, aInoonshiner shot and killed United
States Deputy Marshal Boyle Arnett yes
terday at White Oak, Morgan county, KY
Freeman is Jailed at West Liberty, heavily
guarded. A determined mob is organizing
to lynch him.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. 31.-The Ten
nessce Coal, Iron and Railroad company
has advanced the price of pig iron 80 cents
per ton for all grades. Wages are accord
ingly advanced "a cents per ton to GOA
miners Coal mining in the Birmingham
district is now at the highest price paid
for three years.
LINGwooD, w Va, Sept. Peter Tim
norman, famous Pennsylvania hors.
thief, was sentenced here today for the
twelfth term in states prison. He has been
behind the bars forty-years, being now past
f0years of age. His career has indeed been
strange one. A singular circumstance
was his remarkable resemblance to the late
James G. Blaine.
SAVANNAH, Aug. 30.-This city has been
flooded with counterfeit two dollar bills
Some are of the series of 1886 and bear the
picture of Hancock, and it is difficult to de
tect them from the genuine Others are OF
the series Of 1891, bearing the picture OF
Window, and are more easily detected. 1t
is the impression that counterfeiters are
working them off in large quantities in this
section of the south
CEDARTowN, Ca, Aug. 31.-Colonel w
L. Hickman, general manager of the North
George Mining company, was killed while
riding on the tender of an ore train ON a
branch road He was absorbed in watching
his little son, who was on the tender, and
did not notice a water tank which the train
was approaching. His head hit the tank,
and he was knocked off and killed. Col
onel Hickman was widely known in the
iron trade.
GAINESVILLE, Tenn, Sept. "A sensa-
tional feud is reported to have been re
newed in Trigg county. In July Colonel
Stone killed man named Hammond and
wounded John Rhodes The desperate
and a woman who lived with him here
were killed by Rhodes friends. Several
small fights followed, but no very serious
trouble occurred until a day or two ago,
when the opposing forces met and are said
to have had fatal battle several being
killed or wounded.
MACON, Ga, Aug. 81. = An excursion
train on the Southern railway, carrying
the Knights of Pythias excursion from this
city to Indian Springs for picnic, left the
track between Holton and Pope's Ferry.
The baggage car and two passenger coaches
turned over ]. A. Kennedy, of this city,
and Mrs. Hancock, of Americas, Ga, were
killed and almost every person in the
two coaches was hurt more or less seriously.
Several of them arc likely to die. There is
no way of accounting for the accident, as
it is said the track was in perfect condi-
ton.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Sept. 2.-The en-
tire family of James Reed, of London, not
far from Hartman, and a number of
others are suffering from the effects of
poison. Probably several persons will die.
Soon after dinner several became ILL., 1t
was found that the trouble was caused by
poison and antidotes were applied. The
physicians were hampered in their work
because it was impossible to tell whether
the poison was from verdigris or from
watermelons which had been poisoned to
catch thieves who have been robbing the
patch.
u1cp,AN ~ So,+ a-pot,voo,, ,,;d
night and daybreak Will Butcher. a negro,
was taken from the city lookup and shot
to pieces by whitecaps. Sunday night he
got into q quarrel with a crowd of negroes.
The police tried to arrest him. but he re-
sisted and threw a brick, striking a prom
inent white citizen. He was finally put
behind the bars. Yesterday morning the
door of the lookup was found open and the
prisoner gone Later Butcher was found
dead on the river bank. with his head shot
to pieces and the body riddled with bullet
holes. Eight or ten masks were found
near by. No arrests.
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drunken Italians, who are engaged on the
Charleston, Glendennin and Sutton rail
road, went into saloon at Porter Creek
and assaulted George w. Logan and his
brother, John Logan, and Burnie Cobb
The men were at the mercy of the Ital-
ians, about seventy-flve all told. George
Logan was shot in the thigh and literally
hacked TO pieces His brother, Jack Lo-
gan, and Burnie Cobb were horribly cut.
The wounded men were brought to the
hospital in this city, and today twenty
eight of the Italians are in Jail here. The
officers are after the others.
CHATTANOOGA. Sept. 3.-On Saturday
night the Chattanooga Stove company
shut down its plant, telling its employees
that it would have no further work for
them to do until the price of stoves went
up This company employs hundred
men, and its action will be followed by
stove manufacturers all over the south.
The reason assigned Is that the rapid and
sudden Jumps in the price OF iron have not
enabled them to accommodate the stove
market to the increased cost Of material
Circulars announcing concerted rise in
stoves will be sent out this week to the
trade by all the southern makers.
raleigh. Aug. N.-Secretarv of State
octavlus Coke after an Illness Of five
weeks died late YESTERDAY afternoon He
had been gradually sinking for several
DAYS. and his death was NOT unexnccted
secretary Coke was born in yyillia,nshuro,
ya in is40. He served with gallantrv IN
the Confederate army during the war being