Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-09-14
GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS.

RICHMOND, Mo, Sept. 10.-Mrs. N. j.
McGruder, of Atlanta, Mo, sister of DIR.
Fraker, has arrived here, and if any doubt
existed before as to the identity of the
man now in Jail it has been dispelled by
his meeting with her. She recognized him
at once.
DALLAS, Tex, Sept. TN the case Of
the prize fighters who were arrested here
last Saturday Chief Jusrice j. NJ. Hurt, of
the court of appeals, has granted writ of
habeas corpus, returnable on the 10th inst
These cases will determine the validity of
the law licensing prize fighting in Texas.
NASHVILLE, Sept. 1.-THE dead body of
Lum Wood was found in the road near
Union City, riddled with bullets. 1t was
evident that he had been shot from am
bush. He was on his way to Union City
to appear before the grand jury concern
ing certain lawlessness to which he had
been a witness.
BROWNSVILLE, Tex, Sept "a report
has just reached here that the schooner
Garlock, of Lake Charles, La, was wrecked
fifteen miles south of the Rio Grande, Aug.
90 Her cargo of lumber Captain B.
Terasara, crew of four men and one
passenger, Joseph Simon, Jr., of Port
Isabel, were all lost
RICHMOND, Va, Sept TO- = Rev. Sam
Small S divorced daughter, Mrs. Lola Sinai
Jackson, figured as the bride in a roman
tic marriage here yesterday. The lady had
been spending some time at Old Point,
where she met for the first time one week
ago, Mr.. Stewart II. Ford, hotel clerk Of
this place.
NASHVILLE, Sept. 9.-Rsrticulars have
been received of the killing of Kearn Rea-
gin by Dean Tompkins, just across the
Kentucky line near Livingston. Temp
kins is United States commissioner of
Clinton county, and is said to be des-
perate character A woman named Ell
hngton, young, beautiful and reckless, is
said to have been the cause of the shooting
MANASSAS, Va, Sept 6.-Judge Lips
comb yesterday set aside the verdict rem
'dcred by the jury on Wednesday in the
case of George Poscy and his son, Fred
Posey, convicted of murder. The judge
ordered a new trial on the ground of i'm
proper conduct on the part of one of the
jurors, who, it is alleged, offered to bet the
accused would be convicted.
EAGLE PASS, Tex, Sept. information
has reached here that thetown of Abasolo,
in Mexico, a place of 500 inhabitants, was
almost entirely washed away ON Sunday
afternoon, but fifteen i4otses remaining
Three miles away, at the village of Rodri-
guez, every house was carried away. Fur
Their down, below Jirninez, at the Hacienda
of Eucenas, the flood destroyed estimated
at $4,000.
CHARLESTON, W. Va, Sept. 9.-wnson
lar fsfD
less, was run over near Brownstown by a
Chesapeake and Ohio train His head,
one arm and one leg were severed and he
was otherwise horribly mangled. He leaves
widow and three children. Foul play Is
suspected, and detectives are working on
the case. The engineer on The train says
he moved just before the train struck him.
NASHVILLE, Sept. GA report comes
from Tracy City of fight In which two
Illicit distillers were killed by revenue
officers in the mountain near that place.
The names of the men killed are Jay Rody
and Jim Woodle. Rody was brother of
the notorious moonshiner Ro.iy, killed
some time since, who was tried for murder
in the federal court here at one time, and
for long time was known as the terror Of
the mountains.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept. while Mr..
Charles Jones' a highly respectable citizen
of Lincoln county, was in Fayetteville
Monday night attending lodge, negro
broke into his residence in the country,
where his wife and her sister were staying,
and committed criminal assault on his
wife. Doe King, farm hand was ar
rested and fully identified Yesterday a
mob of 200 men took King from Jail and
hanged him to a tree.
NASHVILLE, Sept. 9--At Columbia two
linemen Of the Western Union Telegraph
company engaged in fight because Of the
allegations Of one of them, W. f. Keitner,
had made rejecting upon the wife of the
other, Fred Laewitz, who was bride of
few weeks. Laewitz, his wife and her
mother accused Keitner Of starting the
slanderous stories and row followed. |
Keitner drew pistol and Laewitz shot
him, infiieting fatal wound Laewits
was arrested.
PETERSBURG, Va, Sept n-Miss Ote-
Liza Malone, daughter of ex-senator Will |
lam Malone, was married quietly at Ashe-
vile, N. c., on the eth inst, to Mr.. Will !
lam L.. McGill. son Of John McGill, a |
wealthy tobacconist of Pittsburg. The |
wedding has been in contemplation for |
some time, but was hastencd by the fact |
that Mr.. McGfll was suddenly called to
take an extended European trip on bust |
ness mission. Mrs. Mctiill will not ac-
company her husband to Europe.
GREENSBORO, Ga. Sept. Three men
were drowned in the Oconee river Two
negroes, Albert Goss and John Ar1nor |
started to the mill with some corn TO get |
1t ground When they reached the ferry /
they found the river very high from tho |
recent rains. Ira Caldwell. son Of the
ferryman, undertook 10 carry them across
on a ilatboat When they reached the /
middle Of the stream the boat was caught I
in the current aud swept down the river
half a mile and over the dam. fifteen feet |
high The boat was shattered on the |
rocks aud the men were all killed or /
drowned.
BALTIMORE. Sept. 6---The Manufactur-
ers' Record says that the announcements 1
Of new cotton mills projected in the south /
during the last three months exceed that |
OF any similar period in the history OF /
cotton mill building In this sec