The Goodland republic., 1896-09-04
4 GN8ED aFIH LYH5HED.
The Kan Of God Nobbed ana His Companies
piss Of Fright
A Female AeroHaut Falls $500 Feet to Tn-
slant Death-Epldemlco Of Typhoid
FeVer-Sorious Race War
In Alabama.

DUBLIN, Ca, Aug. 3L.-A negro
preacher was lynched, and the shock
sustained by his companion caused
the latter's death, IS miles from here
yesterday. The two negroes. William
Wright and Enoch Airline, both Meth
Odist preachers, went to Wilkinson
county to attend a protraeted meeting.
They were on their return home, when
suddenly band OF men confronted
them, stopped the horse, pulled Airline
from the vehicle and carried him to a
dense thiclSet beside the road. Here
the mob threw a rope around his neck,
and, without giving him a moment to
pray, pulled him up the tree, and kept
the unfortunate preacher there until
death relieved his sufferings. As soon
as this was accomplished the mob
rushed to get Wright, but he escaped
by lashing his horse and getting out Of
their reach. He was badly frightened,
and on reaching home complained Of
being i'll, and in two hours he was
dead, death ensuing from pure fright
and the horrible sight witnessed by
him of Arline's fate.
A Female Aeronsut's Awful Death.
81. LOUIS, Aug. 3L-Dispairingly re-
linquishiBg her hold upon the trapeze
bar Of a hot-air balloon, after having
accidentally released the parachute
upon which her life depended, Victoria
lie Roy, q female aeronaut making her
fourth ascension Of the week from the
grounds Of the St Louis County Fair
association, fell 1900 feet Saturday
afternoon and was instantly killed.
The frightful spectacle was witnessed
by a crowd of over /, 900 spectators It
had been preceded by several moments
of spellbound horror, the fate of death
awaiting the woman having been To-
evitable from the instant the para
chute was torn from its fastenings and
fell clattering to the ground
Epidsmie OF Typhoid Fever.
WASHINGTON, Aug. SO-A special
from Morgantown, w. Va, says: An
alarming epidemic of typhoid fever has
broken ont in this section of West Vir-
ginia- At Rigesville and New England
mines, villages between here and Fair
mont, there are nearly 100 cases re-
ported and several deaths occur daily.
All operations in the mines and in
other lines OF business have been sus-
pended, and aid is being solicited to
take care Of the sick. Local physicians
are going day and night, and physicians
from MorgantoWn and FairmOnt make
daily visits, The state board of health
has received information that the dis
ease is prevalent in Lewis and Ran
dolph counties and is spreading. The
epidemic is attributed to the stagha-
tion Of drinking water in wells and
springs, caused by the high water.
There is not much hope Of checking it
soon.
A Race War in Alabama,
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Aug. 3L-Reports
from Camp Hill, Ala, indicate that a
miniature race war is in progress there,
Some officers arrested several negroes
and started with them to jail, when a
large body Of negro sympathizers at
tackled them. Neighboring whites
came to the rescue of the officers, and
a spirited fight ensued in which guns,
fence rails, rocks and sticks were freely
used. The negroes were finally re-
pulsed. Four or fve men, most Of
them negroes, are said to have been
killed or fatally injured. Details are