Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-08-19
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Camp Wheeler is the name of
the new camp at Huntsville, Ala.
Cattlemen and farmers are no
the verge of a war in Woodward
county, Okla.
Mail Agent w. r. Staples was
killed in a wreck on the Chesa-
peake & Ohio railroad.
Henry Kelch, q 10-year old lad,
was caught attempting to rob the
Florence (Ala.) postofflce.
Atwood, Carroll county, citizens
are preparing to build a $4,000
school house.
Miners at Pana, ILL.,, are out on
strike. Rioting has been INDUCED
in, and excitement is high.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee will enter the
senatorial race in Virginia. This is
authorized by General Lee him.
self.
Dan Thomas, a negro fisherman,
insulted a Tennessee soldier at
San Francisco, Tuesday, and mar.
rowly escaped lynching.
John Hodge, q prominent farm.
er, died of heart failure while at
tending Sunday school near
Nolensville. Tenn.
The Illinois Central railroad re-.
Gently awarded the Southern Coal
Co., of Corona, Ala, the contract
for it's coal, which is about 100, 900
tons annually.
The Subsistence Department
of the army will have plenty of
supplies ready to forward to Cuba
in case it is found that the people
there must be supplied from the
United States.
Citizens of Martin, Tenn, are
considerably excited over the sud-
den and mysterious disappearance
of Charles Il. Waggoner, who left
home Thursday. He told his wife
he was going to attend the funeral
of a relative, but failed to show up
and has not since been heard of.
A terrific wind and hail storm
struck Mortz Siding, s. d., sweep.
ing away everything in its path.
Eight people were killed there
and others are known to have
been killed near by. All live
stock in the path of the storm was
killed.
Hubert Davis, clerk for the
firm of Lyles, Davis, Goodall &
Co., Nashville, was stabbed Mon.
day by j. G. Cisco, from the eff.
fects of which he died at 5:45 the
same day. Young Davis was for.
merly from Dickson, was very
popular, and leaves a large circle of
friends and acquaintance, both at
his old home and in Nashville,
who i-piO-~ L;~ <->s ;o doath
r. j. Corbett, father of James
j. Corbett, the heavyweight pugil.
list, Tuesday morning shot and
killed his wife, turning the weapon
upon himself with fatal effect. 1t
is believed that the murderer was
demented. He had been in ex-
tremely poor health for some time
Death was almost instantaneous
in both cases.
The steamer Jessie and her tow,
the Minerva, property of the Co.
lumbar Exploration Company, of
Seattle, Wash, were wrecked in
Kuskokwim river during a gale,
July %, and eighteen more lives
added to the long list already
made by the prospecting army.
Among the number were Rob p.
Frierson, Shelbyville, Tenn; G. il.
Mitchell, Gallatin, Tenn; II. G.
Clifford Hare, Gallatin, Tenn,
and three men from Kentucky.
Miss Ethel Posey, about Is
years ofage, who lives about three
miles from Union City, was as
saultcd Tuesday morning before
day by someone entering her
room through all open window.
The scoundrel threw a quilt over
her face and tired to choke her
into submission, but the noise she
made awoke her mother, who was
sleeping in the same room, and
the miscreant sprang through the
window without accomplishing his
design.