Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-10-08
GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS,

burgburg yesterday Miss Lizzie Cabin.
aged so years. committed suicide by
shooting herself, and the fash from the
powder set fire to her clothes. which
were burned from her body. The body
was nearly burned to a crisp.
Jackson, Miss. oct 3-~The yellow
fever situation in jackson grows stead
! lily worse In spite of all efforts to pre-
vent the spread OF the disease. There
were ten new cases reported yesterday
four whites. Mrs Kavanaugh and three
| In the Hendrix family on South street.
hitherto uninfected locality. The
other eases are negroes in the origin
ally infected district
Atlanta, Ga. Oct. Sd Phillips. OF
| Savannah, private in the Second
! Georgia regiment was locked up drunk
yesterday afternoon by provost guard
| and was not searched. Phillips had on
his person a revolver, and as soon as
| left alone amused himself by shooting
| at other prisoners walking In the cor
ridor outside He shot Claude Love,
another white prisoner, through the
head. He made a desperate fight when
the officers went 10 disarm him. Love
! is in the hospital In a serious condition,
| but may live.
Harrodsburg. Ky. Oct. 5.-Dr. l.. G.
Morgan. while on his way home Mon
| day night from visiting patient In
this county, was decoyed into a house
! by three negroes. who claimed that a
woman was i'll. They tried to rob him as
soon as he entered, and when he drew a
revolver the contents of double
barreled shotgun were empted into his
abdomen He was found some time
afterward, and managed TO tell the
story before death relieved him. Bob
Winn and Lon Williams were arrested.
charged with the crime.
Savannah. Ca. Oct. 5.--Complete de-
| tails from Brunswick and surrounding
country are impossible because of the
prostration of the telegraph and tele
phone systems. Campbell Island ~
miles from Darien on the Altamaha
river. is said to be completely swept
away, and only three persons succeed
ed in getting off the island. There is no
definite information as to the popula-
ton of the island, and estimates of the
number supposed to have persisted
there range from 20 to so. The popula-
| tion was made up wholly of colored
| truck growers.
Savannah, Ca, Oct. 5.--A dispatch
by the tug H. NJ. c. Smith states that
two children were drowned at Fer
nandina, Fla. Water flooded big por-
ton OF the city and sent many vessels
high and dry on the beach. Telegraph
systems are Frustrated and railroads
have suspended operations. A family
Of mother father and three children
were In their house when the tide car
red it away. One of the boys under
took to save his baby brother, but was
unable to reach shore, being forced 10
drop the child The father was rescued
from a tree and the mother drifted
ashore. The crew at the quarantine
station were rescued from life raft,
the station being entirely destroyed.
Savannah, Ga, Oct 3.--For is hours,
from o'clock yesterday morning until
o'clock last night Savannah was in
the grasp Of a West Indian cyclone,
During that time the wind blew steadi-
ly from so to 70 miles an hour. While
the city escaped with comparatively
| little damage, the loss Of property
among the sea islands of Georgia and
South Carolina coasts is believed 10 be
heavy For miles in every direction
around Savannah the lowlands along
rivers are submerged. 1t was at first
feared that there would be a repetition
| Of the disastrous storm of 1893. when
such fearful loss OF life occurred on the
South Carolina sea islands. but IL is
now known that the loss Of life VIII not
| exceed five or six.
Murfreesboro. Tenn, Oct 3.-An aw-
full tragedy has occurred in the north
portion Of Cannon county, about 30
miles east Of this city, i'm which FIVE
men are reported TO have been saw
agely assassinated. John Hollingsworth
killed a man by the name Of Higgins
in that country over year ago. A suit
was brought against Holiingsworth
! and a Judgment obtained by the IIig
gins family for $500. When the party
Of men came to carry out the proceed
lngs and had gathered in the barn
Hollingsworth and his friends fired
into them, killing four men and wound
ing another so badly that he viii hardly
recover. The dead are Rev. A. @. Webb,
his son. JEFF Higgins and an unknown
man. James Vincent will die. Hol-
lingsworth and his party escaped.
Charleston. S. c., Oct 5.-The four
masted schooner Sarah l.. Palmer, Cap
tain Whittier, with phosphate rock,
from Charlotte Harbor to Carteret, N.
j., was lost in a fierce storm Sunday
morning off Stone Inlet. seven miles
south Of Charleston. AS the vessel was
sinking Saturday night her crew took
to the rigging, where they remained
until Sunday morning, when they
tried to take to the boats. One boat was
smashed and one sunk. The captain
was washed away three times, finally
sinking. Two negroes were washed
ashore at Edisto Island and brought to
Charleston yesterday. Besides the cap
tain six men were washed overheard
The drowned are Captain Whittier,
First Mate Briggs, Second Mate Nc
Donald Steward Pat Reilly Seamen
Thomas Febroate, Walter Stancliffe,
Joe Myers and James Roe, the two lat
ter colored.