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wuu «i. ui vuuniu, bum v vaujy* *»L. Little ot Hancock, comprise the com* mi tie* to notify Mr. Pringle.of Li* nomine-tion and request bia acceptance.GAtHESVILLE.I, TwvTlolwi Swtha-a Ran Killed on tbe 1' Railroad Tlmr«tt»i N'lctit,Gantts? ills, August 20.—Our town I* all in commotion thU morning ovsr two violent death* which havo occurred Lera In the lait tew hours.Last night as tho 9 o'clock train on the Gainesville, Jefferson apd Southern mil* road was oomiog from Social Circle it ran orcr and killed a young man by the noma ot John 0'Conner. The place of tho and* dent waa In the city limit* and about half a mile wroth of the depot. He waa lying aeroas the track on a curve, to the engineer did not ite him until the engine wa» within few feet of the man. and consequentlyv.ul0 ii1iian•itaiek«MIflUr-a tew iee* ot tne man. ana ccneqa*miy could not atop. The train peaked over the body and mashed it into shred*. Variousconjectures an made as to how O'Conner | got on the railroad track. A* thero is a MI eevere wound on bis forehead, some sup-^ pose he waa killed and his body placed on the track at the eurTt to cover up the crime.The only *uro thing up to this time is, that the train ran over turn and he is dead.The coroner has not yet h«Id au inquest. O’Conner baa a lister who will be here ontha morning train to look after her brother.sttrueI*, I Henry Hood, a well-digger, was killedsothis morning in a wall on the lot of Mr. .T1 Morton, He wsa digging a well whb*h had reached the depth of fitly feet. The last thing he did last night was to touch off a ui \ bleat. This morning a young man went - I down ffrat and discovered some foul gas, u I and then came out. Hood then threw rine-Lth 1 Rkr iQ the well, said all was right, and went iot I down. When about the bottom, he gave ust I the signal to be drawn up, but Lb* I by tne time he was half-^Jwaj up he fell from the! bucket and la now a dead man in the bot-8 I tom of ih* well. Hood leaves a young wife and on# child.Judge E«tes is hotting court this w«k and making It bard for transgressors, The *T I negro boy who stole Jehu A. Smith's home ,al I two month* ago] will try tho penitentiary the V for twelve years. Other* go from ona to ththe ilng and I to rad-tin*Hr. W. U Sawyer, dentist, disd night before last and will be buried this afternoon at 3 o'clock from the HapUsL church. He cams from Thomeaton three year* ago, end has been practicing here siaoa. H# leetcs a wife and four children.TV TV.
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Macon Weekly Telegraph
Macon, Georgia, US
Sat, Aug 21, 1886
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