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Show RACE TROUBLES. A Bloody Iluttte in Georgia Cntuluul ftU&cclIuuiea. Savannah, Ga.t 9, A terrible riot took place this alterooon at Mclntoab, Liberty County, a station on the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, between a party of negro excursionists Irom Bryan County, aud those belonging to the place. It began in a fight between two negroes, whereupon John Randall, captain of the negro militia company from Bryan County, and part of the excursionists, ordered his company to charge, which they did, bayoneting everybody within reach. The captain himself killed one man by running him through wilh his sword. There was intense excitement at this outrage. The Liberty County negroes rallied and drove the military company into the cars, opened fire on them, killing four and wounding many more, and only stopping shooting when the train got out of the way, which they tried to prevent by tearing up the track. All the parties engaged were negroes. Grayson, Ky.p 9. Mrs. Jones, wife of a farmer near here, killed ber husband hus-band in a quarrel which resulted from her objecting to his bringing a courtezau into the house. She cleft his skull wilh an axe. Bombay, 10. Three employ of the government book depot at Poonah have confessed that they set the recent fires in order to destroy evidences evi-dences of their defalcations. Two were sentenced to lifelong transportation, transporta-tion, and the other one lo ten years' tranenortion. Philadelphia, 10. Edward Parr, the murderer of his daughter, who sank down in the prisoner's dock, yeotoiday, from the effects of poison, just after the death sentence had been pronounced ou him, died this morning at 5.50 in tbo ante-rnom of the court house. Eminent physicians from different colleges were with him all night, but failed to restore him to consciousness. All of Parr's immediate im-mediate relatives are now in custody, and a rigid investigation will be had with a view to discovering the manner man-ner in which and by whom the pciaon was oonveyed to the prisoner. Washington, 9. W. J. Dtlacy, Ihe witness for Spofford who testified ou Saturday and to-day before the senate sen-ate committee in the Kellogg-Spofiord contest, was arrested this afternoon upon the complaiut of Cavanao, Spofljrd's agent, ou the charge of perjury. He gave bonds in $500 for his appearanco in the police court to-morrow. |