Show I 1 THE CANE C OR R TIB R cl R IMES 4 it 7 ti I 1 J U up p to to the time orthis I 1 has failed Y to 0 r particulars 01 further developments awful I 1 deeds of that chec c ruing a the mad tennessee mob by which two serva servants ats of god scaled their testimony lal ny of the ille truth of the latt latter e r da day y wor work k 7 with t their V ei r eife ti rab food we gare are pleased however hd wever to 6 boTa bleAd 1 give our readers a few items of informal t iou li c people of can c 1 creek 1 pa ek I 1 wl 10 IN wei t 0 victims S tho cinat fanatical L L N C al in fury r of 0 those mask as learned by the bah iwi J journal ourn alfrom from brother J JD DAVest D westbrook brook who ft ho was as baptized at the scene of those d dread read ui atrocities dec F 1881 by elder thoa tho I 1 S merd k 11 of fricha fRic richmond hm rad and find who arrived io in paradise a radise cache co may aay alth following i 0 ewaa and items of interest connected with the tragedy as ag were gleaned by the journal editor from brother westbrook during a lengthy interview james condor the tile head of file con dor family owned a farm farin at a cane creek of about acres and was considered to be in good circum stans cee ces his ilia cifes maiden name was melinda 11 carroll sho ilio f mai ried a man named wil whom orn elie site had a son soil J john ohn rile riley her first husband died and she married jas condor by whom sho had a son martin and M two daughters rachel ann annand and lo 10 visa jane th iq Q present sheriff 0 of atlig alio county john g carrollin Car 1 rr rollis ollis a brother I 1 jo Q sister collia condor J during the early months of the pa present seat year s ear a strong branch of the tile church was built up at cane creek mainly through tho labors of elder x was built by the sainta saints ever sinco since the work bf the tile gospel began t to ret get a foothold abero the elders caveat have at frequent intervals been threatened with V lio to lenco lence oi or death deith by j r in in the vicinity on the alth day of iky last an armed mob destroyed by 11 fire ire the saints meeting boulse hou lse and it is understood that they intended at that time to kill or drive out of that region the tile E elders liters who were ere laboring there this they did howe however veras as the saints had EO many friends among choin was the sheriff sheri ortho of tile county Cou lity who was present when meetinghouse was burned david hingos one of the robbers who was killed was a local preacher of tile methodist persuasion brother brook thinks thi fiks and it irmay may hence be inferred that ho be was the jeader eader of tho the mob he ile lived on tin brushy fork of calv creek about seven se en miles fr from om the tile condor farm and was nias about thirty years caia of age brother wept brdek sass that joe young youn j g the other who was to him and thinks ho lie is not a dent of the vicinity brother james condor the father ither fi was a baptized about five years ago by b elder argyle so brother ceab thinks all his ln s family were frien friendly uly ly to tho the eldera elders but none of them acro ro baptized until the alst 1st of last jann ETZ Y elda a c glicr ta aach M el ann aged ed eighteen years ye arsand and sister condors coar eldest son soil named johnj john riley hutson ll utson aged twenty sen by a former husband lius band were baptized an account of tho the baptism of brother condors son martin who was aged t twenty en ty yea years rs 0 on it t the it e ad of I 1 last as t march 11 a reb is given elsewhere his ills daughter lovisa jane aged about fourteen iv was is ba baptized baptised sized sed in may last brother alier condors eon son martin Martia and liis its stepson jolin john riley cuteon had always been devoted in their friend ship for the elders had often armed themselves and traveled with the missionaries to protect them and had always seq enow n alia a disposition and desire to stand between them and all harm harai front le 1 r tic enemies these two young men i dreaded by tho the boboc rats of the tile vie vicinity in ity the latter had often mado made threats of violence town towards ads tho the elders and in order to b bo e prepared re ir ed for them martin and ilia ills taT half brother john kiley riley each always kept a loaded double gun un hanging over the two di dours ars of lie the condor farm house ready for instant I 1 arse u I 1 thero there was a branch bronch of 31 members at cane creek before these three were w killed of these 22 have been bap I 1 liz tid ad by elder eider gibbs since the tile first day of ast january the other nino were w ere baptized at various times within tho the last five jive yeara years by different eld elders cs who have traveled aud and labored in in that region I 1 T garrett at whose houge tile mob I 1 found ar an elder as stated in the tile first press rm dispatch is spoken of by brollier Brot brother lier westbrook Vest brook in high terms lie ile met elders argyle awl and games at indian creek fio five miles from cane greek in inthe the summer oi of 1670 and arid pave gae them thein a cordial invitation to visit him at cane cieck the they did fco fo and in n this thiis way the Gospel f was first there mr garrett lias never ravel r been baptized but lie lias has aldave befriended the elders hae has armed d himself and raided traveled atit them to protect them then and find lias has brov proven en himself a noble brave and lind honorable mail all tho tile inhabitants of cano creek within a radius of about two I 1 mile were saints except mr gar Crar rett reit and ana family and tit h his is bonin law richard ichard ll baker and bis his family mr daker zjr was w as favorable toward the saints Bro brother tIfer westbrook surmises that th a twelve masked line men n comprising the mob came carne from tho the various parts of the tile cmil county ity and that they had backing outside of their own number lewis county is in a region where tho the ku klux mai lime have often operated wh ere an and d other desperate characters abound and tho the laws have often been overridden over ridden rid den and defied john carroll tho tile brother of bister condor ane one of the murdered sainte saints ai i spoken of by brother westbrook as a brave resolute honorable lionor ablo man and a good officer ho lie has lias li As been sheriff Sherl of tho tile Co county for bik ei years brother Weft westbrook brook delfas being confident that there tire enough law abiding citi cit citizens izena zens in tha coulty to insist upon a vigorous prosecution of tho tile murderers and that tho tile latter will I 1 ishoy fj hey van can possibly he be found cano cane creek contains about twant twenty houses and is situa situated tei about tw twenty ent r miles south of centreville Cen treville a st elation on tho line of the nashville IF civill 1 tuscaloosa railroad ad hv having I 1 n a P population p ula tion of 1500 it is in 10 the midst of a rugged rolling timber count country I 1 yr i I 1 I 1 s I 1 sing singularly d barly varied in its content sand I 1 takes the reader much about the 1 I 4 world in five naca entertaining 0 papers treating of places widely separated in the misericordia cord ia of I 1 florence lore ada Ba kounine a Rus russian lady re tilt aiding 1 II ing at that cit city div gives cs an historical and descriptive account with the aid oN illustrations lions of that fai bichis so society citty now five centuries 1 0 old id A at glance at tho the hungarian cap capitals I 1 by J IV illustrated david ker tells how it look I 1 on a siamese pagoda d i I 1 r ernest jrnest ingerson Inger 0 sou in IA A cal california 4 fo rilia acadia narrates the ros ra mantic hist mryr ia sett settlement lemen t made by russians on oil the pacific coast not far san franci francisco co and rb jes day a new 0 orleans leans Y merchant erelia go nt portrays tho tile J warms arms oven in summer time of A corner of the gulf of mexico A asterling ster I 1 lin g literary paper full of interesting I 1 anecdotes well told ison bal zac and the literary circles of lit his s diniel bj by james lane alien allen the propriety c of the grayc grave biggers scene in hamlet thought by son some ie out of place in the tragedy 1 is made clear by bv henry P F randolph a son of the well known publisher THE a world llor lel says t that T at giorge westinghouse before jie he in vented and perfected his well kemin air brake was regarded by a tt num ber if hia then with something approaching 0 pity be bei cause caus a of oghig his alleged lack of gumption trip his air brake was a success and his friends began to think there was something in him after ELI all his ilk automatic engine added to his fame and bank balance and aud he mounted higher 0 in athe the esteem of his ilia former friends A few weeks ago a valuably valuable well of natural gas r was as str struck on his premises at homewood near pittsburg this well ivell is 1680 1580 feet deep and the flow gov of gas id is tremendous the roar being I 1 almost deafening and scarcely endurable to the citizens of the neighbor hood two other wells are are being 0 put down by westinghouse mr and lie 4 estimates that hie his profit will soon amount to 1000 a day d ay we dont know what lie wants of those wells as he be is not in straitened circumstances but if of alo those c former friends P adds the world if dont u t about bow bov down anat vors flip ts mm in ere long well miss our 9 guese |