Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-09-17
GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS.


Winchester. Va. Sept. ia buggy
in which were Miss Laura Dellinger,
her sister. Miss Alice Dellinger, and
George Sisler was struck by freight
train last night and the two younR
women were instantly killed. efsleT
was badly injured.
Staunton. Va. Sept. 12.-Today Dep
uty Marshal John Rodgers arrested
George f. Eakle. postmaster at Bolar,
Bath county. on the charge of embez-
cling government funds to the amount
of $500. He was brought before United
States Commissioner J. l.. S. Kirby and
bailed in $1,000 for his appearance on
the 2sth.
Hall, shipping clerk of Lowe & Boone's
furniture store. was instantly killed
today by the elevator falling distance
and breaking his neck. The chain slip
ped causing the heavy lifting machine
to fall. The unfortunate young man
was the son of ex-Treasurer John c.
Hall, OF Franklin county, well known
throughout this section as a primitive
Baptist preacher.
Morgantown. w. Va, Sept. ia
created here this evening when IL was
learned that an attachment proceed
ing had been instituted by the Farmers
and Merchants bank against the prop
erty OF j. Lindsay Keener The am
davit on which the attachment was
secured was made by Joseph L. Keener.
cashier of the bank and q cousin of
Lindsay Keener, and its statements are
taken as substantially correct. They
charge that Lindsay Keener has con-
veyed away all his property here and
left for parts unknown with intent TO
defraud his creditors.
Atlanta. Ga. Sept. Io.-A telegram
from President Mckinley was received
yesterday by the family of General
John b. Gordon asking the general to
accept a position as a member of "a
commission to examine into the con-
duct OF the commissary and medical
departments OF the army In the recent
war with Spain" The specific object
of the commission is stated in the tele-
gram to be an examination of the COM
missary. quartermasters and medical
bureaus of the war department and
into the extent. causes and treatment
| of sickness In the fields and the camps.
General Gordon is at Reynolds, Ga.
and the telegram was forwarded to
him.
Richmond. KY. Sept. 10.-General
Cassius M. Clay. the sage of White
| Hall, has been granted a divorce from
his girl wife, Dora Richardson Clay. by
Judge Scott. of the Madison county
circuit court. The decree restores the
| defendant to her maiden name, Dora
| Richardson. The suit for divorce was
II a. 81
| contested by the defendant NO refer
| ence was made to alimony, as it was
| understood by the attorneys and tie
| court that General Clay had already
made ample provision for his wise by
the purchase Of a large and productive
farm near her old home. The mar
| riage contract which existed between
them was dissolved.
| Brooks Station. Ca, Sept. 12.-The
body OF George Burton, q Negro wa
assaulted Mrs. Coggins, was founC
| yesterday in Flint river, about three
miles below Digby riddled with bull
| let's. A rock Weighing several hundred
| pounds was tied to 1t. Burton was ar
rested Saturday at Senoya. Early yes
| terday John Withon, who lives near
where the negro was found, heard sew
| eral gunshots and later went down tc
investigate. He found on the banks
of the river old pieces of clothes burn
ed and saturated with blood. With the
assistance of several friends Mr.
Withon dragged the river and found
the body. News has just reached here
that 200 or 500 negroes are marching t.
Digby. armed with guns and rifles
| swearing vengeance. Every white mar
in town is going down Wen armed
Montgomery, Ala, Sept 1S--Nava
J Cadet Thomas H. Wheeler, the younge
son Of General Joseph Wheeler, wa,
buried yesterday I'm the faxaalV esHt1s
ground on the DRnernFS eGeEaR "a
! Wheeler's Station, AlabaEsa- 81.
scene at the grave was very impressive
The casket was literally covered witt
] flowers from all sections of the country
north and south contributing Top
| ping all was the dead sailors swor,
and belt, and enveloping the coffin wa
an immense American flag. Genera
Wheeler, careworn and half Ill, is com
, | pletely crushed by the death of his sor
He said today that the undertaken
and life savers at Montauk told hir
that the young man had evidently los
his life in trying to save that of hi
companion, whose arms were locke
around his sons body in death griI
while his face was covered wit
scratches, evidently from the other
finger nails.