People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1898-01-14
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charge Of an officer from Savannah.
AUGUSTA, Ga, Jan. 8.-Major Moses
p. Handy, special United States COM
missioner to the Paris exposition, died
here.
ATHENS, Ala, Jan. s-Hon Hector
D. Lane, who was stricken with paraly-
sis about week ago, is improving
gradually.
EASTMAN, Ga, Jan. 1.-THE munich
pal election here passed off quietly.
John f. Delacy was elected mayor with
out opposition.
COLUMBIA, S. O., Jan. 10. - Amos
WEIGH. when caught in the act OF rob-
bling the postoffice at Florence, shot
himself dead.
ATLANTA, Jan. Tom Cyrus, a ne
gro, was privately executed in the
county Jail yard here for the murder of
his mistress Annie johnson.
GAINESVILLE Ga, Jan. 10. - Hon.
Howard Thompson has announced that
he is a candidate for congress in the
Ninth district to succeed Garter Tate.
CAMBRIDGE, Ga, Jan. 2. - Simon
Hopkins. a negro. was hanged here.
He made a confession to the effect that
he inveigled friend named Harris into
q swamp and killed him.
COLUMBIA, s. O., Jan. Edith, a
pretty 15-year- old daughter of J. D.
Scott Of Pacolet, was rocking vigorously
rocking chair, when it overturned
and her neck was broken.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Jan. Thomas
Collins, who shot and killed j. L. How
ell, while Howell was a prisoner in cell
No. 3. in the city prison in Bessemer,
has been committed to Jail without bail.
TAMPA, Fla, Jan. 0-Preparations
are rapidly going forward for the ma
tional fishery congress, which is to meet
in the auditorium of the Tampa Bay
hotel Jan. 10 and continue in session one
week.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Jan. Hoover
nor Johnston has announced the APP
pointment of NJ o. Grant as sheriff of
Oovington county to succeed Hart, who
recently resigned as the result of the
Dunston sensation.
vetoed the resolution adopted by coun-
Gil to celebrate Atlanta's fiftieth birth
day on Feb. 2. giving as reason there
for that the time is insufficient to make
the proper arrangements
TUSCALOOSA, Ala, Jan. g. - Rice
Banks. negro, has surrendered to the
sheriff here. He confesses to having
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son. wealthy merchant, near Akron,
in Hale county, two years ago.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. Jan. 11-Con-
ductor Henry NJ Law died here as a re-
suit of injuries received in the wreck
on the Atlanta and West Point railroad
Sunday morning. Flagman w W.
Pope. another of the injured, is expected
to die.
CHATTANOOGA, Jan. 11-Santa Claus
gave William and James Weller, II and
IS years old, each shotgun. William
has Just filed James head with bird
shot at their home in East Chattanooga,
and he cannot live. The boys were
''playing Indian"
MOBILE, Jan. 10-The steam pilot
boat Somers N. Smith. which was seized
few days ago as per instructions of
the secretary of the treasury, has been
ibeled in the United States circuit court
for conveying men. arms, ammunitions
and provisions to the insurgents in Cuba.
MERIDIAN. Miss, Jan. Jim Watts
and Sam Cole, negroes, of Neshoba
county, were lynched in Pea Ridge,
Keplper county. Watts and Cole went
to Pea Ridge to visit relatives and be-
came too thick with their kinsmen's
wives. The lynchers are said to be me-
groes.
JELIoo. Tenn. Jan. 6.-Tye Ross,
policeman, attempted to arrest two
Quinn brothers of Proctor coal mines,
who were drinking James Quinn drew
pistol and fired at him. The officer
then shot Quinn through the heart, kill
ing him instantly, and then arrested
his brother.
MONTGOMERY. Ala, Jan. 11-Ohair-
man Knox has called a meeting of the
executive committee of the Democratic
party of Alabama to assemble in this
city Feb 20 to select a time and place
for holding the next state convention.
1t will likely be held i'll Montgomery
about April 10.
ATLANTA. Jan. 6-B. H. Osborne. the
supposed insane murderer, who escaped
from the asylum at Milledgeville last
Tuesday, has written a long letter to an
Atlanta paper, i'll which he gives an &C.
count of alleged cruelties practiced at
the institution where he had been con-
fined for over year
MONTGOMERY, Ala. Jan 6-Former
Governor Oates has purchased the beau
tiful Lock cottage behind the capitol
and in the block with the reservoir
Governor Oates removed his law office
from Asheville to this city some months
ago and is now property owner and
citizen of Montgomery.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. Jan. s.-George
Pritchard. the negro who shot to death
in the pulpit of the negro Baptist church
here last July the negro editor and
schoOlteacher, Patterson, was adjudged
by the jury which had heard the evi.
dence in the case to be guilty. He was
sentenced to life imprisonment.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Jan. III. "A day
coach on westbound train No. 80 of the
Western of Alabama railroad went
through Cubahatchie bridge, II miles
east of Montgomery. The conductor
and fiagman were seriously injured and
20 passengers received bruises or other
injuries. none of which are serious.
KNOXVILLE, Jan. 7.-District Assem-
bly, Knights of Labor No. 3, embracing
the entire mining region, has raised the
boycott on the coal of the 20 mines in
the Jellico region that has been on for
several months. This action was taken
because the Jellico strike. involving
1900 men, has been satisfactorily set
tied
BRISTOL Tenn, Jan. TN fit of
insanity, Alexander Carter a wealthy