Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-08-31
HE C0NFESSES GUILT.
SLAYER of CAPTAIN BARNES
ExULTs IN HIS CRIME.
THE WILSON COUNTY HOMICIDE.
Prisoner brought to Raleigh, ms
LynchIng Was Fenrcd-Two Negro
Mob who Threatened Them.

RALEIGH, n. c.. August 3o.--(Special)
At $50 o'clock this morning ]. J.
Jefferson. the assassin Of Captain
Calvin Barnes, was brought here from
Wilson county, to save him from immi-
| nent lynching. The Sheriff about o'clock
took him TO a point nine miles from VIII
son. boarded a train. and hurried here
Jefferson was placed IN the station-house
until n commitment arrived, so he could
be Jailed. He makes a full confession; in
fact. exults in his crime. He says he
mated Barnes, and that 5000 people will
rejoice at the killing. He says, further,
that Barnes wanted 10 make his daugh-
tiers work In the tobacco-helds and re-
fused TO give them cloth for dresses; that
he asked Barnes early in the day Mon
day for the cloth, and again that eve
ming. and that upon Barnes's refusal he
told him he intended to kill him. and then
, shot him as he sat in his buggy with his
little daughter beside him.
No more cold-biooded criminal than JEFF
fersOn has ever been seen here. He Is
past middle age, with rough face, and
iron-gray hair. He says one of his
brothers was in an insane asylum, but
escaped.
NEGRO FIENDS IN CUSTODY.
At o'clock this morning two negroes,
both charged with criminal assault, were
brought here and jailed. to save them
from lynchers at Durham, az a mob 1000
strong had gathered 10 take their lives.
one OF these criminals is Melville Parker,
who outraged May Huddlestone, white,
aged years, near the convict camp in
which he was serving sentence, three
miles from Durham. The other is Andrew
McAdams, who, near Burlington, Ala
nance county. outraged a 4-year-old
white girl. McAdams was taken to Dur
ham to prevent lynching at Graham.
Sheriff Markham, OF Durham, brought
these men through the country in car
rage At o'clock last night he took
them to his home, nine miles, for devel
opments, and when he found a great mob
was assembling he drove the prisoners
here. McAdams Is about l6 years Old. He
was half clad, and without coat, and
fui OF fear, and also cold. He trembed
like a leaf. he confesses his crime. Par
ker denies his guilt. 1t is now stated that
he did not fully accomplish his assault.
MASONIC NEWS.
Grand Master-of- Masons r. j. Noble
and Grand-Secretary j. G. Drewry re-
turned to-day from Statesville, where
yesterday the Grand Lodge laid the cor
ner-stone of the courthouse. Charles II.
Armheld delivered an address. Grand
Junior-Warden w. s. Liddell delivered the
Masonic address. TWO hundred Masons
were present.
Grand-Secretary Drewry says that so
far this year three new lodges have been
chartered, and that there are now 3l6
with a total membership Of 1l,O0O
During the past few days examinations
have been held in each county in the
State for a free scholarship at the Az
ricultural and Mechanical College here
So far eighty applicants have passed.
The outlook Is that there will be 300
students during the term, which begins
September 9Th.
Thomas X Bruner secretary of the
State Board OF Agriculture, has returned
from Person county, whore he took pho
tographs Of the farm Of John S. Cum
ningham He says there are 100000
hills" Of tobacco, and estimates the
weight of each at one third Of a pound.
thus making the crop million pounds.
1t is not at oil probable that any other
tobacco planter in the South produces so
much.
The State Labor Commissioner. Il. r.
Lacy Is now gathering the material for
his report for 1899. He says it's chief
feature will be letters from laborIng men
I'm all trades or yocations. These letters
are being received IN great numbers and
are in d very frank style.
John w. Thompson, Commissioner OF
Immigration, will visit the Pittsburg
Pa) Exposition September sth. and will
also go TO a number Of fairs i'm Pennsyl-
vania and New York.
CONVICT BEATEN 10 DEATH.
It IS ascertained that last October, d.
rectly after the death Of the negro cen
vict James Lowe, on the Northampton"
penitentiary farm, from blows with bri-
die by Overseer Sears, Judge Walter
Clark issued 4 bench warrant for Sears.
This was done upon an affidavit by DR..
Ferguson, the farm physician, who stated
that Sears's blows caused loves death.
Severe storms ended a drought In a con-
siderable part OF the Piedmont section
Monday. The electric storms were vio-
lent. Lightning completely destroyed the
First Baptist church at Caroleen, Ruther-
ford county.
Mayor Alfred Moore Waddll, OF VIII
mington, will, by special invitation, make
several speeches next month in the DEM
ocratic campaign in Kentucky.
Next Monday is 'LabOr-Day," ana will
be for the first time legal holiday in
North Carolina. The present Legislature
made IL one.
A train on the Greensboro Sanford d.
vision OF the Southern railway was stop
ped by dust, which SO cl0gged the ma
chnery as 20 require IL 10 be cleaned be-
fore the engine could move.
The steamer Neuse, of the New Berne
and Elizabeth City Line, which is
aground in four feet of water in the
mouth Of Pamlico Sound, where she was
driven by the hurricane. is entirely unin-
jured, and will be removed by the Dig
ging Of a canal go feet in length to deep
water
The wreck OF the schooner General Il.
l.. Royal, Of Baltimore, has been found
near the Royal Shoal, bottomsde up and
dismasted. The official report shows that
the damage 10 property, particularly
buildings, at Portsmouth and Ocracoke is
less than has been reported. The tide
rose four feet higher than any ever be-
fore recorded.
State-Treasurer Worth returned to-day
from Guilford College, where his brother
Daniel, was buried yesterday.
Killed by Train.
BEDFORD CITY Aug1ist 2D-(SpecialD