Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-08-18
GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS.

GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS.
Norfolk, Aug. 11.-British steamer
Palestro, which went on the outer
| Diamond shoals, off Cape Hatteras,
Thursday morning, lies today a hope
less wreck. with her decks under
water and the vessel about TO break in
| two.
Marietta, Ga, Aug. 10.-Sam Robin
son, negro charged with criminal as
suit on Mrs. George liner, was yester-
day convicted and sentenced to hang
Sept 1. He confessed after conyic-
tion. He is now at Atlanta for safe
keeping.
Norfolk, Va, Aug. 1.-THE Nor
wegtan bark Kopta has put into Hamp-
ton ROADS with six cases of chaRres
FEVER on board and signalled for helm.
She was boarded of Old Point Conn
tort by DR.. Brown, quarantine officer,
VINO sent her to quarantine. Chagres
IeVer, also known as Mexican fever"
is frequently contracted by seamen ON
ships that touch at Mexican ports.
Tennille, Ga, Aug. 14-The South
| ern railway train from Augusta was
wrecked here yesterday afternoon and
IL people were badly hurt. Others
were less seriously hurt. All of the
injured are doing we'll The train
broke in two on a steep grade and the
Two sections collided There was an
excursion from Tennille to Savannah
yesterday and a large crowd of ex-
cursionists were on the train.
Wheeling. w. Va, Aug. 13.-Iast
night at Deep Run, four miles above
TINS city, on the Wheeling and Lake
Erie railroad, a south bound coal train
jumped the track over a steep embank-
ment Two men were killed and two
others badly injured. Engineer Mike
McGreavy, OF Norwalk. o.. jumped
alghting on his head, fracturing the
skull. He died three hours later. An
unknown hobo" boarded the train at
Warrenton and was killed.
Lake Charles, La. Aug. 13.-The
west bound passenger train on the
southern Pacific road due here at Z
p. IN was wrecked four miles east of
TINS city at Iowa station last evening.
Il. is rumored that several persons
were Killed and many injured. The
trucks OF the engine left the track and
the entire train was ditched except the
sleepers. Arrangements have been
made TO bring the dead and injured to
this city. 1t is rumored that the list OF
injured will amount to 40
Pensacola, Fla Aug. 1o.-Eisht
members of the crew of the British
ship Kings County are in irons aboard
the ship at the quarantine station. II
is said they became unruly, disobeyed
ship discipline, refused to work and
IN defiance OF health laws went ashore
at the quarantine station, threatened
the life OF Port Physician White when
ne ordered them to return to their
snip and had begun to terrorize the
employees at the station, when Deputv
United States Marshal Wharton placed
them under arrest.
Cape Henry, Va, Aug. 1O.-The fol-
lowing wreck report is received from
Weather Bureau Observer Dosher at
Hatteras, N. C.: The British steamer
Palestro, Captain Armstrong, from
pensacola for Liverpool via Newport
News, for coal, stranded yesterday on
diamond Shoals. The entire crew Of
80 men were safely landed at Cane Hat
teras last night by the life savers from
the Creed's Hill and Cape Hatteras
stations, and are now being cared for
by Captain Eatheridge. of the Cane
Hatteras station. Nothing can be done
towards saving either the ship or car
go. and both will prove a total loss.
Sylvania, Ga, Aug. 13-Saturday
night r. F. Harrington and Milton
Mears, white, were driving home in
their buggy. On the road they met two
negroes named Alexander in a buggy
The wheels of the vehicles collided. A
quarrel ensued when the negroes drew
pistols and shot Harrington and Mears
dead The news quickly spread and
Capt Jesse l.. Wade, brother of Senator
u. G. Wade, organized a posse to cap
ture the murderers. AS the posse ap-
preached the house of the Alexanders
a number OF shots in rapid succession
were fired into it. Capt. Wade fell NOR
tally wounded. The posse withdrew
ana went for Sheriff Thompson. The
sherln with reinforced posse is now
in pursuit
Richmond, Va, Aug. 11.-Alexander
Bracchi, the alleged anarchist, who
was arrested here on suspicion and
upon complaint that he had threatened
TO blow up st. Peters cathedral during
the Italian demonstration in honor of
King Humbert, created a sensation in
the police court yesterday by spring
ing upon and striking the first witness
against him. This incident practically
ended the examination, as the police
Justice sentenced Bracchi to jail in
default of $1,000 security. The wit
ness; Jacobini, repeated his statement
that Bracchi told him three days be-
lore the assassination of King Hum
bert that the crime would be commit
ted, and said further that two years
ago Bracchi told him that he. had two
barrels OF dynamite slowed away near
senator Mason For Mckinley.
Seattle, Wash, Aug. Ex-senator
w. Il. Mason, of Illinois, who has ar
rived here from Alaska, announced his
intention to support President Me-