Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-03-17
GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS

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In quarry near Gate City. Va. The
force OF the blast lifted him Is feet
In the air, and he fell over a 40 foot
CHI.
Pensacola, Fla, March 10.-Wyman
King, negro. was executed here yes
terday for the murder OF his sweet
heart, Victoria Watkins. King helped
erect the gallows, and when the work
was finished jokingly suggested that
another negro be put on first as test.
Jackson, Miss, March 1o.-Governor
Longino yesterday appointed Hon. s..
s. Calhoun of this city, chief Justice
OF the Mississippi supreme court. to
NIL the vacancy caused by the resigna-
ton OF Judge Thomas H. Woods. The
appointment was confirmed by the sem
| ate.
| Knoxville, Tenn, March 14.-The
Knox Iron company has announced an
increase OF 10 per cent in wages Of all
day men and of so cents per ton for
all puddlers. This increase affects
about 500 men employed in rolling
mills In this city and in Hartman,
and was unsolicited by the men.
Montgomery, Ala, March 9.--Very
Kew. j. Slattery, Of Baltimore, acting
for the Fathers Of st. Joseph's society,
has bought 30 acres of land FIVE miles
from Montgomery, on which will be
erected college for negro Catholics.
This Will be the first school of the kind
attempted In this section.
Beaumont, Tex, March 10.-Anthony
Hopkins was hanged here yesterday in
the presence OF 5000 people, who took
up collection of 800 for bis mother
and sent 1t with his remains to her in
Waco. In 1896 Hopkins killed Paul
| Hurst, for which crime he was tried
and acquitted. Soon after that Hop
kins killed his wife, and yesterday suf-
fered the penalty.
Valdosta, Ca, March 12.-Word was
received here last night OF a double
murder and iynching near Jennings,
Fla, near the Georgia line. Two white
men named Carver were killed by a
negro whose name could not be learn
ed. The negro was captured by the
sherin. A mob quickly gathered, took
the murderer away from the officers
and swung him up on a neighboring
tree.
Columbia, s. c., March 14.-Yester-
day five convicts on q penitentiary
farm near this city attacked Abe Har-
ling, guard. They got his winches-
ter, but did not know how to operate
1t, and fought him with hoes. He sue
ceeded In drawing his pistol after a
desperate fight, aud killed Tom Hough-
ton, negro desperado, and wounded
another. Two surrendered and the
fifth escaped.
Richmond, March 12.-News has
reached here of the shooting and prob
ably fatal wounding at White Plains,
Brunswick county, Sunday morning of
DIR. w. II. Temple by Rev. J. e. r.
Reddick. The latter is a we'll known
Methodist minister, and claims that
DR.. Temple, who was attending his
wife as her physician, had insulted
her. Reddick was arrested and lodged
In Brunswick Jail. Temple was shot
in four places.
Lexington, KY, March S.-George w.
Drake, the famous mountain detective
and ex-deputy United States marshal.
and a man named Ford were shot to
death Tuesday night near Torrent.
KY, by William st. John. It is re-
ported to be the result of bad feeling
OF long standing between Drake and
st. John. Drake is said to have run
down more moonshiners and criminals
In the mountains OF eastern Kentucky
than any other officer in the service
i Somerset, KY, March 10.-Engineer
O'Brien' and the fireman of train No.
or the Queen and Crescent were
overcome yesterday by smoke while
passing through the long tunnel at
Kings Mountain, Tenn. Several mem
bers OF the Gentry Dog and Pony show
were also overcome, but no one was
killed and there was no wreck. Of
flcials say the train was only DELAYED
an hour. John Sanders, of Blooming
ton, Ind, died from suffocation after
he was taken out. The tunnel Is a
mile long.
Norfolk, Va, March 13.-Last night
a mass meeting of reputable colored
men was held for the purpose of CON
stdering measures to prevent a repeti-
ton or the crimes committed here re-
Gently by irresponsible and vicious ne
groes. The epidemic OF crime is attrib-
uted to negroes who have recently
come to Norfolk from Wilmington, N
" at least 1000 of them having come
here and remained. They are of a
dangerous class, and being strangers
the police have been unable to keen
track of them.
i Heathsville, Va, March 12.-Charles
II. Lewis, the one time wealthy steam
boat owner and oyster dealer of North
cumberland county, was arraigned be-
fore the county court here today and
convicted or two cases of arson and an
attempt to poison horse. Lewis at
the last term of court was convicted
and sentenced to eight years for arson.
and today compromise verdict was
reached in the remaining charges. the
prisoner found guilty and the punish
ment fixed at seven years in the pen
itentiary, making total Of Is years.
Columbia, S. c., March 9.-Mrs.
Belle Graddick, handsome young wo-
man, is in Jail here charged with poi
soning her husband, J. w. Graddick.
a baker, who died Feb. 10. The widow
and Eldridge Dawkins, who had been
paying attention to her were arrested,
but subsequently released. An anaIy-
sis of Graddick's stomach showed that
1t contained enough arsenic to cause
death. Mrs. Graddick was thereupon
rearrested. Negro cooks and servants
testified that while Graddick was sick
his wife administered some drug In his
coffee, avowedly to break him of the
liquor and cigarette habit.
Culioden, w. Va, March 12.-Ben