Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-03-17

GENERAL DUUInLnN NEWS.
Pensacola, Fla, March 10.-Wyman
King, a negro, was executed here yes
terday for the murder of his sweet
heart. Victoria Watkins. King helped
erect the gellows, and when the work
was finished iokingly suggested that
another negro be put on first as test.
Jackson, Miss, March 10.-Governor
I.ongino yesterday appointed Hon. S.
S. Calhoun. of this city, chief justice
of the Mississippi supreme court, to
ill the vacancy caused by the reslgna-
ton of Judge Thomas II. Woods. The
appointment was confirmed by the SEN
ate.
Montgomery, Ala, March 9.-Very
Rev. j. Slattery. of Baltimore, acting
for the Fathers of ST. Joseph's society.
has bought 210 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 a collection of S1OO for his mother
and sent il 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.
Baxley, Ga, March Dan Mimms,
q. young farmer. living 20 miles from
here, was murdered by two negro rob-
bers Monday. He was on his porch
when attacked, and when his wife ran
out the robbers had killed him. She
tried to escape with her baby, but the
negroes killed the child and beat her so
cruelty that her life is despaired Of.
The murderers live in the neighbor-
hood.
Valdosta, Ca, March 12.-Word was
received here last night Of a double
murder and lynching near Jennings.
Fla, near the Georgia line. Two white
men named Carver were killed by
negro whose name could not be learn
ed. The negro was captured by the
sheriff A mob quickly gathered. took
the murderer away from the officers
and swung him up on neighboring
tree.
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. 1t 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
of the government.
Somerset, Ky, March 10.-Engineer |
O'Brien and the fireman Of train No.
5 of the Queen and Crescent were
overcome yesterday by smoke while
passing through the long tunnel at
Kings Mountain, Tenn. Several men,
bers of the Gentry Dog and Pony show
were also overcome, but no one was
killed and there was no wreck. Of
ficials 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
Columbia, S. c., March 9.-Mrs
Belle Graddick, a handsome young wo
man, is in Jail here charged with poi
sOning her husband, ]. w. Graodick,
a baker. who died Feb 10. The widow
and Eldridge Dawkins, who had been
90 tA orraotad
but subsequently released. An analy-
sis of Graddick's stomach showed that
it contained enough arsenic to cause
death Mrs. Graddick was thereupon
Negro cooks and servants
testified that while Graddck was sick
his wife administered some drug in his
coffee, avowedly to break him of the
liquor and cigarette habit.
Fitzgerald, Ca, March AT about
o'clock in the morning negro
named Bill Clark entered the home Of
Mrs. Sarah Baker, white, aged nearly
70 years, and committed a criminal
assault upon her Mrs. Baker same
lere from Minneapolis, Mimi. Nearly
all of the residents of the town are
rom the north and northwest. 1t was
several hours before Mrs. Baker was
able to apprise her neighbors of the
outrage. The man was captured and
identified by his victim. Ar
were made for lynchihs..
when cooler counsel prevailed for the
ime and Clark was committed to JAIL
While the trial was in progress the
ynching spirit again arose and the Of
icers spirited him away.