Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-10-27
GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS.

Wilmington, N. c., Oct. 23.-Col. AL
fred Waddell, candidate for the Uni
ted States senate to succeed Marion
Butler. yesterday announced his with
drawal from the race on account of
illness in his family. The race Is now
between Democratic State Chairman
Simmons and Gen. Julian S. Carr, of
Durham, and Col. Waddell's withdraw
al practically insures a choice on the
first primary.
Greensboro, n. c.. Oct. 1S.-The cot
ten mill trouble in Alamance county
has reached an acute stage. Hundreds
of men, women and children are idle
as the result of notices posted by tho
mill owners some days ago notifying
all operatives who would not with
draw from the Textile union to con-
slider themselves discharged after the
10Th. Very few, IL any, OF the oper-
atives abandoned the union. AS the
mill men remained firm a majority of
the mills in the county are either idle
or running with greatly reduced force.
Atlanta, Tex, Oct. ga tornado
struck about half a mile west Of Lodi
and Id miles west of here yesterday.
The path OF the tornado was 200 yar6s
wide, and the wind swept everything
before it. One house in the center of
Its path, occupied by negroes, was de-
stroyed, six people being killed out
right. Three others are missing. who
are supposed to be dead. At Camp-
bellsville Spur, a lumber loading sta
ton two miles north OF Lodi, the tim
Der was carried away In all directions.
1t is feared further loss Of life has re-
suited in the country.
Pensacola, Fla, Oct. PA novel
suit for damages has been instituted
here. ]. III. Macon, who eloped from
Birmingham, Ala, last Monday with
Miss Daisy Rawney, the daughter of a
prominent family in that city, and
married her the same day at Mont
gomery, has begun the suit against Po-
lice Officer Daw, of Pensacola, who.
acting upon a telegram from the
brides father, arrested them on their
arrival here Tuesday morning. Mr..
Macon says he was much Inundated
and his bride seriously frightened by
the arrest.
Montgomery, Ala, Oct. 2O.-Regard-
ing the statement made in a recent
speech by Gov. Roosevelt that he was
glad to see such men as Gen. Wheeler
supporting President Mckinley in the
present campaign, Gen. Wheeler said:
Governor Roosevelt is honestly mis-
taksn. He made the statement on the
strength OF a publication made by
man in my district, unfriendly to me,
that / had delivered a Republican
speech at Florence. In congress there
is only one member who has so long
and so consistently as have supported
the Democratic measures. The peo-
pie of Alabama do not doubt my fealty
to the Democratic party"
Atlanta, Oct 19.-Booker T.. Wash
ington, president Of Tuskegee Normal
and Industrial Institute for Negroes,
announced today that officials of the
German government had closed a con-
tract with his school to furnish stu
dents to Introduce cotton raising among
the natives in the German colony on
the west coast of Africa. On Nov. 3 a
party of students equipped with cot
ton, plows, gins, wagons and carpentry
tools will sail from New York for the
new fields. The party will be under
the leadership of ]. N. Galloway, in
structor In the institute. The Germans
will pay all expenses OF the expedition
and good salary to each man. The
expedition Is regarded as the begin
ming of formidable competition with
America in the cotton raising indus
try. German agents say that sections
OF Africa colonies can produce at a
small expense quality of cotton equal
to that raised in the Southern states
ot America when the industry is under
food by the natives.