The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-31
QUEER STORIES FROM THE
SOJ1TH


Cured Sunday morning at an early nour
at Lewis turpentine still,
ORDERED three miles east Oh emp,
THEM TO ley, Fla, has reached
DANCE. Pensacola FROM "hal
can be learned the negroes
al the still had a general frolic SATURDAY
night About u o'clock one OF me mum
Der, James Martin, became drunk ana
bosterous, and used his gun to make the
balance Of ;;lc NEGROES dance by shooting
at their feet. He was put out OF the caoln
and told not to return. In aoout nalt an
hour he old return. however, ana Drought
with him another Colts, besides the one
which he mad, which he RELOADED. Upon ~.
entering the door he began to pun the
triggers as fast as he could. e1nptyins ti'e
con tents into the crowd Of negroes VINO
were huddled into corner. with the effect
that one fell dead, shot through the heart
and two others were wounded.
About this time the boss man OF me
camp named Dickson, rode UP on ms
horse with a Winchester and demanded
that Martin drop the guns and upon me
Iatter's refusing to do so, snot MIN dead
i'll his tracks. No. arrests folloWed-at-
lanta Constitution.
Saturday night. near Warrior, viii
Washington, al old and respected negro
of tina place, met q peCu-
A PECULIAR liar death. He was re
DEATH turning from the Warrior
River, where he had been
fishing. and had reached a point about 100
yards from the railroad bridge. AT TINS
point a train came along and big rock,
weighing about forty pounds, was hurled
from q dump car in the train and struck
the negro terrific blow in the side. Those
with him carried him to his home and ne
died in about three hours. Inc accident
occurred about o'clock.
Whether the rock simply fell off the car
and was hurled through the air by the
momentum of the train or was thrown by
some orc on the train is not known. Before
his death the negro stated that the middle
brakeman threw the rock at him, but
others stated that they did not see anyone
throw the rock. Coroner Dallas is now
engaged in an investigation of the case
Birmingham News.
Saturday afternoon a novel sight was
seen on the public square OF LAGRANGE.
Ga. Between the hours of
AIR THICK 2 and 5 O'Clock the Pc
WITH BDES. destrians and merchants
on the northeast corner
of the square all at once noticed that the
air was thick with bees. In a few min
utes they began to settle on the branch
little while a knot of bees as big as a
peck mea sure was hanging to it. Mr.. D.
r. Bradfeld at once saw that was his OPP
portunity to start a bee colony. and forth
with hired a man to hive them. A table
and a gum were quickly secured and
mounted on step ladder. The man saw
ed off the limb, sDrinkled the bees on the
table and they at once made their home
in the gum. For an hour or more that
corner of the square was blocked with
people watching the novel sight of living
bees on the public square, almost in the
store doors The gum was left on the
table until nightfall, when Mr.. Bradfield
had it removed to his home. No one
knows where the bees came fronl.-Savan-
nah News.
When the eclipse reached the darkest
at Marietta, Ga, c. NJ.
SUICIDE DUR Crosby, prominent
ING ECLIPSE. druggist, committed sui
eide by shooting himself
in the head. III health is supposed to have