Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-09-08
GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS,


teller has made Spellman seminary.
negro college in this city. a present
or SlSO.OOO. The money has been paid
into the treasury OF the American Bap-
list Home Mission society, of New
York, which institution has charge of
the college.
Asheville, N. c.. Sept. 3-George w.
vanderbilt has started an endowment
fund to the Clarence Barker Memorial
hospital at Biltmore The hospita I
will be formally opened tomorrow. and
was erected in memory of Clarence
Barker. cousin of the VanderbiIts bv
his sisters. Adele Elma Barker Schmit
and Virginia Purdy Barker Bacon.
Jackson, Ky, Aug. 31.-Shots fired
into the dining room at the home of
James Barnett, on Towards Creek.
yesterday killed Mrs. Nancy Barnett,
an aged woman, her 12-year-old grand
daughter and Mrs. James Bennett. The
latter's husband, James Bennett, is be-
ing pursued by officers and others. il
being charged that he did the shooting.
II is said that Bennett was jealous of
Barnett.
Richmond, Sept. 4.-"Topeka Joe. -
alias Joseph B. Evans. alias Harry
Miller, alias Joe Rapley, who is sus-
pected of being the leader of the gang
that broke into the williamsburg eva. }
bank some months ago, and who was
being held at the city Jail here for safe
keeping until his trial should come up
at the September term of the court at
Williamsburg. made his escape yester-
day morning about o'clock.
Richmond, Va, Sept 1.-James J..
Jeffries, the pugilist, in an interview
here yesterday said: 81 will fight Cor
bett if he is anxious to have match,
but 1t will have to be a case of winner
getting everything and loser only the
beating. That is the only way to do
business. Fitz can get a fight from
me whenever he wants il when he
goes about it properly and gives time
to the man who wants to fight"
Jackson. Miss, Sept. 4.-Reports
have reached here of a fresh outbreak
of the Kennedy-Horton feud in the
Auburn neighborhood, 20 miles south
of Jackson. Friday the two factions
met on the public highway and a fight
occurred, during which T. w. Hackley
and John Strong received probably
fatal wounds. The feud was caused
by the elopement of a daughter of
James Kennedy with John Strong. A
good portion of the entire neighbor-
hood is involved.
Little Rock, Sept. 4.-The entire
Democratic ticket headed by Hon. JEFF
ferson Davis. of Pope county, for gov
ernor, was elected in Arkansas yes
terday. Early returns indicate that the
vote will be lighter than was expected.
II. l.. Remmel. the Republican candi-
date for governor, made a good show
ing, and his increased vote over two
years ago will probably reduce the usu-
ally large Democratic majority. There
was no opposition to the Democratic
ticket for any Office except the gov
ernorship.
Raleigh. n. c., Sept. 1.-The execu-
ton OF Tom Jones, the negro muir
derer took place here yesterday. He
kept his nerve on the gallows and died
in five minutes after the drop fell. He
was baptized and Joined the Catholic
church Monday. On the 22d of March
last Jones killed Ella Jones, his para
mour and her 13-year-old daughter.
and burned their house to hide the
crime, roasting beside the bodies of his
victims four of her children, the
youngest of whom was an unnamed
month old babe, OF which Jones was
the father.
Charlotte, N. c., Sept. Sat wheat
threshing near Longs store, in Union
county, yesterday DIR. S. J. Love, his
mother, brother and sister and five
farm hands were poisoned by arsenic,
which is believed to have been placed
in the dinner with murderous intent.
DR.. Love died within three hours. All
the other victims were alive at last
reports, but very sick. There is ev-
cry indication that arsenic, in some
state, had been put in one of the
dishes served at dinner, but when
or by whom the deadly drug was
placed in the food is a mystery.
Knoxville, Tenn, Sept. lon &C
count of the failure OF miners and coal
operators at Coal Creek to agree on a
wage scale yesterday the annual con-
tract with the miners was not signed
today, as has been the custom. The
miners decided to adjourn the con-
ference until Sept. 10. On account OF
this failure to agree all coal mines in
Coal Creek, Jellico, Middlesboro and
intervening points with the exception
OF two or three are closed down. It's
not strike, as both miners and oper-
ators are hopeful of reaching an agree
ment by Sept. 10. About 5000 miners
are affected. The operators have re-
fused to concede the demands thus far.
Asheville, N. c., Sept. George C.
White, the only negro congressman in
the United States, has announced that
he will give up his residence in North
Carolina If the recently adopted
amendment to the state constitution is
upheld by the higher courts, and will
begin the practice of law in New York
He says: Il am not only going my
self, but am going to take $4,000
negroes with me. / cannot live In
North Carolina and be a man and be
treated like a man. / used to feel al
home in my state. When / practiced
law at the bar of North Carolina l was
not Disseminated against because
was a negro. That is all in the past
now"
Columbia, S. c., Aug. 31-With re-
turns from about $4,000 votes, and
with 1000 or 5000 to hear from, Gov
ernor insolvency leads in the race fol-
governor by about 5000 votes over