The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-02-17
~CLEANlNGS.
InteN&sa to Murder six,

SOUTHERN CLEANlNGS.
Inte~&sa to Murder six.
virgil Jaasston, a negro, who was
arrested at Vdettes, Ala, for an at
tempt to murder, has made a sensa-
tional confession. He says he was ar
nlshed, ana deliberately determined to
Kill every man connected with 4ba
punishment proceedings, who hAu-
pened to be six of the most prom
trent men in Crenshaw county. He
armed himself with three s~ix-shooter
re'oiyers and started out after his VIC
time. He commenced with j. w. Will
Jams, a saw-mill operator, who had
had the garnishment served, shot him
in the neck and fed, but Williams
employees pursued him to cover, and
after he had fired his eighteen ar
tridges. secured him and took him TO
Jail. The prisoner says he intended &c.
kill Williams, his son, the justice OF
the peace, the constable, the bailiff.
and a notary, who had issued some of
the papers, and regrets that his plans
were frustrated.
OHOY OutAOOk th AOuls1aIa.
The New Orleans Picayunc notes
that good progress has been made in
preparing for the sugar crop of 1900"
Although there has been some cold
weather. the meteorological condi-
lions this winter have so far been
very favorable to sugar planting OBJ
cfations. 1t is said that the seed is
| in pNpalInnt rnpItftn,, ,rJ ,l,,tn- =
progressing at n rapir rate. An I'm
usually large quantity of seed cane
has been preserved from the last crop
with q view to making the acreage in
1900 the largest on record. .l,cre is "a
general desire TO make, good the ltsses
OF 1890, and consequently a much
larger rea than usual will be devoted
to cane.
Reuben Ross Hanged.
Reuben Ross, a negro, was hanged at
Ltimberton, n. c., for criminal assault
upon a white woman named Mrs. Bet
tie Ingram. Ross was twice reprieved
by Gov. Russell on account of a show
er of protests from white people. These
were met by equally strong petitions
demanding the hanging of the negro.
He finally took no action, the reprieve
expired, and the sheriff quietly execut-
ed Ross. He declared his innocence of
this crime, but said he was guilty of
all assault on a young white woman of
Rockingham, for which a negro named
John Evans was hanged.
Senator TiIlman Has Changed.
Newspaper correspondents at he
national capital have noticed that a
great change has come over Senator
Tillman in his methods Of public
speaking. 1T was invariably his habit
heretofore to speak eXtemporaneously,
without notes, but now he has his
speeches prepared and distributes
proofs of them before he reads them.
II IS only when he gets away from rs
printed copy, in the fervor of his adj
dress, that he is like the Tillman who
usci to rattle the dead bones in the
senate.
Where the Mistake Was Made.
The North Carolina supreme court
has sustained "a decision, rendered in
Burke county. imposing a fine of $1,000
On the Southern Railway Co. for Civ
ing a free pass to a Goorkeepcr of the
legislature in 1897. The
should have known enough to give the
pass to an official higher than u COM.
NC doorkeeper.
Alabama's Junior Senator.
The junior senator from Alabama in
point of service, bue not in years, is
Edmund w. Pettus, who is 7S year.
of age. His time expires on Tarch 4,
1903, in which year he will attain his
tighty-second birthday anniversary.
His predecessor, now -, was II at the,
close of his term in 1897.
The Work of Students.
The Slater-Armstrong memorial
building at Tuskegee, Ala, which was
dedicated recently. is chiefly a product
of student labor. The bricks and lum-
Der used in it's construction were all
made by students under Prof. Booker
7. Washington.
Many willing to Try It.
A New Orleans newspaper has
sprung a discussion on the question
whether n young couple can we'd and
iNe happily on $12 a week. There are
numbers of them hat would risk it if
somebody would insure the twelve.
A Prominent Kentuckian.
Col. Joe A. Thomas died at RUSSELL
vile, aged s3. He was a very PROM
intnt Free Mason, one of the founders
of the widows and orphans home of
Louisville, and past grand commander
Of the Knights Templars of the world
His Reward.
Gov. McMillin of Tennessee par
doned Nil Love, sent up from Shelby
rounty for two years for larceny. Love
r%ecentl.' prevented the escape of three.
long-telm prisoners.
The "Propeh Capch."
Put that in your pipe and smoke