Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-09-15

Instantly.
Triton. Ca. Sept Eliza Beach.
colored. was shot and instantly killed
Wednesday night at a turpentine dis
tillery Ave miles west of Triton. A
quarrel arose among the negroes, and
the Beach woman began firing on the
others with pistol. Before she could
be stopped she had wounded three
people. The disturbance only ceased
when some one slipped up near the en-
ragged woman and shot her through the
left side near the heart, from the eff
fects OF which she died.
Jackson, Miss, Sept. 11.--A horrible
quadruple tragedy occurred at West
Station, five miles north of here, yes
terday. George w. Moore, a prominent
merchant OF the place, who has been
suffering with periods of insanity for
some time, administered strychnine to
his wife and two little children. tell
Ing them 1t was Quinine to keep off
chills. Within few minutes all three
were dead. Moore then took a pistol
and fired two bullets through his own
heart, falling to the floor across the
dead body of one of his little children.
Columbia, S. c., Sept. 6.-Governor
insolvency yesterday disbanded the
Capital City Guards, e local colored
militia company, and the best drilled
In the state, which engaged in al
legged riotous conduct on the state
capitol grounds Labor Day. M. r.
Cooper, secretary of state, has forbid
den colored militia to use the capitol
grounds hereafter. In the police court
the rioting members were fined $40.
and some double that amount. for con-
tempt. The affair on Labor Day was
caused by two young white men driv-
ing into the ranks of the negro COM
! pany and engaging its members, who
used their rifles as clubs.
Wheeling, w. Va, Sept. THE tour
or West Virginia, which was begun
tuesday last by Hon. w. ]. Bryan, the
democratic presidential candidate, was
concluded last night with a speech at
this place. He Travelled from Deer
Park by the way of Clarksburg and
Parkersburg yesterday. making three
speeches OF length and two or three
other brief and informal talks AZ sucb
places as st, Mary's and Sisteryille
AS Mr.. Bryan came in he was greeted
/ by red bonfires and the firing of rockets
In the suburbs, and the railroad for
squares was lined by a mass of human
ity struggling to get first glimpse of
the candidate. The days run covered
| about 300 miles of rough mountain
railroading.
Richmond, Va, Sept. GA ten ton
iron cross girder strained the heavy 65
loot wooden boom on the temporary
traveller Just at the rivers brink, In use
IN contracting the Chesapeake and
ohio railway viaduct at the foot Of
Belyidere street, and with a sudden
crash the heavy boom fell Yesterday.
Killing one man and injuring three
other employees OF the contractors. The
dead and injured are: Glenwood Seav
OF Maiden's Adventure. Goochland
county, aged 25, instantly killed: John
Hanson, formerly of Philadelphia.
legs badly bruised and face cut: A. G.
Dobbs, OF Richmond, severe shock.
struck on head, right knee badly cut:
John Mclean, arm knocked out of
place and bad bruises on body.
Macon, Ga. Sept. 7.-Twenty-one of
the representative business and pro-
fessional men OF Wilkinson county
came into Macon yesterday to see that
a negro, Napoleon Anderson, did not
lack friends IL the United States COM
missioner should bind him over on a
charge of interfering with United
out warrant for larceny against two
revenue oficers passing through the
county, charging them with stealing
his sugar cane. The officers gave bond.
and then arrested the negro, saying he
had sought to interfere with the dis
charge OF their duties. The white men
OF the county rose up in arms and re-
fused with force to allow the negro to
be taken away without due process of
law, The officers gave up the negro
and came to Macon, obtaining warrants
for many OF the white citizens. These
citizens came in yesterday and brought
the negro with them, and announced
that as the negro had lived an exem-
plary life in their midst, every dollar I'm
the county would be used to see that
he was not imposed on. The cases
viii all be heard next week.