Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-01-05
GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS.

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with his brains beaten out His peck
cts had been rifled of his wages paid
him the night before. No arrests have
| yet been made.
Richmond, Va, Dec. 22-James
Holden, negro, % years, was hanged
| yesterday at Aecomack Count House
for attempted rape on Virginia Clay
| ton, little white girl, near Parks
ley, Va, about three months ago. He
| confessed his guilt and said he had
been guilty of similar crimes before
Atlanta, Dec. 1S.-Judge LumpEin,
| In the superior court, has decided that
| the state os Georgia must accept the
! award of board of arbitration and al
| low the Plant system OF railways to
pay their taxes according to the sum
returned by this board, or about $780,
600 less than the original return of the
railway officials.
Macon, Miss, Dec. 24.-News was re-
| ceived here yesterday that a tornado
| passed through the eastern edge of
Noxugee county and the western part
OF Pickens and Sumpter counties, Ala
bama, Saturday night, doing great
damage. On several plantations houses
were blown down. Two negroes are
known to have been killed.
Fairmont, w. Va, Dec. 24.-The lar
gest coal deal ever made in Harrison
county will be closed in a few days
The territory comprises $4,000 acres.
or 10 square miles, lying around Sa-
lem. The purchasers are James E.
Brown, OF Uniontown, and Alfred ].
Cochran, OF Dawson, who will pay
$4,000 for the entire tract
Hickory, n. c., Dec. 20-Tuesday
night the Snnfh rof at4 AoI
to build track across the narrow
gauge track at the depot crossing here.
A force OF narrow gauge men inter-
Tered, and riot was with difficulty
averted. The town authorities placed
the leaders under arrest and stopped
the trouble. Work has been stopped
and the matter will be adjusted by the
railroad authorities.
Lynchburg, Dec. 24.-The biggest
thing in an industrial way that Lynch
burg has ever known will be the plant
that the Craddock-Terry Shoe company
will erect for the manufacture of me-
dunn grade ladies' and misses shoes.
The company will employ at once 200
men, which number Will be increased
as fast as operatives from this section
can be educated in the work. II the
venture proves successful IL is thought
NhoN ONACA ShOG JODDtTS mere WIFI GS-
tablish similar factories.
Roanoke, Va. Dec. 24.-Capt. Benja-
min N. Hatcher, one of the most prom
inent citizens of Franklin county and
probably the wealthiest, was found
dead In bed at the Ponce de Leon hotel
here yesterday morning. Capt. Hatch
er had been sufferer from asthma for
years. The deceased was a native OF
Franklin county, ~ years OF age and
unmarried. He represented the county
Tor several terms in the state legisla-
ture and was vice president and ono
of the largest stockholders Of the First
National bank of this city.
Winston, N. c., Dec. 2O.-Frank HUFF
fines and his brother were shot and
mortally wounded at the home of their
father, near Oak Ridge, Guilford coun-
ty, about o'clock yesterday morning.
The shooting was done by Deputy
Sheriff j. w. Mooney aud ]. w. Waller,
OF Kernersville. They were deputized
TO arrest the brothers on warrants
charging them with being two Of the
parties who broke into and robbed
barroom. The officers were fired upon
by the brothers, and a number OF shots
were exchanged. One OF the wounded
men died yesterday afternoon and the
other one is dying.
Providence, La, Dec. 22.-Various
rumors have prevailed lately up and
down the river relative to the lynch
ing or negfoes that took place at Ar
cadia, Miss, on the 18th inst for the
killing of trading boatman by the
name or Thompson and his wife and
child. AS many as IL negroes were
said to have been brutally slaughtered
by the mob. AS there is no telegram
or telephone stations at Arcadia it was
impossible to ascertain. Yesterday.
however, citizen from Arcadia said
Three negroes have been captured,
but only two have been lynched. after
they had confessed to the killing of
Thompson, his wife and child"
Cape Henry, Va, Dec. 22.-The
schooner Jennie Hall stranded eight
miles south of Cape Henry at O'Clock
yesterday morning, and will be a total
loss. The captain and two men were
drowned. The bodies are not vet re-
covered. Four men nearly died from
exposure, but were rescued in the
breeches buoy. One man still chung
to the miZZen crosstree. Two life
savers went off in the breeches buoy to
save him, but being a large man and
benumbed by cold they could not lift
him into the buoy. Notwithstanding
the terrific surf Capt. Barco and his
crew then launched the lifeboat. They
went alongside and put two men. Ho-
ratio Drinkwater and John O'Neal, on
board the schooner. The life boat then
came ashore, leaving the two life saw
ers on the wreck. Drinkwater and
O'Neal succeeded in getting the sailor
into the buoy, and he was hauled safe
ly OF, the two life savers following.
One OF the surfmen was washed out
OF the lifeboat, but was rescued.
Newport News, Va, Dec. 22.-Hon.
Richard A. Wise, congressman from
the Second Virginia district, died sud-
denly at his home in Williamsburg
yesterday morning. He had been long
sufferer from Bright's disease. DIR.
Wise was defeated for congress in the
last election by Hon. Harry Maynard.
He was son of the late Governor
Henry A. Wise. OF Virginia, and for
many years had been a conspicuous
figure in politics. He was born in
Philadelphia, at the home of his mater
nal grandfather, Hon. John Sergeant
In 1S43. He served in the Confederate
army from the beginning to the end OF |