Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-01-19
SOUTHERN oLEANlNos.
Murder in Tenneasee.

during the day and started
home in the evening There
had been some words between Brad
ford and Braswell, and Bradford was
shot as the party approached the out
skirts of Mine Lick. His companions
aver that he was shot by some one
concealed on the side of the road.
All of them were drinking when they
left Double Spring. Ill-feeling has ex-
isted between Bradford and Baswell
on account of the fact that the for
mer appeared as witness against
Braswell in lawsuit, and the killing
is supposed to have grown out of the
bad blood provoked by this Disagree
ment. Officers left Cookeyille for tho
purpose Of placing Braswell and Rob-
erta under arrest.
Negro Mob Fired On.
As result of the lynching of Geo.
Reed, the negro who assaulted Mrs.
Locklear at Rome, Ga, a sensational
race riot was narrowly averted in
North Rome. A mob of $50 negroes
met in North Rome for the purpose
Of capturing Bascour Clements,
printer, whom they charged with re.
sealing Reeds whereabouts,and hang
ing him. A telephone message was
sent to the city proper and in few
minutes 4 crowd of 400 white men
were on the scene with guns. They
advanced upon the negroes, firing
four shots, which scared them away.
The negroes congregated again, but
dispersed without carrying out their
plan. The negroes are very sullen and
many aver that they will avenge
Reeds death yet. Romes population
is $1,000, the negroes forming about
one-third Of the whole.
Sold Pheir Bodies.
A unique instrument was filed with
the county court clerk for ackuowled-
meat, being a bill OF sale for the dead
bodies of Annie Wofford and Josie A.
Johnson, two white women, to we'll
known Nashville physician. the won-
en- came to his office before
Christmas and stated that they want
ed some Christmas money, and sug-
gested that he buy their bodies, to be
delivered after death. Both of the
women were hale and hearty looking,
and the doctor was unwilling to pay
the regular price of SIS for the chance
of securing two good subjects in the
years to come, but offered to pay
them cash 50, and this they accepted,
and he wrote out the bill of sale in
due form. They signed it, aud the
doctor carried it to the county court
for acknowledgment, and it will be
put on record in the registers office.
Heavy Rains In Mississippi.
The recent rainfall at Vicksburg,
Miss, was 7,S3 inches. Navigation
on the river was greatly de-
laycd by fog and bad wealth
er. The heavy rainfall has flooded the
banks of the railroads, greatly de-
laying trains. The through mail
trains on the Queen & Crescent have
been unable to cross Bakers Creek,
90 miles east of the city. The track
of the Alabama & Vicksburg is over
| flowed al that point to depth OF
three feet, and half mile in width.
Reward offered for Whitecaps.
Owing to the frequency of white
Gaping in Dyer county, Tenn, the
county court offers $500 for the
arrest and conviction of any persos
connected with whitesaping. In sew
| eral districts of the county all the
negroes have been driven from their
farms and ordered never to return,
under penalty of death. In some in.
stances white renters have been Wis
tied and given the same warning.
Much Damage in Kentucky.
Pigeon river, KY, is "A feet above
low water, and rising at the rate OF
one foot an hour. Fully $1,000 worth
Of lumber swept by Cattletsburg. Log
booms have been broken and many
rafts are being lost. Fences have been
destroyed; driftwood has been swept
away. Fully 25 miles on either side
of the river is given up to wheat
| fields, and these are submerged. They
are expected to be total losses.
Southern Express Appointments.
General Manager Leary, of the
Southern Express Copappointed Mark
j. O'Brien, now superintendent of the
central division, to be assistant gen.
eral manager, and w. S. Mcfarland
route agent at Nashville, to succeed
Mr. O'Brien as superintendent.
Tennessee River Rising.
The Tennessee river is five feet
above low-water mark at Knoxville
and is rising from six to eight inches
an hour. II will likely reach from Il
to 25, as the water from Pigeon river
and French Broad river must come
by Knoxville.
Justice Went Astray.
Peter Santos, Greek candy mer'
chant at Huntington, Ky, supposed
10 have been murdered by his partner
George Polltz, has turned up alive at
Columbia, s. c. Polltz is serving a
tsn-vear sentence for the murder OF
Santos.
Fired 4.y Burglars.
The store of Molloy & MCGOWAN at
Columbus, Miss, was entered by
burglars who dynamited the safe and
fred the building. They secured $500,
Want to Exclude Negroes.
Representative Murphy of Knox
county introduced bill in the legis-
lature at Nashville against the CO.
education of the white and negro
races. This is done with view OF
keeping negroes out of Maryyille col
lege, an institution whose original dc.
nation provided that no distinction
should be made in color or sex OF
students. The college is beneficiary
of the Fairweather estate in New
York, aud has a quarter million dol
lars endowment. Two male negTosi
nre enrolled.
He TOG k Morphine.
John F. Flynn, farmer of Dodge
near Winchester, KY, committed sui
ride af Lexington, Ky., by taking NOR