The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-12-28
REWARD OF $500
FOR AN ASSASSIN
Murder of Or. A. F. Richard
son ArouseS Citizens
TEACHERS GO TO ATLANTA
Able Educators of Mississippi Will At
tend Meeting Of the Southern Asso-
citation This Week-Confed-
crate Veteran Appointed.
TEACHERS GO TO ATLANTA

Jackson, Miss, December 27.-(Special.)
Governor Noel has offered a reward of
$500 for the arrest and conviction of the
assassin of Dr. A. F. Richardson of Oktib-
beha county, and it is believed that sum
will tempt those who are confident of
the identity of the murderer to show him
up in very short order.
Two nights before the murder the same
party who is suspected of the assassina-
ton is said to have boosted on the streets
of the little village of Sturgis that he
had dynamited the drug store of DIR. Rich
ardson.
A brother of the dead man telegraphed
Governor Noel to come to the scene, if
possible, for a conference, but the gov
ernor could not leave Jackson just now,
wherefore he delegated his brother, DR..
Noel of the Agricultural and Mechanical
college at Starkville, which is in the same
county, to visit the scene as his repre-
sentative.
The killing was one of the coldest-
blooded murders that was ever committed
in the state, and being a member of the
state board of health, and one of the most
prominent citizens of his section, the gov
ernor is very determined to bring the as
sassin to his just deserts. If possible, and
because of the two attempts on the life
of the official has made the reward larger
than usual.
State Superintendent of Education Pow
ers has given out being able to attend the
meeting of the Southern Educational as
ISOLATION at Atlanta, Ca, on December 20.
30 and 81, but the state will be ably rep
resented there by Prof. T. P. Scott of
Brookhaven, who is one of the most dis
tinguished educators in the state, and in
perfect accord with superintendent Pow
ers in all important matters pertaining to
the schools of Mississippi
Miss Susie B. Powell of Norfield. one
of the most active and accomplished
teachers of the state, and who is presi-
dent of the Mississippi School Improve
ment association, will also attend the At
lanta meeting. She has already stirred
ub a great deal of interest in school site
improvements, having aroused feeling of
jealousy between different teachers, and
in which the children naturally join, SO
that many a flower is blooming and many
pretty shrub growing where but sedge
grass and briars flourished before.
Capt. John A. Webb, railroad commits
sioner of the state, who was recently ap-
pointed as acting adjutant general of the
United Confederate Veterans, vice James
L. McCaskill of Brandon, deceased, has
issued a letter addressed to the officers
of the several Confederate Veteran camps
OF the state, notifying them of his appoint
ment at the hands of Brig. Cen w. A.
Montgomery, and urging all officers and
all veterans to give him their hearty sup
port and assist him in every way possible
to build up and strengthen their organiza-
ton before the general reunion at Mem
phis next spring, and especially before the
state reunion at Vicksburg later in the
year. He declares that without the sym
pathy and assistance of his old comrades
he can do little.