Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for OCT 1898 October 1898 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net June 5, 2005, 4:41 pm The Randolph Leader October 1898 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE RANDOLPH LEADER", Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama, for OCTOBER 1898 NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, October 5, 1898 RESOLUTIONS ON THE DEATH OF I. BURDEN Whereas, god in the dispensation of his providences toward mankind has seen fit to remove from our midst our worthy brother, I. Burden, who after a long and painful sickness died at his residence in Rock Mills, Alabama September 18, 1898. Therefore be it resolved by Rock Mills Lodge No. 353 F.A.M., that in the death of Bro. Burden his county has lost an upright and valuable citizen, his church a humble, consistent and devoted christian, his family a kind husband and devoted father, his lodge a member who yielded to none in loyalty and devotion to the tenets of his beloved order, and whose presence wherever the lodge assembled was seldom lacking to give encouragement and hope to his fellow craftsman. Resolved 2nd; that we as a lodge extend our heartfelt sympathy to this bereaved family in the hour of their sorrow and invoke our almighty father to comfort them in their hour of sadness. 3rd; that a copy of these resolutions be handed to his family and a copy spread upon our minutes and the members of R.M.Lodge wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days. W.E. Randle W.M. Taylor, Committee ___ ROCK MILLS News Mrs. J.M. Vernon of Cusseta, Ala., is the guest of Capt. Randle and wife. __ Mr. G.W. Emory, one of our best citizens and most clever merchants is very ill at his home with fever. His many friends wish for him a quick recovery. __ Mr. Jas. T. Clayton of Columbus spent the last two weeks in our community superintending the putting in of one of his Patent Water Wheels. Mr. J.T. Hudson, the gentleman to whom he sold the wheel informs us that it does all and even more than is claimed for it. __ Miss Lola Yates is seriously ill with fever at the home of her brother Mr. R.E. Yates. __ Mr. M. Duke is very ill at his home here. __ Mr. James Reaves of this place had some trouble with "the old lady" some time ago and left his home vowing never to return. However he returned a few days ago but his wife refused to allow him to again enter his residence. Undaunted he procured an old axe lying nearby and battered down the door. "The old lady" in the meantime had gone and gotten the marshall who promptly seized Mr. Reaves and placed him in the "cooler". Our clever mayor gave him the lowest fine and he returned to his home a sadder and wiser man. __ MT. OLIVE News Mrs. Ellen Osborn is quite sick. We hope to note her recovery soon. __ Mr. D.F. Beaird who has been making his home in the "Lone Star State" for some time has returned here to stay. __ Messrs. G. C. Brown and Jno. Pinckard are quite ill with fever. __ Miss Jessie Osborn is quite sick at this writing. __ As the hands of the clock stood at seven yesterday evening, Rev. J.D. Elder pronounced the beautiful ceremony that united J.F. Beaird and Miss Princella Burdett in the hold bonds of wedlock. The groom is one of Chambers county's most energetic young men. The bride is one of our fairest and most refined young ladies. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S.M. Burdett at whose home the wedding took place. After the ceremony they marched to the dining room where they found a table filled with plenty of good things to eat to which the crowd did justice. A reception of the same kind was given today by the groom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Beaird. __ LOCAL News H.B. Reid and family moved Saturday to Columbus where Mr. Reid has secured employment in a local express office. __ Mr. and Mrs. A.F. Simmons are spending some days with relatives here. They are making Atlanta their home now. __ Henry Pool whose wonderful record as a cotton picker was mentioned two weeks ago, now informs us that since then he and his uncle Andrew Pool, together picked 1320 pounds of cotton in one day. __ Miss Lola Yates, daughter of E.M. Yates, died in Rock Mills last Monday morning. __ Mr. W.A. Widener was called last Saturday to see his father up above Brockville who is very sick. __ Mrs. Mollie Knight, a sister of Mr. Welch's mother, received a fall some days ago which, it is thought, will cause her death. She is now over 80 years of age. __ Mr. L.A. Holley and family will leave tomorrow for Atlanta which place they will make their future home. __ The writer records with much regret the death of Miss Addie the only daughter of Mr. W.T. Lee, a prominent citizen who lives a few miles north of Rock Mills. She is a sister of Mr. Robert E. Lee, who is a student at Roanoke college, boarding in our home. The deceased was a most excellent and promising girl and her early death brings sorrow to all who knew her. She had been ill with typhoid fever only a few days and her death was very unexpected. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, October 12, 1898 LOCAL News A child of Mr. Tapley Hester of Wedowee died yesterday. __ Mr. A. A. Wood, a good citizen of Truett, is not expected to live. __ Miss Nora Griffin of Shrevesport, La., is expected to arrive tomorrow to visit her cousins Mr. and Mrs. Griffin. __ His many friends in this part of the country will be gratified to learn that Dr. J.P. Shaffer who has been dangerously ill is now improving. __ John P. Lee has returned to his home near Roanoke on a furlough and on the 31st he will be mustered out at Macon, Ga. He joined the Georgia Volunteers when the war began and was kept in camp at Knoxville. He was not pleased with his experience as a soldier. __ O.W. Bradley has secured a position in a tailoring establishment in Atlanta and has gone up there. He will not move his family yet. __ Mr. Ben Awbrey has received the appointment of Bailiff for this beat. He served in this capacity in Georgia and understands his duties. __ Mrs. E.W. Hill has an advertisement in this paper inviting attention to her line of millinery and dress goods. She is always prepared to meet competition in style and price of goods. __ Judge A.J. Weathers will in a few weeks retire to private life, making his home in Wedowee. During his term as probate judge he has been fair and courteous and in retiring he carries the respect and good wishes of his fellow citizens. __ The store house of C.B. Ward near Standing Rock was completely destroyed by fire last Sunday night and the goods with it. There being no insurance, the loss is very heavy on Mr. Ward who is a deserving young man. __ For Granite or Marble tombstones, monuments or iron fences call on Mr. W.H. Wynn of Dadeville, Ala. __ Y.C. Hughes, a negro murderer who was arrested near Welsh some weeks ago and taken back to Birmingham after five years of liberty, died in the Birmingham jail on Friday. He lived four miles from Roanoke during his time of freedom under the name of Carter Tison and was a well behaved negro, having married and joined the church. His career is a remarkable one. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, October 19, 1898 WEHADKEE News Mr. Will Walker has been down several days with typhoid fever. __ Messrs. Robert and Luther Stitt left last Friday to attend an association meeting at Mars Hill, Cleburne County. __ Mrs. A.J. Hester is quite sick at this writing. __ ROCK MILLS News Mr. G.W. Emory is still very sick. __ Mr. J.W. Collins is very ill with fever at the home of Mr. Wm. Burk. __ Mr. J.W. Meek and Miss Minnie Waldrop were happily married a few days ago. This young man was determined to marry for he walked to Wedowee, procured a license, came back and married, all in one day. __ Mr. W.M. Allison and family visited relatives at Glenn, Ga., yesterday. __ WELSH News Born to Mr. and Mrs. R.M. Ward on this date, a son, the second. __ Mrs. J.H. Dennis is and has been ill for quite awhile but we hope that she may yet recover. __ Mrs. Hannah Estes has returned to Fredonia after an extended visit. __ LOCAL News Mr. John Harris and Miss Pearl Elliott were married at Pleasant Hill last Thursday evening. __ Mrs. Mollie Knight, aunt of W.H. Welch, died at her home near Truett last Saturday. She was a very aged lady and her death was caused by a fall. __ Sheriff Harris and Deputy Napier left on yesterday's train for Tuscaloosa to place in the insane asylum John Noles and Mrs. Fannie Cole, two unfortunate citizens of this county. __ Mr. Hardy Bass is now recovering but his son Young is ill. __ Mrs. Torbert and two little children of LaFayette spent a few days recently with the family of Mr. Griffin. __ Clinton, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. A.G. Randle, while standing around the gins at the oil mill last Friday afternoon, had the misfortune to get his left hand caught in the machinery and his arm was torn into shreds up to his elbow. It was at once amputated just above that joint and the little fellow is doing nicely. __ Mr. Reuben Thompson, a prominent citizen of Pleasant Hill is very ill. __ The family of Dr. W.L. Heflin are enjoying their annual family reunion at their old home on the river at Louina. Nearly all of this honored and large family are there. __ Mr. Henry Folds left for Atlanta this morning in answer to a telegram announcing that his father was expected to die. __ Land for Sale - - Good tract of land, containing near 80 acres partly cleared, 8 miles west of Roanoke, for sale at reasonable terms. Apply to M.H. Seymour, Level Road, Alabama ___ NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, October 26, 1898 WELSH News Mr. W.N. Jordan accompanied by his son Cephas went to West Point on Saturday. __ Mrs. R.M. Ward is quite ill at this writing. __ Mrs. J.J. Sutherlin is visiting her mother over in Troup County this week. __ WEHADKEE News Mr. V.D. Crouch is dangerously ill at this writing. __ Mr. R.B. Harlan made a trip to Newnan, Ga., last week to see his mother who was very ill. He found her dead. __ On last Sunday morning at the bride's home near this place, Mr. John Spruell of Brockville and Miss Sacie Green were married. __ LOCAL News Miss Atha Boulware was called home last Friday by the dangerous illness of her father. __ Mrs. R.A. Paschal has been spending some days past with her mother in Roanoke. __ The youngest child of Mr. R.J. Hooton died rather unexpectedly Saturday afternoon. The afflicted parents carried the remains the following day to their old home in Tallapoosa county for burial. The fatal malady was somewhat on the order of diptheria. __ S.H. Striplin and wife are spending the week at his old home in Clay County this week. __ Chambers County has added to her record another lynching. And preceding it was one of the most shocking crimes that has stained the annals of our neighboring county. The facts as we have learned them from reliable sources are as follows: Charlie Holmes, a white man with a large family, had on his home place near Fredonia 15 miles southeast of Roanoke, a negro tenant named John Anderson. There had been some disagreement between them and Anderson was preparing to move away. But last Friday night when Mr. Holmes walked down the road after supper to feed his hogs he was the victim of an attack, being struck on the head twice with rocks. His murderer than sprang on him and choked out what life remained in him. Tracks found afterward indicated that there were two of the outlaws and upon being followed the tracks led to where the dead body had been buried in the marsh of a swamp nearby. Anderson was arrested Saturday night by a posse of citizens who found him over the Georgia line and turned him over to Deputy Sheriff Henry Pate who had in the meantimne arrived at the scene of the tragedy. Mr. Pate started with a few citizens to take his prisoner to jail at Lafayette. On the way, the negro jumpred out, handcuffed and ran. Just as he jumped a stream he was struck by a load of small shot by one of the posse and though only slightly injured was then recaptured. The prisoner was committed to jail without further incident. About 12 o'clock Saturday night a mob quietly entered Sheriff Gilder's office by raising a window, secured the keys to the several doors of the jail and unlocking one door after the other, they secured and retired with their victim. He weas taken out of town a mile, swung to a limb and sixty shots fired into him. When captured the negro's clothing had blood on them and he admitted to having carried the body off and buried it but claimed that a white man of the community did the killing and gave him $25. to bury the body. At this writing we have not learned whether any arrests have been made. The work of the mob, stealing a march on the sheriff was remarkable, and the Sheriff's surprise was equaled by his indignation. The entire affair is to be greatly deplored. ___ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/newspapers/newspape553gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 13.5 Kb