Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1887 — NEWS BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

NEWS BUDGET.

Fresh Intelligence from Every Part of the Civilized World. Foreign and Domestic News, Political Events, Personal Points, Labor Notes, Etc. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. A WAK OF EXTERMINATION. Twelve Negroes Lynched and Shot tn the Recent Trouble in Morehouse Parish, Lo uisiana. As a result of the Oak Ridge (La.) assault and riot, thirteen persons are dead, one white man and twelve negroes. A number of the colored men were lynched. Others said to be concerned in the affray are being pursued, and will be hung if captured A New Orleans special gives the following account of the sanguinary affair: The first information of the affair, and indeed all that could be obtained up to the present time, was that on the morning of June 27 a posse conveying to jail a prisoner, a colored man, charged with criminal assault on a white woman, was fired upon by a crowd of negroes, and two of the posse were wounded. After the shooting the negroes went to a cabin about two miles from town. Learning of their whereabouts officers went to arrest them, and on getting close enough were fired into. A young white man, named G. \V. Higginbotham, was instantly killed, and Constables John Conger, Gardner, and Baker were dangerously wounded. During the fight Jerry Baldwin, his son, and four other negroes that were in the crowd were killed. This account was correct as far as it went, but it did not cover all the facts. Four of the negroes who managed to escape froin the cabin were subsequently captured and hung. Monday two other negroes wero captured and put in jail. The white people held a public mooting, and decided to hang one of them. This was done openly at 5 o'clock The other negro, having established his innocence, was discharged. Another negro was captured the same day, and hung on the banks of tire Ban Idee, near Oak ltidge. The total number lulled was thirteen—twelve negroes and one white man. Several other negroes “implied twi in the riot” escaped, but at last accounts ibe whites were in hot pursuit, with the intention of hanging them if they find them.

INTKKSTATK COMMERUE. Competition JliikeH Dissimilar Circumstances—Employes’ Casses. In the United States Circuit Court at Tortland, Oregon, on Tuesday, Judge Dealy announced the following decision on the petition of the receiver of the Oregon and California Railroad for instructions: "The fact that there is competition in the carriage of persons or property to or from a particular place is a circumstance that Justifies a common carrier under section 2of the inter6tate commerce act to charge less for a long haul to and from said place than a short one included therein.” He decides also that “Section 2of the interstate commorce act in effect prohibits the giving of passes or free carriage to particular persons, and the exception allowed in section 2 in favor of officers and employes of the road does not include the families of such persons. The court instructs the receiver that he is authorized to make a less rate for a long haul than a short haul in conjunction with connecting lines whenever, by reason of competition with other lines or means of transportation, the same is necessary to enable the road to retain or acquire business.

DR. U’GUNN BOUNCED. Orders for His Excommunication Sent tc the Archbishop of New York from Rome. A cable dispatch from Rome says that orders have been sent to the Archbishop of Now York to excommunicate the Rev. Dr. MoGlynn, and to publish the decree of excommunication in the journals. The Glorious Fourth. The national anniversary was generally observed throughout the country. The survivors of the famed Philadelphia and Pickett’s Brigades clasped hands at Gettysburg. Rebel yell and Yankee cheer mingled, and the widow and son of General Pickett were assisted to the stand by General Burns amid deafening cheers. The Tammany Society of New York held its ninety-first celebration of the day, Governor Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, and S. S Cox being among the orators of the occasion. At Salt Lake City there was an enthusiastic demonstration, in which both Mormons and gentiles are said to have participated harmoniously. Numerous deaths and injuries from explosions, premature discharges of cannon, shootings, etc., are reported in the dispatches.

Death of Judge Poland. A dispatch from St Johnsbury, Vt. says Luke P. Poland died of apoplexy at his residence in Waterville. He was born in Chittenden County, Vermont, Nov. 1, 1815; was bred to the bar and rose through various positions at the bar to be a Judge of the Supreme Court, holding that office from 1848 to 1865, and becoming Chief Justice in 1860. From 1865 to 1867 he was a United States Senator from Vermont He was later a member of the lower house of the XLlst, XLIId, XLIIId, and XLIVth Congresses. Death of Ex-Gov. Morrill of Maine. Ex-Gov. Morrill died at his home in Augusta, Me., on the 4th of July. He was unconscious at the time of death, and had been for several days. Mr. Morrill was 84 years of age Brief Telegrams. At Caperton, W. Va., Lolly Robinson, a negro, shot and killed Charles Williams, colored, for his intimacy with Mrs. Robinson. Robinson surrendered to officers, but was taken by a mob and lynched. The Belgian Chamber has passed a bill for the protection of the wages of workmen. Work in the mills at Belfast has been partly suspended, owing to the scarcity of waterpower. resulting frotn the prolonged drought The transcontinental roads are ignoring the long and short haul section of the IntArjs«'?e Commerce law.