Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1887 — THE SOUTHERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

The neighborhood of Rives, a small town in Tennessee, has been the scene of a triple lynching, says a Memphis telegram. Adam Charles, Audy Miller, and William Smith were the victims. The crime was an assault on a 10-year-old child, the daughter of M. Meyers, while on her way to school alono. The child reached home more dead than alive. In less than an hour men were on the trail of the miscreants. Miller was soon captured, and revealed the hiding-place of his companions, who were found in the woods near by. No accusations were made by the pursuing party, who proceeded in ominous silence to a wood near by, where the three were hanged. The negroes in the community were thoroughly in sympathy with tho actions of the avenging party, and condemned the assault in unmeasured terma From the Southwest comes an account of another bold train robbery. A Little Rock dispatch says: A train bound north over the St, Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railroad was stopped by robbois near Texarkana, Ark., and the express car, mail and passengers were all relieved of cash Postal Clerk Jqjmson says that the train was suddenly Btoppedjisrhen moving out of Geneva Station. He saw three rough-looking men board the engine, and he knew something was wrong, so he blew out the lights in his compartment and locked the doors. The express messenger did the same thing. The robbers ordered the doors opened and fired several shots through tho windows. They then used a pick-ax, and Johnson fired one shot through the window, which was answered by a volley. Finding resistance useless, and the lives of the engineer and fireman at stake, the express messenger opened his doors. Johnson doesn’t know accurately, but thinks the robbers must have gotten SIO,OOO. After gutting the express car they entered the mail car. Johnson expostulated that that was Uncle Sam’s dominion, and that they had already had a good deal of booty, and if they disturbed the mails it would go hard with them. One of them replied: “That’s so,” and they would not touch the mails. Great excitement prevails in the region of the robbery, and mounted men are scouring the woods everywhere. Gov. Hughes has offered S2OO for the arrest and conviction of each robber. Tlie railroad company also offers several thousand dollars’ reward.