Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1898 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Charles McLaughlin, 23 years old, a glass-blower, was shot dead and his brother seriously injured in a street duel on Market street, Wheeling, W. Ya. Gen. Cassius M. Clay, the sage of Whitehall, has been granted a divorce from his girl wife, Dora Richardson Clay, h.v Judge Scott of the Madison County, Kentucky, Circuit Court. The decree restores the defendant to her maiden name, Dora Richardson.

(Edward Alexander Callaghan, a private in First United States Volunteers (.immune's), was shot to death at Galveston, Texas, and his companion, Jack Elliott, a civilian, was wounded in the abdomen. Harry Owens, a supernumerary policeman, surrendered himself. He says he attempted to arrest the men who had imposed upon a little boy, and they threw him down, kicked him and began knifing him.

\ passenger train on the Texas and Pacific Railroad, consisting of an engine and four coaches, plunged through a bridge twelve miles south of Texarkana. Four persons tire reported killed outright and a number of others more or less seriously Mounded. The accident Was due to high water. A bridge had been weakened by the heavy rains.- When the train struck the bridge the structure collapsed, precipitating tltc engine and four ears into the Maters beneath. Texarkana, Ark., is in a state of alarm over the large number of idle negroes who throng the .town, and the citizens are organizing vigilance committees for the protection of their property. The unusual influx of negroes recently is due to the operations of bands of M’hiteenps in Titus, Cass. Red River. Hopkins, and other counties in the cotton districts of North Texas, whence thousands of negroes have lied on account ot notices being posted, and in some eases violence being used, to run them out. These people, being run out of the cotton fields, have sought refuge in the towns, and Texarkana has been the refuge of a large number. A trustworthy colored man from Titus County says thqt while a number of his race tvece at wort in a field' a mob of whitecaps, .;opcealeti in a fence corner, opened fire un them.. The negroes fled, leaving three of their number behind, wounded, and, perilous, killed. They had been Marued tt> leave the county, and had paid no attention to the warning. Other similar incidents are reported by incoming negroes: Iu some localities in Titus Comity, which were formerly densely populated by undoes, not a colored man, unman or chilq remains, according to the Stories told by those M’ho have reached Texarkana.