Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1898 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Arthur Williams, colored, was lynched in Welborne, Fla., for the murder of Miss Eliva Ogden. Buck James and Monroe Leggitt, also colored, charged by Williams with having aided him, are in jail. Mrs. Anne Mar.a Lee, mother Of Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, died at the home of her son, Capt. Dan Lee, in Stafford County, Va. She was nearing her eighty-eighth birthday and had been totally blind for years. Her death resulted from a fall. Henry Reboul, discharged from the Sixth Cavalry because of physical disability on the day the Maine was blown up, committed suicide in a New Orleans cemetery because of grief at inability to secure reinstatement and take part in the war. John Meadows shot and killed John and Clayton Mathews, brothers, at Pineville, Ky. Meadows was c-'sCudof' teacher. Meadows surrendered and is now in jail. Eagan, the most prominent witness, was found dead in his storeroom, ■ffhere he slept for years. The indications are that he waS murdered. “The Service Men of the Spanish War,” which aims to be to the soldiers who enlisted for the Spanish-American war what the G. A. R. is for the veterans of the civil war, has been organized at Lexington, Ky. Its officers are: Commander, Colonel Leonard; Vice Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Banks; Adjutant and Chief of Staff, Captain Davenny; Treasurer, Colonel Guilder.