Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Four negroes were lynched by a mob of 100 white men near Phoenix, S. C. The negroes were charged with being implicated in the shooting of whites during the election troubles. Raible, Smith & Co., tin plate manufacturers of Loqjsville, Ky., have assigned. Liabilities, $70,000; assets about the same. One hundred men are thrown #ut of work by the closing of the plant. Near Little Rock, Ark., Mrs. J. B. Cuneo shot her husband and a lady, Mrs. Fannie G. Howell, who was in his company. Jealousy was the cause of the deed. Both victims are dangerously injured. Mrs. Cuneo escaped. B. F. Johnston, of St. Elmo, HL, and J. H. McCarthy, of Little Rock, Ark., have secured the contract for building the Choctaw and Memphis Railroad extension from Little Rock to Wister Junction, 164 miles. The contract price is $2,000,000. At Little Rock, Ark., E. C. Bruce, operator for the Iron Mountain Railroad, shot Mrs. Fred B. Day because she ordered him to leave her house, where he had been boarding. Bruce then committed suicide. The woman will recover. The lines of the Consolidated Electric Street Car Company in Dallas, Texas, are tied up by a strike. Several motormen were discharged by the new superintendent and other men were put in their places. The employes demanded the reinstatement of the discharged men. Private Jackson, Troop H, was instantly killed and Corporal Garrett, Troop 11, Tenth Cavalry, was mortally wounded by “Horse” Douglass, a negro of Huntsville, Ala. No one saw the killing. Douglass was seen with the t"’° soldiers in the city and his pistol had three empty shells. John Haley of Nashville, Tenn., was arrested in New Orleans, charged with being a fugitive from justice. He is wanted on five warrants charging him with concealing stolen property. Haley is alleged to be the confederate of John Leonard, who systematically robbed the Cudahy Packing Company.