Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — Object to Colored Troops. [ARTICLE]

Object to Colored Troops.

Mayor Watkins of Chattanooga, Tenn,, has asked the Secretary of War to remove the Eighth immune regiment from Chickamauga Park. The regiment is composed of colored met). He adds that the citizens of Chattanooga would be pleased to have a white regiment stationed at the park. At Guthrie, Okla., Mrs. Mirry Marks was bound over to the District Court under SBOO bond for deadly assault. She had a dispute with W. G. Barnhill over a cotton crop and snapped a gun in hia face.