Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1898 — SOUTHERLY. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERLY.

At Glasgow, Ky., the jury after being out twenty minutes returned a verdict against Robert Brown of willful murder and fixed his punishment at death. Nine well-known citizens of McCormick, S. C.. have been indicted for conspiracy in connection with the race riots at Phoenix, when Assistant Postmaster Tolbert, colored, was driven out of town. A duel to-the death with revolvers took place at Jackson. Ky., between C. C. Runyon, marshal of Jackson County, and Alfred Allen, a well-known character. They fought over an old difficulty, and both men were instantly killed. The Amerjfan Savings Bank of Charleston, S. C., has been placed in the hands of a receiver at the instance of the Hanover National Bank of New York. The latter bank holds notes of the former to the amount of $22,000. Janies H. Holcomb, marshal of Birmingham, Ala., was assassinated at Horse Creek depot by an unknown man, supposed, however, to lie Joe Marino, a moonshiner, whose arrest Holcomb had been trying for some time to effect. One of the cars of tb« Dallas. Texas, Consolidated Electric system was blown up by dynamite. Half an hour later another car was blown up. A stick of dynamite a foot long was found at the scene of the second explosion. No passengers were in the cars. The motormen were uninjured. The cars were, badly wrecked, a

wheel oa each beias htmra to fragMeata. These are the first sema* acts at xialen ce since the strike of the wwtonaea ea the Consolidated sy-stea was iiaagarated.