Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1899 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The body of Mitchell Daniel, a negro, was found in the road near Leesburg, tia., riddled with bullets. Russel Borver, a saloonkeeper of Coalbnrg, W. Va., was found dead on the Chesapeake and Ohio tracks with a bullet wound in his body. Willis Sees, a negro, aged about 30 years, was taken from the jail at Osceola, Ark., and hanged in the jailyard by a mob of forty men. Sees was in jail on a charge of barn burning. Judge Martin of the Circuit Court at Little Rock, Ark., rendered a decision upholding the constitutionality of the antitrust law, but limiting its force to offense* committed in the State of Arkansas. ' The American army under Gen. MacArthur crossed the Rio Grande river, P. 1., and drove the Filipinos from their stronghold on its bank. The enemy retreated rapidly, burning many villages in their flight. The Greenwood County, South Carolina, men charged with having entered into a conspiracy to drive away or kill James W. Tolbert, the Republican assistant postmaster at McCormick, 8. C., have been discharged from custody, the jury returning a verdict of not guilty. News has been received at Little Hock, Ark., of the assassination in Van Buren County of the son of Hugh Patterson, who was murdered in December, 1897, by Lee Mills and WiH Hardin. Mills was hanged a few days ago and Hardin was shot to death in jail. It is believed that young Patterson was murdered by friends of Hardin for revenge.