Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1899 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

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peeled of aiding a murderer to escape, were lynched in Henderson County, Tex. Advices fkom Hardeeville. S. C_ report the taming to death of Jacob Solomons, his wife and seven children in a fire which destroyed their house. A negro Baptist preacher, whose name coaid not he learned, was shot and instantly tailed at New Market, Ala. by CoL E. W. Cole of Nashville, Team, one of the best known of the coaL iron and raihoad capitalists of the Sonth. dropped dead ia the Fifth A venae Hotel at New York. He was stricken with apoplexy. The Sixth Ohm, Cel. W. X. McMakea. was mastered oat at Angnota. 6a. Gen. S. M. Yoasg who is ia charge of the mustering oat of the troops ia the South, says the Sixth Ohio was one of the best, if not the best, regiment he had seen in the army. While delirious from fever Mrs. Ode Clayton of Nashville. Team, shot her 5-year-old daughter in the head, inflicting a dangerous wound. Mrs. Clayton then turned the revolver on herself, sending a bullet through her brain, death ensuing instantly. Gov. Sayers of Texas has signed the anti-trust hill passed by the present session of the Drgislasare. The law dors not become operative antil Jam 21, 1901. This law has been carefully framed and Got. Sayers will fikely ask the proposed antitrost convention to adopt this hill and have it enacted into a law by all the Soothem States.