Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The date of the Southern industrial convention, to be held at Chattanooga, Tenn., has been changed to May 15, 10, 17 and 18. William Glover and Tom McCain, colored, arrested at Hopkinsville, Ky., have confessed that they wrecked a Louisville and Nashville passenger train near there recently. Tom Jones, a negro, murdered Ella Jones and five of her children, and then cremated the bodies, also destroying the woman’s residence, at Garner, near Raleigh. N. C. The .murderer was arrested. Particulars have been received of the torture and killing in Chesterfield County, N. C., of Cassie Boone. Four men carried her to the woods, gashed her with knives, and then set fire to her clothing. She ran screaming through the woods until she fell dying. The men are now in jail. In the heart of Ripley, Tenn., the body of a negro, Louis Rice, was found dangling from a limb of a tree. The lynching grew out of a trial in the Circuit Court of Lauderdale County, during the course of which Rice testified in favor of one of his color who was charged with the murder of a white man named Goodrich. A mob which for thirty-six hours had surged around the little jail at Emporia, Va., dragged two prisoners forth and hanged them to the same limb, filling the body of one with bullets as he hung writhing and gasping in the air. The two men were Walter Cotton, a negro, who shot two officers who were attempting to arrest him for burglary, and a white man who aided Cotton in the robbery.