Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The Goebel murder trials have bcguu at Georgetown, Ivy., before Judge Cautrlll. John Hoe, an 18-year-old negro, was lynched neur Coluuihlu, Ala., for an attempted ussault. His body was shot to pieces. Poatolllce Inspector Buss completed an inspection of the poatolllce at Guiuesville, Fla., and found the post master, James Bell, short in his accounts to the amount of $1,400. The shock of the discovery caused the death of the postmaster. By the blowing up of the towboat Peter Bounty, at Clydoton, Tenn., Engineer A. 1,. Mason of Paducah and Jesse Joues, colored, were killed and Ed Mason, the engineer's brother, and George Sneed and Julia Grudiaon, colored, were fatally scalded. At Mstriha, K>\, a four-ha tided shooting aflfrdy occurred between two deputy Folded Htates marshals and desperate mountain characters. In which one of the meu was killed and two mortally wounded. Deputy Marshal J. Howard Wilson received a hnllet through his heurt, being instantly killed. The miners in convention at Birmingham, Ala., voted to «ccpt thb proposl-

tion of the coal operators for a neif wage scale. The miners demanded a raise of 10 cents a ton, but the operators offered only to renew the then existing contract for another year. This finally has been accepted. Mrs. Sallie Scott, a white woman, was taken from her home in the East View section of Hardin County, Ky., at midnight by a gang of white caps and whipped with hickory switches until the blood trickled from her feet and she was rendered unconscious. Mrs. Scott swore out warrants against her husband and bis brothers: