Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

At Cresswell, Ala., John Jennings, colored, shot und killed L. Martin, a coaler on the railroad. lie was arrested and was taken from the officers at Childersburg and banned beside the road! The body of the murdered man found near Cleveland, Tenu., lias been identified as that of Posey Barker of Ducktown, nnd Jones Johnson is in jail charged with the killing. He confessed. Clark Howell ol Atlanta, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, was married at Savannah, Go., to Miss Annie Comer, daughter of the lnte Hugh M. Comer! president of the Central Georgia lCuilwny. Because he objected to the husband she had chosen, Alexander I’ruitt, a farmer living near Columbus, Ga., strung up lfis daughter in chains in her room and left her for dead. Only the opportune arrival of neighbors saved her life. A A farmer made a ghastly find on the Chattanooga dirt road, six miles south of Cleveland, Tenn. It was the remains of a white man, 00 years of age, hidden in a clump of bushes uear the road There was a large hole iu the side of the head and bruises on the face and body.