Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Gem Nelson A. Miles acted as judge of cavalry horses at the Louisville horse show. Rev. Dr. F. V. Bartlett was stricken with paralysis in the pulpit of a Presbyterian church, in Lexington, Ky. At Georgetown, Ky., Henry E. Youtsey. tried as a principal in the murder of William Goebel, was found guilty and his punishment fixed at life imprisonment.

The negro Milry Johnson, who shot and dangerously wounded Conductor Will Jordan of the Texas and Pacific road, near Baton Rouge, La., was lynched at the scene of his crime. Two colored men entered a saloon in the town of Minnie, W. Va., obviously for the purpose ot buying drinks, but while the proprietor, Ed Carroll, was making change he was knocked down and beaten to death with a cttib. Because lie accidentally discovered on the eve of marriage that his betrothed was bald headed, a well-known young num of Augusta, Ga., refused to make her his wife. He returned unused the marriage license he hud procured. Captain A. B. S. Mosley, of Rome, Ga., who was several months ago appointed vice consul so Singapore, has decided to decline. Dr. 11. A. Mosely, a brother of Captain Mosely, is consul general at Singapore, but has been ordered to Japan on account of his health. Fratus Warfield, a negro, was lynched at Elkton, Ky., by a mob, who took him from the county jail. Warfield’s imprisrnent was for attempting to enter the house of a young farmer when the farmer's wife and little child were the only occupants. He was frightened away by the approach of a neighbor.