Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1901 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

As a result of domestic trouble* K. C. Page allot ami killed his brother-in-law, F. E. McCalleu, at Ennis, Texas. Henry Johnson, a negro, was lynched at Valdosta, Ga. He luid tired at a young white man, but ilid not hit him. Oil was struck seventeen miles west of Lake Charles, I.n. The well is between 300 nnd 300 feet iu depth and Hows freely. A tuob of masked meti went to n house oeeupied by Lee Key, colored, near Knoxville, Ark., niul at daybreak Key wan found dead in tho yard, having been shot. It Is charged he had been terrorising other negroes. John Turgor surrendered to City Marshal Smith, stating that he bad killed Jerry Boulden, one nnd a halt miles south of Alvarndo, Texas. The parties were brothers-in-law and the killing was the result uif a fntnlly quarrel. An effort Is being made to organise in Norfolk, Va., a combination embracing the cotton seed crushers of the South.

The object of the proposed combine, it is understood, is to control the market for cotton aeed and its products. W. L. Royse, a student at the Ken* tucky School of Medicine in' Louisville, was stabbed to death by John Nitbers, colored assistant janitor at the school. The crime was committed because Itoyse remonstrated with Nithers for being drunk. The negro escaped.