Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1901 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The postofflee and other buildings at Hoy, Ala., were burned. The Georgia Supreme Court decided that the State Treasurer had no right to use the “public property fund” to pay the school tqfMhers of Georgia or for any other purpose except the payment of the bonded debt of the State. Five negroes, members of an organisation whose motto was “Death to ’the Whites,” were hanged from one scaffold iu public at Sylvania, Ga. The murder for which the men died was but the culmination of a long series of crimes. The Huntley Oil and Refining Company, with a capital stock ot $2,500,000, has been chartered at Austin, Texas. It is to prospect in twenty-five Texas counties for oil. The board of directors include* C. A. Towne of Minnesota and Gov. Benton McMillin of Tennessee. John G. Foster was shot and killed on the Foster plantation, five miles east of Shreveport, La., by a negro of the name of Prince Edwards. Foster was 22 years of age and belonged to one of the leading families of Louisiana. Gov. McMillin of Tennessee is a brother-in-law of the dead man. Tricey Griffin, colored, was hanged at Brunswick, G*., for the murder, in October last, of R. Marion Latimer, a passenger conductor on the Southern Railway. The conductor was killed for ordering the negro to come inside the car from the platform while the train was in motion. Simon Williams and George Reid arranged to fight a duel to the death at Owensboro, Ky., with pistols, but the police broke It un. Williams had attempted to abduct his 7-year-old daughter, who had been taken by his wife to Reid’s, her brother, and a duel was to be fought for the possession of the child.