Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1901 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Texts Supreme Court decides the State has no interest in mineral lands sold to actual settlers from school land domain. John Lyson. aged 14, and Howard White, aged 12, were drowned while swimming in Green river, below Curdsville, Ky. While working in a field in Lincoln County, North Carolina, William Huss and one son were instantly killed and another son probably fatally injured by lightning. Frank Miller, a notorious safe robber, was hanged at Birmingham, Ala. The crime for which Miller was hanged was the murder of Policeman J. W. Adams one night in March, 1900. Cornered in a house by a determined band of infuriated citizens bent on meting out summary justice to Peter Price, a negro, charged with insulting a young woman, Price in his desperate efforts to escape cut and killed George Hooks and F. M. McGran and seriously cut Charles Davis. The affair occurred at laeger, W- Va.