Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1901 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

An unknown negro who resisted arrest at Crowley, La., was lynched. Babe Battis, Duser Thompson and Abe Petway, negro murderers, were hanged at Nashville, Tenn? Three boys of Newport, Ky., went to sleep on a railroad track near Marysville and were run over and fatally injured. Despondent because of ill health, Mrs. A. O. Bourdon of Biloxi, Miss., placed a revolver barrel in her mouth and pulled the trigger, killing her instantly. The bodies of Wheeler and Mynatt Hattnaker, nged 11 nnd 14 years, were found in n mill pond near Jacksboro, Tenn. They had been stabbed and beaten to death. ' Andrew' Carnegie, who gave S4O,(XM) to the city of Covington, Ky., for a public library, has increased the gift to $75,000 to meet the desire of an auditorium in conjunction with the library. C. J. Dillon and William Morgan of Three Mlle, W. fought a duel over a girl wid) whom both were in loye. They, used shotguns. Morgan was shot In the breast, and his adversary in the abdomen. Two freight trains oA the 'Louisville and NashYrlle road collided at Nortonville, Ky., killing two men, fatally injur-

ing two and slightly injuring trt. The accident was due to a conflict Of tniia orders. Jesse Phillips, a negro preacher, labor agitator and lodge organizer, wag lynched at Cleveland, Miss., for the murder of Lucius Reed. Two other negroes were subsequently shot by the lynchers for making threats.