Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1901 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

J. M. Mercer, convicted of assault, was hanged at Tampa, Fin. A mob at Winchester, Tenn., burned at the stake a negro who assaulted and shot to death a white woman. Sara Farrow, a negro, shot and killed his wife, his father-in-law and mother-in-law Bear Dawkins, 8. C. A head-end collision on tho River line of the Rapid Transit Company at Atlanta, Ga., killed one person and injure! seventeen, three of them seriously. A pistol duel was fought on Little Bird Creek, near Mlddlesboro, Ky., between

Thomas Little, aged 70, and William Strong, aged about 40. Strong was killed and Little surrendered to the authorities. At Rapidan Landing, La., the boiler of a pump boat owned by Loisel & Israel exploded, killing two negroes and injuring fourteen. The pump man, a negro, felel asleep and the boiler went dry, resulting in the explosion. * When Gov. Longino of Mississippi counted the State’s cash Aug. 15 he found a shortage of SIOO,OOO. No publication of the matter was made, but the Governor quietly informed Treasurer St-ower that he would return later and make another count, when, he trusted, the funds would be all there. At this investigation the cash checked up to a cent. The first indictments for lynching returned in Alabama for many years are reported from Elmore County, where Judge Enson called the grand jury in special session to investigate the hanging of a negro who was accused of attempted murder. Judge Ensou gave evidence of the earnestness with which the inquiry was prosecuted by sentencing to jail for contempt of court several witnesses who refused to testify.