Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1901 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Prvsly Vanhonser, constable, was shot anil instantly killed at Hand Springs, Ala., by a man uumed Kerstein in a difficulty about some peaches. A 13-ycar-old negro boy was sentenced to life imprisonment in Louisiana for killing a rival of the same age. Both lads loved a 12-ycar-old negro girl. A negro, Dick Hill, who killed Ed. Barry, a white man, in Philadelphia, Miss., was killed nt Summerville, Miss., while resisting arrest at the hands of a posse of 100 men. Allen Richards, George Fortner and Nam Ray were fatally burned by the accidental upsetting of a converter containing several tons of molteu copper at Ducktown, Tenn. Mrs. Fannie McGill, carrying n baby in her arms, was run down by u trolley cur at Birmingham, Ala., and mother and child were mangled to death, being dragged half a block under the car.