Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Oliver Lamar, sentenced to life Imprisonment for murder, was released from jail by a mob of his friends at Mendenhall, Miss. Carney and George Wood, negroes, father and son, were hanged at Talladega, Ala., for the murder of Jack and Reuben Boyd, white, near Childersburg, Ala., on last Christmas day. At Louisville, Ky., Jeunie Ashcraft, charged with the murder of Edward Lambert, a former soldier, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to two years iu prison. J. P. Miller, deputy sheriff of Stewart County, Tennessee, and his brother, C. J. Miller, were arrested at Hopkinsville, Ky., charged with making and passing counterfeit money. The former admitted his guilt. The town of Clover, Va., was almost destroyed by fire. Five tobacco prizeries, three warehouses, eleven stores, a hotel, the postoffice, a livery stable and a number of dwellings were burned. The loss is $200,000, partially insured. Millard Lee, who shot and killed Miss Lilia Suttles in a church at Ben Hill, Ga., was captured near Austell, Ga., and placed in the Atlanta jail. He says he killed Miss Suttles because bis Jove was unrequited and he wished to end the suspense. The steamer John K. Speed, lying at her wharf at the foot of Lafayette street. New Orleans, took fire, supposedly from alcohol stored in the hold, and quickly burned to the water’s edge. The wharves took fire and a large section burned away.