Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Two negroes whose names were unknown were lynched at Womelsdorf, W. Ya. More injunctions were issued Monday by Judges Jackson and Keller against the West Virginia mine unionists. Rev. S. O. Mitchel), a Baptist minister of Louisville. Ky., while visiting his brother-in-law, George H. Maston, near Yelvington, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. Capt. M. Terrebonne was awarded possession by Louisiana court of his daughter found adopted by New Orleans family, after he thought she had been drowned in 1593 storm. Judge Jackson nt Parkersburg, W. Ya., senteneed to jail six coal strike leaders for violation of the court's injunction. Suspension was granted in the case of “Mother” Jones. A warrant was issued for the arrest of Secretary-Treasurer YVilson of the miners' union. When Boisey Bryant, colored, is hanged at Adel, Berrien County, Ga., Aug. 22, he will be launched into eternity by the hand of a white woman. Bryant was convicted of the murder of W. A. Hyers, the marshal of Ade], who was trying to break up a gang of negro “blind tiger” keepers and gamblers. Miss Hyers, daughter of the murdered man, wrote to Sheriff Swindell, requesting the privilege of springing the trap at the execution of Bryant, and the Sheriff replied that he would comply with her request. For four days there was almost a continuous fall of rain covering practically the entire State of Texas, the downpour being particularly heavy in Western Texas. In Sourry County it rained for seven days and nights and all streams arc out of their banks. The town of Snyder had no mail for rec days and is cut off from all communication except by telephone. Traffic on the Texas and Pacific is almost completely tied up at Abilene. No trains haVe.arrived there from the West for three days. Ten persons have been drowned.