Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1903 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The Virginia Senate voted to remove Judge Campbell, of Amherst, on thecharge of cowhiding Rev. Mr. Crawford. Southern passenger ’train No. 12 jumped the track one jpile west of White Pine. Teim. Engineer Robert B. Holloman of Knoxville was crushed to death. Armed and masked men, under threats of death, have forced a negro rural mail carried near fiallatin, Tcnti.. to resign his position. The government may abandon the route. >. A portion of the kitchen of the State pVl.oa at Flat Top .Mines, twenty-five miles from Birmingham, Ala., burned and nine convicts escaped. Going to the railroad station, the convicts robbed the telegraph operator and left him tightly bound. A report reached Wire.her ter. Ky., frbm Jackson that B, >. Ewen was ' ' " 3 .■*

assassinated from ambush. Eweu wa* standing in the court house door with J. B. Marcum when the Tatter was killed, and it has been said recognized the assassin. There was a race riot in St, Tammany parish, about fifty milesrfrom New Orleans. An insolent negro was beaten with an ax handle by a white grocery clerk. The negroes armed and a pitched battle with white citizens followed, in which four negroes, one of whom was the aggressor, were killed. ' In a street duel at Yazoo City, Miss., between T. A. and E. M. Kelly on one aide and It. F. Birdsall, editor of the Yazoo Sentinel, and his two brothers-in-law, Gibbs and Doyle Dorsey, on the other, T. A. I&ll.v was instantly killed and his brother dangerously wounded. Doyle Dorsey was fatally shot and died later. A telegram from Chief of Police C. W. Austin, Birmingham, Ala., to Chief Mathew Kelly, of St. Louis, stated that E. J. Arnold, turf investor, was in that city. Chief Iveily immediately jvired back to place Arnold under arrest. Arnold was the proprietor of one of the get-rich-quiek investment companies which failed several months ago.