Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1903 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Lester Wilsox, a 10-year-old boy, war shot and seriously wounded by a soldier in Richmond, Va., for crying “scab” at a car, and William Tucker, aged 23, a passenger, was shot and wounded by an unknown person. In Richmond, Va., street railway company guards fired into a crowd of strike sympathizers just outside the city limit! and six men were wounded, two of them seriously. It is said the guards wen fired upon first. Buckshot was used by them. News has come of the lynching ol Lamb Whittle, a negro, on the Smith land plantation, fen miles from Monterey Landing, Concordia parish, La. Whittle assaulted a white man and a mob tool him to the woods and riddled his body with bullets. The body of George Coates, a formei prominent railroad and club man ol Brunswick, Ga., who had committed suicide, was found in an unfrequented wood. Mr. Coates used dynamite and his body was mangled into an almost unrecognizable mass. Samuel Johnston and Richard Ed moudnon are dead as the result of a very strenuous ball game played on the Spaic plantation near Quitman, Ga., between the Spain negroes and those of a neighboring plantation. Johnston was one ol the Spain aggregation’s crack players while Edmondson was the umpire,' A riot of United States jugular soldiers at Fort Philip, a few miles down the Mississippi river from New Orleans, resulted in the killing of . Edward Me Closkey, aged 34 years, a bartender, the splitting open of the head of his assistant named Connors and the looting and robbing of the store of over $2,000 by the soldiers. Mrs. Mary Patterson is under arrest at New Iberia, La., charged with murder. The woman became enraged at her stepchild, a little girl of 10 years, and after beating her, tied her in a corn sack and suspended her to a limb of a tree. She then made a fire beneath the tree and piled on a lot of paper to intensify the heat and smoke. The sack caught tire and the body, falling out, burned, to a crisp.