Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1903 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

varieties., It makes excellent meal for table use, and Mr. Daniels thinks it the corn for late planting or filling in in fields where the first planting fails to come. We believe that a little more vigilance on the part of the local officers who are eleoted and sworn to execute the criminal laws would Have a tendency to make people respect the law more. Admitting that it is difficult sometimes to secure evidence, if the violators of the law were given to understand that due vigilance was to be used in bringing them to time, they would not be so brazjjn in defying it. Th?he circus Saturday drew one of the largest crowds ever in Rensselaer, and the feed, hitch and livery barns, restaurants and saloons did a land-office business. Some six or eight plain dranks and fighters were registered at the county hotel.\(Of this number a few were let ofit without fines, but James Noland, Everett and Omer Merrill, all of the Gifford district, arrested for fighting, were fined $1 each and costs, flO in all for each case, and the two former paid while the latter is laying his oat at county expense. Robt. McKinney, south of town, was arrested with the above named men, bat as it appeared that about all the connection he had with the fight was to get a severe whipping at the hands of Everett Merrill, he was acquitted. One of the Condon’s from Foresman, was also locked up, we are informed, but was released without prosecution.

Frank P. Meyer came up from Danville,lll., Sunday morning to spend a few days with his mother and other relatives. There was a lynching in Danville Saturday night and Frank saw about all of it. A negro shot down a white man in cold blood, and a mob took him away from the officers at the police station, dragged him through the streets and strung him up to a telephone pole close by the spot where the shooting occurred, then filling him full of lead and later burned the body. Happily for the poor devil, he was shot by the mob before taken from the police station, and was said to have been dead before hung to the pole. Later the mob, which now numbered about 5,000, made an attack en the jail in an attempt to lynch a negro rapist, but they were repeled by the sheriff and his deputies, who fired into the crowd and wounded several seriously. This was the first mob Frank had ever seen, and he dosen’t care to see another one.

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