Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1909 — TROOPS FIGURE IN FEUD [ARTICLE]

TROOPS FIGURE IN FEUD

Hurried to a Town Factions Declare They Intend to Rip Apart. Natchez, Miss.,' Aug. 24.—Companies B and C, Third regiment of the state guard, left here for Meadville. Sheriff Jones of Franklin county called for the troops in anticipation of serious trouble arising from the attempted assassination of Chancery Clerk Ernest Newman. Friends of Newman and pf the sac-. tion believed responsible for shooting have been arriving in Meadville and threatening to “tear the town up.”