Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1898 — MOB HANGED A NEGRO [ARTICLE]

MOB HANGED A NEGRO

HE HAD THROWN A BOY OFF A TRAIN. " ■ W Joe Mitchell, a Colored Brakeman, Seized from Officers Taking Him to Jail and Hung Near Hives, Tenn.— Dynamite Kites for Cnba. Lynched by a Mob. yf Joe Mitchell, a colored brakeman on the Illinois Central Railroad, whs lynched at Hives, Tenn., by a mob. Henry Gardner, a 17-year-old boy from Dyersburg, Tenn., boarded the train at Rives for the purpose of going home. He was picked up after the train had left, near- the depot, with both legs ground off by the car wheels. Before he died he said that Mitchell shoved him off the train. Mitchell was arrested at Newbern on the charge of committing the deed. While being conveyed to jail at Union City he was taken off the train at Rives by a mob and lynched in the woods near by. The officers declined to give him up at first, but the mol. threatened to fire the depot and then riddle the man with bullets as he escaped. It was then that they wrested him front the officers and started outside with him, A rope was ready, and without giving him time to pray they swung him up to u tree near the depot, and he hung until daylight. Kite* to Drop Dynamite. William E. Eddy_o£ Bayonne, N. J. whose kites have been experimented with at Madison barracks, Sacketts Harbor, N. Y., by Lieut. Wise of the Ninth infantry, has invented a sliding messenger kite, which carries dynamite up the string. Mr. Eddy says he believes Lieut. Wise, now at Tampa, Fla., has a supply of his kites and camera apparatus ready for the exploration of the enemy’s encampment as soon as the army invades Cuba. Inventor Eddy states that the messengei kite is still in an exfieriinental state. Five ascensions have been made by it at Ba yonne. The kite carried a lighted lantern up the string and dropped it as an experiment, instead of dynamite, If the Government co-operates with Mr. Eddy is the use of this invention large portable dynamite kites will bo at once constructed for use in Cuba. He proposes to automatically drop seventy-two pounds of dynamite at the distance of a mile. Eddy says after the United States forces land in Cuba ami lay siege to Havana it would be an easy matter to send up the kites and reduce Morro castle.

Race for the Pennant. Following is the standing of ths ciubi tn the Natioual Base-ball league: W. L. W. L. Cincinnati . .20 7 Chicago 14 14 Cleveland ...20 9 Philadelphia .10 14 Boston .....18 11 Brooklyn ....10 14 New Y0rk...17 10 St. Louis 9 If Baltimore ... 14 9 Louisville ... 9 21 Pittsburg ...15 14 Washington . 0 21 Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis .19 0 Milwaukee ..14 It St. Paul ... .22 7 Minneapolis .10 If . Columbus ...15 11 Detroit 8 2( Kansas City .15 11 Omaha 5 21 Hold-Up on the Santa Fe. Information has been received fron: Belen, N. M., a small station on the Santa Fe, that the Santa Fe train No. 21, the south-bound California express, had beer held up by bandits, who boarded the trait at Belen and compelled the engineer tc bring it to a stop about five miles south of that station. They gained entrance tc the express car and threw the through safe out into a ditch, where, with the aid of dynamite, they blew it open and pocketed the contents. Just how much money they got is not known. The robbers escaped on horse's that were in waiting So far as is known none of the passengers were molested.