Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1898 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Eugene Burt was hanged in the county jail at Austin, Texas, for the murder of his wife and two children in July. 1890. He protested his innocence to the last. At the seventh annual commencement exercises of the Tuskogee normal and industrial institute, at Tuskogee, Ala., 1,047 students were in attendance, and fortyeight were graduated. The total cash receipts for the year have been $114,469.60. Of this $62,000 has gone into current expenses and $52,000 into plant. The students have paid in labor $52,000 toward their expenses. An engine collided with the Oakdale accommodation at Graysville, north >of Chattanooga, Tenn., on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad. The crew on the engine, Conductor Simpson, Engineer Hudson, Fireman Edwards and two brakemen, Matthews and Swanson, were instantly killed, except Simpson, who is not expected to live. Engineer Walkenshaw, Fireman Day and Baggagemastbr Dresback of the accommodation train were seriously hurt. At Key West, Fla., James J. Dorsey, 55 years of age, an old-time export merchant, was found dead in a yard within half a block of the Key West Hotel. He had received a considerable sum of money in wages the night before and was probably murdered for it. He was so terribly beaten about the head that only a search of his clothing revealed his identity. William Carne, a sailor of the United States auxiliary gunboat Morrill, was probably fatally injured in front of a barroom in the southern portion of the town. The man, who was intoxicated, was set upon by a gang of negroes. Several arrests have been made. The people are so aroused they have demanded that the city be put under martial law.