Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1898 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Chancellor William E. Boggs, of the University of Georgia, ut Athens, has resigned. Three hundred regulars and Maryland volunteers engaged in a riot at Phoebus, near Old Point Comfort, Va. Ethelbert F. Allen, of Kansas City, was elected imperial potentate of the shriners at their convention in Dallas, Texas. Caleb Gaines, colored, was taken from jail at Glasgow, Ky., and hanged to a tree. Fifty men on horseback were the lynchers. James Johnson, the negro soldier on trial at Tampa, Fla.,ffOf the murder of Jacob Collins at Lakeland, has been convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to life imprisonment. Motion for a new trial was quashed. Private Charles Shure, aged 19,«0f the Twelfth Minnesota infantry, was drowned while bathing in Chickamauga creek, Chattanooga, Tenn. Shure could not swim and ventured into deep water. The remains were shipped to Winona, Minn., to which place Shure belonged. A railroad man states that the engineer of the morning through express from New York to Jacksonville, Fla., found a can of dynamite in his coal while coming down. It is stated that the fireman in shoveling coal struck the can. Uncovering it, he took it out carefully and an examination was made. The can was half full of dynamite. It was turned over to the railroad officials and a strict examination will be made. It is reported that this is the third one found in the coal on locomotives within the last month. It is thought that it was a plot to wreck a train with troops on.