Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1884 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A mob composed of 200 aimed men marched through the streets to the jail at Yazoo, Miss., demanded and received from the jailer the keys to the prison. The object of tbeir visit was to inflict summary punisiimefit upon four negroes confined therein for the murder of Joseph Nichols and the Posey brothers, a few days previous, and they did their work promptly and effectually. The mob first proceeded to the cell of W. H. Foote. The door was forced open, and as one of the crowd entered he was struck with ahaud-iron from the fireplace wrapped In a towel, and knocked down. At this moment firing commenced and the prisoner was instantly killed, being riddled by moro than a dozen shots. Robert Swaysee, another of the murderers, ‘ was taken from his cell, a rope placed around his neck and thrown over the fence, and he was thus hanged. They then proceeded to the cell in which Richard Gibbs was incarcerated, but could not open the doors with the keys. Gibbs appeared at the grating of his cell, and on being perceived was riddled with shot. A rope was passed into his cell, which was placod around him by his cell-mate, and he was then dragged out and hangod from the outside of the building. The mob then ugsnt upstairs to Mica jah Parker’s cell. Ho was taken out, a rope placed areund his neolf, and in the balcony of the middle corridor of the jail he was hanged, the body dangling over the baleouy. After this the crowd quietly dispersed. The victims are all negroes, and Foote was Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue for the district. The lynchers were young white inen from the surrounding country. No effort was made to binder them.... Four colored children on. a plantation at Summerton, S. C., in the absence of their mother built a fire, which consumed the house and cremated themselves.

The excess of the value of exports over imports of merchandise for the month ended No v. 30,1883,was $23,375,753, and for the twelve months ended Nov. 30 $l2O 000,■000. The values of the imports of merchandise for the twelve months ended Nov. 30, 1883, were $802,495,561, a decrease of $58,186,000 compared with the same time last year. The values of the exports of merchandise for the twelve months ended Nov. 30, 1883, were $812,406,651, an increase of $00,418,080 over the same time in 1882.... The State Deparment has learned that American pork and lard are not even permitted to pass through Germany in sealed cars...-A party of French aliens, who have for years controlled the modeling-room in the office of the supervising architect of the treasury, at Washington, have been dismissed. The Orange Grand Master of Ireland has issued a circular advising the enrollment of volunteer forces for the society, and announcing that the Government will be asked to arm those men with rifles, to be stored in the Orange halls... .Egyptian rebels at tacked the town of Gezireh. ne.ir Berber, but were repulsed with heavy loss by only twb companies of Bashi-Bazouks.... Lieut. Col. Sudeikin. of the Russian army, has been assasinated by Nihilists, whe also threaten the Minister of the Interior.... Garcia, tho most noted gambler in Europe, who has been known t:> win or lose stakes of £100,030, has entered a Trappist convent in Spain... .Cardinal Bishop Antonino do Luca died at Rome.

Congressman Hurd, of Ohio, is alter Attorney General Brewster, and a Washington dispatch say 6 he will shortly prefer charges and ask the appointment of a committee to investigate the Department of Justice. The charges os formulated are, in brief, that the detectives ih the employ of the department are managing things to their own liking; that some of them are unfit for the places they hold; that some of them was discharged some time ago from another department for making fabe entries; that another has been drawing mileage he was not entitled to, and the money appropriated for tho support of the department has not been spent in an economical manner, nor with due regard to the public interest. A dispatch from Walla Walla, W. T., Bays that as Sheriff Thompson and Jailer Williams were visiting tho jail cells at night for the last time they were attacked by Elfus and Owen, two condemned murderers, who knocked them senseless with bricks they had secreted. On the jailer showing signs Of recovery they took a knife from his pocket and |raeked him to pieces, and then tied.... After a three hours’ wrestling contest at San Francisco, Muldoon defeated Bauer, and was oarried from the hall on the shoulders of admiring friends. The number of emigrants arriving at Castle Garden for 1883 was 387,638, against <55,540 for 1882.... The city of New York spent over $5,000,000 for charity during th* vear 1883.