Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

James Arcine and William Parohnieal, full-blooded Chorokeo Indians, wore banged at Fort Smith, Ark., for tho murder of Henry Fiogel, an old Swede, thirteen years ago; John McKeever, colored, who shot and killed William J. Trainer, on December 17 last, ivns hanged ut Memphis', Term.; John Taylor, colored,- was hanged in Hopkinsville,* Ky., for tho innrdor of his mistress. Five or six thousand people, mostly colored, witnessed the execution; Robert McCoy, colored, was hanged at Sylytuiia, Ga., for murdering James Edgar, a white coustablo, on November 20, 1884. Tw o thousand people witnessed tho execution; Rufus- Dortaeh, a colored murderer, suiVorod the death penalty at Marianna, Ark... .At Greenville, Teton., the trial of Capt K. T. Johnson for the murder of Major Edwin Henry in Green County, Tennessee, Sept. 23, 1884, ended in a verdict of acquittal. Hon. Daniel W. Voorhoes was leading counsel for the defense, ami made an eloquent plea for his client. A short time before the homicide Captain Johnson’s wife had committed suicide lit Indianapolis, after confessing to her husband that she had been seduced by Henry. “The trouble in Rowan County is on again,” says a Morehead (Ky.) dispatch. “Humphreys, the alleged . Sheriff of tho county,, shot Ciuig Tolliver, Marshal of More head, and leader of the opposition faction, who attempted to arrest him op a charge of confederating for his (Tolliver’s) murder. A posse attempted to arrest Humphreys, when he ami his confederate, Rayburn, rushed out of tho house aud ran firing. The posse returned the fire, killing Rayburn and mortally wounding Humphreys,,,, Baltimore was visited by the heaviest rainstorm in fourteen years. Hundreds of buildings were flooded in the city and suburbs, and the aggregate loss is estimated at a quarter of u million dollars... .AtßarnesYille. S. C., llebecea‘Samuels, 12 years old, was convicted of murdering an infant whom she was nursing, by soaking her in a pot of lye. John Martin, one of the two escaped negroes implicated in the outrage and murder of Mrs. 11a-ell, at Elkhart, Texas, was taken out of the Gray sou Coutoty Jail and lynched. This makes six victims of Judge Lynch for the murder of Mrs. Harrell.