Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1885 — THE SOUTHS. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTHS.

John Martin, one of the two escaped negroes implicated in the outrage and murder of Mrs. Hazell, at Elkhart, Texas, was taken out of the Grayson - County Jail and lynched. This makes six victims of Judge Lynch for the murder of Mrs. Hazell. Eighteen horse-thieves have been hanged in Texas in two weeks, and detectives are hunting others with bloodhounds. ;.. .Acolored mob at Adams Station, Miss., lynched Ben Holt, a negro, who had killed his wife. ANdre J. Dumont, the most influential colored Republican leader in Louisiana, committed suicide at New Orleans by blowing out his brains. He was an-ex-State Senator, had served in every Republican national convention since the close of the war, and was until recently naval officer at New Orleans. Near • 'Waldron, Texas, a waterspout struck a freight train, deluging the engineer, fireman, and brakemen, who abandoned the train and climbed trees fust in time to avoid a wave of water eight feet high and fully one hundred feet wide.... A case of yellow fever was last week discovered in New Orleans, the patient, who is convalescent, being a native of the city.