Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1892 — POLITICAL RIOT IMMINENT. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL RIOT IMMINENT.

Charges of Election Crookedness In Albania Causes Wild Excitement. Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 11.—Rockford, tho county seat of Goosa county, is in a panic. The county went for Kolb at the recent .election, and tho Kolb men assert that they caught the probate judge and sheriff tampering with the boxes afte r they had been returned to the court house, by which their majority was reduced. Yesterday 100 armed Kolb men marched into the town and declared their’ intention of killing the probate judge, sheriff and circuit clerk, who constituted the returning board, and declared vengeance on all Jones men. The sheriff, summoned a posse and a i lot was prevented’ The mob declared their intention of re turning Monday next, prepared to execute their will. Tho inhabitants are in a panic stricken condition.