Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1893 — SALVATION IN THE SOUTH [ARTICLE]

SALVATION IN THE SOUTH

An Evangelist Roughly Deed by Vnrogeoerato Moenablner*. The Rev. D A. Stratton, an evangelist from Elmott Tex., reports a rough experience In Franklin county, Ala. He set but across Winston county for Guion, his next stand. He stopped all night with a farmer, named William Burns, but the moonshiners, who had seen him and mistaken him for a revenue spy, were on his trail At dead es night they went to the bouse, dragged him out and took him into the woods. They robbed him of all his valuables. kicked him and euffed him. and maltreated him in every way and finally put s rope around his neck. Just a* IP began to pray they turned him loose. *itl the injunction to go and tell all other rev enue spies wteut he found out io Winslet, county. x