Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1893 — A FESTIVE DRUMMER. [ARTICLE]

A FESTIVE DRUMMER.

A. M. Rodgers, a Chicago drummer, representing the shot house of C. M. Henderson & Co., was taken out of the hotel at Colburn. Wise county, Va., Wednesday, and terribly, perhaps fatally beaten by an infuriated mob. Wise county is in that section of the State where people pay little attention to law, preferring to execute their own ideas of Justice. The cause for Rodgers’ chastisement was an alleged insult to the daughter of the railroad agent at Colburn..