Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1895 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Senator John W. Daniel denies the report that he is to stump Virginia for fr.ee silver. Alex'. White and John Cherry (negroes), alleged murderers, were lynched at Keno, Texas. Lorenzo Dow Covington, the American pronounced a dangerous lunatic and confined in an asylum for threatening to throw vitriol over Cardinal Vaughan, is a native of Kentucky. Three more negroes have been lynched in Lafayette County, Fla., for an assault. In the eighteen months fourteen negroes have been put to death in Lninyette" County fbr the same crime. The ten-stall road house, shops, seven locomotives, Corliss engine, lathes and tools of the Santa Fe Railroad Company in Arkansas City were destroyed by fire Sunday night. The loss is estimated at $125,000; fully insured. The cause of the fire is said to have been spontaneous combustion. A fishing party from Stuttgart, Ark., consisting of a Mr. Thompson and another man, their wives and three children, camping on White river, five miles below St. Charles, were attacked Saturday night by toughs, their tent shot into, one woman and child killed, and a man and a boy seriously wounded. John Kemp, one of the toughs, was killed by Thompson. Great indignation prevails. There is no known cause for the outrage. The mail car on train No. 4, International and Great Northern, arrived at Palestine, Texas, Thursday night without a postal clerk. A masked man crawled into the car just after leaving Tucker and at the point of a revolver demanded the safe keys. When told he was not in the express car, he demanded the registered mail keys. Upon their surrender he ordered the clerk to jump out. Clerk Orrin Davis was badly hurt by the jump, being badly bruised. Eight registered packages are known to have been taken. Bob Young, a farmer near Richmond, Mo., was taken by a mob and strung up to a tree in an effort to extort a confession from him which would lead to the capture of the incendiary who recently burned barns in the vicinity. The mob seized Young at the house of a neighbor add took him to the woods. Upon his denial of any knowledge of the crime they tied a rope about his neck, threw it over the limb of a tree and drew him up. He was let down, and, still persisting in’ denying bnbwmg "any thing' about -tl«rfires.was twice more strung up. Not making any damaging admissions, he was theuipermitted to depart. Young says he knows the men, but will not divulge their names.