Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1895 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Alexander Simms, colored, was hanged at Jacksonville, Fla., for the murder of Policeman Ed Minor. — —■— Jacob Bamnbarger, of Wheeling, W. Ya., while talking on the street wasAntled" by a rifle ball fired by an unknown person. William Walker, a notorious colored desperado, who has been robbing and terrorizing the people of his own race near Memphis, was killed by William Walton, colored, a member of a posse wlrch had besieged Walk ‘r in his own honse. At a meeting of coal .-nine operators controlling seven-eighths of Ihe coal output of Alabama, and representing over $20,000,000 capital, held in Birmingham, the formation of a gigantic coal combine was practically completed.— The ;<nipose of the pool,- a leading operator says, is to put an end to ruinous competition, by securing better freight rates and Ihe realization of such a profit on their product as will enable them to pay their miners good wages. If is the purpose of those in the pool to extend it so as to include all the mines in Tennessee and Kentucky.