Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1895 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

“Dr.” Hammond, the rotorious allaround criminal ba s beefl ar rested at New Orleans. In a rush for liberty at the Louisville workhouse James Howard, a negro who led the escaping prisoners, Was shot dead by the guards. The prisoners were being followel by a number of other convicts. The guards fired several shots in the air and the ringleader was finally brought down by Guard Lynch, who has been arrested. s_ Near Bear Wallow, Va. an atrocious crime was committed. John and Mary, Feagan. husband and wife, aged 61 and 54. lived alone on' their farm. Feagan s.old his hogs and it was known he had in his house some S2OO or 8300. Monday morning early one of his neighbors went to the house and a terrible sight presented- itself. On the bed lay Mrs. Feagan with her head split open. Feagan lay on the floor—with his skull crushed and a deep gash in-hiabreast; which had been made with an ax. The house had been ransacked. > _/Nearly 1200 ...half-starved ami -t vi zed '"the steamer' -Lawrence'from The negroes were hired to go to Lee County and pick oranges. When they reached Font -Meyers they were ordered to leave, being-told they could not work there. The negroes showed resistatice, when armed whites surrounded them and they were kept under guard for two days until, the Steamer returned. were given nothing to eat and feared they would be massacred, as the guards kept up a constant fusillade at night. Twelve of the negroes became so terrorized that they leaped overboard, and. it is thought, were drowned. Several others tried tp run. but were shot. The negroes say the bodies, of those shot were thrown into the river. A. I'. Lane, a prominent resident of Fort Meters,-confirms the story told by the negroes. He says white men have been visiting the camps of the orange pickers and firing into them until nearly fill the negroes* hare fled, the county. Many negroes have uudmijjtedly been — —*— ■