Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1896 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The large towboat Harry Brown exploded her boilers twenty-five- miles below Vivfcskwrg, -Mi«s., Sunday night. Tiat bont was wrecked in less than a moment and sank out of sight. Eleven persons, all white, perished. Durable, Armisted & Cronan, Houston, Tex;, wholesale and retail hardware merchants, have tiled a chattel mortgage for the benefit of creditors. The preferences aggregate $70,000, considerable being due to northern and -eastern creditors. At 12:05 Thursday, the jury in the Bryan murder case at Newport, Ivy., returned to the court rotffir-wjth a verdict. Amid a deathlike stillness the- foreman handed the-werdict to the clerk, who read as follows: “We, the jury, find the defendant, Scott Jackson, guilty of murder in the first degree and fix his penalty at death.”

One of the three negroes implicated in the cutting of City Marshal Walker at Fulton, Ky., Saturday was arrested by the telegraph operator at Arlington, Ky., who, in attempting to arrest him, shot him just above the left lung. The negro was taken to Fulton and taken in charge by Sheriff Purdue, but the mob which had gathered at the depot rushed madly upon the prisoner and swung him up. The negro confessed his guilt while under arrest at Arlington. The other two negroes implicated are still at large. Jack Trice, a negro, fought fifteen vi'hite men killing James Hughes and Edward Sanchez., fata'lly* ’Wounding Hepry Daniels, and dangerously wounding Albert Buffum. The battle occurred at the negro's home, pear Palmetto, Fla.' and he fought to prevent his 14-yearrold son lated’- by the whites- Trice's son and the son of Town Marshal H-ughes, of Palmetto, had a fight, the white boy being badly- beaten. Marshal Hughes was greatly enraged, and he and fourteen other white men went to Trice's bouse so “regulate” the negro’s little boy. The. whites demanded that the boy be sent out. Trice refused, and the whites began firing. Trice returned, the fire, his first butlet killing Marshal Hughes. Edward, Sanchez tried to burn the house, but was shot through the brain by Trice. Then the whites tried to batter in the door with a log, which Resulted in Hetity Daniels getting a bullet in the stormfeh 'that will kill him. The “regulators” Chen ran, a final ballet from Trice’s rifle striking Albert Buffum in the .back. The whites I

secured re inforcements and returned to Trice’s home, vowing to burn father and. son at the stake, but their intended victims had fled;)' only Trice’s old mother was In the house. The old woman was driven out and the house burned. Posses with blootßionnds nre chasing Trice, and the boy,' and J.hcy will*" be lynched if caught. * ~