Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Dr. J. C. Hearne has been awarded SIO,OOO damages for libel against M. H. de Young of the Sau Francisco Chronicle. - The steamer Birdie Bailey, of the Yazoo and Tallahatchie Transportation Company, was sunk in the Yazoo River, Mississippi, and is a total loss. A Chinaman named Ah Yen. who was in jail at E! Paso. Texas, awaiting deportation to China for being unlawfully in this country,, cut his throat with a razor a ml-w i 1 I—die.—He claimed that .1 Chinaman testified falsely against him, and he wanted to die and return to earth in the shape of a ghost to kill the false -Witness, General R. E. Colston, who was art officer in the Confederate army and at one time X'dMtmanded the Stonewall Brigade, died at the, Soldiers’ Home at Richmond, Ya. He was in his “Ist year. General Colston served six years in the Egyptian army and received the decoration of the knight commander of the, Turkish Order of Osmanish for distinguished services. It is reported that a race war has occurred about fifteen miles east Of Jasper. Fla., in which six men were killed and seven seriously wounded. The tragedy is said to have taken place at Haggard's turpentine still, where many ne-, groes are employed. It is reported that the colored men gave a party, and while if was in progress a number of white men intrude J and the shooting resulted. A posse of white men’ left Jasper Sunday night for the scene of the tragedy and if the reports of the affair are found to be true, further trouble is expected.