Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1897 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

W. Price and Arthur Ferguson of Jasper, Tenn., fought a duel with knives. Price will die. At McDonough, Ga., Taylor Delke, the famous outlaw, pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to prison for life. , At Hot Springs, Ark., Calvin Gibbs, 8 years old, died from hydrophobia, caused by the bite of a cat several months ago. Mrs. Ellen M-. Henrotin of Chicago was elected president of the National Household Economic Association at its meeting in Nashville. Michael Dorsey died at Powhattan, W, Va., at the age of 94. He was appointed postmaster at Dorsey’s Mills in 1832 and had held the office ever since. Mob law is severely condemned by Gov. Atkinson in his message to the Georgia Legislature. He advocates stringent legislation against mobs and insists that the -Legisla turdpass a law laying-every ty wherein such a crime is' committed subject to a large indemnity to the relatives of the mob’s victim.