Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1897 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

William Moody of Augusta, Ga., killed himself after a quarrel with his young wife. Robert Sims (Colored) was hanged at Jonesboro, Tenn. Sims shot and killed Walter Galloway July 9. William Mays, who'shot and killed C. D. Messingill on June 15, in Sullivan County, Tenn., was hanged at Blountsville. Mrs. Joseph Wilmont, the wife of a well-known farmer living near Hubb'.e, Ky., shot down a negro burglar who was forcing his way into the house. At the Allen farm, near Bryan, Texas, while gambling for pecans, a negro named General Chetham was stabbed twice and killed. Another negro, Tom Sweat, was arrested for the crime and while being conveyed to Millican by a posse was taken from his guards and strung up to the limb of a tree. The vigilantes are said to have been negroes. A train on the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad was derailed just west of Williford, Ark. The combination coach, chair car a.nd sleeper went over the bank, the combination car going into Spring river. The chair car and sleeper were both consumed. One passenger was fatally injured and twenty-two others more or less seriously hurt.