Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1897 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

John S. Morgan, under sentence of death at Ripley,. W. Va., has escaped from jail. Murderer Virgil Staley escaped from jail at Huntington, W. Va., after a desperate battle with the jailer. Hoke Smith, of Atlanta, Ga., ex-Seere-tary of the Interior, denies the report that he will remove to New York. Christine Bradley, daughter of Kentucky’s Governor, has accepted Secretary Long's' invitation fo'T'hrtsren the battle ship Kentucky. At Hot Springs, Ark., Henry Wise and Prank Harvey, two tinners, engaged in a jjght. Wise drew a knife, cutting Harvey’s throat. Harvey died a few minutes later. Gov. Atkinson of Georgia has vetoed the anti-football bill passed by the Legislature, holding that the question should be left to the faculties of the various schools. Albert Giles, who piloted a party of revenue officers against moonshiners, has been murdered by them at Little Rock, Ark. A placard was pinned to his body warning others to beware. In the Federal Court at Chattanooga, Tenn., before Judge Clark, the case of the railroads operating in Tennessee, against the State Railroad Commission, has been begun, the railroads attacking the validity of the commissioner in the tax assessments, and asking for perpetual injunction restraining the commission from collecting the taxes assessed.