Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1898 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

George Washington Edwards, colored, was hanged at Senatobia, Miss., for the murder of Roxie Williams. Thu crime’ M*as committed in July, 1890. Four new cases of smallpox were discovered at Middlesboro, Ky. The public schools and all saloons were closed indefinitely. Nearly all the surrounding country is quarantined. Attorney General Crow of Missouri has rendered a decision holding that it is unlaM’ful for a teacher to require pupils to respect the Lord’s prayer ns part of the opening exercises in the public schools of that State. Benton McMillin has formally announced in Nashville his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Tennessee. There are three other avowed candidates in the field. The convention will meet in August. The McChord bill, M’hich gives the State Commissioners power to fix rates, has passed the lower house of the Kentucky Legislature. It got through the Senate by a narrow majority, aud now it Seems certain to become a law. Arthur Garvey, a merchant of Rocky Mount, N. C., u’hilc dressing in his’ room at a hotel in Richmond, Vn., accidentally fell against the window, breaking it, and his head went through. In his efforts to free himself the jagged glass fcnt his jugular vein and he bled to death. A desperate duel was fought with knives and pistols between George Vogt and Arthur B. Waldron at Fourth avenue and K street, Louisville, Ky. Fred Vogt, the son of George Vogt, was also draum into the encounter. As a result Waldron is lying nt the city hospital not expected to live. Fred Vogt is at the Gray street infirmary, badly wounded, and the elder Vogt is in jail, charged M’ith malicious shooting. The primary cause of the trouble was a murder case tried in the Jefferson County Court about eight years ago.