Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1905 — Briet News Items. [ARTICLE]

Briet News Items.

Fire swept a large area of the business portion of Huntersville, Ala. Loss $50,000, with nbout one-third insurance.

The Alabama militia, ordered out by the Governor, prevented the lynching of five negroes confined in the juil at Gladsen for brutally murdering a white woman.

Revs Fred IV. Perkins of Lynn. Mass., wns elected president of the Yotiug People's Christian Union of the Univcrsnlist church, at the convention in Hartford, Conn. ,