The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-06-19
JACKSON.
Ku RIux Gathering to Release Yerger.
Reinforcement OF Troops Arrive.

Ku RIux Gathering TO Release Yerger
ReInrorcements OF Troops Arrive.
Trouble NOT ImprObRbIe-TheT Trial
JACKSON, Miss, June II.
| A report was in circulation here to-
dsv that bands of mounted armed men
| had been seen in the neighborhood
whose supposed object Is the release Of
Yerger, and some Ku Klux who are in
confinement here. The arrival of Com
pany G. and of another company, to-
night, OF the Sixteenth Infantry, to
strengthen the garrison, indicate that
trouble is not improbable. Five hun
dred United States troops, admirably
| trained. and armed with breech-load-
ers, will easily keep u few prisoners
from being meddled with by their
friends.
In the Yerger trial the military COM
mission examined four witnesses to-
day, whose testimony was interesting
and important.
Mr., w, ]. Brown witnessed the ARRAY.
He states positively that previously to
the stabbing Colonel Crane struck Yer
ger back-handed blow with his cane,
that then Yerger drew a knife from his
bosom and gave two stabs in rapid
succession. Crane then grabbed his
arm, but Yerger, releasing 1t, stabbed
twice or thrice more. After the Qtfray
Yerger said excltedly to the witness,
you saw him strike me, didn't you ?"
Witness replied, Eyes, did"
Isaac Washington saw the scutlle and
death OF Colonel Crane. He testified
that when Crane met Yerger that morn
ing, he offered his hand and shook
hands with him. An alteration and
abusive language, as described by pre-
vi0us witnesses ensued. After the
stabbing Yerger brew the dirk down
between Cranes logs.
r. Bishler, Chief OF Police, testified to
getting the dirk from John X. Yerger,
uncle of +. NJ. Yerger, the accused.
The cane OF Colonel Crane was intro
duced and Identified. It Is light
elastic rattan, less than half an inch in
diameter.
w. S. Freeman testified to finding the
following in Colonel Cranes coat pOck-
ct after his death.
[PrIvatel
40 Joseph q. Crane, Esq:
"s1R-Are you willing 20 disrobe yourself
Of all military protection, and meet me in
stanter on the street. h. NJ. YER0ER.
"June =, 1862"
1t was on post letter paper, plainly
'military protection" and ''instanter'
were heavily underscored.
SUDDEN AND SINGULAR DEATn.-Mr.
Alex. Straight, a man about sixty
years OF age, and very respectable
and highly respected citizen OF this
county, died very suddenly on the 9th
inst, under the following singular cir
cumStanCes:
On the morning OF the day of his
death, he complained of being unwell,
and said he was troubled with rheu-
matte pains in his limbs. One of his
sons hearing the remark, told him he
a.. - hn inn Ant fnF
him to leave the house that day, and
urged him to remain indoors. He
consented to do this, and his son start
ed to his work. About two hours af-
terward, the old gentleman, forgetting
his resolution to remain in the house,
stepped out and commenced walking
impatiently about the premises. soon
after he left the house he heard his
dog barking some distance away, and
remarked that he would go and see
what was 'treed.' AS he did not re-
turn at what his friends thought rea-
sonRble time, they commenced calling
him, but failing to get a response, they
Instituted a'search and found him about
a half mile from his house, sitting upon
the ground, and quite dead. His body
was inclined slightly forward, but
otherwise his posture was natural, and
it Is supposed he sat down to rest, and
died Immediately and suddenly after
him, with which 1t is supposed he was
endeavoring to drive varmint out OF q
hole near by into which the dog had
driven 1t. No reliable Information has
been given us as to the cause OF his
death. He lived about four miles from
this place, in the Finch run settlement,
and has been a resident of this county
many years-FGi1'HIont Vest VIT3IntG7I'
-<0--
THE Bostonians are a good people.
They are not only good themselves,
but they wish every one else to be so
too. Their principal place OF amuse-
ment Just now is tho Coliseum, but in
ordinary times 1t is the Boston Muse.
um. In view of the great number of
strangers now in Boston, who have
come from Maine, New Hampshire,
and other hard-drinking States, as we'll
as from the rural districts, they are
playing at the Museum every evening
this week, and also every afternoon at
the matinee. the great moral drama OF
1.-THE Drunkard." 1t has been revived
expressly for the present occasion.
We hope it's effects may be all that the
managers OF that excellent institution
could desire.
Miss OURI will hereafter pay the in
terest of its State debt in gold coin, and
accepts the obligation to pay the prin-
cipal also, when due, in real money.
The Republican administration OF the
State OF Missouri, which has often done
good service by its wisdom and efacien-
~ in other denartments has thus bold