Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1899 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Deputy Sheriff Lewis of Manchester, Ky., was killed in Clay County while attempting to arrest Mart Smith, a murderer. Mobile, Montgomery and other Southern cities have quarantined against NewOrleans, where yellow fever has made its appearance. At Atlanta, Texas, Captain IL E. Boyle shot and killed A. L. Culberson, his brother-in-law. The men hqd up to a few days ago been on the best of terms. At Darien, Ga., the jury in the cases against Ben Dunham, James Willy. Marshal Dorsey. Louisa Underwood and Maria Curry, charged with rioting, returned a verdict of guilty. The jury was out only fifteen minutes. A special train bearing Cooper’s circus was wrecked at Toiner’s Station, Tenn., by the burstingof an air brake hose and twelve persons were injured and circus property and animals scattered in all directions. None is fatally hurt. In the trial of the Darien, Ga., riot cases Judge Seabrooke granted a change of venue Inethe case of John Delegal, Ed Deiegal-and Mtamda Delegal for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Townsend. The case will be tried in Effingham County. George W. Jones of St. Louis has pur- „ ’ ’» 1 ' “'f J-' < S * •*' i

.formerly connected with the Bt. Louis Republic and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. One of the most ghastly tragedies that ever took place in Knoxville, Tenn., was the outcome of a street duel between two negro women, who fought with razors until one fell dead and the other was carried away mortally wounded. The women were Ella Lotspeich and Lillie Givens. An order for 500,000,000 feet of Southern yellow pine, the largest single order in the history of the lumber trade, for use in the construction of Cecil Rhodes' proposed Cape-to-Cairo railroad in Africa, is said to have been given to twenty ■mills along several Texas and Louisiana railroads.