Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1899 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A: Meridian. Ij- John Danner and wife were run over and killed by a train. A head-end collision between passenger trains occurred at Pleasure Ridge Park, Ky.. in a dense fog. Five persons were injured. An epidemic of typhoid fever has brokru out at the State normal and industrial college at Greensboro, N. C-, making it necessary to close the school nntil Jan. 1. Henry Tate shot Sheriff Evan Bledsoe near Jonesville. Va. Young Tate was the son or John M. Tate, who was killed by Bledsoe over politics a few days ago. Deputy Sheriff Neal Jennings killed John Fee at Blackwater, Va. The fight was a continuation of the Tate-Bledsoc trouble, three men having now been killed since the trouble began. Cora Ernest, an actress who for years made Chicago her home and who made her first appearance in that city, died at Birmingham, Ala. She was taken ill while tonring Southern cities. At Mlosburo. Ky„ John M. Tate, former representative of L*p County. Ya. was shot and killed by Deputy Sheriff Evan Bledsoe. Tate was a leading Democratic politician. Bledsoe is a leader among the Republicans. Trouble over politics led to the killing. The cases of the Christian scientists at Americas, Gm, who refused to be vaccinated were settled by the sentencing of E. J. McMath to imprisonment at the city hall for thirty days and a fine of sl3. Five women of the congregation were given fifteen days’ imprisonment and ordered to pay a fine of $3 each. Dr. Thomas E. James, a prominent physician of Greenville. S. C„ and his son. Wade Hampton James, were killed, near Six Mile Church in Pickens County. The shooting was done by Sam Lanier, a fanner, and the alleged cause of - the killing was that Dr. James and his son were driving away, so Lanier j thought, with the latter's wife. Mrs. Lanier was in the boggy at the time of j the murder.