Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Philip C. Swab, president of the Reliance Coal aud Coke Company and one of the largest coal operators in Kentucky, died suddenly of heart disease at Middlesboro. Mrs. Mary Theobold, aged 58, was burned to death and her daughter, Lucinda, aged 28, was so badly burned she cannot live, at Louisville, Ky., by the explosion of a lamp. Jacob Shudin murdered his wife and then killed himself at their home, six miles from Knoxville, Tenn. The tragedy is supposed to be the culmination of domestic troubles. A general fight broke out in Renfrow’s store at Owensboro, Ky., in which many pistol shots were fired, and when it ended Felix Pool was found dead and Caleb Wright, Sr., had a wound on his body. At Hindman, Ky., Rev. Wesley Hall shot and killed Mrs. Lucinda Isaacs because she refused to marry him. Hall then turned the pistol on himself and was seriously wounded. Mrs. Isaacs was a sister of Rev. Mr. Hall’s first wife, who had been dead only a short time. In a “blind tiger” at Pound Gap, Ky„ John and Taze Hall and Arch and Henry Leap got into a fight with Henry Sutherland, Berry Long and Henry Campbell. Two hundred shots were exchanged. Taze Hall and Henry Leap were killed and Sutherland and Campbell mortally wounded.