Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Early Thursday morning George Blick’s store at Emporia, Va., was broken into. Blick was awakened and a desperate encounter ensued with the burglar, in which Blick was killed with a club. The burglar escaped. The explosion of a gasoline stove in the basement of the Metropolitan Hotel in Birmingham, Ala., was followed by a tire which burned that building and the Hewlett block adjoining, causing a loss of about $160,000. A special from Bucktown, Tenn., says Miles Woods was called from his mountain home and shot down in cold blood. He died in ten minutes. His father ran out to ascertain the trouble and was shot twice by the assassin. Near Birmingham, Ala., some farmers became involved in a free tight as the result of a lawsuit over land. Pistols and knives were used. Jack Boyd, a bystander, and Sylvester Hinson, one of the principals, were killed. Walter Stevens was severely wounded. It is reported in Montgomery, Ala., that that Gen. Wheeler, who is expected home soon from the Philippines, will announce himself as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Alabama and will not, therefore, be a candidate for renominatiou to Congress from his district. About 3,000 laborers employed along the line of the Tennessee Central Railway, now under course of construction, were paid off the other day by the firm having the contract. At one camp the negroes claimed that they were not paid for actual time, and went to Paymaster Beecham and demanded that he pay them more money. He refused and the men demolished wheel scrapers and costly railway material. The white and negro laborers engaged in a row, but no one was seriously hurt. One negro went to the home of a white man and emptied his revolver in the building through a window. The occupant came out and shot and killed his antagonist.