Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

George Dove, who killed Joe Janes last fall, was taken before the Circuit Court at Glasgow, Ky., and acquitted. The Montgomery County court house at Clarjksville, Tenn., was destroyed by tire. Most of the records were saved. Loss $125,000, insurance $75,000. Charles It. Morgan, son of Daniel Morgan, was shot and fatally wounded by masked burglar at Atlanta, Ga. Mounted police aud bloodhounds were put on the trail. Engineer O'Brien and the fireman of train No. 5 of the Queen and Crescent line were overcome by smoke while passing through the long tunnel at Kings uiouutaiu, Tennessee. No one was killed. At Frankfort, Ky., ihe Senate passed Scuator Bell’s bill making it a felony punishable by confinement in the penitentiary from tort to twenty years for an occupant of a State office to forcibly maintain possession of the office for more than five days after the Legislature or other competent authority shall have decided some other person entitled to the office. Jack Edwards, a Covington, Ky.. character, was subjected to u most distasteful dose of bis otvn medicine recently. He lias frequently been arrested for beating his wife, ami -was released from custody, having served sixty days for such an Offense. When he returned home he began to abuse bis wife, who called iu several of the women neighbors, and together they bent Edwards almost into inseusibility.