Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Glenwood Inn. one of the finest hotels in southern West Virginia, burned at Kenova. Loss $30,000. The Port Gibson, Miss., compress, in which was stored 2,000 bales of cotton, was burned, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. Thh'lponnment erected by the citizens of Key'lWpst to the victims of the battleAip Maine was unveiled at Kev West, Fla. At Frankfort, Ky„ Garland Breeden, aged 70, was shot and killed by James Norton, aged 24, in a dispute over a load of wood. A disastrous track slide occurred on the Illinois Central one mile south of Jackson, Miss., and all trains were delayed several hours. The worst to be feared by fruit growers of eastern Tennessee and North Georgia was realized in the recent cold wave. Reports show that the mercury dropi>ed to 24, and fruit is frozen over the entire section. '' \ At Chester, W. Va., a suburb of East Liverpool, Ohio, a free-for-all tight took place, in which James Cumming* was fatally hurt. He was pounded on the head with a neckyoke and a whiftietree, in the hands of John Purvis and Joseph Wilkie. The fast mail on the Plant system was wrecked about a mile and a half from Oxark, Ala., resulting in the injury of a number of passengers. The train was slowing up for a bridge when the rear trucks of the tender jumped from the

i A mob of 6 masked men. numbering 1 about 150. marched to the jail in Mari- | etta, Ga.. battered down the door with crowbars, rudely awakened John Bailey, a negro, marched him to the center of the court bouse square, in the heart of the city, and fired fully fifty shots at hhn, leaving him Tor dead in the spot where 'be fell.