Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Ten years ago H. T. Steffey of Rising Fawn, Ga., was stricken with paralysis and completely lost his faculty of speech. The other day while handling an electrical ajiparatus he received a severe shock which entirely restored his speech. Marshall Jones, a negro, implicated in the murder of Allen Crosby, a white man, at Gillis’ still in Coffee County, Ga., was taken from jail at Douglas and lynched. The negro was tied to a small pine tree and his body riddled with bullets. At Louisville, Ky., George E. Holman, a printer, cut his wife’s throat, possibly fatally, and rushed from his house and shot Leonard Holstein, a neighbor. But for a button on Holstein’s coat, which turned the course of the bullet, Holstein would have been killed. At Logan, W. Va., more than 500 persons witnessed a fight between a wildcat aud a bufldog. Several hundred dollars was bet oh the mill. The dog was killed at the end of thirty minutes and the cat was uninjured. The fight'occurred in a wire cage fifteen feet square. Joseph W. Morey, a young society man and athlete of Louisville, Ky., and for several years cashier for a large wholesale hardware firm, committed suicide by shooting himself through the breast and turning on four gas jet* at his home. The motive for the suicide Is unknown. Robert and William Chambers, two prominent young men of Webb, Miss., went to the plantation of T. B. Abbey to search for some negroes. They met Abbey, and in an altercation Abbey shot, and killed them both. Abbey has the reputation of a qnict and peaceful citizen. At Pamberg, 8. C., Rev. W. E. Johnson, pastor of the Baptist Church, shot and almost instantly killed W. T. Bellinger, stenographer of that Judicial district. Trouble between the two began over the painting of a fence between the premises of Bellinger and the Baptist parsonage. At Glasgow, Ky., fire destroyed the business part of town, causing a loss of $150,000. It began in Ranbould’s store and residence, and extending southward destroyed everything, including the Methodist Church, the telephone exchange, the Republican newspaper office and both telegraph offices. On th*4jhrine»ville, Jefferson and Southern Railway, at BelmoaUjGa., a passenger coacty became detached from the train nnd ran down the track four mile* across the high trestle over Walnut creek. Beyond the trestle on a sharp curve thelar jumped the track. Several people in the coach received serious injuries.