Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

At Lexington, Ky., Charles Foushee, a merchant, stabbed George Chilton in an altercation over a small amount of money. The wounded man may die. A negro at Augusta, Ga.. killed Alexander Whitney, a society leader, In a street car and was taken from officers and hanged while on the way to Atlanta for safe keeping. The south-bound passenger train on the Plant system and the north-bound train of-the Southern collided at Hardeville, 8. C. John Jackson, colored, fireman of the Southern, was killed. Miss Maud McDaniel, whose father, R. P. McDaniel, was minister to Chili under President Cleveland, eloped from her home at Braidentown, Fla., with H. G. Reed, manager of the telephone system at that place. Reed has a young wife and one child. Diamonds worta SIO,OOO which are said to bear a striking resemblance to the gems stolen by porch climbers from Orrin W. Potter’s residence in Chicago last month were seized by the police nt iugton, Ky. A young couple who registered at the Phoenix Hotel Wednesday afternoon as T. F. Wilbert and wife, San Francisco, who were endeavoring to dispose of the diamond* for-$6,000, were taken in charge by the officers.