Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Henry Huffmaker died at Knoxville, Tenn., at the age of 105, leaving a widow aged 93. Henry D. Allen, Congressman from the Henderson, Ky., district, has been declared Democratic nominee without the formality of a convention. Fire destroyed the central portion of Bt. Mary’s College at Belmont, N. C. The college is owned and conducted by the Catholic Church. The loss is estimated at *200,000. John Mooney and Frank Friday, the latter a desperado, thought to be wanted in Chicago, where he formerly lived, were sentenced at Wheeling, W. Va., to be hanged July 13 for having killed James Hervey. A bloody fight occurred at Manchester, Ky. Felix Davidson, a deputy sheriff, started out to arrest Millard Philpot, who had been discharging a revolver promiscuously around the streets. When he attempted to arrest Philpot, the latter turned his pistol on the deputy and fatally shot him. In a little cottage at Memphis, Tenn., Mrs. Lily Vadnkin and Henry Reichmau were found dead in bed. From the positions of the bodies and the condition of the room, the man nnd woman had evidently been murdered in their sleep. The woman’s husband has been arrested, charged with the crime. As the result of an old grudge, H. 8. Devoid, a Guthrie, Ky., jeweler, and J. Frank Hutchinson, editor of the Guthrie Graphic, had a shooting affray, during which Devoid shot Hutchinson twice through the lungs and once in the arm. Virgil Marshall, a witness to the fight, was accidentally shot audFlmny wvunded. Encouraged by the “discovery” by his daughter, while in a franco, of a rich gold mine in Colorado, William Ballough, a well driver at Daytona, Fla., has sold off all bis property nnd departed with his family for that State. He wrote to Colorado for n description <*f the place she had described, and the reply tallied with her description. , A bad wreck occurred near Gordonsvillc, Tenn., when a fast train on the Nashville and Knoxville collided with a construction train on Lick’s ’Trestle. Four men were seriously Injured. The

passenger train had the right of way, and, rounding a curve to the trestle, crashed into the construction train. Neither engineer knew of the approach of the other. The engine, mail and express cars telescoped. A number of passengers sustained injuries of a serious character.