Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

John Thomas Taylor, veteran Mississippi river pilot, is dead at Louisville, aged 71. W. J. Bryan has written Senator Blackburn of Kentucky that the Goebel law must be repealed. Ben E. Stewart, well known in Memidiis, Tenn., insurance circles, committed suicide with poison. Business troubles are aarigiied as the cause. The grand jury at Hopkinsville, Ky., returned indictments against five large coal mining companies and eight coal deniers, charging them with extorting money from the public by unlawfully combining to maintain advanced prices of coal. Sullivan Converse of Chicago and his father were drowned while bathing in the bayou Chicot, near Scranton, Miss. The sou was seized with cramps and his father attempted to rescue him. Neither being able to swim, both sank in full view of Sullivan's brother. Moved by strange jealousy of an adopted daughter, Thomas Bach, 50 years old, shot and killed Mollie Bach. 18 years old, because she wns secretly married four weeks ago to Newt Thorne. The tragedy occurred ut the Bach farm, eleven miles from Louisville. Ky.