Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Lewis Ilarvie Finney, private secretary to Secretary of the Navy Long, died at Warm Springs, Va. Ira Gregson, 24 years old, fell dead at Owensboro, Ky., just as he started to leave the court room. Heart disease was the cause. The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company made the first export of steel from the South by shipments to Copenhagen and Glasgow the other day. Ellis Glenn, the male impersonator and alleged forger, has l>een released on habeas corpus proceedings, but says she wijl remain at Parkersburg, W. Va., and fight her case. Mob of 20,000 persons killed a negro murderer at New Orleans and the Mayor appealed to all citizens to help suppress the race war. Many acts of lawlessness and several murders of negroes were committeed. Reports from the gold mine recently discovered in Hawkins County, Tennessee, state that assays of gold found there show S4OO per ton and that ore of this rich value is in great abundance. Prospectors have not yet been able to ascertain the magnitude of the vein. Three negroes killed, four fatally injured. six badly shot and beaten and seven whites hurt—this is the sum total of the work of an uncontrolled mob which had full possession of New Orleans for several hours. The mob was incensed by the recent murder of two white officers by negroes. While out driving in the lower end of Cabell County. W. Va., Miss Mecca Arthur and Hamilton Runyon were fired on from ambush. A shotgun loaded with slugs was used. Both are seriously injured. Runyon is from Marion, Ohio, and his attentions to Miss Arthur excited much local jealousy. Judge C. D. Clark of the United States District Court for jhe eastern district of Tennessee has made an order which disposes of the cases against the six large pipe companies under indictment for violation of the anti-trust law. They were allowed to enter a joint plea of guilty and were fined SI,BOO and the cost of the prosecution.