Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The Democrats and white supremacy have triumphed in North Carolina by 30,(MX) votes. A constitutional amendment practically disfranchising the negro has been adopted by popular vote. One of the worst freight wrecks ever known on the southern division of the Louisville and Nashville Railway occurred at Grand Bay, Ala. Out of some sixty box cars in the two trains not one was left whole. At Murfreesboro, Tenn., the most disastrous fire ever known there broke out the other afternoon and for a while threatened the entire manufacturing district. Before it was brought under control one life was lost and property worth SIOO,OOO destroyed. As a sequel to the election disputes two men were killed and two others mortally wounded at Sneedville, Tenn. The killed are: John Lamb, deputy sheriff, and Telman Collins. The wounded are Wiley Brewer and Whitten Gibson. Brewer was elected justice of the peace and the difficulty arose over his election. Charles W. Barnes, one of the men charged with robbing a train on the Illinois Central road near Wycliffe, Ky., a few weeks ago, who was captured in fit. Lottis and taken to Mayfield for safekeeping, made an attempt to break jail. He had cut the bars of his cell with tools, when his efforts were discovered. An official telegram states that a mob entered the postoffice at Mulat, Fla., smashed the windows nnd doors, destroyed some of the contents of the building and threatened the life of the postmaster. I‘t is further stated that the postmaster has become terror-stricken and tied and thnt no one is in charge of the office. Bascon L. Wyatt, a traveling salesman, was the victim of an unusual accident on n recent night, near Atlanta, Ga. He was in a compartment of a passenger train. His coat was hanging on u hook near where he was standing. The train suddenly turned a curve and in so doing the motion threw the coat, which held a pistol, against the aide of the car, causing the pistol to fire. The ball passed through Mr. Wyatt’s head. Death was Instantaneous.