Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Fire destroyed Holbrook normal college in Knoxville, Tenn. Loss, $39,000; insurance, $13,000. Negro murderers killed the leader of a Georgia posse and resisted capture; a race war is imminent. The miners at Pittsburg, Ky., are out on a strike, caused by the discharge of one of the men by the company. Jack Betts, a negro, was lynched at Corinth, Miss. A mob took him from jail and hanged him to a telegraph pole on the public square. Tiie Langxtaff Hardware Company us Memphis assigned, scheduling liabilities of SBO,OOO, with assets said to be sufficient to pay ail creditors. Leslie Good paster was shot ami killed by his friend Edgar Connor during an argumei* nt Owingsville, Ky. When Connor realized his crime he committed suicide. At Cylvania, Ga., It. F. Herrington and Milton Mears were shot and killed by two negroes named Alexander, as a result of a quarrel caused by the buggy in which the negroes were riding colliding with that in which were Herrington and Mears. Erasmus Fenner Henderson, president of Sain Henderson's Sons N. Co., a leading New Orleans insurance agency, committed suicide in his office by shooting himself through the head. Despondence over the dentil of his wife is believed to have unbalanced his mind. F. M. Renick of Falling Springs. W. Va., who was tired of life, tried live times with poison to end his existence, but failed. Finally he leaped fifty feet from the dome of the statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, to the stone flagging in a court, and was dashed to death. Near Anniston. Ala., W. T. Turner, wife and 3-months old baby jumped off a Southern railway train while it was running at the rate of forty miles an hour. Turner was killed, and the wife and baby are thought to be fatally injured. They had never been on a train before. A Southern Pacific passenger train was going nt full speed across the trestle over the Lacasine bayou, near Lake Charles, Ln., when tlie tender jumped the track nnd broke loose from the engine. The engine went on nnd the nine coaches were thrown in every direction. The trestle was completely demolished. On lionrd the train were 156 persons, and that only one boy was killed is beyond explanation.