Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Mayor Woodward of Atlanta, Ga., has been impeached by the City Council for drunkenness and other misbehavior. Nancy Barnett, her granddaughter, 12 years old, and Mrs. Janies Bennett, were killed by the maddened husband of Mrs. Bennett at How.’ird’j Creek, Ky. At Cheneyville, La., Alansou G. Jackson was assassinated by Thomas J. Amos, a negro, who made a full.confession. Amos was taken to a convenient tree and hanged. In the lower house of the Kentucky Legislature Representative Stith offered a resolution permitting members to wear shirt waists containing not more than six colors of the rainbow. Mrs. Annie Day Mayes, a pretty young actress and teacher of acting, committed suicide at Valdosta. Ga., because of the failure of the amateur play “Bibi." Mrs. Mayes was from St. Louis, Mo. Richard Combs, colored, known as “Tallow Dick," charged with complicity in the Goebel murder, has been arrested on an iudiefinent returned In Clark County, Ky., in 1893, charging him with the illegal sale of liquor. Henry Perkins, alias Henry Corneil, a desperate negro who for years has been the terror of the police in portions of Kentucky and Tennessee, is in jail at Clarksville, Tenn. During the last three years Perkins has shot eleven men, seriously cut four, two victims dying. The Morris building, one of the features of modern New Orleans, was gutted by fire. The flames originated in the building next door, which belonged to Tulane University and was occupied by the Fairbanks Scale Company. The loss will aggregate on the two buildings about $250,9»t0.