Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

In cotton mill quarters at Avondale, Ala., Lee Clark shot and killed his mother. The torpedo-boat destroyer Decatur was launched at the William R. Trigg Company shipyards at Richmond, Va. At Bowling Green, Ky., the postofllee was broken into and robbed of between $4,500 and $5,000 in money and stamps. After being twice dropped from the scaffold without breaking his nock, Archie Kinsauls died from strangulation in Charlotte, N. C. Kinsauls was a mur derer. Paul Sloan, a deputy sheriff at Lake Charles, La., was shot and fatally wounded by a ntob which was trying to break into the jail and lynch Pierce Scott, a negro. The Kentucky House of Representatives has passed an election bill by a vote of 58 to 40. The bill provides for equal party representation on the election boards and In the election officers. Charles A. Collier was found lying at the foot of the stairs in the yard back of his residence in Atlanta, Gn., with a bullet hole in his left side in the region of the heart. Before lapsing into unconsciousness Mr. Collier uttered but one word—“ Burglars.” Warner M. Ncwbold, superintendent of the South and North Birmingham mineral divisions of the Louisville nnd Nashville Railroad, committed suicide at his residence in Birmingham, Ala., by shooting himself. Mr. Ncwbold lost his wife some months ago. ,