Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The National Association of Fire Chiefs, in session nt Charleston, S. C., chose Indianapolis as the next meeting place. All the car builders American Car and Foundry Company in Huntington, \V. Va., went out on a strike. They demand $1 more ou a car. Two desperate convicts at the Tennessee penitentiary made a daring and novel escape from that institution by sliding down two telephone wires from the top of a three-story building to a point outside the walls. Both were recaptured. Ten mountaineers, headed by James Howard, an ex-postmaster, who is under a three-year sentence, attempted to break jail at Louisville by digging through a wall. A turnkey surprised Howard cutting into the wall, and after a struggle knocked a big knife from his hands. It is learned that the Russell A. Alger syndicate will build a railroad from Foshee, Ala., to Pensacola. Fla., running through the timber lands recently acquired by that company. A large mill will lie iTected at Foshee and n branch factory of the American Car Company at Moline. Fla. Thomas Barnes, 18, died at A-hbuin, Gn., ns the direct result of stage fright. He was a student of the collegiate institute and was, with others, assigned as a speaker. He went upon the stage when his time came and started to deliver his speech, when, after saying a few words, he threw his hand to his breast and fell, expiring immediately.