Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The population of South Carolina Is 1,340,810, T)s compared with 1,151,149 in 1H1K), a gain of 16.4 per cent. Ten plants to manufacture common cotton seed hulls into paper of different grades will soon be erected in the South. Ben Heflin, a 10-year-old boy, stabbed (he 13-year-old son of J. F. Pennell to death at Weat Union, W. Va. The tragedy was the result of a quarrel caused by Pennell throwing Heflin’s hat away. A special from El Paso, Texas, says

that Bream* <t Joseph F. Smith of tb» Mormon Church, after a tour among the colonies in Mexico, reports the killing of the notorious Apache Kid in the recent Indian raid at Colonia Pacheco. A string of empty cars broke loose and ran away in the Bloss ore mines near Bessemer, Ala. Nape Thompson, the superintendent; Charles Kelly and Andrew Hart were struck by two cars which jumped the track and crushed them to death. The killing of two children by panthers in La Salle County, Texas, has aroused the ranchmen and cowboys of that part of the State, and a big hunt is being organized for file purpose of rounding up and slaughtering all the panthers and wolves to' be found in La Salle aud adjacent counties. At Perry, Ga., Fanny Payne, a lO-yoar-old negro girl, has been committed to jail for drowning a 30-year-old son of Joseph Wilder, colored. She threw two little brothers, aged 5 and 10 years, into a 32-foot well because they would not agree to not tell about-seeing her commit a theft. The elder boy climbed out and she throw him back and held him under water by means of a> long, pole.