Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

George j?olitz was found guilty of murder in the second degree at Huntington, W. Va. Folitz’s crime was the killing of his business partner, Peter Stantou, in May Inst. The steamers Tom Dodsworth and Volunteer, both Pittsburg towboats, collided twenty miles above Huntington, W. Va. Almost thirty coal boats, containing <IOO,000 bushels of coal, sank. The loss is SIOO,OOO. The entire plant of the Chattahoochee Brick Company, near Atlanta, Ga., was destroyed by u fierce and stubborn fire, except the stockade, where several hundred convicts are kept. The loss is $60,000, partly covered by insurance. William Gibson rnu a redhot poker down the throat of his 2-year-old stepdaughter at Cattlettsburg, Ky., the child dying from the effects of the torture. Gibson then set fire to an adjoining building, after which he made his escape. Four were killed and fifteen or twenty injured by an explosion of nitro-glycerin on the river bank at Wellsburg, W. Vn. A party of boys, gathered to look at the high river, built a bonfire of driftwood on the bank. One of them cntight a tin can floating on the water and thoughtlessly threw It into the fire. It contained nitro-blycerln, and its explosion did the damage. In nn opinion handed down the other day tlie United States Supreme Court put the stamp of its approval upon “Jim Crow" cars—that is, coaches exclusively for colored passengers on railroads. There was, however, one dissenting voice, that of Justice Harlan, who solemnly declared that no Htate had a right thus to classify citizens of tlie United States. The case was that of the State of Kentucky against the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company, to compel it to use “Jim Crow” curs. The court decided fur the State.