Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

John W. Ilydcn, a well-known educator of eastern Tennessee, and John Mincey were killed by a train near Philadelphia, Teun., while walking on the track*. The contract to build Mississippi a new capitol has been let to W. A. & A. Ewells of Chicago for $831,743. The building is to be completed in twcHty-eight months from Jan. 1 next, regardless of the weather, * John W. Yerkes of Kentucky has been nominated by the President to be commissioner of internal revenne. The recent candidate for Governor of Kentucky

will at once assume the duties of his new post. Old St. Joseph, Fla., the largest citjr in that section in the eighteenth century, but long since extinct, is to be re-estab-lished. Surveyors are now engaged la replatting the town site. A bold robbery on the Cotton Belt Railway occurred at Bassett’s, Texas, in which Postal Clerk John N. Dennis was almost killed and the mail pouches of his car rifled of their contents. The amount stolen is not known. Enraged citizens of Cohutta, Ga., are scouring the woods in quest of a negro who assaulted Annie Neal, the 10-year-old daughter <*f .Tolin Neal, a farmer. The negro choked his victim into insensibility, then covered her with leaves and set fire to them. A passer-by put out'the fire, but the girl is in a critical condition. The Chicago limited on the Illinois Central road was held up inside the city limits of New Orleans, within sight of the electric lights. The passqngers were not molested, tout Conductor G. A. Kinnebrew was shot and badly injured because he failed to uncouple the inuil car from the coaches. The registered mail was all stolen and the baggage car was wrecked with dynamite.