Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1901 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

George Fuller, n negro, accused of burning a barn, was lynched by a mob near Marion, Ga. News has been received of the death of A. H. Fierce, the famous millionaire stockman of Fierce, Texas, best known as “Shanghai” Pierce. At Buena Vista, N. C., Mrs. Jennie V. Burger seriously if uot fatally wounded her husband, filing five times at him with a revolver. A family quarrel is supposed to liuve been the cause. Train No. 44 on tho Henderson road was wrecked two miles east of Henderson, Ky., nnd five persons seriously injured. A coupling pin placed in a switch frog caused the wreck. As the result of a dynamite explosion at Baker camp, near Durbin, W. Vn., six men are dead and several others are not expected to live. Some dynamite hud been placed about the stove to thaw out. Frank Davis, Buck Chndwoll, Estepp Alorgan and Richard Davis fell out nt a dance nt Walnut Hill, near Aiiddlesboro, Ivy., nnd a pitched battle ensued. Fifty shots were fired. Frank Davis was killed, Alorgan and* Dick Diivis were mortully wounded and Chadwell wus slightly wounded.