Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1901 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A bill for a receiver for the American Building and Loan Association has been filed in the United State* Court at Atlanta, Ga. Frank J. Leland, a handle manufacturer of Tennessee and Alabama, filed a petition in bankruptcy at Knoxville with liabilities of $74,000, asset* $29,000. Two carloads of negroes left Montgomery, Ala., for the Hawaiian Islands via Hau Francisco. They go to take employ ment on the sugar plantations there. The government is making preparation* for rehabilitating the forest on the reservation embracing the ChickamaugaChattanooga National Military park. Ben Perry and Guy Smith, negro murderers, were hanged nt St. Joseph, La. William McCulloch, white, was hanged at Woodville, Miss., and Will Kirby, a negro, at Vicksburg, fur murder. , Dr. W. K. Clark was found guilty at Dixon. Ky., of causing the death of Miss Corn Waller, by malpractice, and was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. At the time of the girl's death Thomas Holt, her fiance, killed himself. * The Galveston, Texas, factory of the National Biscuit Company and a grain conditioning eleyntor belonging to Joekitsch,' Davidson & Co. were destroyed by fire. The tire originated In the cracker factory. The loss is SOO,OOO, partly covered by insurance. After enduring great suffering from w ant, the 1.500 striking employes of the Ixiuisville stemmcry of the Continental Tobacco Company decided to go back to work. They will nnt ret the increased

wages asked for, but their other demands were granted by the management. George Reed, a negro charged with attempting to assault Mrs. J. M. Locklear of Rome, Ga. t was banged to a tree. His body was then riddled with bullets by a mob of 150 men. Reed protested his innocence. After his arrest the negro was taken before Mrs. Locklear, but she failed to identify him. He was freed, but was afterward taken by the mob.