Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1901 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Luther A. Porter, recently cashier of the Wiirrery Deposit Bank of Bowling Green, Ky., is said by the bank officials to be $40,000 short in his accounts. Norman McKinney, colored, has been lynched for wrecking the Plant s stem fast train near Dunnellon, Fla., an I the Victim implicated two others,»who may share the'snmc fate if they are caught. William Porter was shot ami kilL-d by Moses Smith near Dunbar, W. Va. Both men were farmers and two week* ago there was a quarrel between their families. Since that time the men have been enemies. The postoffiee and store of Burnley & Hall in Trousdale County, Tenn., was robbed and burned. The robbers cracked the sufe and secured between 1250

and s.‘>o6 in cash, besides a lot o? stamps. The store was then fired, and the value of the property destroyed is estimated at SIO,OOO. At Corbin, Ky., the blowing up el White's grocery, where Rollio White, who had shot Jtimes Shotwell, was awaiting officers to put him under arrest, was supposed to have caused the death of several persons. Mrs. Susan Cox was found dead from a bullet, wound outside the building.