Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1901 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Ashea Waba, an actress, known as “Little Egypt,” attended the matinee at the Crescent Theater, New Orleans, and would not remove her hat. She was arrested and fined sls or fifteen days in jail. On New Year's day Otis Word, the 14-year-old son of C. M. Word, disappeared from his home near Victory, Ga. The boy, when he disappeared, had $lO. Recently the body of the missing boy was found in a pond at Victory wjjh the throat cut. The Sullivan-Alger syndicate of Michigan, of which ex-Secretary Alger is the head, has given the contract for the erection of the largest sawmill in the world in Escanaba County, Florida. It is to have a capacity of 300,000 feet of lumber a day. News has been received of the death of Ham White, the stage and bank robber, who was serving a term in the Texas pcnitentlffry. He died of consumption. Twenty years ago Ham White was the most notorious outlaw in the Southwest. A landslide on the Atlantic, Knoxville and Northern road threw a freight train and three cars in the Hiawasce river at McFarland, Tenn. Engineer B. D. Felinet and Fireman J. W. Collette were killed and Stenin Shovel Foreman Green Perry fatally injured. A decree has been entered in the United States Circuit Court in Nashville, Tenn., in the case of Gen. Russell A. Alger versus T. R. Anderson et al., whereby Gen. Alger is given a personal judgment for $201,014.97. The litigation arose out of the purchase of coal and mineral lands in Tennessee. J. M. Carpenter and John A. Stone, backed by a Pennsylvania syndicate of $10,000,000, have purchased 4,000 acres of timber, iron and copper lands in Monroe County, Tcnnesaee, paying $300,000 for the property. They any they will build a railroad to the property nnd will develop every product of the tract. The recent ‘’bringing in” of the great oil gusher near Beaumont nnd the demonstration that the oil field promises to soon rival nny in the United States in point of production, together with the

further evidence that the Corsicana dintrict is also growing rapidly in that direction, has caused a movement by the several private individuals and independent companies who have producing oil wells in Texas toward organizing a combine with a view of shutting the Standard Oil Company out of Texas entirely.