Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1901 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Mrs. Hager, one of the most prominent citizens of Urifflthville, W. Yu., hud a tooth pulled and died an hour Inter. Captain J. E. McCoy, president of the McCoy Shoe Company of Wheeling, VV. Yu., has been declared bankrupt, the extent of his liabilities bring $342,871. Union workmen on buildings ut Fort Worth, Texas, have been discharged by the contractors for refusing to sever their connection with the Building Trades Council aud Trades Assembly. The bill to punish by death or imprisonment for life, in the discretion of the jury, any person guilty of kidnaping was passed hy the Virginia House with a broader scope than the original hill. Tobacco dealers iu Chattanooga have received notice of the final passage of the anti-cigarette bill and of its signnture by the Governor. It is stated that the sale of cigarettes Is practically stopped all over the State. A number of Eastern capitalists have been In Jacksonville, Fla., buying up several thousand acres of laud lu the Fat Island region, and also the large prairie —or a portion of It—between Ilfgley and Lake Griffin. The purpose of the company is largely to Invest in cans growing and sugar manufacturing. John Gibson, who burned to death his

little daughter with a red-hot poker, was convicted at Huntington, W. Va., of mur* der in the first degree. Judge Kinner sentenced him to the penitentiary for life. The verdict is a disappointment to the people, who were general in the belief that nothing short of Gibson’s life should compensate for his crime.