Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1901 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Steve L'Hominedieu, racing man, tried to about Hubert Pinkerton in case at New Orleans. Aunt Peggy Jones, eolored, is dead at Ghent, Ky. She was 124 years old. Her oldest living ebiid, Charlotte, is over 100 years old. A severe earthquake shock was felt at Union City, Tenn. Houses rocked and windows and crockery rattled. The wave was from west to east and lasted several seconds. K. It. Patterson, cashier of the bank at Bridgeport, Ala., and bookkeeper of the Bridgeport stove works, committed suicide by Nhooting himself through the brain. No motive for the act is known. The steamer Aragon reports the loss in a gale off llogg Island, Virginia, of her tow, the iron barge Alabama, with five men on board. There is no doubt that the barge went to the bottom very soon after the hawser parted. llobbers entered the bank at Omaha, Texas, and stole $5,000. They escaped on a handcar which was standing near the track of the railroad and pumped their way some distance south, where they abandoned the ear and took to the woods. Drugged with knockout drops, seriously carved with n knife or dirk and robßed of all his ready cash, amounting to sl,000 or more, was the fute which befell Dr. Alfred E. Meyer of New York, a physician who has been spending a week In El Paso, Texas, with A. Movins, a millionaire pntient. L. A. Hester, white, was sentenced nt Fairborn, Ua., to life imprisonment for the murder of Sterling Thompson, colored, some weeks ago. Shortly after the

killing Pegratn Cochran and t|tata'othll% SheU^Jocijran, H both white, *afe ffvea similar sentences for the saute crime. Five.ejher white men stand indmteS tor, the murder, /