Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1901 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The Texas SctiHte pasaeds finally the hill making kidnaping a capital offcaoe. Another big oil geyser has been struck about fifteen miles from Port Arthur, Texas, and it is sending a stream iuto the air upward of 100 feet. Andrew Carnegie has agreed to give $25,000 to the free public library at Jackson, Tarih., provided the town will make an annual appropriation sufficient to keep up the library. Guests of the Phoenix Hotel, Ix-xing-ton, Ky„ were thrown into n state of panic by n tire in the block, which filled the hotel with dense volumes of smoke. Quick work on the purt of the employes •mrt night watchmen saved all the guests. A disastrous freight wreck on the Southern Railway occurred one nnd onehalf miles west of Lenoir City, Teno. Both trains were through freights ami were running nt a high rate of speed uud had n head-cud collision. Four trainmen were killed, three fatally wounded and several seriously injured. At Urnntsville, W. Va., Miss Jaunia Meta was entertaining a young man in her father's parlor when some one tired n bullet through the window nt her. The bullet passed within an in<4i of her head. George Taylor, tttltlc walking nloug the road near the Metz home, was shot at three times from nrnhush, one bullet passing through his coat. An unknown negro entered the residence of Mrs. Buchanan, In the heart of

Atlanta, Ga„ and compelled her to cook his breakfast. Then, tying her feet and hands, he quietly ate the breakfast, after which he set fire to the bouse. The negro escaped without being detected. Mr*. Buchanan screamed and assistance came before thy fire had gained much headway.