Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1901 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

\\. L. \V. I.ogg, a prominent citizen of Deohcrd, Tcun., 05 years of age, committed suicide. No cause is assigned. The dry goods store of Julius Meyer* Sous, Kiehninnd, Ya„ was destroyed by tire. The stock aud fixtures were insured for SIBO,OOO. Joseph Gentry, a botcher, was killed, and Roy Kenner, aged 10 years, fatally Injured at Chattanooga, Trim., by an electric car colliding with Gentry's wagon. Gen. Alexander ('. McClurg of Chicago, president of the firm of A. ('. McClurg A Co., hook publishers, died at St. Augustine. Fla. Death was caused by Bright’s disease. A head-end collision Is*tween n freight train aud a work trf|n on the Dmiaville Railroad near \Vost Plncville, Ky.. resulted iu the death of Will Sharp, engl neor, and Will Fret well, ynrdmaster A. C. Keebler. n real estnta man from Chicago,' wa* found dead in his room in a Memphis, Tenn., hotel. A bottle of morphine wa* found in the room and it la

believed Keebler committed suicide. No cause is known for the deed. Charters were filed at Austin, Texas, by nine new oil companies incorporated to develop the Beaumont field. They have an aggregate capital of $1,873,000. This makes a total of eighty-nine companies organized for the Beaumont field, with a capitalization in excess of $20,000,000.