Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1901 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

In Dallas, Texas, fire destroyed t.h« Dallas Opera House, The loss to the opera house and contents will reach SIOO,OOO. The origin of the fire is not known. Thomas Cole was hanged nt Clinton, Ky„ for the murder of Emma Carn Rice, his sweetheart, with whom he had quarreled. Ou the scaffold Cole expressed sorrow for the crime. The entire plant of the Lookout Dia-

tilling Company at Chattanooga, Tenn., together with <l3l barrels of whjsky has been seized by Revenue Collector MuUlu by orders fijom tfce Washington authoritif“- I j , - ! The express cair of the ; Central of Georgia Railway was robbed by two meh wlio (boarded the train at Macon. They went through the messenger’s packages and secured about $350, but left a SI,OOO package lying on the floor. A special from Athens, Tenn,, says the ollice of the McMinn Citizen of that place was raided, presumably by antitemperance people. Tire presses were overturned, the type was scattered some dumped into a stream of water in front of the building. With the failure of thd Henderson Building and Loan Association, with liabilities of over S7O,(XX), the last and the oldest of the Kentucky building associations passed out ot existence. The exit of the building association was due to the State law against usury’, which wss enforced strictly against them when they were at the height of their prosperity.