Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1901 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

F. H. Richardson of Louisville, Ky., shot and killed his wife, Kittle Richardson, mistaking her for a burglar. It it thought that Mrs. Richardson was walking in her sleep. Robbers blew open the postoffioe safe at Buena Vista, Miss., nud secured SSOO in stamps and money. From the safe of Thompson & King they secured negotiable paper to the amount of $4,000. Millions of dollars damage has been done nnd at least eight lives lost in- Upper Tennessee by the floods, which began their work of destruction when a dam across the Doe river at Klizabethton gavo way. Gov. Aycoek of North Carolina says all the lowland crops on the Ktate penitentiary farm known as Caledonia were destroyed .iit the recent floods. He nays the flood damage in the State amounts to several million dollnrs. At the village of Kan Ygnaclo, a village just south of El Paso, Texas, the police have unearthed a complete outfit for making counterfeits of American money. Two men, G. Peres and A. Marqnea, have been arrested on suspicion. A great strike of oil at Sour Lake, twenty miles northwest of Beaumont,

Texas, is fully confirmed. A well waa struck in the rear of the Sour Lake Hotel and at once became a gusher, flowing 15,000 barrels a day. This new strike has caused renewed excitement all over Texas. At the home of Benjamin Salyer, miles from Salyersville, Ky., there was * sensational duel with pistols, the cause of which is not known. Dr. Jasper Owens, Jr., son of a wealthy man, was perhaps fatally shot and a woman named Barker wounded. Mrs. Salyer, it is stated, fired the shots inflicting the wounds, but it is added that her guests were also armed and shooting at her.