Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1901 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Boozeville, a town seven miles from Rome, Ga., with a population of 400, was destroyed by tire. The loss was about $20,000. Ju Frank Clayburn, aged 25, son of the late Col. Clayburn of the Twelfth South Carolina volunteers, committed suicide at Columbia, 8. C. A. M. I-eary aud J. L. Davis fought a duel at Waynesboro, Miss., in which both were killed. The trouble was the result of a family feud. Between $30,900,000 and $49,000,000 is to be spent in the next few years on the roadbed nnd equipment of the Southern Pacific Railroad. The compress owned by Inman, Nelms & Co. at Houston, Texas, was burned with 2,300 bales of cotton. The loss is placed at $125,000, partly insured. a ruling from the State Supreme Court bench, in which there was a plain-spoken dissent, women cannot practice law in the Tennessee courts. Two union miners were fatally and a third dangerously wounded in nn encounter with the non-union men at work in the Marntime mines, Matewnn, W. Va. A handcar on which six section hands were riding near Filson, Ky., was struck by lightning and Foreman J. Townsend, white, and Ed Miller, colored, were instantly killed. Floods in the Elkhorn river valley, West Virginia, destroyed the towns of Keystone and Vivian and damaged other villages, causing a loss of 390 or 400 lives. Twenty-five miles of Norfolk and Western Railroad were destroyed. Miss Alic* Duvatt Gibbs, aged 18, a beautiful girl, who waa found and de-