Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1901 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

William Nunn and Airs. Nunn, of Ceredo, Ky., and Hownrd Mead, of Catlettsburg, Ky., were fatally injured by fulling from an electric car over an embankment near Clyffeslde Park, Kentucky, John B. Slaughter, of Fort Worth, Texas, bus bought the ranch aud cattle of the Nave-McCord Cattle Company, of St. Joseph, Mo., for *205.00,). The ranch comprises 100,000 acres of luud in the Texas panhandle. Rev. Ureenough White, late professor of ecclesiastical history and polity at the University of the South, was found dead in his room at Sewanee, Tenp. He had taken his life by drinking carbolic acid. Prof. White had been mentally unbalanced for some time. The Preshvteriau Theological Seminary has been handsomely remembered by the late W. T. Grant. All hia estate was 14ft to the institution, with the provision that an annuity of $5,000 be paid his wife. It Is said the estate is worth about $200,000. A charter has been filed at Austin. Texas, for the Houston Oil Company, with a capitalization of $30,000,000. The company has been organized to handle oil produced in the Texas field, and ie primarily iutended aa a competitor of the Standard Oil Company, firot in Texas and afterward in the domestic and export trade. The death of J. R. G. Pitkin, former postmaster of N#w Orleans, and ex-mtn-tster to the Argentine Republic, not with

standing tbe certificate of the coroner that death was due to natural cause#, ia believed to have been a ease of suicide. A half-emptied bottle of laudanum waa found in his room. Since his enforced reSignation from the postmastership, Mr. Pitkin had felt humiliated.