Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1901 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

At Del Rio, Texas, Michael Woods shot and killed Miss Fosette because, it is claimed, she refused to marry him, and then stabbed lilmself fourteen times, indicting wounds which proved fatal. At South Gate, a little village near Newport. Ky„ J. H. Badger, credit man and bookkeeper for the Robert Clarke Publishing Company of Cincinnati, was shot and instantly killed by a colored burglar. Judge T. O. Shinn, one of the best known men in Texas, was shot and killed in front of the Masonic Temple in Houston by Dr. Theodore Boyd. The tragedy was the outcome of a disagreement over nil oil laud deal. Lieut. Frank Taylor Evans, U. S. N., son of Admiral Robley D. Evans, and Miss Gertrude Pullman, daughter of Maj. John Pullman of the quartermaster's department of the army, were married at Fort Monroe, Yn. Dr. John W. McKowen of Clinton, La., was shot and killed by State Senator R. Emerson Thompson of East Feliciana parish. Some time ago Thompson was nrreßted at tlie instigation of McKowen for the alleged larceny of part of a fence. Jim Brown, colored, was hanged at Ashville, Ala., by deputy sheriffs and Col. E. L. Higdon, Fourth regiment, ns Sheriff North is under arrest on a charge of murder for his part in the jail riot a month ago, when lie preveuted the lynching of Brown. The gasoline ferryboat A. ,C. Barney was destroyed by an explosion on the Little Kanawha river, not far from Parkersburg, W. Yn., and four of those on board were probably fatally burned. The rest of the pussongers jumped into the river and escaped with slight injuries.