Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Hattiesburg, Miss., was practically destroyed by fire. Loss SIOO,OOO, probably one-third insured. Matthew Keith, postmaster and storekeeper at Fletcher, Miss., was called to his door and shot dead by an unknown man, who made his escape. The badly decomposed body of a man was found in the steeple of Mount Zion African • Methodist Episcopal Church near Birmingham, Ala., by hunters. The leading business men of Erin, Tenn,. organized a raid on the only saloon in the plaee, and, after destroying the stock and fixtures, warned the proprietor to leave. T. L. Wilson, a farmer, and his neighbor, Thomas Parlin, quarreled at Dwight, Va., over who was the greatest general of the Civil War, with the result that Parlin shot Wilson dead. The mystery in the disappearance of Miss Ella Cropsey was partly cleared up by the finding of her body in the river near her home at Elizabeth City, N. C. The coroner's jury decided she had been murdered. In a free-for-all fight at Middlesboro, Ivy., Sam Wells and Henry Bass were mortally wounded. At Four Mile Will Hendrickson was killed by his cousin, Nat Hendrickson. On Taggard’s creek Thomas Haynes was beaten to death by Henry Bowman. The yacht Onnaniehe, on which is a pleasure party headed by two sons of Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, is safe in Beaufort, S. C. Iler trip from Norfolk was made without particular incident, despite the report sent out that she had been wrecked. Little Madelaine Turner of Richmond, Va., is the proud possessor of a pair of knit slippers made by Mrs. McKinley’s own hands. Some time ago she found a good picture of the late President in a periodical. She inclosed it in a handsome frame and sent it to Mrs. McKinley. John W. Taylor, chief engineer of the Terminal Railroad Association, and William Austin Kent, a prominent citizen of Louisville, Ivy., were ground to death beneath the wheels of a switch engine in North St. Louis in jumping, panicstricken, from swiftly moving gasoline motor egr which threatened to collide with the engine. In a general fight between white men •and negroes at Childersburg, Ala., a white man and his son were killed, while a white boy and one negro were wounded. With great difficulty a general outbreak was prevented. The negroes are now in jail at Talladega. The trouble grew out of a crap game, the negroes having quarreled over the winnings.