Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

'V, The Shulte Hardwood Lumber Company’s mill at Glendora, Miss., was burned. The richest man in Germany is Herr Krupp. According to the income tax returns he has an income of between 20,000,000 and 21,000,000 marks a year. No one approaches him in wealth. James B. McCreary, ex-Governor and ex-Congressman, has been nominated by the Democratic caucus of the Kentucky Legislature for United States Senator to succeed Senator Deboe, Republican. “Tight lacing and belting, which induced ill health,” is the charge made by Jolm Banks in his suit for divorce filed at Knoxville, Tenn., in the Circuit Court. Desertion is also relied on to secure the divorce.

A rear-end collision on the Monongahela division of the Baltimore and Ohio road, near Shinnstown, W. Va., resulted in the serious injury of six persons and the wrecking of two engines and a mail and baggage car. The jury at Oxford, Miss., in the case of Whit Owens, charged with being an accessory to the murder of the two Montgomerys, United States deputy marshals, returned a verdict of guilty. The punishment was fixed at imprisonment for life.

It develops that William Goddard, who was killed recently at Greensburg, Ky., after returning from a hunting trip, had his life insured for $35,000. A fortune teller predicted Goddard’s death about six weeks before, and Goddard then took out half a dozen policies. All, it is believed, are valid.

Admitting that his picture was in the rogue’s gallery and that for a period of years he had been familiar with the “lowest depths of New York opium joints,” yet pleading for mercy from the court, Franklin J. Moses, once Governor of South Cnrolina, was sentenced in Boston to four months’ imprisonment for the larceny of an overcoat.

The Equitable Mining Company, which is practically owned by ex-Gov. Hogg, brought in a gusher oil well Thursday at Keyser's mound, four miles north of Columbia, Texas. The oil began to gush after the well was bailed, and in a few hours the oil was spouting sixty feet high. The cap of the well casing failed to operate and the whole surrounding country is being flooded with oil. Great excitement prevails and hundreds of people are flocking to Columbia. A repetition of the boom times in Beaumont last spring is likely to result. This is the first gusher that has been struck off Spindle Top heights.