Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

In Natchez, Miss., Thomas Glenn shot and killed Allen D..Carpnter, brother of J. N. Carpenter, one of the wealthiest men in that part of the State. The shooting occurred over a trivial dispute. An application for a temporary receiver has” been filed by the directors of the Commercial Bank of Albany, Ga. The liabilities of the bank are estimated at $123,000, with assets of $191,000. In the federal court at Louisville, Ky., J. M. McKnight, former president of the defunct German National Bank of that City, who was convicted of embezzling the bank’s funds, was sentenced to the penitentiary for six years and was fined $lO. In a fight near Taylorsville, Ky., Thos. Jewell shot and killed Nathan Bruner and his son John, and slightly wounded David Bruner, another son. Jewell says the Bruners, with a man named Price, attacked him and he was forced to shoot in self-defense. Au attempt to wreck an cast-bound passenger train on the Southern Railway near Wautauga, Tenn., was almost successful. Some one placed a spike in the joint between the rails and the engine of a train carrying forty passengers left the track. No one ou the train was hurt. Two negro miners were killed aud eight others injured, one of them probably fatally, in an accident nt the mines of the Cumberland Coal and Coke Company at Millstone, Tenn. They were riding on one of the company’s level cars, and while going down hill crashed into a train of empty cars. J. W. Martin, a Knoxville, Tenn., postoffice clerk, was injured by the explosion of a package of powder or an infernal machine. He was stamping letters and packages, when a package addressed to a hardware house exploded as he struck it with the stamp. Examination showed on it the name of a New York smokeless powder concern.