Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

At Huntington, W. Va„ George Pakes, a turfman, fatally assaulted his wife with an ax, carving her head and face to an unrecognizable mass. He escaped on a freight train. Col. Gilbert Bentley, a wealthy timberman of Big Sandy Valley, W. Va., was shot to death in a pistol duel with Riley Ramey. The men had an old grudge. Ramey has surrendered. In a rear-end collision between two sections of a stock train neat Keller, Texas, W. T. Stillwell was instantly killed and his body burned in the wreck and J. G. Adkins was fatally injured. Seven or eight men held up the passenger train from Charleston on the Southern Railroad. They looted the local express safe and carried off the through safe. All made their escape. The holdup occurred five miles from Branchville. News has been received of a fierce fight in which seven men participated on Buck creek, in Owsley County, Kentucky, the result of an old grudge between Newt Brewer and George Scott. Six of the seven were wounded, and three will die. Mrs. Bula Abbey, wife of a young merchant near Sparta, Tenn., died as the result of pulling out one ot her eyes in a fanatical and literal interpretation of the scriptural injunction, “If thine eye ofend, pluck it out. Her mind became unbalanced over religion. During the hearing in New Orleans of the case against Klein and West, charged with robbing a man who claimed to be T. E. Manners, the last named took the stand and confessed that ho was Edouard Kern,' Jr., the valet who stole $50,000 worth of jewelry from the Thebaud mansion in New York. Fire in the wholesale business district of Mobile, Ala., destroyed property to the value of $300,000 and caused the death of Richard 11. Vidmer, a leading society man, and Bat Thomas, a negro laborer from New Orleans. Mr. Vidmer and Thomas were assisting the firemen in subduing the flames, and were caught byfalling walls.