Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

At Frankfort, Ky., the jury in the case of Jim Howard returned a verdict of guilty and fixed Howard’s punishment at life imprisonment. Walter Kenval, alias J. W. Keneval, alias G. W. Kenevel, was convicted of bigamy at Knoxville, Tenn., and sentenced to ten years in the State penitentiary. Pritchard & 'Winstead's tobacco stemmery at Goldsboro, N. C., together with a large quantity of leaf tobacco, was destroyed by fire. The loss is between $40,600 and $50,000. Mrs. Michael B. Kinser died at Knoxville, Tenn., from the effects of a capsule of morphine taken by mistake for quinine. Iler husband, who took a similar dose, is dangerously ill. In Norfolk, Va., fire destroyed the Columbia building, owned by D. Lowenberg and occupied by Brown’s saloon, Nedder’s restaurant and on the upper floors by about 150 offices. The loss .will probably reach $500,000. Two dead and three badly injured Is the result of a freight train going through a trestle on the Gauley Railroad near Berry's Siding, W. Va. The engine and several cars crashed through the trestle to the ground many feet below. The large crate and berry basket plant of the South Side Manufacturing Company in Petersburg, Va., with all the stock, including 1,500,000 fruit baskets, was destroyed by fire. Loss between $60,000 and $70,000, partially insured. Under the decision of Baptist ministers who arbitrated the case, the Norfolk and Western road must pay a Portsmouth, Va., clergyman $250 for 202 sermons that were in a valise lost' by the company’s employe*. This is about $1.23 in sermon.