Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The Illinois building at the Charleston exposition was discovered on fire Thursday morning and narrowly escaped destruction. The damage will amount to several hundreds of dollars. City of Galveston, Texas, has defaulted on interest payments of its bonded indebtedness of $3,000,000, virtually acknowledging bankruptcy. This condition is the result of the flood aud other misfortunes. Clad in rich, red robes, the skeletous of St. Magnus and St. Bonosa, two Catholic saints who were slain at the command of a Roman emperor nearly 1,000 ago qn account of their religious beliefs, were buried ia St. Martin's Church in Louisville. The bones were found in the catacombs of Rome in 1700. Safe blowers forced the vaults of the Lemon Banking Company at Acworth, Ga., securing $5,000 in gold, a $5,000 Georgia State bond and a large amount of stock certificates. Between $45,000 and $50,000 in notes, stock certificates and bonds were hopelessly mutilated by the explosion and much currency and small bills destroyed. At Nicholasville, Ky., Thomas Brown, a negro, aged 19, who attacked Miss Emma Powell, a 16-year-old school teacher, was taken to the home of his victim and fully identified. As the officers were endeavoring to get the prisoner back into the jail he was seized by a mob of 200 determined citizens, led by the girl's brother, and hanged in the court house yard. The bond company which was surety for the late Stuart R. Young, formerly city treasurer of Louisville, who committed suicide last November after a shortage in his accounts had been discovered, sent to Mayor Grainger a check for $42,404, covering the entire amount of the shortage, with the exception of $332, which was paid by Col. Bennett H. Young, father of the dead official.