Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

In a sawmill explosion six miles from London, Ky., five men were injured, two fatally. Fire destroyed the International Company’s grist mill at Selma, Ala., causing a loss of $50,000. About of the business portion of WlKlbury, Tenn., was burned, the loss being estimated from $50,000 to $75,000. J. H. Salisbury, conductor on the Knoxville branch of the Southern Railroad, was shot and mortally wounded at the Glen Rock Hotel at Asheville, N. C., by a negro waiter. , While crazed from illness Mrs. Cornelia Cluck, member of a prominent family at North Christian, Ky., wandered in her night clothes from home. Her body was found by neighbors several hours later in the cliffs, five miles distant. She had been frozen to death. The first baseball game played this season in Memphis, Tenn., proved fatal to Bud Levy, a school boy of Camden, Ark., who was catching behind the bat without a catcher’s mask. The club in the batter’s hand slipped, striking Levy near the temporal bone and causing concussion of the brain. Death resulted in a few moments.