Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

L. Willbur Messer, general secretary, of Chicago, addressed the Kentucky Y. M. C. A., in session at Paducah. Th 4 dry goods store of Cordos & Mushy in Richmond, Va., with the entire stock, was destroyed by tire. The loss is estimated at $120,000, covered by insurance. Terry McGovern whipped Dave Sullivan in the fifteenth round of a fight before the Southern AthlctlcClub at Louisville. A fiercer fight was never seen iu the prize ring. A report has reached El Taso, Texas, that the Pennsylvania excursion train was wrecked on the Mexican Central a

considerable distance south. Five can left the rail*. Three children of John Thompson of Owingsville, Ky., were killed and another and the mother fatally injured by the explosion of a keg of powder which had been stored temporarily in the kitchen. A Virginia ts»d Southwestern passenger train was held up between Big Stone Gap and Intermount, Va. The robbers took S7O from a box in the baggage car and escaped. Officers have a clew to the guilty persons. Liddell Childs, a 12-year-old boy of Covington, Ga., suffering from hydrophobia, was taken to Atlanta for the Pasteur treatment. The boy was bitten by n dog two years ago, but rabies did not become manifest until the other day. He was out hunting with his brother, when suddenly he was seized with violent convulsions and began to froth at the mouth. John Bloomfield of South Portsmouth, Ky., was fined one cent for swearing and assessed $1 each for fifteen curses in Squire Austin’s court. It was 'alleged that Bloomfield engaged m a wordy war with William Wilburn, a neighbor, during the course of which the latter received a general cursing. According to a Kentucky law oaths are finable at $1 each. Alfred Witherspoon, president of the First National Bank of Lawrenceburg, Ivy., is in a precarious condition at his home, and Police Judge Porter Walker is under surveillance as the result of a duel between them with revolvers in a dry goods store. Witherspoon last fail had violated the ordinances by recklessly firing a revolver in the town and shooting into some windows, and Walker, as judge of the police court, had fined him S2OO. Since that time feeling between them has been high.