Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Louisville health authorities will prosecute anyone who sells limburger cheese. “General” Washington, the negro convicted of conspiring to kill th® wifs> as R. L. Taylor, a white man, was hanged at Mansfield, La. A broken wheel derailed eleven cars of a west-bound Chesapeake and Ohio freight train at Quincy, Ky. The cars plunged through the depot, completely w-recking the building. The big White Fleming sawmill, five miles below Tiptonville, Tenn., was completely wrecked by a boiler explosion. Sam Burton, the fireman, was blown fifty feet and instantly killed. Private Schmidt of Troop C of the Thirteenth cavalry, stationed at Fort Aasinaboine, was frozen to death while attempting to walk from the half-way house to the post, a distance of six miles. Fred Kilthauer, a barber of Louisville, has been left a fortune of $250,000 by an uncle in Germany. He received a letter a few days ago from th® German ambassador at Washington apprising him of the bequest. Seized with sudden insanity, Lase Yerkey of Flint, W. Va., buried a hatchet in his wife's head and shoulders and then beat her brains out with a poker. After killing her he cut his owif throat with a razor and will die. He is violent in spite of his injuries and has to be held with ropes.