Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Charles M. Ford, a military'prisoner, while trying to escape from Fort Thomas, Ky., was shot and instantly killed by a guard. Passenger train service, which was interrupted by floods, has been resumed over the Queen and Crescent road between Shreveport, La., and Meridian, Miss. In Griffin, Ga., Assemblyman James Flynt in a political quarrel shot and killed Butler Hudson after Hudson had fired two shots into Flynt’s body, which may prove fatal. Senator Hanna, former Secretary of the Interior Bliss and several Congressmen attended the Jefferson memorial and State good roads convention at Charlottesville, Ya. Lieut. John W. Starke, accused of sending an obscene letter to President Roosevelt, was released by the United States Court at Richmond, Va., upon presenting a letter of apology. Negro at Tuscumbia, Ala., sought by the sheriff, killed three persons, fatally wounded three, and seriously wounded four more. He whs then shot and thrown into a burning building. -- C. E. Coxe, formerly of St. Louis and Joplin, Mo,, committed suicide in his room at the Vendome Hotel, Knoxville, Tenn. Coxe had been there two years as a promoter of zinc properties. Asa Humble, an alleged moonshiner, was killed and Deputy Revenue Collector R. A. Hancock narrowly escaped death in a fight between officers and moonshiners in Hardin County, Ky. Charles Burns, who was shot at El Paso, Texas, by George Cole in a duel, died. He was struck in the same place McKinley was shot. Both men are exarmy officers, Cole being a frontiersman and Burns a rough rider in the SpanishAmerican war. A Louisville jury in Judge Field’s court was ungallant enough to fix the value of a hug at 1 cent. It gave that amount of damages to Mrs. Elizabeth Cecil, who accused Richard Langan, a retired capitalist, of embracing her. She says he went to her house ostensibly to collect the rent and while there put his arm around her and told her she was a sweet little woman.