Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Fire In Garnett Bros.' lumber yard at Louisville, Ky., destroyed lumber valued at >70,000. Gov. Sayres of Texas has issued nn appeal for aid for the Zapata County drought sufferers. W. J. Polk, relative of former President Polk, was found dead at Decatur, Ala., and iif supposed to have been murdered. Albert F. German, Louisville bank clerk, was sentenced to seven years in prison on conviction of fraud and embexxlement. Mrs. W. T. Baynes nnd two daughters were drowned at De Soto, Miss., nnd Charles Fleming met u like fate in trying to save them. A big deposit of nitrate of potash has lieen discovered in El Paso County, Texas, near ths Diablo Mountains. The discovery was made by the University mining survey. When a constable seised him in court nt Fallsburg, Ky., George Cooksey, a Philippine war veteran, killed the officer.

The judge thereupon fired from the bench and wounded Cooksey. Gen. Wade Hampton died at Columbia, S. C. His death resulted not from any disease, but from a general breakdown. Gen. Hampton celebrated his eightyfourth birthday the previous week. Five members of a sheriff’s posse "were killed and four or five men wounded in a pitched battle with a band of outlaws headed by James Wright in Scott County. Virginia, where the band has been hiding in the mountains. YVright was wounded and captured. James D. Brown, aged 55, a prominent North Christian, Ky., planter, and William Pulley, his tenant, fought a pistol duel in the public road over a tobacco crop settlement. Brown w’as shot seven times and instantly killed. Pulley was shot through the shoulder.