Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

At Beaumont, Texas, the Southern Pacific freight depot was burned with all records and about $50,000 worth of freight. Under the new law in North Carolina every voter who failed to pay his poll tax before midnight of May 1 is disfranchised for this year. Several thousand white men failed to pay the tax. Fire at YVellsburg, W. Va., destroyed the decorating and packing departments of the Eagle glass works, owned by Paul Brothers. The loss is $75,000 to SIOO,000. About 500 people are thrown out of employment. President Shaffer has been re-elected as the head of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers in the convention in Wheeling, YV. Y’a.. receiving 148 votes to 56 for Thomas YY’illiams of Zanesville, Ohio.