Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Bishop William Kenney was consecrated in the old cathedral at St. Augustine, Fla., Cardinal Gibbons officiating. George Shirley of Pittsburg, under restraint at Louisville, attempted to commit suicide by driving an eighty-penny nail into his head. George Taylor, l colored, who died at Louisville, is said to have been 102 years old and to have belonged to the family* of President Zachary Taylor. Four white men nnd four negroes were killed, five white men wounded and a block of houses burned in a race riot at Pittsburg, a suburb of Atlanta, Ga. The Fraterville and Thistle coal mines at Cool Creek, Tenn., exploded. Only one man escaped, he being blown out of the mine. About 200 men were at work in the mines. The eity of Charleston, S. 0., has made a contract with the Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company of Baltimore for building water works, giving a thirty years’ franchise to that corporation. Crazed by his infatuation for little Abetha McCullough, a 13-year-old girl, William Austin, a young man, killed the girl, and four other persons, and then committed suicide in a lonely farm house of William Wilkinson, near Hastings, I’la. Mrs. James B. Haggin, wife of the New, York multi-millionaire, has offered to give to the Episcopal diocese of Lexington a building for the Ashland seminary of Versailles, Ivy., to take the place of the dormitory recently destroyed by tire. Clifford S. Roberts of Coinpauy D, Third infantry, committed suicide at Fort Thomas, Ky., by taking morphine. Ilis officers and comrades say the deed was due to afflictions that followed the privations of hard campaigning in the Philippines. Loss of from 100 to 200 lives nnd destruction of much property resulted from a hurricane, which sw'cpt through Urge part of southern and western Texas. The town of Goliad was practically destroyed, seventy-four persons being killed there and 200 injured.