Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A picnic party returning to Nashville. Tenn., in a tally ho was struck by n trolley car and fifteen persons were injured. The tallyho was smashed. The President has nominated William B. Drear of Georgia, a contract surgeon in the United Stutes army, to be assistant surgeon of volunteers with the rank of captain. Fire destroyed the saw and planing mills of J. S. Bailey & Co. at McDonald, Ga., with ‘.J.GOO.OOU feet of lumber and seven freight cars. The loss is $150,000, with little insurance. A passenger train of the Southern Railway collided with a north-hound freight train near Juliette, Ga. The engineer anj fireman of the passenger train were killed and nineteen of the passengers were injured. John Laffoon, a half-witted man, killed his wife at his home at Valley View, Ky. Laffoon and his wife and small son had just eaten dinner when Laffoon secured an ax and brained his wife. Luffoon made his escape. James Black, a negro implicated in the murder of the wife of J. K. Jones, a section master of the Atlantic Coast line, was hanged near Raveual, S. C., by a mob of men, who secured him from a posse of officers en route to jail. He confessed the crime. J. M. McKnight, the former bank president who is now appealing from a conviction in the federal court for wrecking the German National Bank of Louisville, Ivy., notified the police that he had been robbed of a trunk containing $3,100 besides clothing and other articles of value. Mr. McKnight said the trunk had been taken front the Victoria Hotel while he was at one of the parks. Capt. C. W. King, former quartermaster in charge at Fort Morgan, who was convicted in the United Stutes Court in Mobile last year on the charge of accepting a bribe of $3,000 in connection with work done at the fort, was arraigned on two counts. He entered a plea of guilty as charged in the first count aud was sentenced to thirteen months’ imprisonment and to pay a tine of $3,000.