Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Lieut. Richard C. Croxton of the Twen-ty-third United States infantry is in ,» hospital nt Richmond, Va., fatally Injured by an attempted suicide. In a fight resulting from a feud between Italian factions in New Orleans, Salvadore Luciana, Vincenso Velcra Hnd Murrella Ferri were killed, while Joseph Calamina and Joseph Geraeehi were wounded. Mrs. Louis Westrop, a white woman living near Martin, Miss., killed tiro of her children by shooting them to death in an outhouse and afterward burning the structure over their bodies. The woman escaped. A little daughter of William Blankenship was attacked at Hopkinsville, Ky.. by a rooster and so bndly injured that it is thought she will die. The bird sank its spurs in the top of the child’s head, penetrating the brain. As the result of a decision in the court of criminal appeals affirming judgment ir. the case of Harvey Fullerton of Greenville. Texas, convicted of operating a bucket shop or dealing in futures, every bucket shop in the State will have to close. Miss Mary Custis Lee, second daughter of Gen. Robert E. Lee, was arrested at Alexandria, Va., charged with violating the separate car bill passed by the last Legislature. So far as known, she is the first victim in Virginia to the “Jim Crow” law. At Knoxville, Teun.. an instant after the death of Col. John S. Van Gilder, one of Knoxville's leading citizens, a portion of his mansion collapsed, causing a panic among the members of the family and the servants. No one was injured, however. Four men were killed and fifteen injured in a collision between fast mail No. 1 from Nashville and the Jasper accommodation train ou the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway, between Hooker and Summit, about twelve miles from Chattanooga, Tenu. The Supreme Court of Mississippi declared that the Noel primary election iaw adopted at the last session of the Legislature is constitutional. Under this law all party nominations in Mississippi are to be made by primary elections, abolishing the nomination by convention. The business portion of Alexunder City, Ala., a place of 1,500 inhabitants, was wiped away by fire, the loss reaching at least $750,000, which the insurance will not begin to cover. The fiataes began in the foundry and machine works, uud spread from building to building until ('he entire business portion of the town wan a mass of Humes.

The recent decision of the State Supreme Court invalidating consolidated leases and placing on the market more than 2,500,000 acres of grazing lands, has struck a death blow to the cattle laisers of Texas. Hundreds of sections or these lauds are being filed upou eneli day by actual settlers. Tile ranchmen own the alternate patented sections of land and had under lease the intervening •school sections. It is impossible to fence each section separately or graze satisfactorily cattle jointly with a uumber of smull holders.