Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The coroner’s jury which has investigated the cause of the Fraterville mine explosion at Coal Creek, Tenn., May 19 reached a verdict against the Coal Creek Coal Company officials and against the State mine inspector, R. A. Shiflett. Link Monday, formerly of the Ninth infantry and a survivor of the Balangiga massacre, killed John Kennedy at a church supper near JxnoXville, Tenn., because Kennedy charged American troops with cowardice. Monday and two others were fatally wounded. After having been acquitted four times for the killing of Washington Smith on July 16, 1896, Judge David T. Rogers, a prominent man, was killed by Troy Smith, aged 25, a son of Washington Smith. The tragedy occurred in a restaurant at Knoxville, Tenn. Four men were killed and fifteen injured in a collision between fast mail No. 1 from Nashville and the Jasper accommodation train on the Nashville, Chattanooga and St, Louis Railway, between Hooker and Summit, about twelve miles from Chattanooga, Tenn. A terrific explosion occurred at the railroad camp of William Park, four miles from La Follette, Tenn. Herd Lones and Martha Chapman were blown to pieces and the house in which they were sleeping was demolished. Four cases of dynamite had been placed under the house by enemies of the couple. The Supreme Court of Texas has decided the Shippers’ Compress case against the State. The court held that competition had not been destroyed because there was none in the first instance. As to the constitutionality of the anti-trust law, the court held that the State may annul charters under it, but that it cannot collect penalties. The finding of a headless body, horribly mangled, brought about a complicated situation at Knoxville, Tenn. The police and county constabulary arrived on the scene simultaneously, a squabble ensuing for the body. The police were victorious and carried it away. A few hours later a telegram was received from Indianapolis which inquired the whereabouts of just such a man as had been found dead, but the police positively refused to divulge anything. Residents of Madison County, North Carolina, for several weeks have heard rumblings akin to thunder on the farm of John Park, near Lynch. Recently a crack a few inches wide appeared along the mountain side. A few days ago there was a sound resembling a dynamite explosion, followed by a cloudburst. This struck on a hillside and made an opening fifty feet wide and several yards long. At the bottom of the fissure was found a tine deposit of gold in paying quantities.