Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

G. Brantley has been renominated for Congress by the Democratic convention of the Eleventh Georgia District. At Houston, Texas, it is|said that n wind of tornado proportions developed near Rosenberg and blew a Southern Pacific freight train from the track, wrecking it and injuring three or four men. James Geary’s saloon at Roslyn, Va., was wrecked and riddled with bullets by a crowd of 150 soldiers from Fort Myer, Va.. who conducted an apparently organized attack, presumably in revenge for the shooting of one of their comrades. The long drouth in Texas was relieved generally Friday. Heavy rains are reported from Dallas south to the gulf and many sections north, east and west have received portions of the downpour. The corn crop is said to be beyond redemption, but cotton will be saved. A copy of the will of the late Charles Broadway Rohse of New York has been deposited in the county clerk’s office at Waxahachie, Texas, to be recorded. The will is a lengthy document and disposes of property of the estimated value of sl,500,000 or more, though no estimate of its value is stated.