Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Elder, Depster & Co., operating a line of steamers out of. New Orleans and Galveston to foreign ports, will establish a line between Mobile and Liverpool on Sept. 1. The great Auditorium building erected at Richmond, Ya., in 1896 for the Confederate Veterans' reunion, with a seating capacity of 20,000, was destroyed by tire caused by lightuing. Sam Kay of Atlauta, Ga., dashed off the “loop the loop” at the Elks’ midsummer carnival in Springfield, Ohio, and sustained injuries that may prove fatal. It was his first attempt. During a thunder storm Thomas Roe, a watchman at the Savannah, Ga., steamship wharves, and Lizzie Williams, a small negro girl who had brought him his dinner, were instantly killed by lightning. The German-Ameriean Oil Company of Texas had recorded against all of its property on Spindle Top, Corsicana, Sour Lake and elsewhere a deed of trust for SOO,OOO. Stock has declined, owing to inability to market its oil. David Fuller, a farmer living near the city limits of .Richmond, Va., lost all his hair in an electric storm. Mr. Fuller ’ was struck by lightning. His head, which before the liash was thickly covered with hair, was cleanly shaven. He was otherwise uninjured. Plans have been drawn and the capital provided for the erection in Louisville, I\y., of a million dollar packing plant, which will make a feature of dressing spring lambs for the Eastern market, but will also dress hogs and cattle.‘The plant will occupy three acres adjoining the central stock yards. During a heavy electrical storm a bolt of lightning struck the storage tanks of the Jennings Oil Company at Jennings, La., destroying them and the derricks of the company. All workmen in the field immediately stopped operations, and set about throwing up levees to prevent streams of burning oil from reaching the town of Coulee.