Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Two men were killed and six injured in a train collision on the Southern Railway, near Wall Creek, Va. Richard Dodson was kilhtl and forty persons seriously injured by lightning striking a church at Leslie, On. Because of ill health Pierce Bodley, one of the best known real estate men in Louisville, Ky., committed suicide ty shooting. C. Diaz, a Mexican, attacked a- woman near Engle Pass, Texas. Her two small children screamed and the Mexican shot

them dead before the eyes of the mother^ Fire that started in the Landon Hotel at San Angelo, Texas, destroyed tho structure and burned seven persons to death. The property damage is $75,000. Jeptha Rhodes, William Kircus and James Smith of Haywood, Tenn., were killed by lightning while standing under a tree where they had taken refuge from the rain. John Dodge and Henry Hughes, farmers of Calvert City, Ivy., jumped from a fast Illinois Central passenger train which did not stop there and both were fatally injured. Following a business dispute William Duuovant, a capitalist of Houston, Texas, was fatally shot by W. T. Elrdldge, vicepresident and general uiauager of the Canabel Railway. Thieves broke into the store of B. C. Grigsby at Tolesboro, Ivy., in which is situated the postoffice. They secured $l5O worth of postal funds and S2OO from the store, also much merchandise, and escaped. Ten oyster canning and packing companies in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, it is said, will combine with a capital of $2,000,000. The combine will control all the business of the three States in the fish and canning lines. Fierce fighting marked the elections throughout Tennessee Thursday. Charges of. fraud were freely indulged in and at the polls there were many encounters. G. F. Rucker, Democratic election officer of Granger County, was shot dead while trying to make off with the ballot box. George Ishani of the Eighth District was also killed. In addition many persons were shot and beaten and ballot boxes were stolen at the point of revolvers.