Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Walter Bailey, colored, was hanged at Selma, Ala,, for the murder of Robert Hunter, near Orrville, in October, 1899. One person is dead and seven are injured as the result of the breaking of a trolley wire and a consequent panic on a street car at Memphis, Tenn. Mistaking his friend, who occupied the same dwelling with him, for a burglar, J. D. Wilson shot and instantly killed G. F. Apperson at Richmond, Va. The American Society of Florists, which has been in convention in Asheville, N. C., adjourned after selecting Milwaukee as the next meeting place. Three persons were killed and forty injured in a trolley collision on the Bay Shore terminal line just beyond Norfolk, Va. The cars were shattered and telescoped. The postoffice at Adairville, Ky., was entered, the safe blown open, and all of the government funds stolen. At Larwell, Ind., robbers secured $316 worth of stamps and all the money. Ornsley Covington and Charles Hunter, colored, and John O’Hara, white, were killed by a premature blast at the city workhouse, Lexington, Ky. The negroes were blown to pieces. O’Hara was manager of the works. The principal part of Ruskin, a little town seven miles from Waycross, Ga., was burned. The town was formerly the home of the Ruskin Commonwealth colony of socialists from Tennessee. The origin of the fire is unknown. Four of the most prominent citizens of Sumner County ami one of Nashville have been placed'under arrest in Gallatin, Tenn., for alleged complicity in the assassination of Dr. A. IL Williams, who was shot down almost at his own threshold on’the night of April 10, 1896. Miss Maud Thompson was killed by James Greer near the girl's home in Henderson County, Tenn. The only motive assigned is that the girl refused to go away with Greer. Meeting her in the road he put an arm around her neck and shot her twice with a pistol. The murderer escaped. Henry Kohlhaase, weigher at the United States mint in New Orleans, for twenty years an employe of the Louisiana State. Board of Health and a wellknown man about town, sent a bullet through his brain at his residence. As soon as the news of his suicide was received at the mint Superintendent Suthon put a force of men at work checking up his books and accounts. A shortage of S7OO was discovered.