Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Taylor Charleston, colored, wits hang-ed-at Birmingham, Ala., for the murder of another negro. The Bank of Sonora, Ivy., was brok"n into and robbed. The robbers got considerable booty. They were followed by a posse of citizens. President Roosevelt visited famous battle fields near Chattanooga, rode over Chickamauga with cavalrymen and attended religious services at their camp on Sunday. A railroad tug ran into the United States cruiser Topeka off Old Point Comfort, Va., and smashed in the warship’s port bow, necessitating her departure for the navy yard for repairs. * Jim Wright and John Templeton, notorious Hancock County; "Terra., desperadoes, were killed, and Wright’s son was captured by a posse of twenty-five men headed by Joe Moss of Gate City, Ya. The postoffiee at Tazewell, Teun., was robbed. The safe was blown open and S4OO in stamps-, SOO of the money order fund, SSO of Postmaster Davis’ money and two registered letters were taken. After throwing the two brothers of the bride out of the church window, Richard League returned to the altar and married Lilly Pelly. The incident took place at Bethany Church, in Mercer County, Ky. The Rev. Morris Wilson, aged 80, who for fifty years has been a prominent Baptist minister in West Yirginin. killed 1 is wife by cutting her throat With a razor. It is believed he became crazed from constant reading of the Bible. The coal miners’ strike iu the Kanawha and New River fields, W. Ya., involving 15,000 miners, which has been in existence since June 7, is practically at an end. Each local union is instructed to go back to work on the best terms possible without regard to the action of any other local.