Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Democrats of the I'hird Virginia District renominated John Lamb for Congress. Fire at Sonora, Texas, destroyed a business block, with an estimated lose of SIOO,OOO. Fire in the Texas oil fields has been brought under control and the total loss is estimated at $200,000. A fire in the Stonewall Cotton mills at Stonewall, Miss., destroyed the spinning and card rooms of mill No. 1. Loss $125,000, covered by insurance. At Birmingham, Ala., Horace Jackson, a negro, charged with participating in the lynching of Aleck Herman, another-ne-gro, was found guilty and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years. Raymond Gray, once a prominent attorney of Covington, Ky., was taken to a hospital the other day dying from selfinflicted wounds with a small penknife. Cocaine is said to be the cause of his act. Mistaking his brother, John Kendlewood, for a burglar, Sam KendlewooJ shot and killed him at Ironwood, Va. There is a rumor that the brothers quarreled, but the slayer declares the killing was accidental. Boisy Bryant was hanged at Nashville, Ga., for the murder of Town Marshal Hynds. Mrs. Etta Hynds Parker, daughter of the murdered officer, watched the execution from the scaffold, and as soon as Bryant was 'pronounced dead Mrs. Parker, with her father’s knife, cut down the body of the murderer.