Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Samuel Jones was stabbed and killed in a tight with Cecil Nablcr on Troublesome creek, Kentucky. The men fought with pocket knives. Caroline Bacon, aged 76 years, of Paducah, Ky., believes she is nearing the grave and has had her pastor preach her funeral sermon, so she could get the benefit of it. Panic in negro Church gathering at Birmingham, Ahi., resulted in loss of at least seventy-eight and istssibly 100 lives and injury to over 100 others. Woman’s ■cream, followed by cry of "Fire,” caused the disaster. Three Italiah miners—Tom Miratch, Bottle Miratch and Browle Shifton—were shot and killed in a drunken row at Berrybnrg, W. Va. Another man. whose name was not learned, wax also shot and seriously injured. Jimmy Pueball, another Italian, was badly cut with a razor.