Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The postoffice at Ohara, Ky., wns robbed of SIOO in stamps and a small amount of money, A large, four-mnated schooner burned near Alligator Lighthouse, off the Florida coast. The crew was saved. While resisting arrest, Walter Brown,

a liveryman of Cadiz, Ky., was shot and killed in a duel with Deputy Marshal Sumner. Father W. R. Prcndergast, pastor of the Roman Catholic Church at Mannington, W. Va., is dead ns a result of poson placed in mineral water. The strike of the Texas-Mexican Ituiiroad and the National Railroad firemen is still on, and with one exception not a wheel has turned over on either road out of Laredo, Texas. New Orleans street railway strike has been ended by employes accepting ultimatum of 20 cents an hour wages, with ten hours’ maximum work. Accused men are to be taken back. Judge Alien JUyden, county judge of Owsley County, Kentucky, was killed from ambush near Boonville, as he rode to town to attend court. The assassins were hidden in a group of bushes on the roadside, and as Judge Hyden approached they opened fire oh him. Onward, the great trotting sire, died suddenly at the farm of Peter Duryca at Lexington, Ky. He was foaled in 1875 by George Wilkes, dam Polly (dnm of Director, 2:17, etc.f, by Mam nrino Chief. He was owned by Peter Duryca and W. E. D. Stokes, the New York millionaire. Mrs. Susan P.’ Lewis, aged 64, was murdered by an unknown person at Hempstead, Texas. She was heard to scream and call for help and then three shots were fired in rapid succession. A search was made at once and tlie body of the woman was found in the rear of tlie public school some fifty yards aw’ay from her house.