Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Five New Orleans banks are said to have been defrauded out of $200,000 by a sou of one of the oldest commission merchants of the city. While driving homo Judge John Reagan of Palestine, Texas, was throw n from Ids Imggy and sustained bruises about the head and shoulders. It is not believed lie was seriously hurt. The north-bound Illinois Central “cannon ball" collided with a switch engine in the yards at Jackson, Miss., seriously injuring one passenger and slightly wounding twelve others. It has been ascertained that the Southern Railway has purchased tlie Tennessee Northern, the Ilarriman and Northeastern and the Knoxville and Ohio railroads, all of them coal roads, with a total mileage of 110 miles. With a right swing on the jaw, Carrie Nation knocked down a cadet from the South Carolina Military Aendetny in Charleston because he was smoking a cignrette on the street. The hoy was caught hy his companions before his head struck the pavement. Nautuel Harris, a h« imifcsscd to fatally wounding Mrs. George Meadows and seriously injuring her 18-year-old daughter with an ax, wai taken from

custody in Salem, Ala., by 125 men and riddled with ballets. The crime was for the purpose of robbery. Pleasant Sprading, a sheep herder living in the mountains near Inez, Ivy., is itt danger of lynching for the murder of liis 4-year-old son. A 15-year-old daughter of the man is missing, and it is suspected that he killed her also. Sprading crushed the boy’s skull with a stone because he peeled the bark from a tree on the farm. '*-■ An unidentified negro was burned at the stake at Duriing, Miss., for the murder of E. O. Jackson and a mill owner named Roselle. The negro tvas burned by a mob of 4,000 persons, both white and black, and just before the lighting of the pyre he confessed that he hud committed tlie double murder with the assistance of twj white men.