Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

At Cochran, Gn., Hurley R. Dykes, grandson of the founder of tin* town, shot nnd killed Robert Wynne. A special election was held the other day in the Fourth Congressional District of Texas, Morris Hlieppnrd being elected to Congress to fill the unexpired term of Ids father, recently deceased. A tornado pnsaed south of Terrell, Texas, followed by n lienvy rain. Hevernl houses were torn from their foundations nnd poultry was killed, but so far ns known no ope was Injured. J. Frank Bean, who had been employed in the art department of an afternoon paper at Ig»ui»ville, Ky„ died from an overdose of inorphlue. His home is thought to be at Cumberland, Ind. President Samuel Gompera of the

American Federation of Labor, in his opening address at the New Orleans convention, warned delegafes that the greatest peril of labor is internal quarrels over jurisdiction. Reports to the convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at New Orleans show that 22,500 crosses of honor have been ordered for veterans, among the requests for them being one from the Archaeological Society of New York. Two employes of a Midway company showing nt Athens, Tenn., became engaged in a difficulty and one, an 18-yenr-old boy, who refused to give his name, stabbed J. C. Scnatterly to death. The boy was arrested. He claims self-defense. Andrew J. Harness, of Ohio, and W. H. Downey, of Alabama, students in U. S. Grant Medical College at Chattanooga, Tenn., engaged in a pistol duel In front of the medical college building. It is claimed the duel arose over remarks Harness had made about Southern women. Fire broke out in the freight depot of the Southern Railway at Pell City, Ala., and was followed by a terrific explosion, in wliicli two jiersons were killed and ten injured, two perhaps fatally. Ten business houses, including the Pell City Hotel, were wrecked, causing a heavy loss. Fifty cases of dynamite stored in the depot caused the explosion.