Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The main building of the Suwanee Springs Hotel was destroyed by fire at Live Oak, Fin. The loss is $50,000. One million feet of lumber and much machinery of the Tunis Lumber Company burned at Norfolk, Va., causing $50,000 loss. Land Pebble phosphate plant, the oldest in Polk County, Florida, burned. It was established twelve years ago, costing nearly S2SO,(XX). Because the El Paso, Texas, street car company discharged the secretary of !lre newly organize<r union all the cmployes went out on strike and traffic was absolutely suspended. James Moore, alias Dillard, a Kentucky negro who attacked two women in Indiana, was lynched by a mob of farmers near Sullivan, who hanged him to a telegraph pole after lie had been positively identified by his Victims. A jury at Prattville, Ala., has found 1 >ove Lee, Andrew Howard and Burden Bates guilty of arson in the first degree mid has fixed the punishment at hanging. It is believed that this is the first verdict of the kind rendered in th a South. A mammoth shipyard to employ 8,000 men is to be erected at Sewall’s Point, facing Hampton Roads, Va.. and work is to be begun at once. The shipyard is to be in operation in a year and will have the largest dry dock in the United States. Southern train No. 35 was wrecked, the fireman was killed and the engineer it nilsex era 1 passengers- w e re. injured bi the yard at Spartanburg, S. C. The train while still in the yard collided with three box cars running down the hill at the junction. A white man was found in scions condition at the Arkansas end of the Mississippi River bridge opposite Memphis, Tenn. He died at the city hospital from wounds in the head made with a blunt 'instrument. The police say he was murdered. President 11. 11. Pearson of the New Orleans Railways Company and his officials, charged with violating the separate car law. have been discharged. Counsel for the company had deniu'Ted to the affidat-its on the ground that the law is unconstitutional. The judge sustained the demurrers.