Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1902 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The bank at Mullins, S. C., was broken open, the safe dynamited and about s<>,ooo in cash stolen. In New Orleans Judge Aucoin has declared the law compelling a husband to support his wife unconstitutional. Willis Williams, colored, was hanged at New Roads, La., for the murder of Albert Herbert in September, 11)01. The Virginia Legislature passed n hill appropriating $5,000 to defend the recent suits against the new constitution. It developed the next day that U. C. Whayne, a Louisville business man, who

was found dead with a gunshot wound in hia breast, carried $350,000 life insurance. Zeb Wilson, recently elected State Senator from Yancey County, North Carolina, xvas killed at Bumsvillle by his brother, Hiram Wilson. The brothers quarreled over a horse trade. Representative Edmond Spencer Blackburn of North Carolina and Miss Louise Levattn Parker, daughter of Col. Myron M. Parker of Washington, were married at the bride’s home Thursday. Warrants have been issued for a man and two women under arrest nt Whiteville, Tenn., charged with robbery of the bank there Dec. 0. About $2,000 was secured. The three uiider arrest give tho names of Mr. and Mrs. George Carrol and Mrs. J. Laughlin. They game front Chicago. Negotiations have practically been consummated whereby an Eastern syndicate, of which J. I’ierpont Morgan is a director, lias obtained control of all the coal mines and coni property west of Green River in Kentucky, except that owned by the St. Bernard Coal .Company. The consideration is $8,000,000.