Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1903 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A man masquerading as Gov. Beckham of Kentucky was arrested at Miami, Fla., where he was being entertained by society people. Edward Adams, aged 22 years, was shot by George Bean at Frankfort. Ky., in a quarrel over testimony Beau had given against Adams. Benjamin Neal Thornton, son of E. 11. Thornton, president of the Neal Loan and Banking Company of Atlanta, committed suicide by shooting. \\ illiam Mills, aged 19, was shot dead by Christopher Turner at Middlesboro, Ky. Turner was mortally wounded. The tight was the result of an old grudge. The strike of the Illinois Central Railroad freight handlers in New Orleans has been declared off and the men have gone back to work on the old conditions, but without discrimination. Fast passenger train No. 101 on the Illinois Central, bound for Cincinnati from New Orleans, crashed into a work train at Caneyville, Ky. Three men were instantly killed and two injured. While trying to cross the Cumberland river at Gainesboro, Tenn., in a canoe Miss Verdi Rich. Miss Hattie Rose and Walter Rich were drowned, while Rufus Bailey and Alfred Crowder had narrow escapes. Fire which broke out in the Wholesale whisky house of Bonnie Brothers, iu the heart of the wholesale whisky district of Louisville, Ivy., caused a loss of slOO.(Kii) Juul threatened to destroy the Louisville and Nashville Railroad’s general offices. The chief damage, however, was confined to the building in which the fire started. *