Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1903 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The wholesale grocery of C. T. Creek & Co. at Nashville, Tenn., was set cn fire, but saved by prompt work of the fire department. A bill intended to. disfranchise the negro has been introduced in the Missouri Legislature. It provides that each person must be able to read and write in order to vote. Ernest Davis, colored, was hanged at Manchester, Va., for the murder of John Henry Stokes, another negro. Sol Dunn, colored, was hanged at Augusta, Ga., for killing William Springs, a white man. John Knight, aged 18 years, and James Newkirk, aged 17, shot at several birds on top of a powder magazine below Caseyville, Ky., and an explosiop resulted. The boys received fatal injuries. There were 500 kegs of powder and 250 pounds of dynamite in the magazine. The wholesale dry goods establishment of Lyles-Black Company in Nashville, Tenn., was destroyed by fire, and the dry goods houses of Mornman & Sawyer and O’Brien Bros, on either side of the burning building were damaged. The loss on the Lyles-Black stock is estimated nt $210,000. The house is valued at SIB,OOO. Advices from Berrien and Worth counties, Georgia, are that a severe windstorm did much damage. At Omega, in Worth County, the hotel was blown down and a number of houses were unroofed, The wind swept a path 100 yards wide through the town, damaging every house nnd uprooting every tree it encountered.