Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1903 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Adam Trendwell, eolored. was hanged at Norfolk, Vn., for the murder of his wife. W. A. Scott, n jeweler of New Cumberland, W. Vn., wns robbed of money and jewelry valued at $2,000 by three masked men who blew open the safe. The candy factory of Bradas & Ghecns, on the river front, between Bullitt and sth street*, in Louisville, was damaged to the extent of about $50,000 by tire. Mrs. Florence J. Maybrick and her mother, the Baroness Von Roque*, will, it is said, lose nil title nnd Interest in 2,552,302 acres of land in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky, valued at $7,500,000, unlei* Mr*. Maybrick is released from prison In England In time to t**ti-

fy In a suit now pending in the chancery court of Richmond, Va. Editor N. G. Gonzales died at Columbia, N. C. After battling for almost four days for life, the victim of Lieut. Gov. James 11. Tillman's bullet, passed away at the Columbia hospital. Mrs. Gonzales was with her husband when death came. A whole family has been wiped out by poison, supposed to have been administered with murderous intent, at Santa Lucia, Texas. T. J. Ray, his sisters, Amy and Lou Ray, and Robert Ray, a nephew, are dead. The nephew has been arrested, charged with trying to get the others out of the way, that he might succeed to their property. As n result of the negotiations between the grievance committee of the Louisville and Nashville locomotive engineers and General Manager Evans an agreement has been reached whereby the engineers will receive an increase in wnges in proportion to the added duties which have fallen upon each division on the various sections of the system. Rev. J. B. Crantill, president of the San Jacinto Oil Company, which was placed in the hands of a receiver at Dallas, Texas, says the collapse is the result of the exhaustion of the wells. The company had fifty large contracts, all of which were made at a time when the company's wells were gushing and producing thousands of barrels of oil a day. Since then one of the wells has failed entirely and the production of the other two lias also practically ceased.