Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1903 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The Alabama Senate has passed tlie bill regulating child Inbor as agreed to by advocates of the bill nml mill nion. Sledge A Wells-’ large paper nnd burlap bag factory nt Memphis was destroyed by tire. Loss $75,000; insurance $70,000. In a sermon at Louisville Rev. T. T. Eaton declared that be did not think a murderer could be convicted and seotenc-

ed to death In Kentucky even if the criminal himself deaked it. Fourteen thousand acres of coal land near Honaker Station, Vn., have been purchased by Chicago and Pittsburg capitalists. Several million dollars will be spent for development and the construction of a railroad. Train No. 333 L ou the Southern Railway was wrecked at RavenswortU, Va., by running into an open switch, which, it is thought, was misplaced purposely. The engineer and fireman are reported killed. One arrest has been made on a charge of train wrecking. Eighteen persons drowned and others rescued in a serious condition is the result of the passenger steamer Olive beiug struck by a cyclone and sent to the bottom of Chowan River, near Edenton, N. C. A majority of the passengers and crew were below at,the time, nnd had no chance to save themselves.