Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1903 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Former Lieut. Gov. Tillman of South Carolina, charged with the murder of Editor Gonzales, was refused bnil and sent back to jail. Mrs. James Garret and her 12-year old daughter Patsy were indicted nt Whitesburg, Ky., mi charge of sculding to death Jasoti L. Craft for purposes of robbery. A negro desperado, barricaded in hi* room, held the entire police force nt bay In New Orleans. He was armed with his own revolver and two pistols he captured from police. The negro wns finally burned out und shot. Friend* and relatives of the Mcllhcnnys are said to he the authority for a rumor current in social circles at Dallas, Texas, that Miss Alice Roosevelt, now

visiting in New Orleans, is engaged to John Mclnhenny, one of the "rough riders.” Mrs. Walter Dykes is being hunted by the authorities at Davy, W. Ya. Her two children were found dead, having been poisoned. Rumor says the_womun administered the drug rather thau allow her husband to secure possession of the children. Peter Farrell, one of the leading New Orleans Democratic politicians and State coal gauger, was shot aud killed by his eldest son, Edward. The family claims that in a fit of ungovernable temper Farrell attempted to kill Edward and George, the eldest boys, for misconduct and Edward wrested the pistol from him and fired three shots into his father’s heart. The corner stone of the $1,500,000 sea wall was laid at Galveston with imposing ceremonies and a "parade of citizens and marines and officers from the United States battleships at anchor in the harbor. The wall will be three miles in length and will give absolute protection to the city even from a stage of water equal to the great and disastrous tidal wave of the 1900 storm.