Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1903 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The fast Cincinnati Southern passenger train of the Southern Railway was wrecked three miles west of Lenoir, Tenn. Three persons were killed nnd twenty-five injured, some of whom mav die. Benjamin I. Goodwin, aged 70, reported to he worth about $300,000, or.e of tho richest fnrniers in central Kentucky, walked into a Lexington saloon, put a revolver to his cheek and tired, killing himself. William Farmer, deputy sheriff of Clayton County, Ga., instantly killed his father-in-law, James Christian, mortnlly wounded his wife, nnd attempted to kiil his son, hut missed lire. The frenzied mail then turned the gun upon himself and fired, dying instantly. Fire nt Frankfort, Ky., destroyed the Hniy building on East Main street* and it* contents, entailing a loss of $50,000. The building was occupied by the Rupert Wholesale Grocery Company, Frankfort Shoo Manufacturing Compnny and the Beckman Guard, State militia. Fire caused much damage in the section of tho city of Louisville, Ky., knowu

ns the “cabbage patch,” made famous by Mrs. Alice Tlegnn Rice’s story “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.” Four cottages were destroyed and the flames got close to the home occupied by Mrs. Mary Bass, the original Mrs. Wiggs.