Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1903 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The total of cattle losses due to the recent blizzard in Texas are now estimated at $200,000. The storm raged continuously eight dnys. James 11. Blount, for twenty years a member of Congress from Georgia and later paramount commissioner to Hawaii, died nt Macon, Gn. Biz persons were burned to death Rnd one was fatally Injured ns the result of a fire In a small hotel at Leiten, a mining town near Elkins, W. Vn. A negro entered the home of a white man ** Cordova, Ala., before daylight,

presumably for the purpose of robbery; A tight ensued, in which the negro killed the master of the house, his wife and child. The steamer Delta, of the Memphis and Vicksburg Packet Company, struck a hidden obstruction near Marysville, forty miles north of Vicksburg, Miss., and sank in shallow water. No lives were lost. Allan Melton, a farmer near Henderson, Ivy., who had fatally wounded his step-daughter nnd shot Mrs. John Culver, committed suicide iu his barn when he found the building surrounded by bloodhounds sent in pursuit of him. Judge Cochran, to the Federal Courtat Frankfort, Ivy., decided that nil land patents iu Kentucky for more than 200 acres nre void., This is a sweeping decision, and will affect much property, as heavy patents are held all over Kentucky. While running at high speed to make up lost time passenger train No. 4, north bound, on the Louisville nnd Nashv'ilo Railroad was wrecked twenty-two miles south of Birmingham, Ala. Five persona were injured, three of whom were members of the train crew. Thirty Italians fought four "orei'ien and a constable near Burning Springs, W. Va., on the line of the extension of the Little Kanawha Railway. Axes, clubs and revolvers were used, and many in the battle. The men recently came from Chicago. Marie Greenwood Guiberson, a vocalist of national reputation, entered suit for divorca against her husband, Will Parker Guiberson, at Memphis. She charges lie cruelly beat her at Dos Moines and wrote false charges against her to her father, reflecting upon her character* James Mooney, who lives near Stanhope, Ivy., unearthed SI,OOO in gold while digging post holes on the farm of William "Gardiner. Gardiner found Mooney taking S2O gold pieces from the post hole, but the latter pocketed the money nnd refused to divide with the owner of the land. The old Lincoln homestead near Ilodgenville, Ivy., tlie birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, will probably be sold under the hammer within a few weeks. Several years ago the old log cabin in which Lincoln was born was taken to the Buffalo exposition. A large flag pole is the only remaining thing marking the birthplace of the martyr. Sobbing bitterly, fearful of wliat they might do to him, 8 year-old Buddie Ryals, Pear Evergreen, Fla., confessed to special agents of tlie Seaboard Air Line that he had turned the switch and thrown the company’s limited, crowded with Northern tourists, from tlie track, killing the engineer and tlie porter and severely injuring a dozen others. Buddie is too young to prosecute.