Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1903 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The anti-pool room bill, so amended as to prohibit betting or horse races even nt the tracks where tlie* races are run, was hurried through the Texas Senate and signed by the Governor. f The Nova Bcotin, one of the largest mines owned by the Gauloy Mountain Coal Company at Huntington, W. Vn., is on tire and its complete destruction is

threatened. The entire mountain is smoking. Judge Parker in the trial at Lexington, Ky., of Dr. A. P. Taylor, president of the defunct Industrial Mutual Deposit Company, ruled that fraudulent declaration of excessive dividends was embezzlement. Robbers blew open the vault in the Deposit Bank of Bardwell, Ky., and secured $5,000. The vault is a total wreck. The charge of dynamite was so strong that some of the currency, of which there was $2,500, was burned. The grand jury at Charleston, \V. Va., adjourned after indicting more than 250 miners accused of participating in the battle with deputy marshals at Stanaford, in the hold-up of Deputy Marshal Dan Cummings and in a conspiracy.