Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1903 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Joseph Jefferson, the veteran actor, is president of an electric light and power company organized nt West Palm Reach, Fla. / One corporal was killed and three soldiers were hurt by the overturning of n heavy piece of artillery in the drill hall nt Fort Myer, Va., during the regulur drill of the Fourth bnttery of field artillery. Fire of incendiary origin destroyed n row of two-story brick business houses

and moat of their contents at Tyler, Texas, the loss being about $200,000. Representatives from eight States met at Norfolk, Va., and formed a combination of almost all the wooden dish manufacturers in the country. A tornado passed over Clifton Forge, Va., doing great damage, but no loss of life is reported. The track of destruction shows that the tornado came from the southwest and leveled buildings, fences and forests for over a mile. Fire at Mount Sterling, Ivy., destroyed I. F. Tubb’s feed store and damaged the the Wirtle & Lloyd ©pelto House and the stores of Blunt & Nunnelly, T. K. Barnes & Co., Green, Garrett, Sullivan &■ Tooley and the Masonic lodge. Loss $50,000. Gen. William H. Jackson, a noted Confederate cavalry leader and proprietor of the Belle Meade stock farm, died at his home, Belle Meade, near Nashville. He wns G 8 years of age and had been in failing health for more thaa a year and dangerously ill for several weeks. Robert Bruce Lockridge, manager of the track team of Indiana University Athletic Association, was accidentally killed by a ten-pound shot thrown by J. H. Horne, athletic director in the same university. The accident occurred at the training grounds of the Louisville, Ivy., high school athletic team, of which Lockridge was the new coach. Through a crevasse that is described ns the worst in the history of the levee system, a volume of water sixteen feet deep and 200 yards wide has been pouring steadily through the break in the embankment, five miles south of Greenville, Miss. Thousands of acres of the finest sugar lands in the famous Yazoo valley were inundated and the loss will he immense.