Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1903 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The grand jury returned a true bill against James H. Tillman, charging him with the murder of N. G. Gonzales last January. In the indictment also occurs the charge of carrying concealed wenpone. J. Walter Keneval of Knoxville, Tenn., one of whose three wives was Bessie’ Heiner of Chicago, has appealed to the Supreme Court for the third time in the bigamy case that has made him notorious. The immense storage house of the Birmingham Fertilizer Company in East Birmingham, Ala., said to be operated in the interests of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company, was destroyed by fire, the loss being estimated at $225,000. A tenement house on the land of I. H. Kearney, about two miles west of Franklinton, N. C., was destroyed by fire. The house was occupied by Rufus Daniel, .colored* Lis wife, and seven children. Four of the children, who were sleeping upstairs, were burned to death. G. Hallman Sims, collection clerk for the Capital City National Bank of Atlanta, Ga., has been placed under arrest by United States Deputy Marshal Scott upon a warrant sworn out by President Speer of the bank charging Sims with embezzling $04,000. He admits his guilt.