Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1903 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

George Williamson Crawford of Birmingham, Ala., a negro, is one of the winners in the Francis Wayland prize debate at Yale. Burglars entered the postoffice at Ravenswood, W. Va., blow open the safe nnd escaped with nearly SIO,OOO without leaving avclew to their identity. W. R. Logaikwbeeiver of the Kentucky Citizers’ BiiildiiqyNuid Loan Association at Lonjsville, has been mi.-sing for two weeks and the stockholders charge that hi: is short $30,000 in his accounts. Over twenty persons were drowned off the Virginia coast through the sinking of the Clyde lino steamship Saginaw l>y the Dominion liner Hamilton. Her stern was cut off and she sank in ten minutes. The jury in the case of James Howard, ou trial at Frankfort, Ky., for the murder of William Goebel, found the defendant guilty qnd fixed the punishment at life, imprisonment. The jurors took only one ballot. Bob Bryant and Will Morris, assassins of W. H. Legg, were hanged to the Yazoo bridge at Haynes Bluff, Miss. Bryant had made a confession to officers who arrested him, implicating Morris, whom he accused of tiring the fatal shot. J. B. Marcum, a prominent attorney and a member of one side iu the Coek-rell-llargis feud, which has disturbed Breathitt County for two years, was shot and killed as he was entering the court house in Jackson, Ky., by an unknown man. Mis. Lineburger and her son were found dead at' Bristol, Texas, both having been chopped to pieces with an ax. The husband and father, W. C. Lineburger, subsequently was found on his farm, four miles north of Bristol, with his brains blown out with a shotgun. Over two blocks of buildings in West Point, Va., the York river terminus of the Southern Railway, are iu ashes ns the result of a fire of unknown origin. Among the buildings burned are the express offices, the postofflee. the Pemberton House and a number of stores. The Wabash Railroad Company has abandoned Work on its Little Kanawha extension in West Virginia, offe of the most important links in the proposed trunk line. President Blair says: “Owing to the stringency of the money market it has been decided to go no further with the extension.