Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1903 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

One of the boilers of Wilson & Cochran’s sawmill at Wilcox, near Maringoin station, La., exploded, killing six persons. Nine others are seriously injured and it is thought that tw:o of them will die. At Carlisle. Ky.. fire destroyed the city school and resulted in injury to twentyfive persons. Three others are misring. The west wall of the building fell upon a number of people. The property loss is about $25,000. Tbe Seaboard Air Line Railway shops, just outside of Portsmouth, Va., were burned. Tlie loss is estimated at $750,000. In the shops were many locomotives nnd all appliances for repairing the rolling stock of the road. The long and short haul clause of tlie interstate commerce act has been killed by Federal Supreme U ourt ‘ n Louisville and Nashville rate case; competition was held a justification for higher rates over comparatively shorter distances. Fire destroyed the machinery and stock of tlie Falls City Siiirt Company at Louisville, Ky. The building was badly damaged. Tlie stock of the Carter Dry Goods Company, in an adjoining warehouse, also suffered. The total loss amounts to $82,000. Judge Walter Evans of the United States Court at Bowling Green, Ivy., has ruled that men in charge of postotflees must pay to the government any amount burglars may the otßccs. Tlie decision is considered important as establishing the liability of postmasters for funds and supplies. Tho strike of the trainmen and switchmen of tlie Mobile and Ohio Railroad has been declared off by agreement. They went on strike May 9 for a 10 per cent increase in wages. The road agrees to advance wages 7 and 10 per cent for freight and passenger service respectively, and to take back strikers as rapidly as vacancies occur.