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

SOUTHERN.

Kentucky feudists attacked the jail at Jackson, where Jett and White, alleged murderers of J. B. Marcum, are imprisoned, but were repulsed by the militia. Eighty-five persons were killed and forty fatally injured at Gainesville Ga., by a cyclone. Many were crushed to death in a collapsing cotton mill. All but six of the dead are whites. Frank Emmett, formerly of Emmett & Tuech, one of the biggest cotton men in New Orleans, who was bankrupted by the bull campaign in cotton, committed suicide by cutting his throat. for SI,OOO damages against George J. Zoll, owner of a dog which went mad and bit several children, was returned at Louisville in favor of Theresa Stengel, aged 11, one of the victims. Two other suits for damages are pending. A cyclone started about three miles south of Welsh, La., and swept everything before it for a distance of two miles. The two-story bouse of S. E. Carroll, a wealthy farmer, with all the outbuildings and barns, was wrecked. Ed Burgess, a hired man, was killed and Carroll and his wife seriously injured.