Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1903 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

From 75 to 100 persons perished in a flood which destroyed big cotton mine, causing a loss of $2,000,000, at Spartanburg, 8. C. James Green killed Jhmes Harris at Dosselt, Tenn., in a dispute which arose over 1 cent. Green used a shotgun. He is in jail at Clinton. William Boston, aged 22, was found dead in the yard of his home, five miles from in hia forehead. The presumption is that he-was shot by burglars. While indorsing a check to pay the premium on a life insurance policy for SIO,OOO which he had just taken ont, J. S. Farrier dropped dead in the Farley Bnnk at Montgomery, Ala. Robert Dennis, a negro, aged about 50, was lynched in the public rquara at Greenville, Misa.. for an attempted attack upon Misa Beulah Bishop, a white

girl and an orphan. A ball game wee postponed forty mlnutea while the player* and most of the spectators joined the lyncher*. Two men are dead and another fatally wounded ne the result of a fight at Eagle Lake, Texas, when City Marshal Kinard and William McDow shot each other to death and Pierce Hammond, a bystandreceived a mortal wound. At he fell McDow said: “We are both done for;, let us die friends." They shook hands and died. The Jim Crow law providing separate compartments for whites and blacks in street cars, which was passed by the recent Tennessee Legislature, was der dared uneotiitituttonal by the State Supreme Court. The court did not go into the merits of the law itself, but declared the act unconstitutional because its caption was not explicit enough.