Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1903 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A loss of SIOO,OOO was occasioned by a fire at May’s Lick, Ky.< which destroyed the business portion of the city. Bessemer, Ala., savings bank baa been closed because of defalcation of $280,000 by its president, I. J. Cornwall, who fled after writing letters of confession. Leaving a note asking her family to pray for her, Miss Hattie A. Thomas of New Orleans killed herself with laudanum within an hour of the time set for her marriage. Feudists burned the hotel of Captain B. J. Ewen. chief witness for the State in the Jett-White case at Jackson, Ky. Two arrests were made and accused placed under strong military guard. James Wilcox, the murderer of Nellie Cropsey of Elizabeth City, N, C., will have to serve his sentence of thirty years in the State prison. The Supreme Court affirmed the verdict of the lower tribnnai. Lewis Bolin, CO years old, was murdered at Sneedville.-lenn., by his 13-year-old stepdaughter, who sank the blade of an ax deep into his skull. Bolin was chastising a stepson when the boy called to bis sister for help. Prof. Otis Ashmore, superintendent of Savannah (Ga.) public schools, declared in an interview negroes are deficient in reasoning power, and money given for their higher education is wasted; their memorizing ability good; training as mechanics best.