Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1903 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Fire at Greenville, X. C.. caused a loss estimated at more than $200,004 and for a time threatened the entire city. Cato Garrett, a negro, who stabbed and killed Harry Stout, was hanged by a mob near the scene of his crime at Stout’s Crossing, Miss. L. N’ewhouse, traveling representative of the Mystic Fire Extinguisher Company of Chicago, was badly injured in a runaway •accident at Paducah, Ivy. Warden Hawk of the federal prison at Atinuta, Ga.. was discharged, being accused of tampering witli Congressman Livingston’s mail and iucompotency. Booker T. Washington, iti an address' at lauiisvillo, said the negro race is passing through a trying period of development. and asks justice for criminals, regardless of color. Twenty persons, mostly Mexican farm hands nud laborers, were drowned in a cloudburst in the south-western section of Texas. Some reports place the number of deaths at a much higher figure. The west side of the public square at Lewisburg. Tenn., was wiped out by fire. The loss was $14,000. with $5,200 insurance. The Presbyterian Church was among the buildings destroyed. Pulaski Leeds, master mechanic of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, was shot and dangerously wounded at Louisville, Ky., by (y. B. Werner, a discharged employe of the road. The shooting occurred in Ix>ed*’ office at the Union station. Werner allot himself also and may die. Twenty-four person* were killed and thirty injured by the wreck of a South-

ern Railway passenfcer train near Ilockfiih, Va. The passenger crashed into a looai freight. The engine and expreef car were demolished and the baggage far telescoped through a coach in which were many immigrants. Ci 001. Roger Williams of Keptncky is investigating the conduct of Deputy Sheriff Hays, who'in soldier uniform tried tointerview .Tctt and White in jail. He says the use of the uniform was in violation of,federal law and he will punish Hays. - t Charles Evans, colored, suspected of the murder of John L. Phillips, was taken from the jail at Norway, S. C., and lynched by n mob. Four negroes who were confined in the jail were also token by the mob and beaten iuto insensibility. The I/Otiisville Coliseum Company was organized at Louisville, Ivy., with An authorized capital of $250,000. Samuel Geibfelder was elected president. The company will erect a coliseum to cost $850,000 for national gatherings. The building will be finished in time for the national Democratic convention. L. A. Moore, secretary of the city of Dallas, Texas,'was shot and almost instantly killed by his son Ernest, aged 22 years. Moore, it is alleged, had been drinking and had attacked his younger son. The other son, Ernest, was remonstrating with the father, who turned upon him, when the son fired the fatal shot. One man was killed and three were perhaps fatally injured at Steel-villie, Mo., in a battle with revolvers, in which the participants were Sheriff W. R. Tass of Crawford -County, his deputy. Perry Ives; Deputy Marshal John Woods, Robert Starks, a farmer, and his sou Hir-sche-1, aged 23 years. Robert Starks was shot through the heart and killed. The trouble originated in the refusal of young Starks to submit to arrest.