Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1903 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Three persons were killed and more than a score injured by lightning at New Hope Church, Appomattox County, Va. Duels may follow the turmoil in the Georgia Legislature, caused by measures on the convict lease system and textbooks in public schools. Alexander Means and Will Starks, two negroes, were hanged in Montgomery, Jkla., for the murder of Fleming Foster, a negro, near Le Grande, Ala. Edmnnd T. Sykes, a bookkeeper and son of Gen. E. T. Sykes, committed suicide at Mobile. Ala., by shooting himself. Despondency over a love affair was the cause of the deed. A violent electrical, wind and rain storm prevailed in Austin, Texas, resulting in great damage. The wind attained the velocity of a tornado and the total rainfall was four and one-half inches. John Galloway was murdered at a camp two miles from Rockport, Ivy., and Robert Carroll, a companion, was so badly injured that his life is despaired of. The killing was the work of two masked men. e A syndicate of Madison, Wis., men have purchased Windsor Shades, in New Kent County, Ya. This farm contains (5,000 acres. The price paid was $05,000. The place will be cut up into small tracts and colonized. A'Ynob of 200 men stopped a Chesapeake and Ohio train near Clifton Forge, Va., in an effort to secure two negroes it wanted to lynch. The doors were locked and the train started with the mob firing nt it. Sidney King, a negro, was hanged in the eounty jail yard at Birmingham, Ala. He had nothing to say on the gallows and di4j without apparent fear. He killed Ocie Byron, a negro convict, iu Coalburg prison. Because Ckarelton Ilullet, a contractor at Lexington, Ky., aged 50 years, did not pay him what he thought three days’ service was worth, James Copper, a laborer, aged 30, secured a pistol and shot Hullet to death.