Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1903 — AROUND THE WORLD [ARTICLE]

AROUND THE WORLD

George Worthington Garwood, a wealthy coal broker, aged 65 years, shot and killed Hilda Vogel, aged 22 years, and then killed himself in a room occu pled, by the couple at I’ittsburg. Jealousy of a rival was the cause of the crime. * A jury in the Superior Court in Put nam, Coon., returned a verdict of manslaughter against Mrs. Mary Manson. who-has been on trial charged with the murder of Mrs. Julia A. Wilson by poi soiling. An indeterminate sentence of not less than eight years and not more than ten years in State’s prison was imposed. Hunted from place so place by officers of the law, whom he always successfully eluded, and dogged by relatives find friends of nearly fifty murdered victims bent on taking his life, “Wild Jack” Sullivan, the most notorious feudist and desperado in Mississippi, was shot from ambush near Mount Olive and fatally injured. Josephine Dow, 14 years old, the daughter of Mrs. Amelia Dow. and Lillian 8 afford, aged 10 ye a in, the daughter of William Salford, both of Maplewood, a St. Louis suburb, ran away from home the other night, and the most diligent search by parents, friends and the police lias failed to find a clew to their whereabouts. The Episcopal Church in the United States is taking steps to organize provinces, to be composed of groups of dioceses. The committee recommends th.‘ election of one of the bishops rerident within the province as primate. The new canon provides for a convention in each province, to consist of two houses, the bishops forming the upper and tin clerical and lay deputies the lower house. Registration books have closed in Richmond, Va., and the result shows that 5,000 negroes have been disfranchised. Less than a thousand are now qualified to vote and they are no longer a factor in local politics. Inquiries in the State at large justify the belief that at least five-sixths of the negroes in Virginia have not. now the right to vote and they will no longer have to be reckoned in the calculations. The Republicans contend that their party will be largely augmented from the Democratic ranks, ns there is now no fear of possible negro domination in the future. «