Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1903 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Dan Patch paced a mile in 1:56% at Memphis, breaking the record of 1:57 held by Prince Alert Will Newsom, a river pilot, shot and killed John Burrell, a lumberman, near Decatur, Ala., the result of a quarrel. Over a score of deaths are reported

la northeast Georgia due to eating cabbages saturated with poison by a strange worm. a** An order has been issued In Tennessee and is to be made general in the Sooth debarring negroes from white men'a sleeping cars. Felix Hall, alias Henry Jackson, colored, was hanged at Birmingham, Ala., for the murder of Norwood Clarke, a young white man. Two foreigners were instantly killed aud another probably fatally hurt by the explosion of a sixteen-inch gas mala at Cameron, W. Va. Felix Hall, a negro, was banged at Birmingham, Ala., for murder. When the drop fell the rope slipped and after ten minutes of agony the man waa hauled np and hanged a second time. This time hiß neck was broken.