Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1903 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Seventy marines and forty Bailors, fought a sharp battle on the government reservation at St. Helena, Va., in which many were hurt. The smallpox situation along the Norfolk and Western Railroad in West Virginia is growing steadily worse, except in the towns of Ceredo and Kenova, where extensive sanitary precautions have cheeked its progress. A family feud in Hart County, Kentucky, resulted in the murder of two men nnd the serious wounding of two others, and led to the arrest of the alleged assassin, Custer Gardner, a relative of the dead and injured. Four children were burned to death near Jackson, Miss. William Dlkis and wife went to a festival several miles from their home and locked the children in the cabin. The cabin caught fire and the children were burned to death. Miss Navo Matlock, daughter of Sheriff James Matlock of Hardeman County, Texas, has been appointed deputy sheriff by her father. She is an expert shot nnd good rider. Much of her time will be spent In the saddle running down horse thieves. Fire in the heart of the business and manufacturing district of New Orleans completely destroyed the plant of the National Biscuit Company and damaged considerably a number of surrounding warehouses and other property. The loss is about $225,000. Mrs. W. P. Warren and her sister, Miss Morris, were burned to death in Central City, Ky., by the overturning of a lamp, which set fire to their clothing. A G-year-old boy saved his baby sisters life by wrapping her in a shawl aud carrying her to a place of safety. While making an effort to save the life of his 2-year-old sister, whose clothes had ignited from an open fireplace, Ernest Pettit, 8 years old, was burned to death at the home of his parents in Asheville, N. C. The baby, although seriously injured, will live.