Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1888 — THE SOUTHERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

At Frankfort, Ky., on Tuesday, Governor Bucknei; suspended Treasurer of State James W. Tate. Tate is charged with defalcation in his office, and has fled the State. The defaulting official has been Treasurer for twenty-one years. He was considered the soul of honor, and the news will produce a tremendous sensation throughout the State. It is thought Tate’s shortage will amount to between $200,000 and $300,000. The irregularities seem to run back eleven years. A reward of $5,000 has been offered for the arrest of Tate, the defaulting Kentucky treasurer. His shortage is between $190,000 and $200,000. A terrible wind-storm visited Georgia and East Tennessee Wednesday night, causing immense destruction to property and much loss of life. A Nashville dispatch says: The storm seems to have formed in the vicinity of Calhoun, Ga„ and pursued a northeasterly direction through North Georgia and into and beyond East Tennessee, bounding across to the Chilhowee mountains, and waa next heard from near Loudon, Tenn., on the East Ten-

nessee road, eighty miles northeast of Chattanooga. traveling from Calhoun, Ga., to Loudon, Tenn., a distance of 100 miles, in about thirty minutes. The path of the tornado from Calhoun to Loudon was through a section remote from railroads and telegraph lines and the damage will not be known for several days, but must have been fearful. The tornado in places cleared the ground completely of grass, and a forest of timber was mown as with a great scythe. The cyclone had a rotary motion, leaving a scene of desolation and destruction in its path. Large trees were twisted from their trunks and others torn up by the roots.