Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1898 — SOUTHERIN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERIN.

A special from Sherman, Texas, says: Tim first bale of cotton ioj this season's growth has been ginned at Pearsall, Frio County. It was sold at auction at Kan Antonio and will be shipped to President McKinley to be made into gunasoiton for (he battleship Texas. The Tennessee Coal and Iron Railroad Company uud the Bloss Irouand Steel Company at Birmingham, Ala., have granted nu advance of 2*4 cents a ton, equal to 7 per cent in wages, to their 8,000 coal miners, and a strike 'which was threatened will be averted. The preliminary examination of the lynchers of the postmaster at Lake City, 8. C„ last March, when the post office was burned. Baker killed and bis famiiy wounded, began Friday. Four privates of flie South Carolina volunteers, charged in Columbia with complicity Were urraigned with others arrested. The People’s party' parer of Atlunta, Qa H publishes an address from the no-

tional organization committee calling for a national convention at Cincinnati, Monday, Sept. 5, to nominate candidate* for President and Vice President and outline a plan of campaign to cover the next two years In anticipation of the election of 1900.