Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1898 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The Milburn-Bass wagon factory at Chattanooga*. Tenn., was burned, and is a total loss. The plant, stock, etc., was valued at $125,000; insurance, $65,000. Two distinct earthquake shocks passed over East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia and Eastern Kentucky,‘lasting four and seven seconds respectively. No damage resulted. The Wbite-Howard-Baker feud in Clay County. Kentucky, has broken out again. John Baker and Charles Clarke were ambushed by twenty members of the opposing faction and shot to death. An infuriated mob stormed the Simpson County jail at Westville, Miss., killing W. T. Patterson, who was confined therein under the charge of murdering Lawrence Brinson. The jail was set on fire, and the buildings and the body of the prisoner were burned. At Galveston, Texas, the Beach Hotel, out of the leading summer and winter resorts in the South, was burned, entailing a loss estimated at from $200,000 to $250,000; insurance only partial. The building and contents are a total loss. The Are was caused by a defective electric light wire. A soldier of flattery A, Sixth artillery, committed suicide at Fort Clinch, Fernandina, Fla., by jumping overboard and swimming out in the sound so far that he could not possibly get back. He had all his clothes on as Well as shoes. The suicide’s name is Bigar from Albany, N. Y. He was recruited and taken to that fort a month ago, since which time he has been desperately ill. The Kentucky State Board of Health issued a proclamation placing the whole of Jackson County and each of its inhabitants under rigid quarantine from the outside world. The board found that there have been more than 100 cases of smallpox in the county. The facts were laid before the county authorities, and an effort was made to have an appropriation made by the County Court, as designated by law. The court declined, although there is money in the treasury. The State board now calls on the adjoining counties to enforce strict quarantine against Jackson County along its entire boundary. Evasion of the quarantine incurs heavy penalties. Dr. McCormack, secretary of the board, said: “The State Board of Health was reluctant to take this action, because it is the first time in sixteen years that an absolute quarantine has been declared. But the danger was so great and involved so many people and so great interests to the State that we concluded only rigorous measures would meet the emergency."