Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1898 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The -South End Hotel at Tybee, (ia., was destroyed by tire, causing a loss of $7)0,000. Arnold Wjunan of Brattleboro, Va., aged 72 yeai*s\eqmmitted .-suicide in New York by Shooting himself in the month. At the Texas Republican State convention at Fort Worth it was decided a State ticket would not be good policy and no candidates were named. At Hot Springs, Ark., the National and Windsor hotels, with two or three small structures adjoining, burned. Three lives were lost. The property loss is $25,000. The indictment against Mrs. Myra Atkinson, wife of Gov. Atkinson of West -Virginia, for forgery lias been quashed and tin* ease against her dismissed by Judge Blizzard in chambers. The Black Diamond Coal Company, with mines at Coal Creek amKoffiges at Knoxville, Tonn., fai.lcd, -T. ing appointed receiver. $150,000; assets unknow/. -WgS George Stephenson, colored, wnsviSß* ed at Stanford, Ky., far the murder of Joe Tilford, a white boa, 14 years old, at Crab Orchard July 4. Die was tried and convicted three days the reafter, the killing beiug deliberate am entirely unprovoked. Robert Taylor, who with five other men of Talladega County, Ala., is 011 trial before United States Commissioner Wilson nt Birmingham on a ehkrge of murdering W. A. Thompson, a Go/ernment witness, near Sylacauga, Ala.ylnst March, made a full statement of. thf* killing, implicating all the defendants, V Alex. Walker, a negro living near Pleasant Hill, Ala., was called from his cabin late the other night by n party of white men and carried to the woods. Here he was strapped to a stump and beaten with buggy traces. He was released and managed to crawl back to his home, where he died half an hour later. The negro had been very troublesome iii the neighborhood.