Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1898 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Gen. Cassius M. Clay, who has begun suit for a divorce from his child wife, bas bought her a farm and says he will provide for her as long ns he lives. At Norfolk, Va., John Anderson, who was to have been hanged immediately for murders committed on the schooner Olive Packer, has been reprieved until the fourth Friday in October. Ben Johnson shot and killed Nathaniel Cloud, deputy sheriff of Claiborne County, Tenn., as the latter was attempting to arrest him at Middlesboro. John Cadle was shot and killed and Charles Burch, a friend of Johnson, is suspected of the crime. Congressman J. W. Bailey was unanimously renominated at Sherman. Texas, on a platform which declares that the State convenfion has no right to instruct its representatives in Congress on the question of expansion or any other question of national policy. In a cyclone at Justin, Texas, the plantation of Parker Terrill was devasted, dwellings demolished, barns razed, stock sheds wrecked and corn torn from the ground. An infant child, of one of Mr. Terrill’s tenants was blown through the boards of a closed door, being the only fatality reported. While going at a rapid rate the tender of the engine pulling the first of three sections of a train carrying the 69th New York regiment from Fernandina, Fla., to Huntsville, Ala., jumped the track ten miles above Birmingham, Ala., on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and five cars well filled with troops were piled down an embankment and on the side of the tracks. Two men were killed and • bout twenty-five others injured. Col. Edward Duffy, commander of the regiment, was on the train with his staff. As soon as possible the wrecked cars were broken into with axes and the injured men and others were assisted out. There is no telling what caused the tender of the engine to leave the track.