Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1898 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

At Harrodsburg, Ky., William Morgan, a brother-in-law of Col. Jack Chinn, was shot twice in the breast by James Moberly and died. It has been decided by the Navy Department at Washington to launch the battleship Illinois, now building at Newport News, Va.. on Oct. 4. Gov. Tanner’s daughter has been selected to christen the vessel. The Government steamboat John I. Meigs was destroyed by an explosion at St. Philip. La. She had aboard Lieut. Jervey and a party engaged in removing the torpedoes laid in the Mississippi river during the beginning of the«war. Lieut. Jervey had a narrow escape. Four men wi re killed and two badly wounded. > Arkansas elected a full set of State officers. 100 members of the lower house of the Legislature, sixteen State Senators and local officers in each of the seventyfive counties and voted on the adoption of two important constitutional amendments, as well as the question of the liquor license in the different counties. The Democratic State ticket, headed by Dan W. Jones, was elected.