Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1898 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The Federal Steel Company has acquired possession of the Lorain and Wheeling Railway. Wardy Wolfe, un insane man of Charchvilie, W. Va., shot his father and his brother and then killed himself. At Wheeling, W. Va., tire destroyed the large factory building of John Arbenz, occupied by the Acme Box Company and tomato catsup works of Exley, Watkins & Co. Loss, $50,000. The grand jury indicted every coal merchant in Frankfort, Ky., charging conspiracy. The coal men combined aud have l>een supplying the trade at prices agreed on by the combination. In a clash between the First Georgia soldiers and the Third North Carolina regiment, colored, at Camp .Holland, Knoxville, Tenn., 100 shots were fired. Several men are reported wounded. At Durant, .Miss., the Commercial Hotel, owned by the Illinois Central Railroad, has been destroyed by fire. The loss on contents is $7,000 and insurance $2,(XXI. The loss on building is unknown. Miss Eflie McKibbon was probably fatally wounded by a pistol shot from a negro while riding home from a negro camp meeting near Birmingham, Ala., with George Noble. The negro was caught and lynched. Gov. Bloxham of Florida has issued a call for a national harbor defense convention in Tampa, Fla., Feb. 8, 1809. The Governors of the various States are requested to name delegates. A call for a convention for the same date and place was also issued to discuss reorganization of the militia service of the States.