Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1898 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

At Denison. Texas, Mrs. Mary Joslyn, while attempting to light a fire with kerosene, was burned so badly that she will die. *o •,The Forepaugh circus train was wrecked nnd two employes were killed at Wilsondale, on the Norfolk & Western road, fifty-six miles south of Kenova, W. Ya. An attempt was made to murder Dr. W: A. Mason, a dentist of Fort Worth, Texas, by poisoned candy sent through the mails. The doctor is now- critically ill. A special from Mountain City, Tenn., says: About 2 o’clock the other morning a mob of 100 men overpowered the Johnson County jailer and lynched John Williams, the negro who seriously stabbed Sherman Dunn. A sleeper and a chair ear in a train on the Houston and Texas Central plunged through a fifteen-foot trestle over Chambers creek, forty-seven miles from Dallas, Texas. Twenty people were injured and Judge G. W. Davis of Oak Cliff was killed. A tornado wrecked several buildings at Mount Airy, S. C., and tore up railway tracks. There was a cloudburst in the western part of North Carolina that drove families from their homes and ruined river bottom crops along the Yadkin and the Catawba. Miss Winnie Davis, the “daughter of the Confederacy,” lies at rest in Hollywood cemetery, Richmond, Va. Business in the city was practically suspended and more than 70,000 people either took part in or gathered on the streets to look, upon the procession. At Auburn, Ky., Mrs. Rainey Johnson, aged 32, committed suicide in a horrible manner, while insane. She saturated her clothes with kerosene and then applied a lighted match to them. Enveloped in flames, she ran screaming from the house to the street, and did not stop until burned to death.