Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1898 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

During the progress of a bloody race war at Ilarpersville, Miss., nine negroes and one white man Were killed. The Mississippi State Board of Health has removed the quarantine. Mississippi is now open to the world and all refugees inny return. Edmond Souchon, president of the Louisiana State Board of Health, has issued a proclamation removing all quarantine restrictions ou traffic. A furious storm that swept southern Texas demolished houses and wrecked freight cars. Engineer George Johnson was killed in a collision at Missouri City. Captain Thomas B. Carter, chief of the secret service bureau for Kentucky, Indiana and Tennessee, was found dead in bed in his room in Selbach’s Hotel at Louisville, Ky. Charles G. Ilenniug, individual bookkeeper at the Bank of Louisville at Louisville, Ky., is a defaulter in a sum ranging between SB,OOO and SIO,OOO, and has fled from the city. Arch Battr, a negro, charged with an attempt to murder Annie Morrison, a farmer's daughter, was lynelied by a mob at Tomkinsville, Ky. Miss Morrison was frightfully beaten by Baur. At Dallas, Texas, a four-story brick building, owned by J. C. Dargan of Atlanta, Gn., aud occupied by the Texas Dnig Company, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $150,000. Private B. Arnstein’, First West Virginia, was sentenced at Camp Poland, Knoxville, Tenn., to six months’ imprisonment in Fort Sheridan and to pay a fine of S6O for having been absent without leave for nearly a month. At Houston, Texas, M. Pareira, a drummer, whose home was at Albany, N. Y’., wna shot and instantly killed by George De Moss. Pareira is alleged to have offered a gross insult to Mrs. De Moss and she told her husband on her return hr-me.