Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Many points in south and southwest Virginia and North Carolina report having experienced an earthquake shock. . At Louisville, Ivy., the license board has decided to revoke all licenses granted to druggists to sell intoxicating liquors t at retail.

Dr. M. E. Regan was assaulted in the street at Eureka Springs, Ark., by J. D. Williamson, a Chicago capitalist, and severely beaten with a heavy cane. Trouble between their children was the alleged cause. Suit for $25,000 damages has been begun. At Anniston, Ala,, negro soldiers, members of the Third Alabama (colored) regiment, lay in ambush, shot at individual white soldiers and forced a squad of the provost guard to retire after an armed conflict. When the squad returned with re-enforcements the negroes had disappeared. Unless the President intervenes to save him, Private Lindsey P. Holt, Troop F, Tenth United States cavalry, stationed at Huntsville. Ala., will be executed for murder. This is the first death sentence passed upon an enlisted man since the lieginning of the war, and for many years previous.

Ethel Bodfish, aged 14 years, and Blanche Howard, 8 years old, were arrested at Little Itock, Ark., charged with robbing a dry goods store. A considerable quantity of goods taken from the store was found in their possession. The girls also robbed the Provident Relief Association house the same night, securing a large amount of clothing donated to the poor of the city. A. J. Denudes, knowh as “tlie Turquoise King of the Jarillas,” was murdered at his turquoise mine forty miles north of El Paso, Texas, in New Mexico, by a Mexican employe. While the “turquoise king” was seated at the breakfast table the Mexican approached and emptied a six-shooter with the mine-owner's back as a target. Demules was instantly killed, one bullet passing through his neck and the other lodging in his back. The assassin was captured.