Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1898 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Unknown-men entered the store of Mrs. Ida Meyers, in J«ie, Ah. and after fatally wounding Mrs. Meyers, killing her married daughter and badly beating an employe named Cook, stole $3,000 and then burned the store. Nearly the whale of the baseness part of the t<#wa of Tifton. Ga_ was burned the ether night. An oil lamp In n board-ing-house exploded. The Masonic hali and ten stores were destroyed and a hotel and large lumber mill were damaged. Thomas Jones, living near Greer, W. Vs. attempted to light a fire with crude oil. An explosion occurred and the clothing of his twin daughters, aged 6 years, ignited. Jones was too badly burned to assist them and the children were burned to death. Dr. Frank T. A. Borcek of Fayette County. Texas, was murdered while asleep in his led by some one who entered the house and shot him through the head, without awakening, so they say. any of the occupants of the boose. J. It. Comics. a fanner and lumberman, was shot dead in his house at the village of Garrison by an assassin, who fired through a window.