Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1899 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

At Curdsville, Ky.. Daniel Jennings, a tobacco grower, and his son Samuel were drowned in Cedar run. 1 The temperance advocates of Lexiugton, Ky., Who endeavored to secure evidence against saloon men violating the Sunday closing law were attacked and badly beaten by the liquor dealers. The Arlington' Hotel and Sanitarium at Marlin, Texas, was burned, causing a l-«s of about $60,000, with $20,000 insurance. There were a number of invalids in the hotel, all of whom escaped safely. In a street duel at Boyles, Miss., two men. Dr. Harris and a Mr. Allen, were killed and Mr. Dougherty fatally injured by John, Hace and Frank Williams. Allen was a bystander. The trouble was the result of an old feud. Joe Bates, a Mena, Ark., farmer, living near the Washita river, started to church with his family in a wagon. In attempting to ford the river the wagon was swept away and his wife, child and a young woman were drowned. At Memphis, Tenn., fire destroyed the wholesale and retail dry goods house of the J. S. Menken Company. The building, a five-story structure, was valued at $150,000. The stock was valued at about $030,000. Assistant Fire Chief Ryan was badly burned about the eyes in forcing an entrance to the building. John J. Irvine, colored, formerly Circuit Court Clerk at Chattanooga, Tenn., is at the bead of a movement among colored men to colonize the negroes of the South in the West. An application for a charter has been filed. It is the purpose of the promoters to ask Congress to set asi«(F public lands in the West for the use of the colony. A branch of the society will be established in every Southern city. It has become known that the Illinois Central Railroad Company, through its chief engineer, has as>ed one of the largest contracting firms operating in the South to make a bid on the cost of moving the Stuyvesant docks, wharves and terminals at New Orleans, including the sl,000,000 elevator, to Avondale, twelve miles up the Mississip pi river, and above the city limits. This action is the result of the freeze-out policy of the Orleans levee board and the City Council in refusing the Illinois Central adequate facilities for reaching its present terminals. The report has it that a $5,000,000 terminal will be established at Avondale.