Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1899 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Tbe school house and church at Sumner City, Tenn., were burned to tire ground. Five residences and the large store of Babbington Brothers were destroyed by fire at New Orleans. Loss about $20,000, little insurance. At Hillsboro, Texas, the Windsor Commercial hotels were destroyed by fire. Two guests, Ross Leary and John Grizzle, perished in the flames. Emil Messingschlnger, 35, living at Moruingview, Ky., while nnder the influence of liquor, shot and fatally wounded N. Baker at Kenton Station. To escape being run over by a train, Mrs. T. Herbert and Mrs. Thomas Woodford jumped off a twenty-foot trestle at Cardiff, Ala., and both were badly hurt. The memory of Franklin Buchanan, who commanded the first iron-clad, the Merrimac, will be honored by the erection in Norfolk, Va., or Baltimore of a magnificent monument. The home of James Skeens on Gnyandotte river, not far fsoin Hamlin, W. Va., was attacked last midnight by four masked and armed men. Black Skeens was killed, James Skeens was mortally wounded and his wife and babe and Ambrose Spurlock were seriously wounded. Tbe tragedy is the result of an old feud in that mountainous district.