Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1899 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

John W. Funston, of Champaign, 111., nnd John G. Green, of Bolasco. Mexico, were asphyxiated in a room in New Orleans Friday night. Fire at Stamping Ground, Ky., dbstroyed G, G. Carl & Co.’s furniture store, George Duvall’s grocery, the large warehouse of A. Ford, Dr. C. Lewis’ drug store, and the postoffiee. At Clarksburg, W. Va., the Lucas coal lands, including 4,000 acres lying on the west fork of the Monongaheln river, have been sold to the 11. C. Frick Coke Company of Pittsburg for SOIO,OOO. Dr. Thomas J. Buffington, aged 78 years, and Miss Fannie Conrad, aged 17, both of Baton Rouge, were married at New Orleans. Dr. Buffington has been married twice before, both his former wives being aunts of the present bride. The residence of Douglas Sherley, the former leader of Louisville’s fashionable set, was damaged by tire to the extent of about $12,000. The residence and fur*, nishings, which were very costly, Mr. Sherley being a collector of rare bric-a-brac, were fullly covered by insurance. The death sentence imposed upon Private John N of wit, Company 11. Seventh United States volunteer infantry, convicted of murder by a court-martial, held in Camp Haskell, Macon, (!a., has been commuted by the President to dishonorable discharge from the army and imprisonment for life.