Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1899 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Capt. Morton L. Phillips, commander of the revenue cutter Boutwell, is dead at Newberne, N. C., aged 61. The date of the opening of the Port Arthur, Texas, ship canal has been fixed definitely as Saturday, March 25. The design for the statue to be erected in Richmond, Va., over the grave of Miss Winnie Davis, is by Zolvey of New York. It is the figure of a sitting angel. It is to be of Italian marble, and will be erected by the Daughters of the Confederacy. Almost the entire plant of the Cummer Lumber Company, situated on the St. John’s river, four miles north of Jacksonville, Fla., was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of over $250,000, with 80 per cent of insurance. The mill was the most modern in the South, as well as one of the largest. -< News of a catastrophe in which twelve lives were lost was brought to Norfolk, Va., by the survivors of the steam barge Admiral of Philadelphia. In the storm the tug James Bow’en of Philadelphia, which was towing a dredge from Norfolk to her home port, went down four miles off Hog Island with all on board. There were eleven men in her crew and to this list is added the mate of the German steamer Albano, which picked up the men from the Admiral. William J. Bryan evidently wants it understood that he disapproves of “Hobsonism.” The distinguished Nebraskan passed through Brenham, Texas, recently on his way to Houston. At the station he was greeted by hundreds.of citizens, nearly all of whom shook hands with him. A popular young woman of the city wanted to change the method of saluting the silver champion. Edging up to him in a moment when she thought he might be disposed to grant her request, she said: “Mr. Bryan, will you kiss me?” ‘’Encase me, my dear young woman,” he replied; “but I am not Hobson.”