Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1899 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Joseph Medill, editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune, died at his winter home in San Antonio, Texas, of heart failure. He was 76 years of age. A series of terrific windstorms swept through portions of Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas, doing an immense amount of property damage and killing a number of persons. In a wreck on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad near Wheeler, Ky., caused by a landslide, Charles Painter of Jellico, fireman, was killed, and the engineer, Charles Shively, injured. A mob of Mexicans tried to prevent the removal of the smallpox patients in Laredo, Texas, to the pesthouse. One of the officials was badly beaten and a number of the mob were shot by officers. Six men of the Fifteenth Minnesota have been sent from Augusta, Ga., to St. Francis Barracks, Fla. It is understood tbeir sentences are for one year, except in the case of Williams, the ringleader in the recent trouble, who got six years. Members of the Legislature at Little Rock, Ark., were panic-stricken when it was announced that physicians had diagnosed the case of Senator Lankford as smallpox. After a half hour's debate the House voted to vaccinate all its members.