Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1899 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Mill A of the Cumberland floor mills plant at Nashville. Tenn_, was totally destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at sl3oyooo, fully ipsored. Col. M. Lewis Clark of Louisville, prominent in turf circles throughout the United States, shot himarif through the heart at Memphis, Tara. He was a victim of melancholia. Gov. Johnston of Alabama has issueJf a call for an extra session of the Legislature for the purpose of considering the repeal of the act calling for an election to determine whether a constitutional convention shall be held. Sam Hose, negro, confessed murderer, was lynched at Xewaan, Ga., in a most cruel manner. The black man’s fingers and ears were cut off, his body hacked with knives, he was chained to a tree, oil poured over his body, wood heaped about him and the awful pyre ignited. The farm on which Abraham Lincoln was bora, which lies two miles sooth of HodgenTille, Ky„ and which was owned by A. W. Dennett of New York (Sty, has been sold to David Grear, also of New York City. It is now very probable that the farm will he converted into a park. Freight train 38 on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad met with a serious accident at Bridge CL between Greenwood and Stoane’s Valley, Tara. A ear broke down on the trestle and 350 feet of the trestle and bridge were broken down. An unknown tramp was killed and Conductor J. E. Pepper and Brakeman Joinings of Somerset. Ky, were injured.