Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1899 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

At Palestine, Texas, a half-block of business houses was destroyed by fire. The loss will reach $75,000. At Paris, Texns, a reviewing stand on which were seated 4,000 persons, witnessing a display of fireworks, fell with a crash. No one was killed, but a great number were injured, some probably fatally. J. C. Butler, a prominent citizen, living eighteen miles south of Bentonville, Ark., was lodged in jail charged with the murder of his 15-year-old daughter. The girl was terribly mutilated, her head being split open with an ax and her throat cut. Hearing that a force of 500 citizens of Elkins, W. Va., was on the way to Beverly to remove the county records pending the settlement of the question of the location of the county seat, citizens fortified the county buildings and prepared to resist the Elkins people. The latter turned back on hearing of these preparations.