Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1899 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Dr. G. A. Thompson of Chicago committed suicide at Shreveport, La. Gov. Dan W. Jones of Arkansas has announced his candidacy .for the United States Senate, to succeed Senator J. H. Berry. Dr. George K. Pratt, owner of the St. Charles Theater in New Orleans, is satisfied that the theater was set on fire by an incendiary. Gov. Ellerbe of South Carolina died at his home in Marion County Friday night, aged 30 years, after an illness of four months with consumption. Elisha Baxter, the tenth Governor of Arkansas, is dead at his home in Batesville. He was born in Rutherford County, North Carolina, Sept. 1, 1827. Five residences on Lookout Mountain, Tenn., burned to the ground. The mountain has no fire protection, and although several hundred people were present they could do nothing. At Point Pleasant, W. Va., during a heavy thunderstorm lightning struck the residence of John A. Brannon, instantly killing his son, aged 11, and seriously injuring a younger daughter. Two men were killed by lightning near Walersville, Ky. F. Richardson, one of the victims, was standing in the door of his residence, while Thomas Spirby was found dead in Station Camp creek. Gov. Sayers of Texas has sent a telegram to all the Governors and Attorney Generals of the Southern States, announcing that he has called an anti-trust convention to meet in St. Louis Sept. 20 for the purpose of securing concerted action against trusts. Jane Shippery, a young married woman living near Spartanburg, S. C., climbed into a cherry tree in her yard to get some fruit for breakfast. She lost her balance and fell, her feet catching between two limbs. She made no outcry and hung there until dead. A terrific wind and rain storm swept Central Kentucky Thursday and a smallsized but violent cyclone played havoc in Shelby County, where outhouses and fences were demolished and great damage was done to growing crops, Ten or twelve large barns were razed to the ground and several farm hands were hurt, none fatally.