Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1899 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The Benbow House at Greensboro, N. C., was burned. Loss SIOO,OOO, with no insurance.

John P. Shannon of Elberton, Ga., has been elected supreme dictator of tbe Knights of Hofior.

At Parkersburg, W. Va., Madge Gordon, 13 years ol«b was indicted for peddling “moonshine" whisky.

At Rock House, Ky., while acting as peacemaker between John Moore and Chris Craft, William Maggard waa shot dead by Craft.

William H. Fischer, a New Orleans builder and contractor, shot his wife after brutally beating her and then fatally wounded himself.

While a party were bathing at the foot of Broadway, Galveston, Texas, Etta Thorn, aged 14, Marian Howard, 18, and Irene Lauderdale, 16, were drowned.

William Bingham went to John Riddle’s house, near Pineville, Ky., and calling him out, shot part of his head off with a shotgun. He then fled to the mountains.

James Howard, who was suspected of killing Tom Baker in the coujrt house yard at Manchester, Ky., is reported to have been shot by some member of the Baker family.

Gen. Nelson A. Miles has accepted the invitation to be present at Fort Thomas, Ky., on July 1, at the unveiling of the Sixth infantry memorial tablet and accept it in behalf of the United States regular army.

Frederick Brown, aged 17, and Edith Vaughn, aged 16, children of families prominent in the social world of Columbia, Mo., surprised their friends by eloping to Mexico, that State, where they were married.

At Winchester, Ky., Samuel ltupard and wife were iustantly killed by a Chesapeake and Ohio train while en route for the remains of their nephew, H. P. Rogers, killed in a railroad accident at Ronecverte, W. Va.

For thirty-six hours the town of Brackett, Texas, was under water as the result ot a serious cloudburst. No fewer than twenty-five houses are washed away and hundreds are homeless and penniless. Only a few lives were lost. The damage at Brackett ia estimated at $200,000.