Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1899 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The Western Union Telegraph Company is arranging to lay a new cable between Miami, Fla., and Havana, Cuba. Martin Collin was shot and killed at Bristol, Tenn., by Will Templin. Both were young business men and quaraeled about money. H. 11. McConnell and his wife, an aged couple, were killed by lightning at their home near Cottage Grove, Tenn. Both had their clothing burned off. The Kentucky Populist State convention denounced both the old parties and nominated a full State ticket, headed by John G. Blair for Governor. James M. G’arlington. the leader of the band which in July, 1808, robbed a Santa Fe Railroad train near Saginaw and killed two trainmen, was hanged at Fort Worth. Howard A. San*>n, an emissary seeking miners for Missouri and Indian Territory coal fields, was fatally stabbed in the coal fields at Bramwell, W. Va. His assailants are unknown. , Yellow fever has broken out at the National Soldiers* . Home at Hampton, Va. There are now thirty cases of fever

In the place and there hava been three deaths from the disease. Owing to the scarcity of coal in the Chattanooga, Tenn., district and the unprecedented demand for commercial fuel, operators have advanced the price of domestic coal 25 cents a ton and commercial coal 10 cents. Chancellor R. B. Kelly has appointed R. A. Mitchell of Gadsdeh and O. H. Parker of Anniston, Ala., receivers for the Gadsden Land and Improvement Company. The suit was brought for the purpose of winding up the affairs of the company. Three Mormon elders who have been preaching their peculiar doctrines In Jasper Connty, Georgia, are missing, and the supposition is that they have been roughly handled by a jnob that forced them bodily from the house where they were stopping.