Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1899 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Patti Louise Grayson, the younger of the Grayson sisters, died at Galveston, Texas. At the time of her death she was under engagement to go to New York and play all winter. At Louisville, Ky., tire destroyed the stove foundry of Bridgeford & Co. aud the Phoenix Canning Company, causing a loss of $250,000. Samuel Reese, a fireman, was fatally hurt. Gov. Candler's minute men, a, company of 100 officers and privates at Atlanta, Ga., have made application to Secretary of War Root to be accepted as a company for service in the Philippines. Mrs. B. K. Bruce of Mississippi, widow of the late United States Senator Bruce, has accepted the position of lady principay of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute at Tuskegee, Ala. Three miners, Fred Hamilton, Clarence Hardesty and Eliza Powers, lost their lives in Highland niiues. near Fairmount, W. Va„ the result of a powder explosion, followed by a tire started by the falling of a lamp in a keg of powder. Near Columbia, S. 0., 200 feet of trestle on the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens roail over Broad river gave way under a train load of granite. Several cars aud an engine fell fifty feet into the water. Four men were killed. Arch Healton wun shot aud killed in Leslie County, Ivy., by Miltbu Brnshear. Healton and Brnshear had quarreled. Healton went the other morning to a store on Philips Fork to buy some merchandise. He found Brashear at the store and when Healton entered the store Brashear told him. to get out. Healton did not go, but pulled his pistol. Both fired at once. Healton fell dead in the store door.