Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1899 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

At Duektown, Tenn., the furnace and ore ronstiug men have joined the strikers at the copper mines. The Southern hosiery yarn spinners have formed an association. A schedule of advanced prices was adopted. The agricultural department of Georgia his decided to begin a vigorous campaign against the sale of oleomargarine in that State. At Thomson, Ga., H. B. Battle, a negro preacher, was killed by an unknown white man. Battle had preached a strong sermon against lynching. The flour millers of Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky and Mississippi in secret conference decided to advance the price of Hour about 10 per cent on Oct. 1. The long drought has been most seriously felt in its reduction of the cotton crop of Texas. The crop will be 2,000,000 bales short of the crop of last year. The British steamer Angola cleared from New Orleans with 168,172 bushels of corn and 160,000 bushels of oats, the largest cargo of grain ever taken from that port. East Tennessee has furnished more soldiers per capita to the volunteer forces than has any other section of the United States, the record being one soldier for every 856 inhabitants. Fire in the wholesale district of MemPhis, Tenn., destroyed the establishments of Lee Brothers Gin Company and Rogers Brothers, dealers in Implements. Loss $120,000, insurance $50,000. An adobe house five miles from Mora, N. M., collapsed, killing Manuel Cordova and his wife and six children. Rains caused the dirt roof to fall. Only one member of the family, a boy of 10 years, escaped, Interest In the Baker family’s troubles has been revived in Boston by the issuance by Mrs. Baker of an appeal for material assistance on the ground that she is in poverty. She is the widow of the murdered postmaster of Lake City, S. C. Noah Finley, a negro, was hanged at Pulaski, Va. Finley’s crime wns highway robbery and attempted murder and bis execution was the only instance in late years in which the extreme penalty has been imposed in Virginia for this offense.