Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1899 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Throe men were arrested at Pleasanton, Ky.. Wednesday charged with the murder of the Barber family. One confessed. All three are white farmers. A trust in Texas cattle is in process of formation, to comprehend 12.000.000 acres of graxiug 'land. 000,000 head of cattle and capital stock of $25,000,000. John Cook, who lives at the mining village of Helen, Ky., chopped George Latvia almost to pieces with an ax. because Davis insulted Cook' \ half-witted sister. William Hackney :pd John Thompson had a dispute over a chew of tobacco at

Clarksville, Tenu., and Hackney was brained with a shovel ns he was attacking Thompson with a knife. At Norfolk, Va., it is reported on trustworthy authority that the British Government has chartered seventy ocean steamers for transporting men and munitions of war to South Africa. D. E. Converse, founder of Converse College, died at Spartanburg, S. C. He was 72 years old and a man of great charity, his donations to Converse College alone amounting to $750,000. An old bear hunter named Amos Brown who lives in a cabin on the west fork of the Gila river. New Mexico, was attacked by a roving band of Apache Indians. Brown defended himself behind the heavy logs of his hut and succeeded iu driving the Indians off. As a result of the drouth in Central Texas, Austin was the other night without a single electric light. The city is dependent entirely upon water power from the river, both for its electric lights am! the force to pump water through the strtN t mains. The water supply is daily growing worse, and it is uot known how long the city will bo able to keep water iu its mains. -