Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1899 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The large cotton warehouse at Crystal Springs, Miss., was destroyed by fire. Seven hundred bales of cotton were consumed. Loss *OO,OOO. The American schooner Napoleon Boughton sank off Wilmington, N. C. The crew of seven has reached New York, having had a narrow escape from drowning. An in-bound Louisville and Nashville train struck a Fourth avenue electric car at Fourth avenue and G street, Louisville, completely demolishing the car and injuring nine people. Rear Admiral W. S. Schley was enthusiastically welcomed to Atlantn. The events of the day culminated in the public presentation of a handsome loving cup from the people of Atlanta to the rear admiral. The south-bound limited passenger train on the Illinois Central Road jumped the track at Senatobia, Miss. Jack Barnett, fireman, and Dave Dorring, engineer, were killed aud Baggngemaster Nott seriously injured. A disastrous fire started at Thomasville, Ala., in the office of N. B. Boyle’s large store, and every business house in town except H. Morningstar & Co. and J. P. Turner & Sons, was burned. Very few goods were saved from any of the buildings. Mrs. Jennie Green, the young wife of Chester Green of Nieholasville, Ky., during a fit of jealousy shot and fatally wounded Mrs. Mary Betts, wife of J. M. Betts, clerk at the Hotel Nicholas, one ball puncturing the body of the victim near the heart. H. H. Soria of New Orleans purchased K. Orr place at Mount Pleasant, Tenn., for *75,000. The land is supposed to contain 200 801*03 of phosphate, though it has not been prospected. Excitement over recent phosphate finds runs high in Maury County, and extravagant sums are being paid for lands. The Supreme Court of Tennessee has decided that no work house, city, county or Statfe prison keeper has a legal right to whlf> a prisoner therein. The court sustained a judgment for *SOO returned by a lower court against the keeper of the Knox County work house for whipping a colored woman who was unruly.