Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1899 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Almbst the entire business portion of Columbia, La., was destroyed by fire. Ix*ss $70,000, insurance-$36,000. v Near Dunlap, Tenn., R. M. Robinson, a merchant, was shot and robbed of $3,500. He had been to Cincinnati, where he had sold a lot of mules aud horses. In the presence of a vast concourse of people the monument to the memory of Winuie Davis, the “Daughter of the Confederacy,” was unveiled at Richmond, Va. The Planters’ warehouse, the WoodsChiekasaw Company’s warehouse and the plant of the Louisiana Molasses Company, iu Memphis, Tenn., were destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of about $300,000. At raducah. Ivy., Joseph Enters, an enghieer, shot anil killed Dora Shayer and nfterward blew out his own brains. The tragedy was caused by attempts of the girl to rid herself of the attentions of Enders. Information has been received of a terrible buttle that took place between eitizeus and a bund of mountain outlaws who had been terrorizing Bell County, Ky. Iu the fight three of the outlaws were killed. O. C. King of Meridiun, Miss., commissioner from the State of Mississippi to the Paris exposition in’ 1900, has arranged for what promises to be a great novelty in the way of an exhibit from that State. He has made arrangements for securing at the right season 500,000 selected full-grown cotton bolls, which wH.I be sold at the Paris exposition by original cotton field jvorkers as souvenirs of the American ewtou exhibit. These will lie the first cotton bolls ever shipped abroad, and they will be eagerly sought after by people who have used quantities of American cotton, but who have never seen it iu its natural form.