Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

-rr-|, . ■ William Ellis, .wife and two children i were burned to death ih their home near Barbourville, XV- Vg. John W. feaker, grand master in Kentucky of the Aficient ’Order of. United Workmen, died of dropsy.- at the uge of 55. ' ,■■■: ■ . II A quarrel between John and. J aides Carter, brothers, 1 and Bud Lynen, a neighbor, at Flynn Lick, Tbnn.. terminated iu Lynen killing the .brdthers. At Chattanooga, Tehn', Samuel Miffs, a collector for an installment hopsc. attempted to seize furniture jn the house of Mary Venable' for a sfiiall' debt. The woman tried to prevent it nnd in the struggle that followed Nlilljs shot the, woman gnd her little son and-daughter. Wesley Nottingham of Middle Creek., W. Via., inade an arsenal Of his liotfse when Constable Rogers went to arrest him on a charge of arson, j Nottingham presented two revolvers, and the constable retired to obtain a posse. XX'hen he returned Nottingham ag:|iu attempted to use his revolvers, lait a member of. the posse shot him dead.