Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Fire destroyed three business buildings at Miami, Fla. Loss $60,000. Rev. John G. Fee. Berea, Ky.. died, aged 84 years. He was the founder of Berea College. , The handsome home of the Liederkranz Society of Louisville. Ky., was destroyed by tire. The loss is about $45,000, on which there is an insurance of SIB,OOO. Four then on the Tennessee Central Railroad, eight miles from Rockwood, Tenn., were killed in a dynamite explosion. They were unloading dynamite when a quantity of it exploded. Richmond. V*.v suffered . severely by fire. The Merchants and Planters' tobacco warehouse and contents were destroyed and Kingan's cold storage plant was gutted. The total loss is estimated at $400,000, on which then* is $350,000 insurance.

The first lynching in the history of Newport News, Va., occurred the other morning at an early hour when \\. W. Watts, a white gambler of Lynchburg, was taken from the station house, carried across the corporate line, tied to an oak sapling and shot to death. Only seven men went to the jail. The Southern Presbyterian Board of Missions in Nashville has received letters from Rev. L. C. Vass and Rev. H. P. Hawkins, missionaries of the church stationed at Luebo, Congo Free State, Africa. giving accounts of the burning of fourteen villages and the killing of ninety or more natives by State troops. They report that some of the victims were eaten by cannibals.