Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

As a re-<2x of a general tight which piace at Cumberland Gap, Tenn., Less- ihfines am? Torn Swann, were killed, and IVpu-ty Sheriff Cbibles Ball of I>e<r Crtuity. Virginia, was seriously wound: *sL The sheriff had a prisoner iu ehargg,. whsto tto>- 33ttk tried to take away treat Fire u Greunsbotto N. C-. <lestn»jed t&e Large clothing store of C. M. Vanavery ft C<*. The tjrm's loss is estiiroled at with 835.UU0 insurance. The stores and st'jeks «f the Sample-Brown. Mercantile Company, dry goods, and J. W. Scott ft Co., grocers, were badly datur aged by water. iihree persoits- were killed in a railroad wreck, eighteen miles from Tatupa, Fla. "on the Jacksonviile, Tampa aud Key ; West Railway. A number of others wen L injured. Asuong the injured were Mrs. i Hitch, wife es U aited States Marshal | Hitch wt the southern district of Illinois, and her t<» daughters, who were en ■ tocte to Cuba for the winter,' - . As a Baltimore and Ohio freight was l, passing a dwelling near Paw Paw, W. Va. Eaglueer Gibbon Kite saw the house ,an tire and blazing furiously. He cheched the train, and with the other train j hands ran and burst open the door. Geo. Shenk and his family of five were found * the house, sound asleep and alt bat eat est from escape. AH were saved. The aH-rasMoned fifty-gun frigate Franklin, anchored in midstream off the ' Xarfalk. Yau navy yard, broke loose from her aanaring; during the terrific aaßyfc an hour gale and in a mad ca-

Elizatarh E liver rammed and banged agunat everything in sight. She has been anchored for many years, and, while the heavy mud books held fast, tbe deck cleats to which the anchor chains were attached broke loose and liberated the crazy old hulk, which, without engines or adequate steering gear, rammed the wharf at St. Helena battery, -across the river, made wild attempts to butt down stone sea walls and was just caught in time by the navy yard tugs.