Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

At Huntington, W. Va„ Thomas Brennen, aged 27, quarreled with his sweetheart, whom he wgs engaged to marry within a few days and committed suicide. Henry and Rodger Ginery, the mam participants in the murder of Officers Turner and Durham at Brownsville, Tenn., several months ago, have been arrested at New Madrid, Mo. President W. V. Powell of the Order of Railway Telegrap iers has ordered a strike of the telegraphers and other station employes of the Southern Railway. The Southern has about 1,200 employes of this class. Rugby Inn, situated at Rugby, Tenn., on the Cumberland plateau, was burned. Rugby is the English Colony established at that point in the 80's and of which Thomas Hughes, the English philanthropist and the author of “Tom Brown at Rugby,” was the founder and promoter. Two boilers in the furnace department of Riverside Plant National Tube Company at Wheeling, W. Va., exploded, carrying the boilers 150 feet and destroying three buildings and boilers in the steel works and water works. Several workmen were injured, two seriously. Loss is about $50,000. At Calhoun, Ga., Alfred Frix, hale and hearty, verily died a-laiighing. He heard a funuy story as he sat whittling at the corner grocery. He laughed till everyone thought his aides must split. Suddenly he leaned back in his chair, dropped his knife and gasped. When bystanders reached him he was dead.