Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1900 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The old Kentucky association race course has come under the control of a syndicate. The collector and other officials of the Charleston, S. C., custom bouse have been illegally secreting liquors. Gen. Joseph Wheeler has written a letter to Gov. Johnston resigning his seat as a member of Congress from the Eighth Alabama district. The Illinois Central and the Yazoo and Mississippi valley railway systems south of Vicksburg were completely tied tip by the floods. Bridges and houses were carried away. A resolution favoring a waterway from the great lakes to the gulf by way of the Chicago drainage canal was introduced in the transmississippi commercial convention. Ex-Congressman David G. Colson, who has been on trial at Frankfort, Ivy., for the murder of Lieut. Ethelbert Scott and Luther \V. Demaree, was acquitted by the verdict of the jury. Cissy Loftus, the divorced wife of Justin Huntley McCarthy, the author, was rescued from drowning at Old Point Comfort, Va., by a sailor. She denies that sbb attempted to commit suicide. The largest siugle foreign shipment of cotton cloth ever made from the South was forwarded recently by a firm at Alabama City, Ala. The shipment comprised seventeen car loads and is destined for points in the Chinese empire. William Loug was called to the door at his home, near Tracy City, Tenn., and shot dead. The affair is shrouded in mystery. This is the eighth murder in the Tracy City section within the last year, and not one of the murderers has been apprehended. P. A. Summcy, an ex-Confedernte soldier, who is insane, had plunncd to assassinate Admiral Dewey on the arrival of the latter and his wife at Macon, Gn„ March 22. In a lucid interval the day l>cforo the admiral's arrival Summcy realized what he had arranged to do, aud went into the country. He was preparing to kill himself when arreated.